
So the sages, their holy utterances and the scriptures tell us. And then there is no knowing or non-knowing. Separateness through love, can know Spirit. The mind may take us part of way help in discriminatingĪ little, but stops after a little while, because Spirit alone, rid of Separate personality-the feeling of the I which has ever held us captive,ĭenying us the whole, the all, he is the Lord without a compeer, the SpiritĮternal, the Paramatman whom the poor mind (subtle matter though it be) can Us in bondage, finally severing into two the master demon, the sense of a and destroying the hosts of demons (asuras) that hold Like wisdom, which pierces through this mountain of colossal ignorance andĭelusion surrounding us. His are all the desires, (noble and to us ignoble),Īs evinced through the numerous living entities, the Ichcha Sakti: His seat isĪll these multi-coloured world of matter, of form His is the lance (the Vel) Which draw their life, move and have their being in Him. He is the "Su-brahm" - the self, the Lord of all the seen and unseen world, Strength are vouch safed to those who pray to Him. And yet Śrī Muruga combines all these apparently conflictingĪims, granting to His devotees what ever gifts they ask of Him. The sole aim and reason for existence of those seeking to peer into the Beyond, That hold in thrall the worldly minded, those enamoured of the world of formĪnd name, just as Truth and Wisdom (and bliss from contemplation of these) are Or wildly intoxicating dwelling on of the glorious aspects of Lord Muruga.Ĭhildhood innocence, love, beauty, youth, heroism in war are qualities Reticence, pride and poop, status and position are forgotten and people freelyĪbandon themselves to the bliss of self-forgetfulness and the tenderly loving Invariably the scene at all the places sacred to Śrī Murugan. Out from the heart though it may not always come out from the month. Not-so-fashionable, the saintly and the sinful gathered at Nallur. The rich and the poor, the learned and the ignorant, the fashionable and the "M uruga! Muruga! Om Muruga!" cry out in ecstacy the young and the old,
