tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33814778361542656242024-03-13T07:35:18.323-07:00Ramalinga SwamiVallalarRamalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-61700183591475572062019-04-21T02:35:00.000-07:002011-08-14T20:26:47.745-07:00SAINT RAMALINGAM (ARUTPRAKASA VALLALAR)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jrr-mE7v6AM/S1mg3mG2sRI/AAAAAAAAAec/IKiZ3brt1ZI/s1600-h/ram4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 304px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jrr-mE7v6AM/S1mg3mG2sRI/AAAAAAAAAec/IKiZ3brt1ZI/s400/ram4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429547702754390290" border="0" /></a>It has been said that Saint Ramalingam on his final day had entered a room in Sidhivalakam, Methukupam. He asked that his followers lock the door from the outside. On opening the door, at the directive from government officials, the room was found to be empty. It was also said that the Saint had become light (jhoti). The saint had mentioned to his followers that they would find nothing, as he would dematerialize in each and every being from that moment on.
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<br />An article in the website http://www.ramalinga.com states that Mother Mira had seen, during her meditation, the happenings that took place on that Friday night when Saint Ramalingam attained the Jhoti in Sidhivalakam. This is indeed a rare account of the mystery behind Saint Ramalinga's disappearence.
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<br />‘On the first day of the Tamil month of Thai (14-1-1978) I had a continuous vision in my usual meditation in the night: the vision of dematerialization of the physical body of Swami Ramalinga into and as the Truth-Light of Supreme Grace which contains or possesses in itself Supreme Compassion and Bliss of Grace.
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<br />Though I have had occasions to ascend into and remain for sometime in the Truth-World of Grace-Light wherefrom I could see the earth as part of the universe, the said Vision came to me when my consciousness was on the earth itself.
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<br />To begin with I sensed an ineffable Silence and Peace prevailing everywhere and I heard continuously Para Nada, the mysterious divine Sound. Then the Vision broke out.
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<br />A small village was seen in its simple and beautiful surroundings. There was the concrete Presence of the Supreme and Universal Divine with the beautiful Truth-Light of Grace and Fragrance, which enriched the place all the more and enraptured my heart with ever increasing aspiration for Grace. At the center of the village was seen a small house. Sweet Fragrance of Grace radiated everywhere from the house.
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<br />Vallalar (Swami Ramalinga) was seen entering the house. His face was calm and peaceful. His whole body was radiating the Light of Grace. Besides, his body was of silken or light golden shining color. He stepped into his room and closed the doors and bolted inside. At that time there was the Concrete Presence of the Supreme and Universal Divine in the room. The Presence could be sensed even physically and even by the born-blind. There was also Silence, Peace, Fragrance and the Light of Grace due to the Presence.
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<br />Vallalar sat on a white cloth spread on a low wooden plank and began to concentrate. In that poise he was seen as a Mountain of Truth-Knowledge with the Truth-Light of Grace and Peace and Fire of Tapas. He was verily a supreme form of the Divine. Flood of Light was radiating from his pure and luminous body into all the directions.
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<br />Supreme Grace, Supreme Compassion and the Light of Grace are expressive of the secret truth that they hold the key for transformation of physical body into the deathless physical body of Grace in its eternal youthfulness. One has to live in the depth of the ocean of blissful Grace-Light for getting transformed into the divine nature and as the divine body.
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<br />The intensity of the flood of Light that radiated from his whole body was very powerful and one shall have the strength and capacity to bear and receive it. My whole body vibrated with a joy and pleasantness because of the Vision of Light of his body.
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<br />After sometime of concentration, he rose up and saw the physical sky. Full moon was shedding its blissful cool rays over the earth. A little distance away from the moon was seen a very bright dazzling star of Light. Ramalinga poured his concentrated gaze at it for sometime. He became enraptured with blissful joy in the heart, which radiated on his face. A little time thereafter, he again sat on the white seat of the plank and entered into deep concentration.
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<br />Though Ramalinga was inside the closed and bolted room, he could see clearly the whole universe with its tiers of many worlds of mind, life and the physical including the physical earth and sky with its moon, stars and clouds.
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<br />When he was thus absorbed in deep concentration, an effulgent Truth-Light of Grace broke out from his heart and with its unique Heat began to burn his radiant physical body very slowly, as at a snail's speed, and that in an upward direction, from the heart towards the head. The burning of the body may be somewhat likened to that of an incense-stick which however burns downwards by its inner heat of fire, forming ash-covering but without the falling down of the ash-form. When the upper part of his radiant body was burnt completely from heart to head, there was left in its place a form of pure white Substance, which also radiated its Light of Consciousness. The burnt part, however, showed all its features intact and clearly and even the burnt hair of his head was seen distinctly as luminous white hair. Then the Heat of the pure Light of Grace descended to burn the lower part.
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<br />After the whole body was thus burnt, Ramalinga was seen as a bodily form of pure white substance from head to foot, radiating its Light. The white form kept intact all the different kinds of cells of his body and all the distinctive features and formations of his interior an exterior body. His bodily form did not shrink in size after the burning. I saw no visible flame nor sensed its heat during the burning of his living body, nor smoke, nor any bad smell as of burnt tissues, nor heard any cracking noise as of burnt bones. But instead, there was a sweet Fragrance since the time his body began to burn and it spread everywhere. I sensed in my heart an ineffable Calmness and Silence, which gave me in turn a state of Bliss.
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<br />Now a second stage of burning began. The unique Heat of Grace-Light began to burn slowly Ramalinga's luminous Form of White Substance from head to foot downwards. When his white Substance-Form full of its radiating Light, was thus burnt completely, the white Substance became very fine sub-atomic conscious particles which permeated and pervaded the entire universe and the farther pure worlds of consciousness beyond. The fine, white and conscious particles with its radiating Light also entered into and got distributed everywhere in the earth and even in matter and in the Inconscient. After the universal pervasive distribution of the particles, they could be seen no more and disappeared from my sight. But now there pervaded everywhere the sweet, soft and fine Fragrance of Camphor which gave my body a blissful sensation and enraptured my heart as well.
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<br />Then I had the rare vision of Ramalinga's universal luminous golden Form. As a matter of fact the immensity of his golden form contained in it the whole universe. This form too disappeared from my view and was replaced by another vision in which I saw the Golden Light of Truth-Knowledge and Grace entering into all the directions more speedily than the lightning. It permeated and pervaded the whole universe and the farther pure worlds of Consciousness. It entered into our earth and all its crores of the physical forms of beings and objects and in the apparently insensible matter and even in the very dark realm of the vast in conscience. All the forms that were permeated by the Golden Light of Truth changed into golden forms of beings and objects. The Golden Light entered into my whole adhara including the physical body. My body felt in all the cells vibrations of ease and pleasantness.
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<br />Then I heard some words of Grace. But they were indistinctly heard and could not be deciphered, as I was absorbed in a rapture of Bliss due to the sublime vision and experiences. Thus the Vision lasted an hour of time and came to an end.
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<br />The visible physical light is the concrete symbol of the Vast Truth-Light of Grace, which is the source of all lights. Camphor is verily a solid form or symbol of that Light. Ramalinga's soul is inseparable from the conscious white particles of Substance, which he has become, and pervading distributed everywhere. When the Supreme Truth-consciousness manifests in the physical world, it becomes the golden Light of Grace. The golden Light of Grace will purify and transform man and the physical body too will become deathless physical Truth-body, and the Sanmarga of Truth, Purity and Goodness shall prevail on the earth. As Anma realizes the pure Spirits, the body too shall realize its truth as the true body of the Spirit.’
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<a href="http://youtu.be/lRDK_N8J2MQ">http://youtu.be/lRDK_N8J2MQ</a>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-14985410134880122542011-10-04T19:10:00.000-07:002011-10-04T19:12:02.935-07:00About Swami Ramalingam<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">source:http://www.pranashakty.org/jothi/about-swamiji.html</span></span><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="contentHolder" height="273" width="76%"><p><strong>Swami Ramalingam</strong>, popularly known as <strong>Vallalar</strong>, was one of the most notable saints on the Indian sub-continent during the 19th century. He was born on October 5, 1823, in Marudur near Chidambaram into a Hindu Saivite family, the fifth child and last son of his father Ramayya Pillai and mother Chinnammayyar. It is said she had borne him in her womb after she received <strong><em>Vibhuti</em></strong>, the sacred ash of blessings from an unknown guest of honor, a Siva Yogi who blessed her with a son like himself. Vallalar left the world on January 30, 1874 at age 51. When he was only six months old his father died and Ramalinga was brought up under the auspices and tutelage of his elder brother, who, it has been said, had a good working knowledge of things religious.</p> <p>At the age of 27, he was married to one Danammal. Marital life did not distract him from his religious duty. As an ardent follower of <strong><em>bhakti</em></strong> (the practice of devotional worship) he was a relentless critic of practice based on birth, class, status or privilege. He had no regard for the ‘Puranas’, ‘Vadas’, and the ‘Agamas’. He worshiped God as Light (Jothi) and was a man of utmost love and compassion for all living creatures. It is said that he would weep at the sight of even a withering crop. He firmly believed in <em>anna dana,</em> the free offering of food to the needy.</p></td> <td width="24%"><div align="right"><img src="http://www.pranashakty.org/jothi/images/pranashakty%20swami%20ramalingam.gif" alt="Swami Ramalingam - Pranashakty" height="273" width="204" /></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="1"><br /></td> <td><img src="http://www.pranashakty.org/jothi/images/spacer.gif" alt="" height="1" width="211" /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><strong>Swamiji as Light Body </strong></p> <p>It can be seen from the history of his life that in his later years his physical body had become tenuous and translucent. Disciples have recorded that it cast no distinct shadow. It is said that several attempts were made to photograph him, but since light passed through his bod,y no clear image could be obtained. What could be seen were only his clothing and a very misty vision of his face and limbs, and from such a translucent body made so by pure living, dematerialization was but a few steps away.</p> <p>Swami Ramalingam (Vallalar) says, "Life of eternal bliss is union with God. Those who have achieved this will have transmuted this impure carnal body into a pure golden body and again have the pure body transformed into super sensible, spiritual body".</p> <p><strong>Swamiji's approach to spiritual life </strong></p> <p>Spirituality that secluded itself from the common people had no meaning for Swami Ramalingam (Vallalar). His God-consciousness was based on love and compassion. As already seen, he was never at peace when people went without food. What was the meaning of kindness and love if one did not satisfy the hunger of a fellow human being? Moreover, food was the basic need of the body and body was the seat of the soul. Without taking care of the body how could anyone take care of the soul that dwelt in the body? Thus the very basis of spirituality was, according to Swamiji, the removal of hunger, since removal of hunger mean renovation of the living temple of God, the body.</p> <p><strong>Swamiji's dematerialization </strong></p> <p>The saint told his disciples that he was in the last days of his physical existence and that he would soon pass into the astral world. He then secluded himself in final preparation.</p> <p>The news that the saint had locked himself up in a room became known. There was much excitement because the saint had earlier been talking about the possibility of the living dissolution of his physical body. Many people believed him and now they knew the final days had come.</p> <p>Three months after he locked the door to his room, the news eventually reached the government at Madras. Some officials came to investigate. They ordered the door to be opened. To the great wonder and amazement of all that stood around, they found no one inside the room. A thorough inspection of the whole building was made and nothing suspicious could be found. The officials questioned the disciples and found them to be very simple and innocent people. Now it was clear that, as proclaimed, the saint had achieved the unachievable: without discarding his physical body, he had dematerialized. </p> <p>The life and writings of Saint Ramalingam (Vallalar) have evidence enough to support dematerialization. They make it clear to us that the swami had been preparing all his life for this final achievement. He had been telling his followers that he would pass into eternal life, not by shedding his physical body, but by changing it into a subtle, invisible, deathless body. There are frequent references in his poems first to the hope and then to the certainty of his union with God by means of acquiring a wonderful, celestial body that would be beyond death or destruction. </p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size:12pt;"><em>"Lord, take this body of mine and my spirit in exchange for your body and your spirit<br /> to enable this very body of flesh to become a body of light...<br /> transmuting" this body of skin and bones, I shine with a golden form<br />you have given me a form perpetual which nothing can destroy...<br />grace, knowledge, love and an indestructible body these have been your gifts to me."</em></p>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-60212340804049884282011-09-18T13:58:00.000-07:002011-09-18T14:10:55.516-07:00HUNGERTROUBLES OF HUNGER<br />For beings during great hunger, self (beings) intellect gets fainted without definition. As it is fainted, Intellect of intellect has God's definition is also disappeared. As it is disappeared, Principle of nature of self gets tired. As it is tired, Principle of Maya gets dulled. As it is dulled, Qualities get distinguished.<br /><br />Mind gets destructed unsteadily.<br />Cognition gets spoiled.<br />Gesture of mind gets trembled.<br />Pridefulness gets destroyed.<br />Spirit gets revolved.<br />Primordial gross elements get agitated.<br />Pulses (Vadha, Pittha, Silethuma) of body gets changes in phase.<br />Eye gets diminished with poor visibility.<br />Ear gets bombilated turns into deaf.<br />Tongue gets dried without moisture.<br />Nose gets toned down, fatigued.<br />Skin gets thinned, sensitiveness impaired.<br />Arms, Legs get staler, tired.<br />Voice tone gets changed, stammered.<br />Teeth get fagged.<br />Voiding organs get blemished.<br />Body gets seared.<br />Body hair gets toughened.<br />Nervus get dethawed, loosened.<br />Pulses get dissolved by loosing structure.<br />Bone gets swinged, Joints get attenuated.<br />Heart gets burned.<br />Brain gets contracted.<br />Semen gets roiled, dried.<br />Liver gets dissolved.<br />Blood, Liquid flow gets reduced.<br />Muscles get loosened, destabilised.<br />Stomach gets burned intensively.<br />Somatesthesia gets increased continuously.<br />Symptoms and experiences of loosing life is continuously occurred.<br /><br />These troubles are common to all beings from hunger.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zZ1sCbYWtfA/TnZdFLHybGI/AAAAAAAAAko/2mAEvqDKvvY/s1600/hunger.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 703px; height: 500px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zZ1sCbYWtfA/TnZdFLHybGI/AAAAAAAAAko/2mAEvqDKvvY/s400/hunger.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653808725676420194" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Reference:<br /><br />[1] Thiruvarut Prakasa Vallalar, ‘Thiruvarutpa’, ‘Urainadaipakuthi’, ‘Pasiyin Avatthai’ Thiruvarut Prakasa Vallalar Deiva Nilayam, pp. 121, May 2004.<br /><br />Read more: http://vadalur.blogspot.com/2008/03/troubles-of-hunger.html#ixzz1YLcf1z1u<br />Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives<br /><br />source:http://vadalur.blogspot.com/2008/03/troubles-of-hunger.htmlRamalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-79486983387955784772011-08-03T16:20:00.000-07:002011-08-03T16:23:22.110-07:00Vallalar Answers - Next stage in human evolution<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZWsH8PEqlA/TjnYTEEl8zI/AAAAAAAAAj8/CsuaUBU0SSQ/s1600/american%2Bprof.bmp"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 507px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZWsH8PEqlA/TjnYTEEl8zI/AAAAAAAAAj8/CsuaUBU0SSQ/s400/american%2Bprof.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636774230653006642" border="0" /></a>For the first time in human history the scientist-saint Swamy Ramalinga Vallalar has given us a complete science of immortality and eternity in scientific terms in all its details.<div id="description_div4883288804" class="photo-desc"><p id="yui_3_3_0_3_13124133867981641">In the 1860s Charles Darwin published his "Theory of Evolution". But when the American professor Chancey Wright asked him,what would be the next stage in human evolution? He replied that he did not know. But Swamy Ramalinga Vallalar answered that question positively. Not only the next stage in Human Evolution but the final stage was also conducted his experiment in his own body successfully and realized histeachings. He transformed his physical body into a body of wisdom-light.<br /></p></div>source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52025667@N00/4883288804#/Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-40143532614854972382011-04-13T20:14:00.000-07:002011-04-13T20:18:35.420-07:00The Lance of Kundalini - The Vel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-geQPw1Y7_W0/TaZncFoMd4I/AAAAAAAAAfE/4KcuNlj6w-o/s1600/balasubramanian.gif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 289px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-geQPw1Y7_W0/TaZncFoMd4I/AAAAAAAAAfE/4KcuNlj6w-o/s400/balasubramanian.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595273319299184514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >This ancient divine poetry of a Siddhar has many l<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.gatewaytopeace.org/main/aboutus.htm"><span style="color:#000000;">ayers of deeper meanings in it. In the natha/siddhar traditions is the Primal Guru who enables transform the mind and body, called </span></a> in many names, a few of them being - Skanda, Muruga, Arumuga, Karthik, Vadivel. Depicted in the dimension of six, it also refers to the Kundalini ascendance that is shaped as a lance, "Vadivel".</span> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >These sacred words of the Siddhar are from a journey into light, journeying beyond enlightment. The meanings varies from person to person, and moment to moment- as the cosmic 'mind' of the Siddhars wish us to perceive.</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >Enjoy the ancient transforming energy!</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >The Lance of Kundalin! ~ Wisdom of the Primal Guru (Subramanium Gnanam)</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;font-family:Verdana;" >Realms of the Moon and the Sun with the awakened Kundalini.</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" > Panamendra madhiamirtha panam kolla The concoction that is the elixir that flows from the moon (moon sphere, the Chandra mandala that exists above the forehead) when partaken Beyond the still moon mind the elixir of divine nectar flows get drunk! (In the depth of meditation, our energies shift as our breath shifts to the left, we are in the realms of the moon, with the mind radiant from absorbing the Divine and rejuvenating energy)</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" > ParaBrahmamana suli-vallhium kaati</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >Shows the path to the Sushumna which is the Primal Lord and the Infinite Absolute as the Sushumna, the golden ascending lance of the Kundalini, guides us to light!</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" > Thanmendra adhara meladharam</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >The Chakra that is a gift, being the upper-chakra (Sahasra)</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >The Divine Grace of this journey is the awakening of the higher chakra, the Sahasrara, the thousand petals of realization! (When the thousand petals of the crown chakra blossoms, realization (mukthi) is attained)</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >Thanai ariyum pranaya-sangai solli</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >It tells of the sound Aum which helps in self, revelation Within is the ancient resonance of AUM that is understood with self relization!</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >Jnanam endra nilai kaati moolam kaati</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >It shows the state of Wisdom and points out the Muladhra (moolamroot) chakra The foundation of wisdom is revealed and the Source through the Muladhara (the base chakra) is revealed!</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >Nadhanta arumuha nilaiyum kaati</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >It shows the state of the six-faces ArumuhamLord Muruga and the six chakras which are symbolically termed as the six Padai Veedu of Muruga also) of Nadhanta The realms of the Sixth Dimension, the divine, wisdom beyond the five senses, is revealed! The Six Dimension is the Primal Guru of Light born through the Third Eye. (He is called Muruga, Karthik, Arumugha. Sages worship Babaji as a form of Muruga)</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >Mounam endra Vadivaelin munayum kaati</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >It shows silence (stillness) which is the tip (munai) of Lord Muruga (Vadivel)</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >The wisdom beyond silence is realizing the perfecting tip that is the presence of the Primal Guru who is form the Kundalini lance!</span></p> <p align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >Munai arindhu kalai niruthhi mudivil nillae</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" > Realizing the tip, stopping the rays of Live (Chandra, Surya, Agni Kalai in Kevala-kumbaka) stand the end (Turiyatita-end of Turiya). Realizing this penecing tip and retaining the Light within is the ascenda into the Turiya, the divine consciousness of the name that has transcended into yogic union!</span></p> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" id="AutoNumber7" width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" height="20"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100%" bg height="18" style="color:#f4f4f4;"> <p align="center"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;font-family:Verdana;" >V</span><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >EGETARISM</span></span></p></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" >"Jothi Worship Some call it as worship of Jothi" Since Jothi itself is not God and as it is only a symbol God we should always refer the worship as only worship of the Almighty God "Arut Perumjothi" we keep it as a symbol and we pray to the Almighty Perumjothi', we keep it as a symbol and we pray to the Almighty - Divine Light.</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:Verdana;" > Arutperumjothi who is prevanding everywhere and is pervading in us in a more perceivable manner.</span></p>http://www.gatewaytopeace.org/main/yoga.htmRamalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-70591766030892720962010-08-12T03:59:00.000-07:002010-08-12T04:06:29.948-07:00Thiru Arutprakasa Vallalar<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Jrr-mE7v6AM/TGPVptbuYQI/AAAAAAAAAek/VXEkcVSexhA/s1600/VallalarSpaceVallalar.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 307px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Jrr-mE7v6AM/TGPVptbuYQI/AAAAAAAAAek/VXEkcVSexhA/s400/VallalarSpaceVallalar.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504478082124112130" /></a><br />ArutperunJothi ArutperunJothi ThaniperunKarunai ArutperunJothi<br /><br />Whenever virtue fails and evil prevails in the world, the Almighty incarnates in some human form or other and disappears after setting right the things.There is ample testimony to the above occurrence in Hindu Philosophy and other religions. On the other hand, we have come across several wise, learned and saintly souls, who have helped the man kind to be relieved of their miseries and misconception and reach the Godhead. But owing to their own unworthiness, some stopped here and some ceased there. Their followers who held esteem about their preceptor (Guru) have also led man kind to an uncertainty. This is all due to their misconception that they are only bodily beings and to attain God-head, one has to shed this outer body.<br /><br />But the Truth is different. God is Eternal and His presence is perceived in every atom of the universe. The physical body is the outcome of the five elements, viz., ether, air, fire, water and the earth. God’s prevalence is much felt and realised only through this physical bodily life. Human beings are endowed with a reasoning mind, whereas it is not so with other creatures, as they are not equipped with that sense. With this reasoning mind, he can differentiate the good and bad and thus lead a better life.<br /><br />It is thus evident that only from human body, one can realise the real form of god and consequently live a blessed life for ever. This principle though appears simple, yet the man kind has not attained the maturity to live for ever overcoming the mortality. The main reason is that he has not chosed the right path and also there was no one to guide him in this context. Till now the man was viewing the Lord from the level of the Physical body, and believed that he has been separated from God. His Expectation was that in the long run he would merge with the God and his aim will be solved then.<br /><br />Almost all the religions are based only on this dualistic idea that man and God are separate entities. Without the true knowledge of our soul, God and the Component parts (the body and the universe), we were thinking and wandering so far in the wilderness of ignorance.<br /><br />Thus all our past life was thought to be totally miserable. Now we have come to know that the true life of Bliss is to come from the innermost. The world may find it to be a new theory, but it is not so. Under the name of religion, the society was steeped into religious conlicts, sectarian battles and casterism. This has made it uneasy to realise the truth.<br /><br />The following pages will acquaint us with a noble soul, who in the midst of so manu difficulties, has been able to become immortal, thereby establishing the will of the Almoghty that mankind alone can realise the God-head and live in Eternity with a Blessed life. The world is under the presumption that fate is the vital force acting and nothing can surpass it.<br /><br />This deep rooted belief is thus falsified now in as much as it can be turned down and make it to help him in achieving the Goal of immortality.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.vallalar.org/English</span>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-79991548600268274932010-07-28T06:49:00.000-07:002011-08-03T16:35:03.715-07:00Miracles and other incidents in Vallalar's lifeby Dhaya Mesrobian<br /><br />These miracles performed by the Swami refer to different periods; some took place in<br />Madras and its subub Tiruvottiyur in his early life; some others at Karungkuli between<br />1858 and 1867 and yet others at Vadalur (1867-70) and at Mettukuppam (1870-1874).<br />They are not reported in a chronological order. Some do not fall in the category of<br />miracles but are incidents that portray Vallalar’s nature in dealing with men and matters<br />both at human and superhuman level. God plays at the human level as much as He does<br />on the suprahuman. He is both human and above the human at the same time. His<br />dealings at human level are sometimes better understood and appreciated. Vallalar was<br />not against doing miracles, as they form the powers and plays of the Divine. However<br />he was not after miracle-mongering. His eventful life was interspersed with many divine<br />miracles of various kinds. He promised in the last part of his life that the Divine Himself<br />was soon to manifest on the earth to rule and play Siddhis of Grace, such as resurrection<br />of the dead and transforming the aged into youths. Thus Vallalar progressively grew<br />into the Divine Nature, as he went on writing inspired poems and doing miracles since<br />his early life. His miracles are continuing even now.<br /><br />(1) MERCURY TURNED INTO A BEAD<br />A magician came and requested Vallalar who was a Siddha, to turn mercury into a<br />bead. Vallalar gently poured into the hollow of his palm a little mercury and after<br />keeping it closed for a while, dropped it as a mercury bead.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K0RiAJGWpoI/TjnbDRIP2pI/AAAAAAAAAkE/UEEdLySu1ng/s1600/vallalar%2Bfeeding.bmp"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K0RiAJGWpoI/TjnbDRIP2pI/AAAAAAAAAkE/UEEdLySu1ng/s400/vallalar%2Bfeeding.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636777257814973074" border="0" /></a>(2) FEEDING THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS<br />One night food had been cooked in the Dharmashala for a limited number of people.<br />Unexpectedly about a hundred additional guests came at the time of serving the food.<br />Shanmugam Pillai, the man in charge of the food section, reported to Vallalar that food<br />was not sufficient to serve all. Vallalar immediately rose up voicing forth "pich". This<br />was Vallalar’s characteristic exclamation at the time of performing miracles, possibly<br />signifying that it was a child's play and there was nothing impossible, all being a Divine<br />blessing to do what was needed. According to Ooran Adigal, the biographer of<br />Vallalar’s life in Tamil, "pich" is a short form of "Pichchan" (name of the divine Lord)<br />which is derived from "Pichchu". We may add that the Divine Lord performs miracle as<br />either a play of a tender child (pinju Pillai or Pichchu Pillai) an inexplicably miraculous<br />way in a divine madness (Pichchu or Piththu). Thus with the exclamation of "Pich " in<br />Arutpa it also means the madness of non knowing that God can help. Vallalar asked to<br />supply guests in sitting rows, leaf for serving food, and He himself served the food to<br />the guests. All took plenty of food but the food remained intact in the cooking pots.<br /><br />(3) PREMONITION OF FRESH SUPPLIES OF RICE<br />One day Shanmugam Pillai, the manager of Dharmashala reported to Vallalar that<br />there was no stock of rice to cook. Vallalar sat alone in a place and concentrated for a<br />few seconds and then assured him that rice and all other things needed would come the<br />next day. Exactly so, the next day a devotee from Tirutturai village brought three<br />cartloads of rice and other provisions and reported that he had been asked in his dream<br />the night before, to bring in supplies of food.<br /><br />(4) MASTERY OVER FIRE AND RAIN<br />In the summer month of April, many who came to the Dharmashala at Vadalur<br />suffered due to the drought and heat. Vallalar knew about it and asked them to pour a<br />vessel of water over his feet. The devotees did so. Shortly, there was a heavy down pour<br />of rain. Devotees of Pudupet village (near Cuddalur) heard of this and came to Vadalur<br />and implored the grace of Vallalar, as all wells of the village had become dry for lack of<br />rain. Vallalar asked them to pour six pots full of water over his head. They did so: There<br />was heavy down pour of rain immediately; and the springs of the six wells which had<br />gone dry, once again became active bringing in fresh and very tasty supplies of water in<br />the wells. The village thus had good rains to sustain and nourish its life and activity.<br /><br />(5) DRY LAND TURNED INTO WET LAND<br />A report of Vallalar's devotee who was a tax collector named Murugesa Pillai failed<br />in his several attempts to have his dry lands changed into wet lands through petitions to<br />the Government (possibly for facilities of irrigation). He implored Vallalar for grace and<br />received from Him the sacred ash of blessing. Thereafter, the dry lands could be<br />converted into wet lands.<br /><br />(6) FIRE DIES BY SIGNAL<br />In Pudupetta near Kurinjipadi, a house caught fire. Vallalar who happened to be in<br />the opposite house at that time waved his cloth and the fire soon came down.<br /><br />(7) RAINWITHOUT DRENCHING<br />One evening Vallalar went out for a walk with the devotees.Suddenly it rained. All<br />of them except Vallalar got drenched in the rain. Not even a drop of rain was seen on<br />Vallalar’s body.<br /><br />(8) FIRE WITHOUT BURNING<br />In "Siddhivalagam cottage house at Mettukuppam Vallalar used to keep on his two<br />sides flaming fire in iron bowls of burning coke. Vallalar sat in between them on a<br />tub-like seat. (His direct disciple and biographer Kandasamy pillai writes to say that<br />Vallalar perhaps wanted to enjoy thus more intense heat than what was normal to his<br />body transform golden form). One day a devotee of Vallalar by name Sabapathy<br />Sivacharya who was the priest in charge of the Shrine of Sathya Gnana Sabha happened<br />to enter into Vallalar's room suddenly when his leg struck a bowl of burning coal. The<br />burning coal scattered hither and thither and hit Vallalar and himself. The visitor got<br />alarmed and hastened to remove by his hands the burning coal that fell on Vallalar's<br />thigh. He got his hands burnt. But Vallalar remained unaffected in his body and not<br />even his cloth bore any mark of the burn. Vallalar however said to him "Why are you so<br />anxious? It (fire) will not affect me in any way".<br /><br />(9) FAILURE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED<br />Once some Vallalar’s devotees brought a famous photographer named Masilamani<br />Mudaliar from Madras to take photo of Vallalar it was the same photograph appointed<br />by the Queen of England to take pictures of herself during her visit to India.. He<br />attempted eight times; but each time he failed to get a picture because the form and<br />figure of Vallalar was not impressed on the film; only the white cloth which Vallalar<br />wore came in the picture.<br />NOTE: Vallalar's body had no shadow after transformation into Grace Light body,<br />He became full of divine Light within and without.<br /><br />(10) CLAY-IMAGE OF VALLALAR<br />A pot-maker from Panrutti village heard of the above said incident. Being a<br />devotee of Vallalar he made Vallalar's image in clay and duly painted it. He offered it to<br />Vallalar. He remarked: "The golden body had become a body of mud". So Vallalar<br />dropped it down and it broke into pieces.<br /><br />NOTE : So the truth of his whole and entire physical body could not be properly<br />represented even by a photo or statue. However the fact remains that Vallalar himself<br />allowed the photographer to take his picture or still earlier the painter to paint his image<br />and so he could not have been against the preservation of his outer form for use of the<br />disciples but the very fact of the divine luminosity of his body stood against a<br />representation of his form as a photo. This apart, Vallalar psychologically discouraged<br />the worship of his own figure and image and instead persistently kept the supreme<br />Divine, the Lord of Vast Grace-Light, as the goal to be pursued and presented Him in<br />the form of the light of a lamp duly sanctified and lit by himself. This attitude was the<br />need of the hour of God as Vallalar wanted his disciples and devotees also to aspire,<br />without diversion through the worship of the said form of light and through the Arut<br />Perum Jothi mantra of Grace Light. for the universal manifestation of the divine Grace<br />Light upon earth .<br /><br />In his days Vallalar used to pray that Oh Lord these innocent people go around me as if<br />I were their Lord because they have not seen you. He askes God many times to grant<br />every life on this earth to have the same bliss as he enjoyed.<br />Ramalingam transformed his dense physical matter into a body of subtle pure divine<br />Grace Light which is not distructible by any elements. He has transformed his dense<br />body into a living light body which is still present in Metukuppam. Many people have<br />experienced and experiencing it even now. Vallalar is using Mettukuppam as a base of<br />action in this place and travels to all corners of the universe. Through this<br />transformation he is able to enter any life. I Dhayanithi personaly wistnessed Vallalar<br />entering the body of a yong girl in Mettekupan during posson day. It was very eminent<br />for me how Vallalar was using her body. Specialy that myself, had the same experience<br />during Thai posson where I saw Vallalar coming out of the room, walking toward me<br />and entering my body for some time, then leaving it to return to the room.<br /><br />(11) "CHIDAMBARAM DARSHAN" SHOWN AT VADALUR<br />It was the habit for devotees from Mofussil areas to come to Vadalur in order to take<br />Vallalar with them to Chidambaram on important festival days. On one such occasion<br />devotees came in advance and waited for Vallalar to go to Chidambaram. As the day of<br />the festival got closer, most of them left for Chidambaram. But there was no sign of<br />Vallalar's starting going there yet. Only a few stayed with him in the hope of starting at<br />least on the day of festival itself. Vallalar did not leave Vadalur even on that day. The<br />devotees felt unhappy as they lost the chance of seeing the Lord of Dance, Nataraja of<br />Chidambaram. Vallalar understood their grievance and assured them all "you can have<br />Chidambaram darshan here ; wait and see." So saying Vallalar put up a screen of cloth<br />in a portion of Dharmashala building and asked them to go inside the screen and see.<br />They went inside the veil and saw the rare sight of the "Chidambara darsham" i.e., of the<br />Lord of the Lord of Dance and play and they were highly overjoyed.<br /><br />(12) On some occasions, Vallalar sat outside in the sun at noon. At that time<br />devotees at the Dharmashala used to see a column or pillar of light (agni sthambha)<br />rising up between the place of his seat and the sun.<br />It was easy to see where Vallalar was.We just had to look at the sun and observe where<br />the sun’s light was going, there you would found Vallalar.<br />How can we understand this? We are like the sun ourselves, Ambalam. He is connected<br />to the diverse suns of the universe. Vallalar manifest into his Grace Light body Who is<br />like the sun incarnated on earth, the son of God. The sun of the earth is connected to the<br />Great central sun of the universe, tha Vallalar calls also Ambalam. So we can see that<br />there is the Ambalam Who is the manifestation of our Grace Light body and the<br />Ambalam Who is above in the upper dimensions of our Being, this Ambalam can be<br />named also the Great central sun, Aton…many names are found for Him in diverse<br />traditions.<br /><br />(13) MERCUROUS COMPOUND WITHSTANDS FIRE<br />Vallalar used to wear sandals of a very high quality called "Sakalath Padaraksha"<br />made at Tanjore. He had said, "if jatilingam (a compound of mercury and sulphur) is<br />kept within sandals which a Suddha dehi (a man of perfect and pure body) wears on,<br />they will stand against fire or endure in the heat of fire (i.e., without melting)". A<br />devotee-priest namely Sabhapathy had special sandals prepared for Vallalar in which<br />four tolas of the said mercurous compound had been kept. At his request, Vallalar wore<br />the sandals for 15 days and then later on the mercurous compound was removed from<br />them and it was observed to withstand the heat of fire without change.<br /><br />(13-A) SILVER RUPEE MELTS IN VALLALAR'S HANDS<br />One day two Brahmins who were worshippers of the sun came from<br />Vishakapattinam. They reported to Vallalar their inability to attain, practicing the<br />methods given in shastra, either "apara marga siddhi" such as melting iron, silver, gold<br />and other metals by keeping it in hand or "Para marga siddhi" by which one can move<br />and travel in space like sun. Vallalar took a silver rupee coin and kept it in his hand for a<br />few minutes. Then the coin melted and ran down as silver.<br /><br />(14) SHADOWLESS BODY<br />One day Vallalar was standing in the sun along with a devotee named Ayyasamy<br />Pillai of Cuddalur. Vallalar asked him, "What is the sign of a Suddha Gnani?'' The<br />devotee remained silent, unable to answer. Then Vallalar told him that there would be<br />no shadow of the body of a Suddha Gnani. The fact that Vallalar's body did not cast<br />shadow on the ground came to be known thus. This proves the glory of one who had<br />realised Suddha Sathya Gnana the pure Truth-Consciousness, and the Siddhi or<br />perfection of the triple body.<br /><br />(15) SIGNS OF THE FUTURE GURU<br />One Devanayakam, Pillai of Cuddalur became Vallalar's devotee according to the<br />wish of his father who was a yogi. The said yogi at the time of his death advised his son<br />to become the disciple of one who would come with a cane in his hand and with a hood<br />of cloth covering his head and would strike with his cane at his samadhi (tomb of burial)<br />asking "Is this the Samadhi of your father?" Three years after the death of the yogi,<br />Vallalar came to Cuddalur once and went to Devanayakarn house and asked him by<br />striking with his cane at a tomb "Is this your father's tomb?" The latter replied in a<br />positive way and took Vallalar as his Guru.<br />NOTE: Cuddalur is a town about 25 miles from Vadalur. Vallalar frequently visited<br />Cuddalur to give lectures.<br /><br />(16) The said Devanayakam was spending a lot of time learning alchemy with a<br />desire to convert baser metals into gold. Vallalar wanted to put him in the right path.<br />First He showed him the method of alchemy. He converted an iron sheet into gold of<br />sixteen carat, by treating it with a herb and heating it with dry cakes of cow-dung.<br />Vallalar then throwing away the gold, advised him further "Only one who is without<br />desire alone can get this knowledge. Leave off this pursuit of alchemy".<br />Vallalar not only knew the process of alchemy which is a physical-chemical method<br />or occult process (mantra, tantra), or both combined (see his Upadesa on "Rasavada").<br />He uses herbs and different gases of gaseous heat on different metals. But according to<br />him transformation of body into a golden deathless body implies and includes the<br />possession of the power to transmute or transform baser metals like iron, copper etc.<br />into pure gold. Vallalar had this power too , and by mere look or touch of the baser<br />metal or keeping it in his hands for some time he could transmute it unto pure gold.<br />Some incidents of such transmutation are also recorded in T.V G. Chetty's and<br />Kandasamy Pillai's biographies on Vallalar's life. Once Vallalar transmuted sand into<br />golden particles by putting the sand into a vessel of water and keeping its mouth closed<br />with his hands for some time. Then he threw away the golden particles into the open<br />street. This he showed to one Naina Reddiar of Alappakkam who sought after alchemy<br />and told him that only the pure without desire could transmute substances.<br /><br />(17) Once Vallalar took the said Devanayakam to Senji hills and roamed about. The<br />latter became hungry and tired. Vallalar left him below the shade of a tree and walked<br />some distance and returned with a big laddoo sweet and a vessel of water in his hands<br />and gave them to him. After Devanayakam had satisfied his hunger and thirst, Vallalar<br />told him that he was going to return the vessel back and thereafter He came back to join<br />him.<br /><br />(17-A) VALLALAR AND A SIDDHA PURUSHA,man of occult powers.<br />At Siddhivalagam, some rocks were standing out of the grond, he asks the people<br />to cover the rocks with sand, no one took action. Seeing so Vallalar took a bag of sand<br />and put it over the rocks. After this every one did the same and all the rocks where<br />covered with sand. At Dharmasalai they prepare sweet rice cake or pittu to be<br />distributed then Vallalar took one handfull and testing it He exclaimed that it had a<br />similar test of pittu given once to Lord Siva by a woman devotee who had prepared and<br />sold pittu<br /><br />LORD SIVA AS SERVANT OF A WOMAN-DEVOTEE<br />NOTE: The reference is to an old legendary incident that took place in Madurai<br />several centuries ago. There was flood in the river Vaigai. The king ordered that the<br />citizens should play their part in raising an embankment to check the erosion of flood.<br />An old woman by name Vanti was a devotee of Lord Siva and she was too old to fulfil<br />this order by herself. She hired a labourer to do the work on her behalf. Her occupation<br />was to cook steamed sweet rice-cakes called "Pittu" and sell them. So she offered in lieu<br />of wages sweet rice-cakes to the said labourer in whose disguise the Lord Himself had<br />come to serve her and through her the king in raising embankment. The Lord as her<br />servant, dug and carried earth over his head in baskets to the bank for raising its level:<br />but it was found that he did not complete Vanti's portion of the work. The king found<br />him not doing the work properly but singing and dancing and eating and enjoying pittu.<br />So the king of Pandya Kingdom got angry and struck him with a cane. The pain of the<br />beating stroke was sensed universally by all in all the worlds and naturally the king too<br />felt its pain. The flood subsided. The Divine labourer too vanished. All came to know<br />that it was a play of the Divine.<br /><br />(19) VALLALAR'S BODY AND LIMBS DISMEMBERED<br />One day at mid day Vallalar went out from Dharmashala. Shanmugam Pillai of<br />Velur who was in charge of Dharmashala waited for Vallalar's return. Growing<br />impatient and anxious, he went out in search of Vallalar. He was bewildered and<br />shocked to find at in diverse place Vallalar's dismembered body and limbs in several<br />pieces and he began to morn. Suddenly Vallalar appeared before him and advised him<br />not to come out any more in search of him and Shanmugam Pillai returned to<br />Dharmashala. Vallalar likes to have some privacy so we can think that he created the<br />illusiory vision to his disciple to be believed such thing. Vallalar had high respect for his<br />body so it is difficult to think that he would dismember his body into peaces.<br /><br />(20) VALLALAR SEEN AT UNAPPROACHABLE DISTANCES<br />One day Vallalar went out alone from Dharmashala for a walk. He saw some<br />devotees following him up and ordered them to stop and not to follow him. But they<br />still followed him. Suddenly Vallalar was seen walking at a very far away distance. They<br />ran with the aim of reaching him. But again Vallalar was seen still farther off.<br /><br />(21) At Karungkuli, one evening Vallalar had gone out for a walk near a pond. A<br />devotee thought that it was the right occasion to get upadesha from Vallalar when he<br />was alone. So he approached Vallalar in haste. But suddenly Vallalar was seen at a far<br />remote distance. As the devotee went nearer and nearer, Vallalar was seen farther and<br />farther. Finally the devotee got perplexed and left the attempt to reach Vallalar<br />NOTE: The above incident is evidently a phenomenon of dematerialization and<br />rematerialisation while in life. Vallalar absorbs his physical body into the subtle physical<br />form and reappears at a far off distance, projecting again the physical body from out of<br />the subtle-physical form.<br /><br />(22) MYSTERIOUS SHORT CUT<br />While in Madras, one day Vallalar was walking to Tiruvottiyur to worship at the<br />Ishwara temple thereat. He was accompanied by devotees and disciples among whom<br />there were Somu Chettiar and Velayuddha Mudaliar. On the way it was pouring down<br />pour of rain. Those who accompanied Vallalar suffered the difficulty of the journey<br />because of the rain. Vallalar showed them a short-cut way and in an instant reached<br />Tiruvottiyur. To quote a relevant portion of the incident as described in T.V.G. Chetty's<br />"Life of Vallalar Ramalinga". Half way to Tiruvottiyur, there was heavy rain, his<br />followers were runing around, a little lost. Vallalar rallied them and in a second they<br />reach the temple.<br />NOTE: The above incident seems to be a case of collective dematerialization and<br />materialization, that is to say Vallalar took them within his subtle-physical body or<br />possibly enveloped them in his environmental body which is its extension and reached<br />the destination instantly and projected them out again. His devotees should have felt the<br />whole process as going through a mysterious way and reaching the temple in an instant.<br /><br />(23) VALLALAR FED BY THE GODDESS<br />One day Vallalar returned late at night after worshipping at the temple of<br />Tiruvottiyur. The door of his house had been closed by his elder sister, as it was late at<br />night. Vallalar did not like to disturb her sleep by calling her or by knocking at the door.<br />So he slept outside on the deck of the house, though tired and hungry. After some time<br />he was woken by some one bearing food in a plate. Vallalar found it was his sister in<br />law who had come with "rice pongal"for him(cooked rice with ghee and fried spices). In<br />tender love she asked him, "Are you feeling hungry after going to Tiruvottiyur"? and<br />without waiting for his reply she gave him food in the middle of the night. He ate it and<br />again he went back to sleep. Then after some time his sister came and woke him up<br />asking in tenderness "Why have you slept on an empty stomach. Could you not tap at<br />the door and wake me up? Come in and take food". Vallalar replied that some time<br />before she herself had come and given him food. But she denied that she ever came and<br />gave him food, she had just woke up. Then Vallalar and his sister in law came to know<br />that it was the divine Mother who came in his sister's form and fed him with food by<br />grace.<br />NOTE:Vallalar refers to the incident in its bare essence in some of his songs (11-36-43<br />& 48 Arul Vilakkamalai). He observes that the Divine fed him when was hungry, not<br />only with material substance of food but also with Grace ambrosia.<br /><br />(24) CURES OF DISEASES: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE<br />One day eleven of his followers who were inmates of Dharmashala at Vadalur laid<br />down with fever (possibly due to influenza) in the summer month (mid-april to mid<br />may). Out of compassion for them, Vallalar asked each of them in an endearing tone and<br />language ("0 equal unity soul of the Divine Father it is used irrespectively of age and<br />relationship in Tamil language) "Father will you give your fever to me?" Then he<br />remained in a room when his body became quite hot like fire and after five minutes he<br />came out in a normal condition. The fever of all the patients was gone.<br />NOTE: Vallalar should have absorbed the disease and fever of his followers into his<br />body freed them from the disease and finally thrown the disease and its symptoms out<br />of his own body. However the incident is interesting because of its collective treatment.<br /><br />(25)One day when Vallalar was going to Chidambaram to attend "Tiruvadirai<br />darshan" at the temple, a man affected with dyspepsia prayed him on the way to be<br />relieved from the disease. Vallalar gave him "tulsi" leaf (a leaf symbolising devotion for<br />the Divine) and water as treatment. The man was cured.<br /><br />(26) A man from Sevalai village had suffered for 12 years from dyspepsia. He prayed<br />Vallalar to relieve him from the disease. Vallalar asked him to pray God. The man<br />replied firmly that Vallalar Himself was God for him. Then Vallalar gave him sacred ash<br />(Vibhuti) with blessings. The man took it reverentially and applied it on his forehead<br />and put a little of it in his mouth. He got cured.<br /><br />(27) VALLALAR AT TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME<br />At Cuddalur, one Ayyasamy Pillai, son of Vedanayakam Pilla was seriously bedridden<br />with disease. Death was awaited at any moment. His father who was a devotee<br />of Vallalar became anxious and helpless. Vallalar came and knocked at his door (who<br />was then giving a discourse at Vadalur- one fact which was later verified). The door was<br />opened. Vallalar sat near the patient, applied sacred ash on his forehead and in a short<br />time made him open his eyes and sit on the bed. Then he left. The day after the father<br />took his son to Vadalur in a cart. They came to know that Vallalar was giving discourse<br />at Vadalur throughout the previous night, when he had also visited them at Cuddalur<br />and spent some time with the patient. Vallalar told them that what took place the day<br />before was a play of the Divine and requested them not to divulge it. The father and son<br />were moved with surprise and surging waves of love and gratitude for the grace of<br />Vallalar..<br /><br />(28) An old woman of Kongara palayam village aged 96 suffered from a nervous<br />shaking of her body. She saw Vallalar and by His darshan, she got cured .<br /><br />(29) Vallalar cured leprosy by giving sacred ash to a patient, the maternal uncle of<br />Purushottama Reddiar of Karungkuli village.<br /><br />(30) A case of eye-disease was cured by Vallalar by giving sacred ash with blessing<br />and the patient Muthu Narayana Reddiar volunteered to endow and settle all his<br />property in favour of Vallalar.<br /><br />(31) A case of excessive growth of adenoid was cured by Vallalar by giving sacred<br />ash to the patient, a servant of a merchant who had come from Salem to Cuddalur.<br /><br />(32) While at Karungkuli, Vallalar was once approached by a devotee namely<br />Appachamy chettiar who prayed for His Grace to cure his elder brother from cancer.<br />Vallalar gave the patient three small packets of sacred ash by which cancer was cured.<br /><br />(33) MASTERY OVER VITAL BEINGS AND SPIRITS<br />One night four magicians went from Vadalur at Mettukuppam to see Vallalar. On<br />the way a Kali (i.e., a female vital being of bad nature; She is to be distinguished from<br />Kali, the divine goddess) came in her terrible form and frightened them. They replied<br />that while returning to Vadalur they chained her, and proceeded on the journey. They<br />saw Vallalar and paid their homage and obedience to him, informing about the<br />frightening kali and the action they had proposed to take on her. Vallalar asked them<br />not to do so, but simply to tell her that they had been to Vallalar. On their way back, kali<br />came in a big frightening form, but as soon as she was informed of the purpose of their<br />journey, she became very small in form and went away humbly.<br /><br />(34) One night two devotees followed Vallalar on his way to Tiruvottiyur. On the<br />way a mohini (a female vital being with charming and fascinating influence on man)<br />attacked the said devotees. Vallalar at once voiced forth "pich"; the mohini went away<br />and vanished. Vallalar gave them sacred ash with his blessing.<br /><br />(34-A) One constable named "Vijaya Raghavalu Nayud of Kurinjipadi suffered<br />because of black magic or witchcraft operated against him. He became lean. He<br />approached Vallalar craving for His grace. Vallalar wrote and gave him a poem on the<br />divine glory of Sri Rama to practice it as a form of mantra japa..The constable did so and<br />got relieved of the suffering.<br /><br />(35) Vallalar cured cases of spirit-possession. One of the two wives of the Zamindar of<br />Vettavalam was possessed by a "brahma Rakshasi" an evil female spirit. The other<br />suffered from the disease of dropsy. In spite of several treatments by medicine, by<br />occultism and magic and by offering of animals in sacrifice, their sufferings could not be<br />relieved. At the request of the Zamindar , Vallalar went to Vettavalam. The Zamindar<br />had provided two identical chairs for Vallalar to sit on. As soon as Vallalar reached the<br />house and was about to step into it, the spirit -possessed wife came out and joined her<br />hands in prayer to Vallalar and assured him that she (the female spirit) was waiting to<br />leave the affected person (i.e. Zamindar 's wife) at Vallalar's bidding. She received<br />sacred ash from Vallalar. The spirit departed leaving Zamindar 's wife to enjoy the<br />freedom of her life. Then, Vallalar gave sacred ash in three small quantities to the other<br />wife of the Zamindar and cured her from dropsy. Vallalar sat in the very particular<br />chair which the Zamindar had chosen for him, this was a test to see if Vallalar was a<br />yogi or not. However the Zamindar asked for Vallalar's pardon for such a behaviour in<br />his thought. He converted the whole family as vegetarians, stopped sacrifice of animals<br />at the "Kali" temple of that village and instead asked the people to offer milk-rice (i.e.,<br />rice cooked in milk) to the goddess. All the poisonous creatures such as snakes were<br />asked to be removed to a distant forest outside the village, instead of killing them or<br />doing any harm to them. For this purpose a snake-charmer was engaged at the request<br />of Vallalar.<br /><br />(36) MAN WITH THE LANTERN<br />In those days Vallalar used to give discourses daily at Cuddalur. To hear his lectures<br />people gathered from all sides. Ramakrishna Pillai from Manjakuppam village came<br />daily to hear Vallalar. On the return journey, he felt fear for the darkness of the night,<br />but he saw at some distance a man with a lantern in his hand going ahead of him, till the<br />former reached the borders of his village. Then the man with the lantern vanished away.<br />If any attempt was made to closely observe the man, his form would not be seen. When<br />Vallalar was informed of this went, he replied that they were the play of the divine<br />Grace.<br /><br />(37) TORCHES WITHOUT TORCH-BEARERS<br />One lawyer by named Venkatesa Iyer of Viruddhachalam and his wife would attend<br />Vallalar’s lecture on Sundays at Vadalur. For this purpose they used to come to Vadalur<br />on the previous night. On the way to Vadalur, during the night at a three mile distance,<br />they had to cross a lonely forest which was full of bushes and trees. On such occasions<br />two torches were seen to go in front of the couple. But no form of the torch-bearers<br />would be seen. The said couple was so much moved by this miracle, that in the later<br />days of retirement from the profession they came and settled in Vadalur to enjoy<br />Vallalar's Grace.<br /><br />NOTE<br />Even after Vallalar's invisibility, his devotee and disciple Subbaraya Paradeshi who<br />was managing the Dharmashala saw two lanterns on several occasions going before him<br />in advance, in fact when he passed through dangerous places to collect the funds for the<br />Dharmashala. he walked the way safely without fear.<br /><br />(38) One contractor by name Arumuga Mudaliar wanted to receive a talisman (Kulikai)<br />from Vallalar. The latter gave him one which was of the size of two peppers. But the<br />former felt them so heavy to bear in his hands that he dropped them. Then Vallalar gave<br />him a printed notice about "the discipline of Truth related to senses, psychic, life and<br />soul" and advised him to follow .<br /><br />(39) VALLALAR AS GUEST OF HONOUR<br />At Chidambaram, one Siddha by named Pandinatha Siddha renovated a shrine<br />dedicated to god "Murugan". At the end of the day he gave masons and labourers<br />sacred ash which got mysteriously converted into currencies equivalent to the value of<br />the work that they actually performed for the construction. Thus the renovation was<br />completed. On the day of the opening of the renovated shrine for worship<br />(Kumbhabhiseheka) Vallalar was invited as the chief guest of honour. The said "Siddha"<br />(i.e., one who could do siddhis or miracles of a divine nature) asked Vallalar to sit at a<br />prominent central place among other dedicated and devoted servants of God<br />(Adiyargal) and performed "Maheshwara Pooja". Then after serving food to all, the said<br />siddha received with great joy a handful or a morsel of food from Vallalar (as prasad or<br />Divine sanctified food).<br />ON SNAKE<br /><br />(40) One Nataraja Pillai chased a snake in order to catch it. But he got wounded on his<br />right hand. Then he ran immediately to Vallalar who addressed the snake "You<br />are Ananda Nataraja, the playing Lord of Bliss". It went off from the wounded<br />hand of the former soon, without harming him.<br /><br />NOTE<br />Vallalar sees the Divine in all beings and creatures. He sees the Divine in the snake.<br /><br />(41) One night a devotee while going round the "Siddhi Valagam" building where<br />Vallalar stayed, he accidentally stepped on a snake which bit him in the leg and its fangs<br />pierced his flesh. He prayed Vallalar, and the poison did not affect him in any way.<br /><br />(42) On a Sunday when one of Vallalar devotee went out and squatted at an open<br />place near a bush for ablution, a snake came hissing to bite him. He at once called<br />Vallalar's name and vowed saying "On the commanding authority of Vallalar" « i.e.,<br />ordering the snake to obey to the Power of Vallalar as he had taken His sacred Name as<br />a shield of protection). The snake became rooted to the spot without movement and<br />food. He went away. But Vallalar came to know of this incident and told the audience in<br />a lecture that the snake was bound by the power of a oath and fixed to the spot without<br />food for three days and he felt grief and sympathy for the suffering snake. When the<br />said devotee came on a Tuesday which was his usual day of visiting Vallalar, the latter<br />told him "What a trouble for a jeevan which is hungry and is without food for three<br />days! "Pich" Go and release it from the Power of the oath, do it taking of my name".The<br />visitor went to the spot of the incident and released the snake. The snake then moved<br />into its pit.<br /><br />(43) One day Vallalar was going back home at night from Vyasarpadi, one of<br />Madras suburb, after having given a lecture there. Some of his devotees were with him<br />when, a big snake appeared in the middle of the road. The devotees ran away from it,<br />but Vallalar kept unmoved. It came and wound itself around his leg. Vallalar then<br />commanded it to leave off and it went away.<br /><br />(44) A SNAKE BITES VALLALAR WITHOUT HARMING<br />At Cuddalur Vallalar once visited Appasamy. There were plantain trees in his<br />warehouse. A snake on the leaf of a plantain tree bit Vallalar at the top of his head and<br />blood oozed out. He applied sacred ash on the spot of the bite. Devotees who were<br />around him asked anxiously what had happened. Vallalar replied coolly that the snake<br />on the leaf had bitten him to cause his death. Then it was found that the snake had died<br />on the leaf.<br /><br />( 45) ON THIEVES AND ROBBERS, REFORMATION<br />One day while living in Madras, Vallalar went to Tiruvottiyur. A thief came while he<br />was sleeping at a guest house, and removed from his right ear a gold ear- ring studded<br />with gems. Vallalar knew of it, and to facilitate him to remove his left ear-ring, he turned<br />on the other side in his sleeping posture. After this incident Vallalar did not wear<br />ear-ring any more.<br /><br />(46) One day Vallalar came from Cuddalur and stayed at a place near Kullanchavadi.<br />A Muslim head-constable offered him a new upper cloth to wear on. While Vallalar was<br />sleeping at a local guest house, a thief came and took of the new cloth slowly and gently.<br />Vallalar knew of it but turned sides so that he could take off the cloth. But the constable<br />caught the thief and punished him. In the meanwhile Vallalar got up and pacifying the<br />constable kindly gave away in kindness the new piece of cloth to the thief, advising him<br />not to do it anymore.<br /><br />(47) Once Ramachandra Mudaliar, shrastadar of manchakuppam court, was taking<br />Vallalar to his village in a bullock-cart. It was night. As the cart drew near<br />Kullanchavadi village, two robbers daringly ordered the cart to stop. The cart-driver and<br />the Mudaliar is servant were afraid of them, got down and hid in the groves of a<br />cashew-nut nearby. The robbers came to the back of the cart, asking Mudaliar in a<br />threatening tone to remove the diamond ring from his finger and give it to them.<br />Vallalar intervened asking "Is it so urgent?". They raised a beating stick against Vallalar<br />in order to beat. Instantly their hands became still; their eyes lost sight. Then they felt<br />and expressed their sorrow for their behaviour and asked for Vallalar's pardon. Vallalar<br />voiced forth "Pich". Instantly they went back restored to their normal conditions of sight<br />and movement of hands. They joined hands in prayer to Vallalar and took leave from<br />him, leading a good harmonious way of life.<br /><br />(48) Under Vallalar's influence, the villagers living around Him were converted from<br />their non-vegetarian diet into a vegetarian one.<br /><br />(49) VALLALAR AS A TALENTED MUSICIAN<br />Once a musician named Chidambaram Krishna Iyer came to Vadalur and sang<br />before Vallalar the first stanza of "Mahadeva malai" in the tune of "'Apurupa raga".<br />Vallalar listened to him and then he himself rendered the song in melodious music in a<br />even better way. The said musician came to know of Vallalar's great knowledge, taste<br />and talent in music.<br /><br />(50) Vallalar called for, by letter, one Sabapathy Sivacharya of the Brahmin<br />priesthood-class who was well versed in Vedas and Agamas, the ancient spiritual and<br />religious literature, and explained to him in secrecy the true significance of Gayatri<br />Mantra (i.e., the Mantra of prayer to the Supramental Sun of Truth - Knowledge). The<br />said Sivacharya became his disciple and later he served as priest in his own way he was<br />in charge of Sathya Gnana Sabha, His descendents continue to serve as priest of the<br />Sabha.<br /><br />(51) TAMIL AND SANSCRIT AS ROOT FOR ALL LANGUAGES<br />Once a Shastri, well versed in Sanskrit and Tamil, came to Vallalar and in the course<br />of discussion with him, he emphasised that Sanskrit was the first language. Vallalar<br />wrote at once an explanatory article affirming that Tamil is the original root (technically<br />the "paternal source language" Pitru bhasha) for all languages and gave it to the scholar.<br /><br />(52) CONVERSION TO VEGETARIANISM<br />Once Vallalar asked Amavasya, the headman of Harijans of Vadalur to stop eating<br />the carcass of dead oxen and instead bury them. He promised to do it but he needed<br />eight annas daily for his maintenance. Vallalar tied eight annas in a piece of yellow cloth<br />and asked him to keep it in a box. He did so and got daily eight annas or half rupee in<br />those days as his earnings, He stopped eating meat and became pure in diet i.e., became<br />a vegetarian.<br /><br />(53) One day Vallalar called for two persons named Arunachala Padayachi and<br />Venkatachala Padayachi who had large families to support, and blessed them saying 'If<br />you stop eating meat from this day onwards, the yield of your dry crop of indigo and<br />the wet crop of paddy will become fivefold". They followed Vallalar's advice and<br />became followers of His movement of "Jeeva Karunya" i.e., compassion and reverence<br />to all life. The yield of their agricultural crops went up and they became prosperous too.<br />(54) PRODIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES<br /><br />One Pinakapani Mudaliar, Manager of theTelegraph office of Pondicherry was proud<br />of his knowledge of seven or eight languages. He came to Vadalur to advise Vallalar<br />about learning many languages. Vallalar by premonition knew of the purpose of his<br />visit. So when the said Mudaliar was approaching him, He said "Here is one coming to<br />give me advice". When he arrived, they had a mutual talk for a while. Then Vallalar took<br />before the said multi-linguist a four years old boy, who was the son of his first disciple<br />namely Velayuda Mudaliar. Holding the boy in his hands Vallalar asked him "how<br />many languages do you know ?". He replied "I know five or six languages". Then<br />Vallalar told Pinakapani Mudaliar to ask the boy any question on any topic in any<br />language and that the boy would reply suitably in the language he had chosen to ask.<br />The said Pinakapani became dumbfounded with surprise and even fainted. Vallalar<br />again asked him to ask the boy patiently any question he liked. The dumb Mudaliar<br />after half an hour of silence thought of asking Vallalar's pardon for his pride. Vallalar<br />said "pich". Immediately the said Pinakapani opened his mouth asking for Vallalar's<br />pardon ; and after worshipping Him repeatedly with joined hands, he went away.<br />NOTE<br />In Vallalar's presence and under his influence the boy seemed to have become His<br />instrument ready to perform in case of necessity the function that Vallalar proposed to<br />do through him. On an earlier occasion and in another situation, though of a different<br />kind the boy's father i.e., Velayuda Mudaliar, in Vallalar's presence and by His blessings<br />explained some hard passages in a Sanskrit text to Sri Sankaracharya. The said Velayuda<br />Mudaliar received inspiration from Vallalar to write poetry in Tamil. Vallalar used to<br />send him devotees seeking clarifications on points which could be dealt with by him on<br />an intellectual and human level of understanding.<br /><br />(55) "UTTAMA PURUSHA" AND NAKED SANYASI<br />While in Madras, Vallalar used to go to Tiruvottiyur temple through a bye-lane<br />instead of throughthe main car-shed street. But one day he went through the main<br />street. There was a naked sanyasi sitting on the pial of a house in that street. He would<br />comment on people going that way as "an ass is going, a bull is going." On the day<br />Vallalar passed through that road, the naked sanyasi hailed him in praise as "Here is one<br />highly noble person (Uttama Purusha) coming and so commenting he immediately<br />covered the parts of his body ( in honour to the great man who was passing through).<br />Vallalar said a few words to him and that very night the he left the place.<br /><br />(56) KALPATTU AYYAH-A YOGI<br />One yogi named "Kalpattu Ayyah" intuitively knew that a man of Knowledge<br />(Gnana Acharya) would come on a particular day and time, accompanied or surrounded<br />by a retinue of devotees, in order to accept him as a disciple. The said yogi informed<br />many about his intuition. Vallalar accompanied by many devotees, visited the yogi at<br />his village Tirunarung Kunram on the day and hour as foreseen by him and accepted<br />him as His disciple. Vallalar took him to Vadalur and gave him a separate cottage to<br />pursue and practise his yoga. Whenever Vallalar happened to give lectures to his<br />devotees, and the subject would benefit Kalpattu Ayyah, he would send for him<br />immediately. In his later days, the said yogi was managing Dharmashala. He died at<br />Vadalur and his remains have been preserved in samadhi near Dharmashala. He was a<br />realised soul among Vallalar's disciples.<br /><br />(57) ARTS, SCIENCES AND OCCULTISM<br />Apart from his spiritual and occult knowledge, Vallalar had much of what may be<br />called knowledge of the world. He knew about medicines particularly the indigenous<br />"Siddha" system of medicine, medical herbs, literature, music, logical argumentation,<br />alchemy, astrology, philosophy such as Vedanta and Siddhanta, mantra shastra, powers<br />behind talisman and gems possessing extraordinary powers and qualities. He could<br />readily discuss in great detail on any such subject with anyone who came to him seeking<br />explanations.<br /><br />(59) TAHSILDAR AND HIS HORN-BLOWER<br />Venkatasubbha Iyer, tahsildar (district revenue officer) of Manchakuppam used to<br />come daily to Cuddalur to hear Vallalar's discourses. His visit was used to be signalled<br />through a blowing-horn which his servant, born of a low caste, carried and ran blowing<br />it in front of the tahsildar's cart all the way from Manchakuppam village to Cuddalur.<br />One day the horn-blower reached Cuddalur very hungry and tired and shaking his<br />body because he had to run fast that day. Vallalar, in this occasion, did not show any<br />gesture by signs or words indicating warmth of reception to the district revenue officer<br />who had just arrived to take his seat to listen to Vallalar’s. After some time, Vallalar<br />asked him, "For how long you are going to endure this?" would he be better to send the<br />horn-blower in advance to the place you are going to visit and ask him to blow the horn<br />a little time before you are drawing near that place?" Tahsildar agreed to do so and<br />asked Vallalar's pardon. Vallalar started his speech of the day only after the hungry and<br />tired horn-blower had been fed with food at the Dharmashala.<br /><br />(60) SANKARACHARIAR AND HIS DOUBTS<br />Once when Sri Sankaracharia Vallalar (the religious head of Kanchi Kamakoti<br />Peetam) was in Madras, he enquired whether there was any Sanskrit Pandit who could<br />clear off his doubt in a Sanskrit book. One of his Brahmin devotees referred the name of<br />Vallalar. Then Vallalar and his disciple Toluvur Velayuda Mudaliar visited on<br />Sankarachariar at his request. Sankarachariar's doubts in the Sanskrit text were cleared<br />off.<br /><br />NOTES ON VELAYUDHA MUDALIAR<br />Velayuda Mudaliar who was also a scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil became a fitting<br />instrument of Vallalar on this occasion, and by His blessings and in His presence the<br />said disciple too participated in explaining the passages to Sankarachariar.<br /><br />(61) DO NOT BEAT STUDENTS<br />Once Vallalar, while at Madras, came to know that one Ponneri Sundaram Pillai who<br />was a teacher, used to beat his young students with a cane. The said teacher and the so<br />said students were respectively the son-in-law and the son of Vallalar's elder brother.<br />Vallalar wrote a poem on the incident and sent it to the teacher through the boy who<br />had reported the matter, admonishing him not to beat his students any more, as beating<br />goes against the fairness of his name "Sundaram". The said Sundaram Pillai threw away<br />the cane and stopped beating once and for all, as soon as he received Vallalar's poem<br />through the said boy whom he was about to beat again because he had gone out of the<br />school without his permission.<br /><br />(62) A LAME TEACHER AND A LAME LAMB<br />One Ramasamy Pillai of Karungkuli was regularly sending food as offering to<br />Vallalar who was at Mettukuppam. Vallalar asked that it would be distributed to the<br />lame teacher of the local school and to the lame lamb of that village. The lame lamb used<br />to stand at a distance and listen to Vallalar's lectures when its left ear would become<br />bent up a little and the eyes stopped winking. After the speech was over, it would go<br />round, along with the devotees, in circumambulation of Vallalar's residential house<br />called "Siddhi Valagam", dragging on its two hind legs.<br /><br />(63) KARANAPPATTU KANDASAMY PILLAI<br />Karanappattu Kandasamy Pillai aspirant devotee of Vallalar, was a scholar and<br />musician. He suffered from fainting. Medicines and treatment had failed. He<br />approached Vallalar for grace. Vallalar looked at him with eyes of compassion and<br />blessings and gave him sacred ash for the cure of his disease, assuring him further that<br />he would be taken as a disciple and given suitable work. The disease was cured. Since<br />then Kandasamy became a staunch and dedicated disciple of Vallalar. Vallalar approved<br />of him to sing His life and glory as a part of his sadhana. Kandasamy began to spread<br />his message of "jeeva karunya" and ideals of the Sanmarga movement by lectures and<br />through songs and Bajans (devotional music in congregation). By Vallalar's grace he got<br />the inspiration to compose poetry and lyrics. He has writen poems and keertans of more<br />than a thousand stanzas on Vallalar's life, and songs of devotion and love in glory of<br />Vallalar. He has compiled in one volume all Vallalar’s work and published it in 1924. In<br />that volume he has given authentic information on several incidents in Vallalar's life<br />which he gathered personally from devotees and disciples who had lived and moved<br />with Vallalar, and kept notes on informations about Vallalar in their note books.<br />Kandasamy has published in his "Arutpa volume" a list of names of such persons in<br />acknowledgement of the information given by them.<br /><br />(64) PURUSHOTTAMA REDDIAR: VALLALAR'S PERSONAL ATTENDANT<br />When Vallalar was staying at "Siddhi Valagam" at Mettukuppam he was used to<br />remain absorbed in the Bliss of Suddha Sivanubhava for some days continuously and<br />then he would come out to give discourses to his disciples. Purushottama Reddiar who<br />served Vallalar as his personal attendant during Vallalar's stay at Karungkuli and<br />Vadalur, continued to attend on him at Mettukuppam also. In the last periods of his life,<br />Vallalar was used to drink a sugar-solution prepared in hot boiling water, that is to say,<br />the water was boiled so as to be reduced to three-fifth of its quantity and then the sugar<br />was added to it. The attendant would prepare and take it to Vallalar by ming a forcep.<br />Vallalar drank it as such in its boiling state.<br /><br />The said attendant would sweep and clean the rooms and inner apartment where<br />Vallalar used to remain absorbed in his blissful state, and feed in time the sacred lamp<br />(originally lit by Vallalar) with oil and keep it trimmed and ever burning. One day he<br />happened to enter Vallalar's room for his daily routine. It was just the time, After a<br />blissful absorption, Vallalar had just opened his eyes of Grace when He met incidentally<br />(or rather by an act of Grace) the eyes of his attendant. At once He was transported into<br />a trance of higher consciousness, and he remained absorbed in it. Other devotees were<br />surprised to know about the incident and asked Vallalar what was to be done with the<br />said Purushottama Reddiar. Vallalar replied "Do not disturb him. After four or five days<br />of unmoved and absorbed trance, he got up to move out, but yet he remained still in a<br />state of silence continuously for months without speaking to anyone.<br /><br />It was this attendant who had asked once Vallalar to show him Grace by giving him<br />a Sadhana, i.e., a way of practice for his spiritual development. Vallalar said, "You are as<br />humble as I am. If you do sadhana (i.e., practice of yoga discipline such as meditation)<br />you may receive some light within and the power to do some siddhis (i.e. lower siddhis<br />of an occult nature) and you would grow proud of them to boast of and you would get<br />ruined. So, you do not need any sadhana.Follow the practice of seeing all beings as your<br />own self (i.e., cultivate the vision of equality with all beings) and get it as your habitual<br />nature. One who gets in his nature this habit of seeing all beings alike, is certainly the<br />omnipotent Divine". Then by Vallalar's blessings Purushottama Reddiar took up the<br />work of receiving all the visitors and devotees coming to Vadalur with warmth and<br />tenderness of love and served them with food and drinks at the Dharmashala after<br />making kind and due enquiries as to their needs in that respect. Thus with his attitude of<br />equality, tenderness of love and dedicated and humble service to one and all alike he<br />carried out many and varied functions, notably as secretary of the Dharmashala and<br />Satya Gnana Sabha for many years in the later part of his life. It is no surprising; Vallalar<br />poured on him his eyes of Grace and uplifted him to a state of higher consciousness as<br />happened in the foregoing incident at "Siddhi Valaga maliga ".<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BspTs-e86Zo/TjnTUydXgxI/AAAAAAAAAj0/nwdvOFpaNvo/s1600/water-lamp.bmp"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BspTs-e86Zo/TjnTUydXgxI/AAAAAAAAAj0/nwdvOFpaNvo/s400/water-lamp.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636768762726679314" border="0" /></a>In Karunguzhi Vallalar, had his house by the side of the road, and He<br />was a friend to every man. People flocked to him for advice and relief.<br />Reference to this may be found in some of his verses quoted earlier. People<br />from distant places left their homes to be near him. They invited him to<br />functions and musical recitals in their houses. Such invitations to him are<br />extant. They considered it a blessing to be of service to him. Spending days<br />and nights in meditation and composing poems, he gave discourses in the<br />house or in the Sabha at night, and they flocked to listen to him.<br />In Venkata Reddiar’s house in Karunguzhi, the mistress of the house,<br />Muthiyalammal herself used to light the lamp in his room and keep near it a mud pot of<br />oil, with which to refill the lamp. One day, the mouth of the pot broke, so<br />Muthiyalammal wanted to change it. She bought a new pot, filled it with water and let it<br />stand beside the lamp, in order to season it before use. Then she left the house for the<br />next village. Writing his poems through the night, as he often did, Vallalar mechanically<br />kept refilling the lamp with water, from the new pot instead of oil from the old. When<br />Muthiyalammal returned the next morning, she found Vallalar absorbed in writing, and<br />the lamp burning. She discovered his mistake which, without any conscious mess on his<br />part, had resulted in this miracle. That’s was the says, Vallalar who used to keep a<br />record of his experiences and refers to this in a poem, attributing this kind office to God,<br />and not to his own powers. Thozhuvur Velayuda Mudaliar and Madurai Chidambara<br />Vallalargal also refer to this in their tributes to their master. One could fill pages with<br />miracles that the legend attributes to him, but it would be wearisome.<br /><br />Appasami Chettiar, one of Vallalar’s admirers, used to come to Karunguzhi from<br />Cuddalore (then called Gudalur) to see his master. Having had his brother cured of an<br />indolent sore on the tongue by the grace of Vallalar, he put his hospitality at Vallalar’s<br />service. Vallalar stayed with him for some months in Cuddalore in 1866.Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-70971413711883260682010-04-24T11:53:00.000-07:002010-04-24T12:55:39.188-07:00Vallalar Glorifying The Supreme<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/122247721118679" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/122247721118679" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-25945251601688328202010-04-12T08:40:00.000-07:002011-08-03T18:23:20.290-07:00Video - Jothi Jothi Jothi<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/120425164634268" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/120425164634268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-59121197497159291442010-04-12T07:14:00.000-07:002010-04-12T07:17:42.700-07:00The Temple of WisdomIn 1870, Ramalinga Swami moved into a small hut in the hamlet of Mettukuppam, about three miles south of Vadalur. This hut has been preserved to this day and is known as "Siddhi Valaga Thirumaligai", "the sacred mansion of the miracle". In 1871, he requested his disciples to construct "a temple of wisdom" designed by him. They did it within six months. It was inaugurated on January 25, 1872, and is still standing to this day. It has a unique design which in its form explains symbolically the process of Self realization as experi¬enced by Ramalinga. Seven curtains representing human passion and ignorance conceal an eternal light and various inner spaces within. These curtains conceal successively: "the individual", "life itself', the "space of reality", the "space of the Lord Supreme", and various spiritual experiences. Beyond all these curtains stand a glass box, five feet high, representing the purity of the soul, and within it there burns an eternal flame, which represents the soul in its true splendor, merged with Supreme Grace light (Arul perunjyoti).<br /><br />Ramalinga issued instructions to his disciples that except for the burning of camphor, no ritual be performed. Devotees should pray silently, filled with love for God, and enter into ecstasy.<br /><br />"Into all the bodies of His creation..."<br /><br />From the time of the laying of the foundation of the temple, Ramalinga Swami would alternate between periods of several days of seclusion in his hermitage and periods when he would give thrilling lectures on universal spiritual communion. Towards the end of 1873 he hoisted his Sanmarga flag as a token of achievement of the Supreme Grace Light. He entreated his listeners to meditate upon the Lord of Light seated in one's heart and to pray to the Supreme Grace Light. Towards the end of 1873, he placed outside the door of his room the oil lamp which he had been using inside. He asked his disciples to worship it and to keep it burning forever. He asked them to imagine the Supreme Grace Light manifested in it and to pray to Him for Grace.<br />But when his spiritual mission did not take as deep a root as it perhaps should have, Ramalinga expressed sorrow, saying:<br /><br />"We disclosed the treasure. but no one was willing to have it. We close down. "<br />Earlier he remarked:<br /><br />" You. my dear ones. you seem to have decided not to hear me. You may not hear me now. There are some enlightened persons in the far north. They will be coming over here. They will learn this philosophy and preach unto you. Then perhaps you may listen." Madame H.P. Blavatsky, co founder of the Theosophical Society, which led the western world's revival in interest in spirituality and esoteric studies in modern times, with international headquarters in Madras, declared that Ramalinga Swamigal was the forerunner of their movement. (July, 1882 edition of the Theosophist).<br /><br />Forty years later Sri Aurobindo settled in nearby Pondicherry. Parallels between his experiences and those of Ramalinga are discussed in the next chapter.<br />After seeing that the masses did not hood his message, Ramalinga appealed to God:<br />"Oh Lord of Life. What is the use of repeating my humble desires when you know my mind? When will all the world, realizing the universal spiritual communion, enjoy eternal happiness devoid of miseries and death? When shall I. on seeing their joy, be happy?" (Canto 2, chapter 23, verse 10)<br /><br />On the auspicious day of January 30, 1874, at the age of 50, Ramalinga wrote and released to his devotees the following statement:<br /><br />"My beloved ones!" I have to be out of your sight for a time. Do not worry. Keep the Light of the lamp (Gnana Deepam) burning forever. Imagine that god is there and worship the light. You will be amply rewarded. I am in this body now and after awhile I shall enter into all the bodies of his creation. Close the door and lock it outside. The room, if ordered to be opened, will only be void. "<br /><br />Ramalinga then shut himself up in his room in the Mettukuppam hut. Later that night, as the devotees outside the room were chanting "Arulperunjyoti. Arulperunjyoti. Tanniperunkarunai. Arulperun jyoti" (Supreme Grace Light, Supreme Grace Light, pour down upon us, Supreme Grace Light) suddenly a flash of violet light emanated from Ramalinga's room, signaling the merger of Ramalinga "into all the bodies of His creation". For, when the room was eventually opened it was found to be empty. Ramalinga had disappeared without a trace.<br /><br />Upon receipt of a police report a few days later, the chief British administrative officer of South Arcot District, the Collector, a Mr. J.H. Garstin, of the Indian Colonial Service, ICS and Mr. George Banbury, ICS, the District Medical Officer, with the Tashildar, the chief of the local "Taluk" or sub district, Mr. Venkataraman lyer, rode quickly on horseback to Metukuppam to investigate the disappearance. They conducted an elaborate inquiry. All of the villagers were overcome with emotion, so great was their sorrow. The officers went around the hut carefully examining the entire area. Finding no evidence which would support any suspicion to the contrary, they concluded that Ramalinga was indeed a great soul who had vanished into thin air. The Collector enquired from the disciples what the Swan ii had asked them to do. They told him that he had instructed them to food the poor. Both British Officers gave twenty rupees for this purpose to the disciples and rode back to Cuddalore.<br /><br />In 1878, the Manual of South Arcot District was published. In it, the Collector, Mr. J.H. Garstin, described the disappearance of Ramalinga Swami. He stated that "in 1874, Ramalinga Swami entered into a room at Mettukuppam and asked his devotees to lock it outside. He did not come out at all. His disciples believe that he has merged with God."<br /><br />His passing reminds one of the way in which the four great Saivite saints of Tamil Nadu, the "Nayanars", left the physical plane. None of them dropped their bodies on earth nor was buried or burnt. They vanished into the other or into the Lord Divine. Tirugnanasambandar vanished into the divine light which appeared at the time of his marriage. Appar merged physically with the Absolute form of the Lord at Pugalur. Sundardr merged with Lord Shiva at Mount Kailas and Manickavasagar merged with the idol of Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer, in the sanctam sanctorum of the Chidambaram temple (Sokkizhaar, 1985). Unlike them, however, Ramalinga did not keep deathlessness a secret. He proclaimed it openly and invited everyone to share in its Joy and Supreme Grace Light.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">source: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition </span>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-27046783138590006512010-04-12T07:11:00.000-07:002010-04-12T07:14:27.955-07:00The Divine Song of GraceRamalinga composed many hymns and poems expressing his devotion for God and his spiritual aspirations. His favorite time for such composition was at night. Velayutha Mudaher, in 1867, after great effort, persuaded Ramalinga to allow him to collect and publish the poems with the title Thiruvarulpa or The Divine Song of Grace. A history of their composition was written by Velayutha in 63 verses and appended to this collection.<br /><br />Soon after its publication, a group of people in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, headed by a famous scholar, Arumuga Navalar, wrote a pamphlet which described as presumptuous the title of 7he Divine Song of Grace. They asserted that such a title should be applicable only to the verses of the four earlier Tamil Saivite saints. After several more pamphlets appeared on either side, Arumugam Navalar filed a lawsuit seeking to force the title of the book to be changed. Summons were issued by the High Court in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. At the appointed time, Ramalinga walked into the courtroom, only after everyone from both sides of the dispute had taken their seats. When Ramalinga entered, everyone except the English judge, stood up immediately out of reverence for him. Ramalinga went to his seat, gestured in respect to the court and then walked out. Again everyone, including the plaintiff, Arumuga Navalar, stood up as he left. The English judge who had been carefully observing the expressions of reverence of everyone for Ramalinga, then asked Arumugam Navalar why he had shown such respect to the respondent. Navalar explained that it was a custom of the country to show respect to a saint. The judge immediately set aside the suit, ruling that the greatness and sanctity of the hymns was merited when even their critic was obliged to revere the saintliness of their author.<br /><br />The Divine Song of Grace is one of the greatest master works of the Tamil language. Written in melodious verse, it expresses the nature and attributes of God, the soul and the symphony of life. It describes the various stages of Self realization and the transformation of Ramalinga's mortal human frame into a divine immortal body. Ramalinga wrote that his mortal body became resplendent with a golden hue and transformed into a "body of love" (Anburoo or Suddha deham). He sang more and more in ecstatic delight for the flow of Divine Grace. His "body of love" was transformed into an effulgent body, known as the "body of Grace", Pranava deham or "body of light". Unlike the previous one, this body was imperceptible to the sense of touch. It is imperishable and non susceptible to the ravages of Nature. His aspiration to merge with God Supreme was fulfilled at this stage. At one point, he states:<br /><br />"I prayed for an effulgent body that would endure forever against wind, earth, sky, fire, water, sun, moon, death, disease, weapons of killing, planets, injuries of evil deeds or anything else. He later fulfilled my prayers and I have such a body. Think it not a mean gift. O people. seek refuge in my Father who is the lord of the Beatific Splendor that immortalizes even the material body." (Canto 6, chapter 13, verse 59)<br /><br />It was about this time that the disciples of Ramalinga tried to photograph him. A famous photographer, Masilamany Mudalier of Madras was brought down. He attempted to photograph Ramalinga eight times, but the photographic plates revealed only his clothing and no part of his body. One of his disciples, Kandaswamy Pillai offered an explanation. According to him the body of Ramalinga had already been converted into a body of sublime light and hence it would not reflect on the photographic plate.<br /><br />His body cast no shadow. To avoid undue publicity to this fact, Ramalinga covered his head and effulgent body with a white cloth. He was a straight, slender figure of moderate height. He had a long sharp nose and broad soothing eyes sparkling with spiritual fire. His frame appeared thin. He took a small quantity of food only once in two or three days. He could very easily read the minds of others and frequently performed miracles, such as healings. He often disappeared for many days at a time. He was simple, humble, gentle and loving.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />source: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition </span>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-18199156792434314972010-04-12T06:29:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:42:08.928-07:00THIRUVARUTPA- Puluvil...<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/117636561579795" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/117636561579795" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-33070350735375302182010-04-12T06:25:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:43:16.357-07:00THIRUVARUTPA - Paal Marantha Kuzhaviyai Pol Paaren...<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/116761035000681" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/116761035000681" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-89540509010665323952010-04-12T06:23:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:43:35.505-07:00Lord Murugan Song - Vallalar<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/116756991667752" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/116756991667752" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-37949967329062523192010-04-12T06:22:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:43:59.523-07:00THE TEACHINGS OF VALLALAR<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/116755805001204" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/116755805001204" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-38295858010079160602010-04-12T06:20:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:44:50.275-07:00Grace Light and Ramalinga<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/115536551789796" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/115536551789796" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-13470669094392669872010-04-04T10:55:00.000-07:002010-04-04T10:59:34.622-07:00Ramalinga SwamigalSoruba samadhi has been attained by a few great souls in modern times. Ramalinga Swamigal, the Saint of Vadalur, Tamil Nadu, southern India is one amongst them. He experienced various stages of Divine transformation, and left forty thousand verses describing his experiences. Ramalinga Swamigal has become one of South India's most celebrated saints, revered universally for his great sanctity, conquest of death and inspiring songs in praise of Shiva. Such verses are sung today by millions of school children in praise of the "Arul Perun Jyoti", the "Supreme Grace Light", Ramalinga's favorite name for God. Not only children, but even such spiritual giants as Sri Aurobindo and Madame Blavatsky, recognized Ramalinga as their forerunner.<br /><br />A Sketch of Ramalinga’s life story<br /><br />Ramalinga was born on October 5, 1823 in the village of Marudur, about ton miles north of Chidambaram, the site of the great temple of Dancing Shiva, "Nataraja" . When he was five months old, his father, Hamiah Pillai, and his mother Chinnammai, brought him to this temple to be sanctified. As recorded later in his Divine Song of Grace or Thiruvarulpa as it is known in Tamil, when the curtain in front of the idol of Nataraja was lifted and the camphor flame waved in front of it, Ramalinga laughed aloud and an unusually great atmosphere of sanctity prevailed. Seeing the communion of the child and the idol of the Supreme Lord, the chief priest ran forward, embraced the child, and declared that it was the child of God. In another verse, of the same work (Canto 6, chapter 38, verse 44) Ramalinga declared that God was so benevolent as to reveal to him everything without reservation even in his childhood.<br /><br />His father passed away about a month later. The family moved to Madras, where it was supported by Ramalinga's elder brother. When Ramalinga was five years old, his brother arranged for his schooling with a famous tutor. Ramalinga, after a few lessons, began composing ecstatic verses of poetry in praise of God and in one of these he sang as follows:<br />"What wonder it is, O God, you have educated me in all knowledge; you have inculcated in me an ardent love for you; you have persuasively taught me that the whole world is nothing but a mirage,. O My benevolent Being! You are in me and are showering your Grace; you have condescended to be my spiritual Master and blessed me, the insignificant creature with a status above wants without being driven to the necessity of begging others" (Canto V, chapter 40, verse 4).<br /><br />Seeing the wonderful spiritual development of the child, the tutor refrained from giving him any more lessons. His elder brother, to make Ramalinga realize the importance of education, turned him out of the household. However. the elder brother's wife continued secretly to feed him, until after one such occasion, he was moved by her pleas to return to the household and take up his studies. At this time he was nine years old. After requesting materials for writing and study, he immediately shut himself up in his room at the family's house at no. 9 Veeraswami Pillai Street, Madras, India. A torrent of psalms and hymns poured through him in inspiration as the "Supreme Grace Light" reflected in him like a mirror and Omniscience descended into him and he sang as follows:<br />“You have infused all knowledge in me without my undergoing the ordeal of learning to such an extent that the most learned come to me to learn more. O God! my stabilizer! You have endowed that Light with which I could realize all knowledge and all wisdom and everything else without being taught" (Canto 6, chapter 1, verse 23 to 24).<br /><br />During an illness, when Ramalinga was twelve years old, his elder brother, asked Ramalinga to replace him in his duties as a religious teacher. The congregation was so impressed with his skill in commenting on the verse of one of the medieval Saivite saints, Thirugnanasambandar, that they insisted that he finish the series of scheduled lectures. Taking it as the will of the Supreme Lord to initiate his mission in the world, Ramalinga accepted the invitation of the devotees.<br />Little has been recorded with regards to the next twelve years of his life. However, it appears that it was a period of intense aspiration and an ordeal of yearning for the descent of the Divine grace. He wrote about this period:<br />"Why should I narrate the painful yearnings when You are the witness of all my sufferings all along and when You are pervading within and outside my mind both internally and externally?" (Canto 6. chapter 139, verse 78)<br /><br />In 1849, Velayutha Mudaher of Thuzhuvoor, a reputed Tamil and Sanskrit scholar and poet, became his principle disciple. Over the next twenty five years Velayutha authored many books including treatises on Ramalinga Swamigal.<br /><br />It was about this time, that Ramalinga was compelled to marry Thanammal, daughter of one of his sisters. But all attempts by the family to persuade him to a worldly life were in vain. His wife remained a virgin throughout her life.<br /><br />During the next decade, at Thiruvothiyur and Chidambaram, he composed many inspired passionate verses expressing his aspiration for the Lord's light of grace. About 1860 Ramalinga moved to the village of Vadalur which is almost at the center of an equilateral triangle formed by the three great temples of Chidambaram in the south, Vridachalam in the west and Thiruppathirupoliyur in the north east. Here, in 1867, he founded a house of charity to feed the poor and extend hospitality to travelers and indigent old persons. About 10,000 persons were fed at the inauguration ceremony which lasted for three days. The first part of his treatise, Jeevakarunya Ozhukkam, on compassion to all living things a key principle in his teachings was released at that time. He ordained a path of righteousness, "Sanmargam", whose life breath was compassion to all living beings. He taught that kindness is inherent in human beings. As God is manifest in all living beings, kindness and compassion shown to living beings is kindness and love shown to God. He taught that the love of God or God's grace shall now into the very form of the compassionate being. To receive God's grace, one should become kindness incarnate and firmly establish in oneself feelings of unity and fellowship. The best form of compassion is giving food to persons who are unable to work and earn their food, without questioning as to their caste, community, creed, color, conduct or country; and to relieve the hunger of animals, birds, insects and plants, realizing that God is present in every being. He condemned the killing of animals and converted many to vegetarianism.<br /><br />At Vadalur, Ramalinga discoursed extensively with his disciples and he received many visitors who came especially to witness his miracles. Those who were hungry were fed and the sick were cured. Some scholars of various philosophical schools visited him and had their doubts clarified.<br /><br />He founded a society under the name of "Sanmarasa Veda Sanmarga Sangam", later renamed by him as "Sanmarasa Suddha Sanmarga Sathya Sangam". He borrowed the name for his philosophy "Sanmarga", "the good path", from Thirumoolar's Thirumandiram.<br /><br />source: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga TraditionRamalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-52329617187373910902010-04-01T08:53:00.001-07:002010-04-12T06:46:03.926-07:00Great Souls (Yogi's,Guru's, Swami's) on our Planet Earth<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/113144428695675" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/113144428695675" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-8000598502826348722010-04-01T08:50:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:46:26.689-07:00Vallalar's life and message<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/114226858587432" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/114226858587432" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-34835447217802455132010-04-01T08:47:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:46:46.042-07:00Vallalar Golden Body<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/114817851861666" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/114817851861666" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-60928629918103156162010-04-01T08:43:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:47:08.837-07:00Bliss of Vallalar<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/114858468524271" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/114858468524271" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-72375077769509069602010-04-01T08:31:00.000-07:002010-04-12T06:47:37.490-07:00Grace Light and Ramalinga<center><object width="600" height="450" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/115536551789796" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/115536551789796" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="450"></embed></object></center>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-49394914900131579952010-02-20T06:52:00.000-08:002010-02-20T07:03:52.730-08:00WHAT IS THE ONLY WAY To Control Global Warming? To get rid off Terrorism? and To have healthy life?Author -APJ.ARUL.<br /><br />Nature must be prayed identifying it with God. One must know the truth of God and its elucidation<br /><br /><br />Question:<br /> <br />Who is basically responsible for Global Warming?<br /><br />Answer :<br /> <br />Man himself.<br /><br /><br />Ques :<br /> <br />Who has the capacity and power to control the Global warming<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />None other than human beings.<br /><br /><br />Ques :<br /> <br />How man was responsible for the aforesaid Phenomenon?<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />The reason is his passion for the five senses. Also, the reason is the ignorance of the state of “that”, which was, which is and which will be.<br /><br /><br />Ques:<br /> <br />What is “that” which was, which is and which will be?<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />Nature<br /><br />Ques:<br /><br /> <br />Why did not man respect “NATURE” even after knowing it by his out side knowledge.<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />Because, he did not understand that Nature is the “Real God”<br /><br /><br />Ques:<br /> <br />Why nature could not be realized as the only God?<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />It is because of the wrong notion of human about God. It is because of the doctrines of the religions in which men have liking. Further, the state of uncontrolled five senses, love for the artificial and the arrogance / ego prevailing among individual beings / countries.<br /><br /><br />Ques:<br /> <br />Is the truth about God not revealed by the religions in the world?<br /><br />Ans :<br /> <br />Yes, not revealed, fully and directly not understood and is not possible.<br /><br /><br />Ques :<br /> <br />How it is not understood through the religions in the world? Why it is not possible? What is the proof?<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />For example, among the religions such as X, Y and Z…..<br /> <br />X religion claims itself to be true and others Y,Z … religions are wrong.<br /> <br />Y religion claims itself to be true and others X,Z … religions are wrong. <br /> <br />Z religion claims itself to be true and others X,Y … religions are wrong. <br /> <br />And the atheism has been telling that all the XYZ……….. are wrong.<br /><br />But, the mankind is following any one of the aforesaid religions.<br />All the human beings are responsible for the Global Warming and terrorism.<br />Why the man who identified Sun, Moon and other such things which are common to all, did not perceive the only God who is common to all.<br />All the religions have contradicted among themselves and have identified him in different forms (idols) / sound / light or without any specific form (non-idol). To reach the God, men are following different types of customs, ceremonies, sacrifices, and prayers and also traveling to different places and chanting prayers in different ways. Further, chasing, beating, enslaving, excommunicating the people who belong to other school of belief are still continuing.<br /><br /><br />Ques:<br /> <br />Why we cannot arrive at a consensus on who is (real) God?<br /><br />Ans:<br /> <br />The whole population, which is believing and following certain types of religions, is responsible for the Global Warming and terrorism. Man is studying truth through his external knowledge. But, sofar, he has got only a very small part of it.<br />Further, his scientific inventions are contrary to nature. One must understand that God can be realized only through compassion and inner explorations. We have ruined nature by our scientific and outside knowledge and thereby spoiled ourselves only because it has not been made clear fully / directly that Nature is the true God. Without respecting nature, we become useless due to our love for five senses.<br /><br />The human race has not realized that nature is the God and it is common to all. We must understand that God’s grace can be got only by compassion and therefore, we must love all the living creatures.<br />As said above, the truth of God (form) and this elucidations (which are manifest in the form of continents, objects and living things) can be discerned in our body itself through wise knowledge. So, we must maintain good health.<br />Knowledge, discipline, love, compassion, endeavor and the control over thought, speech and body are necessary to get the grace of god.<br />Since compassion is the only way to get the grace of God, all other things (all difference including ceremonies) are obstacles to get the grace of God.<br />The people, those who have got the grace of God, can get the deathless, good and spiritual life.<br />God is the form of nature, and mercy towards all living things is the key. Compassion is the only way to get the grace of God. Real knowledge, real love, real mercy, discipline and good health are the qualities for that. God is nothing but the bright light and is found all over the universe. It is called as Nature.<br /><br />God (Nature) is so kind that it gives happiness to all beings and only hence God’s<br />Grace can be received only by way of kindness towards others. But, scientific inventions of the<br />human, by his extrinsic knowledge, in his fulfillment of his five senses, have created only dangers<br />to the human life as well as the world.<br /><br />The Samarasa Sutha Sunmarga Sangh founded by His Holiness Vallalar is the common path available to all the human beings in the world since the doctrine of vallalar is that the only compassion is being used in this margam as only way to realise GOD . The truth of nature is identified as truth of GOD.<br />Only through the Samarssa Sutha Sanmargha Sangam (at Vadaloor, Cuddalure District, Tamilnadu, India), Global Warming can be controlled, world wise terrorism can be wiped out and all the people in the world can lead a good life.<br /><br />source: http://www.vallalarspace.com/ArulTrust/Articles/1822Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3381477836154265624.post-24634514310582847292010-02-07T01:28:00.000-08:002010-02-07T01:36:18.645-08:00Vallalar is a Siddhar who lived in the 19th century. He attained Light, the ultimate yogic objective.Sudha Sanmarga (Pure Gathering) teaching is mainly spread in the South India. One of those, who carry significant share in the fact that Sudha Sanmarga teaching is still living, is Tamil saint Vallalar, who lived in Tamil Nadu in 19th century.<br /><br />Vallalar belongs to a line of Tamil saints known as "gnana siddhars" (gnana means higher wisdom). The Suddha Sanmarga was spread and passed on by him not only in theory but mainly in practice by his own way of living which was itself inspiration for his followers. According to Suddha Sanmarga, the prime aspects of human life should be love connected with charity and spritual practice leading to achievement of pure knowledge. Both of these aspects were embodied by Valallar into two buildings in small South Indian town Vadalur. The first building is called Dharumachalai. The food has been served there daily to the hungry and needy people since its opening in 1867. The service is still running thanks to voluntary donations of Vallalar´s followers upto these days. It thus serves a meaningful purpose and at the same time inspires other Vallalar´s followers to start similar activities at other places.<br /><br /><br />GNANA SABAI - THE HALL OF WISDOM<br /><br />The second building is Gnana Sabai - Hall of Wisdom. This building symbolizes the human body and it is an inspiration and signpost for those who want to practically follow Suddha Sanmarga. The second picture shows the central point of Gnana Sabai where just light is placed. Contrary to Hindu temples or Christian churches there are no statues or any other images of god or deities.<br /><br />While the first building, Dharumachalai, represents the fulfillment of bodily needs, then Gnana Sabai symbolizes the fulfillment of spiritual needs of a man. Both buildings together refer to the both aspects of a human being, physical and spiritual, and to their mutual relations.<br /><br />We have come accross Suddha Sanmarga teaching in person during our stay in Tamil Nadu in 1998. There are still some people who understood that Suddha Sanmarga is not only the philosophy but first and foremost the practice of every single moment of human life. One of such a rare persons has introduced us into Suddha Sanmarga teaching without asking for any reward. Thanks to such a people Suddha Sanmarga teaching has been preserved in original, pure and noncommercial form.<br /><br /><br />TAMIL SIDDHARS TRADITION<br /><br />The tradition of Tamil siddhars dates back to the long history of the mankind. It continues to live both in the oral tradition and in siddhars' manuscripts written in their mother tong - Tamil. The manuscripts contain spiritual, philosophical, social or scientific essays both in prose and poetry. These essays are usually written on the palm leafs and just small part of them have been published up to now.<br /><br />The Tamil siddhars philosophy is most alive in Tamil Nadu in southern India and never has been spread more significantly to northern parts of India or abroad. There is some awareness about it in Tamil Nadu but even here it has not become the issue of the general public. There exist several reasons for this fact:<br />Siddhars are well aware of the fact that spiritual knowledge can not be transmitted verbally in full breadth. That is why they do not seek to do so. Their manuscripts are first of all source of inspiration and show how to reach one´s own spiritual knowledge and experience. Siddhars use in their manuscripts rich symbolic language which enables them at the same time address both a casual listener as well as an adept of great spiritual awareness who can see a deep meaning in them.<br /><br />The siddhars manuscripts are a closed treasure-box locked by the lock of ignorance. The key to this treasure-box is nothing but practical following of their message in daily life. In this way the message of the siddhars is protected against misusage and deformation by the people of superficial and acquisitive motives. For those who are seriously interested in it the message remains preserved in its original, pure and noncommercialised form.<br /><br />Next reason, besides the language barrier, why the siddhars message remains concentrated in Tamil Nadu, is the fact that their philosophy is the contrary of the official Hindu philosophy represented in the literature of Vedas. In their manuscripts siddhars point out the absurdity of the caste system, denounce the privileged status of Brahmins and downgrade the importance of the religious rites.<br />Due to the difficulties in understanding the symbolic texts and also because of the opposition of the caste system advocates, the vast majority of siddhars' manuscripts has not been published yet.<br />However, the knowledge of these manuscripts is not necessary for one's spiritual practice.<br /><br />Besides the philosophical and spiritual texts the siddhars' manuscripts contain also essays on biology, anatomy, physiology, chemistry or astronomy. The complex knowledge of these subjects is the result of the integration of spiritual and scientific approach to the cognition of the world and the human being.<br />Through the systematic observation and the study of the nature siddhars have also developed the compact system of the medicine. The records of this system which is written on the palm leaves date to the pre-vedic period, it means before 1200 B.C. It is obvious from the siddhars' manuscripts that their medicine system pays attention to both body and mind.<br /><br />Siddhar Thirumoolar have defined the siddha medicine by these words:<br />Medicine is that which treats the disorders of the physical body;<br />Medicine is that which treats the disorders of the mind;<br />Medicine is that which prevents illness;<br />Medicine is that which enables immortality.<br /><br />The sacred Mantra of Vallalar-<br /><br />Arut Perum Jyothi (Supreme Grace Light)<br /><br />Arut Perum Jyothi (Supreme Grace Light)<br /><br />Tanip Perung Karunai (Pour down upon us)<br /><br />Arut Perum Jyothi (Supreme Grace Light)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Article contributed by Mario<br />http://www.nandhi.com/vallalar.htm</span>Ramalinga Swamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630412740487228324noreply@blogger.com0