ThirumuRai Series

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Thank you Shaivam Team for posting the Thirumurai Series.

 

panniru thirumuRai is the collection of twelve holy scriptures

written by twenty seven marvelous devotees in thamiz language. These

are the highly respected scriptures of thamiz shaivites. The

philosophers who came in the later days like the santhAna kuravas who

wrote the shaiva sidhdhantha texts (1) and others like thAyumAnavar

and rAmalinga vaLLalAr have adored these scriptures and their authors

in their works. Like the 27 stars that shine in the sky these great

devotees gave the thirumuRai which are like the twelve suns (dvAdasa

Adityas). This splendid luminance has been guiding the suffering

masses from their darkness to the Supreme in Whose presence the

sticky bonds (pAsam) is driven off.

 

These thirumuRais are for masses to elites, simple devotees to great

yogis, are for married people as well for ascetic. Because they have

all the elements the people of various states would look for. While

the honey dipped words (Oh, honey is glorified !) of thiruvAchakam

that just is nothing but pure devotion and surrender, thirumandhiram

is a marvelous text on the sophisticated concepts of yoga shastram.

The thiruththANdakams of appar perumAn are very simple to pass rich

concepts even to masses and there are some hymns from champan^dhar

that dwells in the beauties of grammar and music. These have the

songs praying for good family and maaterial life at the same time

those of devotees like pattinaththAr who praise the ascetic life

against the married !

 

Extracted from the Shaivam homepage. : http://www.shaivam.org

 

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