Thanks for your postings Regarding Vallalar's Teaching

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Namaste!

 

Thanks Guruprasad for the beautiful quotes.

 

Guruprasadji:

>You are the experience. You are the intelligence. You are the cause.

>You are the action. Beyond the cause and the actions, existing as

>the complete is also you.

 

I agree with you (Michael L), the intention of the post is to know

and not to create endless discussion.

 

Michael L ji:

>Non-dual teachings are more rare than a camel with wings.

>Teachings claiming to be non-dual are as common as elephants with

>trunks.

 

Thanks Ramji for your beautiful post and for the website of "The

Hymns of Thayumanavar" and "shiva siddhantam and divya prabandam"

 

Thanks,

perolyn

 

advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <rchandran@c...>

wrote:

> Namaste:

>The agamas and prabhandams are respectively verses in praise of

>Shiva and Vishnu respectively. But these verses come from the hearts

> of the true devotees who totally surrendered their ego.

> Site with Hymns of Thayumanavar:

> http://www.mountainman.com.au/thayumanavar/

>

> The Site starts with an Introduction with a verse from

KathaUpanishads

> =================================================

> The Self is not realized through instruction,

> nor by intellectual power,

> nor by much hearing

> . It can be reached only

> by the one whom the Self chooses.

> To him the Self reveals its form.

> He who has not renounced evil ways,

> who is not at peace,

> who cannot concentrate,

> whose mind is not composed

> cannot reach the Self,

> even by right knowledge.

> Krishna Yajur Veda,

> Katha Upanishad 1.2.24-25

> ===============================

>

> Translation of Taynamanvar's Tamil poem in English: (I have read

many

> of Tayumanavar's works in Tamil and this translation taken from the

> quoted site is pretty good)

>

> What is it, which is

> Uncircumscribed Effulgence,

> Perfect Bliss,

> Divine-Love Filled --

>

> That indeed is what we in meekness worship.

>