EPILOGUE: "There is Salvation in numbers"- The Theme of "satsangh" in TiruppAvai

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Dear friends,

 

Salvation -- the state of absolute communion

("sAyujya") with God in his Abode of SriVaikuntam --

is not narrow individual experience but an

all-expansive, all-encompassing, all-overwhelming

collective one. It cannot be denoted at all with

reference to any sense of feeling such as "I", "Me" or

"Myself". It is more "We", "Ours" and "All of Us". It

is never easy to realize this truth since it involves

making a giant, quantum leap from the feeling of

individualistic "I" to the universal "WE". It involves

moving from the 'first-person-singular' to the

'first-person-plural'… And according to Vedanta, it is

only when Man has learnt to make that movement does he

find God…

 

It is 'satsangh' alone that can really enable Man to

make the vast leap of the spirit. It is only

'satsangh' that can help us move away from the

'first-person-singular' towards 'first-person-plural'…

 

The Bliss of God becomes available to the human soul

when it takes up residence there eternally. But even

there the Bliss of God cannot be enjoyed in the

selfish sense of the individual… The principle of

"koodi-irunthu-kUlirndhu…" operates inexorably in

God's Heaven as it operates here in Man's world.

 

The TiruppAvai in 30 beautiful stanzas reveals this

important truth to us as no other comparable text in

Vedantic scripture or literature has ever done or will

ever do.

 

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Regards,

 

dAsan,

Sudarshan

 

Kuwait, 'mArgazhi', 2004 (CE)

 

 

 

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