eNNin miithiyan of Nammazhwar

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Respected Swamins/Bhagavathas,

Iam giving below some of my reflections on

Nammazhwar's paasuram no 1, 2nd pathu, 2nd Tirumozhi.

Thinnan veedu mudal muzhuthumai,

ENNin Miithiyan emperuman;

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The eNN (in Tamil) means (1) to think (2) numeral

or counting or Mathematics as seen from Tamil verses

like eNNum ezhuththum kannanethagum

..

From the books giving the meaning of paasurams it

is seen that Nammazhwar refers the countless

kalyagunaas of the Lord by the eNNin. The second

meaning is Numerals or Sankhya. Sankhya also means

right knowledge (samyakh jnana).

The sankhya system is predominantly intellectual and

theoritical. Yoga means action and tells us how the

theory of the Sankhya can be put into practice. Thus

Sankhya-Yoga forms one complete system It is also the

philosophy of numbers, because it deals with 25

categories or tattvams. It might have influenced the

Phythogorian philosophy, because 25 is 5 squared

which is 4 squared plus 3 squared.

The 25 principles of Sankhya are 1) Moola Prakriti

2)Mahat(Buddhi,intellect) (3) Ahankara (ego,

ego-sense) 4to 8 Tanmattraas or transitory states 9to

13 Pancha Bhutaas from tanmattraas (14) Mind 15 to 19

five jnanendriyaas 20 to 24 five karmendriyaas

25.Jeevathma.

Thirumazhai Azhwar also refers to the 24 tattvas

in his paasurams 3 and 77 of his Thiruchantavrittam

 

Sri Mukkur says in his Kuraiyonrumillai Part II

Page 64. From the three that is prakriti,mahat and

ahankara, evolved the pancha tanmattraas, pancha Maha

Bhutaas, the pancha karmendriyaas, and pancha

jnanendriyaas. Manas or mind is above all these

tattavaas. The total of these is 24. Jeevathma is the

25th. Paramatma is the 26th.

Paramatma says "I am separate from the 24

tattvams and also from the 25th tattvam." Hence

Nammazhwar says, "Count 1,2,3 etc or meditate or

reflect or contemplate and He will appear".

One more interesting point--the letter ma in ohm

refers to Jeevaatma, which incidentally is the 25th

letter counted from ka, kha, ga, gha etc.

Dasan, T.S. Rajagopalan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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