Guest guest Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 Bhagavan, Manikkavachagar and theTiruvachakam Manikkavachagar was a distinguished Tamil poet-saint who lived around the ninth century AD. His most famous work, the Tiruvachakam, is one of the most loved and most widely read works in Tamil literature. In a series of long poems Manikkavachagar sings of his ecstatic love for Siva and describes the various emotional traumas he went through while pursuing this passionate obsession with the divine. The Tiruvachakam was one of Ramana Maharshi’s favourite devotional works. In this article we have retold Manikkavachagar’s life, mostly through Bhagavan’s own words, and we have made new translations of all the Tiruvachakam poems that Bhagavan loved or frequently referred to. Bhagavan, Manikkavachagar and the Tiruvachakam http://davidgodman.org/rteach/tiruvachakam.shtml Sri Arunachala Pancharatnam Preface In the early 1980s some devotees of Sri Bhagavan asked Sri Sadhu Om to explain the import of Sri Arunachala Pancharatnam (‘The Five Gems to Sri Arunachala’, one of the Five Hymns composed by Sri Bhagavan), and they recorded on a cassette tape the spontaneous explanations that he gave them in Tamil. Later, at the request of Michael James, Sri Sadhu Om explained those recorded explanations in English. As he was doing so, Michael questioned him further, and noted down all that he explained. After completing a rough draft of his notes, Michael asked Sri Sadhu Om to check them, and this lead to further discussions and more detailed explanations. Finally, after Sri Sadhu Om had approved the rough draft with all his explanations added, Michael wrote a fair copy. This fair copy remained as a handwritten manuscript for nearly twenty years, until Sri M. Sahadevan arranged to have it copied. It was then published, without the word-for-word meanings of the Sanskrit and Tamil verses, in five installments in The Mountain Path between the Advent 2003 and the Advent 2004 issues. The present version, which contains the full commentary along with the word-for-word meanings of the Sanskrit and Tamil verses, was first published on this website in January 2005, and is now being republished with several corrections and alterations. June 2005 Sri Arunachala Pancharatnam http://davidgodman.org/rteach/pancharatnam.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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