Life History of Saint Ramalingam

barney · February 29, 2004

Ramalinga Swamigal ( Vallalar ) Life History

(Country Code: 91 & STD Code: 4142)

Vadalur is a small town 10 kms from Neyveli is a spiritual place A great Saint Vallalar established his Sathya Gnana Sabai, here at Vadalur.

Birth: 1823

Disappearance: 1874

Ramalingaswamigal, popularly called Adigalar or Vallalar, born in 1823 near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. Vallalar lived the early part of his life in Madras and settled in later Vadalur in 1867. He had a divine call in him as a representative of the earth and felt himself as an instrument of the Divine for the universal manifestation of the death - conquering Vast Grace -Light on the earth. He saw the vision of a divine evolution of the earthly life in the wake of its Manifestation. He realized the supreme and universal Divine integrally and his body became transformed and filled with Light so much so it did not cast its shadow on the ground. He eventually attained a transformed and divinized golden physical body, deathless and ever indestructible, shadow less and sleepless, and full of Light.

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He preached deathless of body of the people and said that it was by an error they are consenting to death. After about a year or two of attaining the Deathless body, he sacrificed it by dematerialization in 1874 in the very concrete Presence of the Divine at his place in order to make the God of Vast Grace - Light manifest so as to stay on and directly rule the earth and to enable him to enter into all the physical bodies universally.

Saint Vallalar of Vadalur stands unique in annals of spiritual and religious history, for he not only taught a simple, down to earth, rational philosophy such as could be comprehended by the simple amongst us, but also practiced what he preached, in full public view, even as he lived and moved like any mortal in our society during the last century. Preaching the philosophy of compassion coupled with dedication and prayer to God. He demonstrated by example what man can and should achieve in this very birth, through Universal kindness and generosity.

Saint Vallalar made an incisive analysis of existing philosophies, strengthened the basic concepts and laid stress on aspects that needed the greatest emphasis in or times. Shorn of the complexities and nuances or obscure metaphysical that are beyond the understanding of the 'work a day', the teaching of Saint Vallalar are simple and straight forward and appeal to the ordinary folks directly as being reasonable and credible. What is more, his assertions of the feasibility of salvation for all people through the practice of compassion, right in this very birth, here and now, gave them a reassuring feeling and a new confidence in themselves which greatly attracted them to the path of Sanmarga shown by him.

Saint Vallalar's revelation encompassing as it does, the old and the new, the east and the west, the past and the present, is verily and gospel of the common man, for its outreach is at once vast and varied, is couched in simple and strikingly convincing language, as though it was penned by a common man.

Unraveling the potential verities of godhead in all living creatures, Saint Vallalar preach against dogmas and blind customs that had obscured the original jewels of wisdom immanent in early scriptures. Nevertheless his was a mission of kindness and compassion, persuasion, example rather than enforcement. There is no room for extreme enmity and quarrel, malice or disaffection in his dispensation.

The cardinal tenets of Vallalar's teaching are enumerated here in a brief manner:

There is but one God for all.

He is in the form of Supreme Grace Light and is to be worshipped in this form.

Worship of petty gods and sacrificial offering by killing animals is forbidden.

Non vegetarian food is forbidden.

Differential treatment to persons on the basis of their different religions should be eschewed.

Caste distinctions should be abolished.

Recognized the right of Universal kinship of all souls, one must treat all living creatures with loving care, holding all life as par with one's own life.

The path of compassion, alleviating the suffering and the hunger of the 'have nots' is the one and only key to salvation.

Mythologies and scriptures (Purana and shastaras) cannot reveal the final conclusive truth.

A general broad and liberal outlook is required in all matters, all-round

Thiruarutpa:

The Thiruarutpa is a collection of songs composed by Saint Vallalar. Having taken a Divine birth as recent as the 19th century, Saint Vallalar, experienced and realized God. He saw God as Light ( Oli ). He worshipped God in the form of Light and eventually became the Light. He documented his experience and realization in the form of songs. These songs were later compiled and published as the Thiruarutpa.