6. Share the Divine experience with one and all

Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform. 

Thirumoolar Thavamozhi

Motivation

 

6. Share the Divine experience with one and all

 Our Saint Thirumoolar's thirumantiram is unlike normal literary work that were composed to give us the joy of reading the epic stories. Our Saint's book is also a vedic text that preaches us  spiritual facts elicited by our sages over thousands of years through their personal experiences. Because these words have come from our Saint's experience the words, the sounds and the poetic style all have a unique divine strength behind them.

Our Saint Thirumoolar, has experience the divine in his own body. His noble wish is that he should share this great joy of divine experience and  all of us in the world should get the same experience. The secret methods for achieving these experiences are all mentioned in his poems, the Thirumandiram.

Our Saint begins by saying,

யான்பெற்ற இன்பம் பெறுக இவ் வையகம்
வான்பற்றி நின்ற மறைப்பொருள் சொல்லிடின்
ஊன்பற்றி நின்ற உணர்வுறு மந்திரம்
தான்பற்றப் பற்றத் தலைப்படுந் தானே.  13 

May our fellow human beings also enjoy the same divine joy that I have experienced. His desire is not only that all of us in the world should get the joy it is more than that. His blessing also. 

யான்பெற்ற இன்பம் பெறுக இவ் வையகம்

"Bestowed"( பெறுக) when he says this word,  it means that both his desire and his blessings are intertwined and impregnated in that word.

மறைப்பொருள் - the person mentioned in the vedas. Permeating to the skies, and showing that sky as its external form, the limitless divine shines. If one were to speak about his quality,

வான்பற்றி நின்ற மறைப்பொருள் சொல்லிடின்
ஊன்பற்றி நின்ற உணர்வுறு மந்திரம்

The divine principle is permeating to the sky. The Divine principle is also the secret that is present inside the human body. 

Indeed, the divine principle that remains as experience inside the body is the same principle that is pervading the sky. The experience is the only mantra that shows that awareness.

 As we hold on to that experience, and keep holding on to it, that joyful vision will automatically be always with us. 

The divine principle that pervades the sky is also present inside us; it is resident as an experience of bliss. If we are able to hold on to that experience of bliss, and engage with it repeatedly, the eternal happiness will be available automatically. He says that "i got this eternal happiness. I want the whole world to experience this eternal happiness.

When he uses "hold on, hold on" (பற்றப் பற்ற) twice, it implies based on the practice once should soak in that blissful experience. Also he uses a word  to explain how the divine bless will be self effulgent, like a light that shines inside us and glows. 

The divine principle that is present all around us outside,  is also inside our body like a hidden jewel. The exercise to experience that divine bliss is to meditate that there is no difference between the inside and outside of one's body. this is the eternal happiness that our Saint Thirumoolar had experienced. Let us all enjoy that same experience and be in eternal bliss.

To read other translated pages in these posts, see: Thirumoolar