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Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform.  Thirumoolar Thavamozhi Motivation 2 3. Unity in the paths and philosophies of Saints   Often, we wonder which religious path did the saints follow or belong to? Were they saivaites? Or vaishavaites ? or dvaities ? or advaities ? or vishitadvaities ? or saiva siddanthis ? – there were many more ! The saint Thayumanvar very nicely dispels these doubts with one clear explanation. Saint Thayamanavar was a disciple of Mauna guru, who hails from the school of philosophy established by our Saint Thirumoolar. He says “my teacher Mauna guru, who hails from the school of Saint Thirumoolar”. In the beautiful poems that Saint Thayumanavar has composed, one section is on “Philosophical Saint’s account”. In these poems, Saint Thayumanavar praises the philosophical Saints, saying that these Saints have gone beyond the differences in the various religious paths. They experienced a...

Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform.  Thirumoolar Thavamozhi Motivation 10. The three Ps that are eternal   Our sages have nicely analyzed the beings in this world, their properties, quality of the divine in detail and they classified these into three things. They have declared that all these three don't have either a beginning or an end. We could them the three Ps. These are three Ps are the master (Pathi), the beings (Pasu), and the attachment (Pasam) or connection between the master and the individual. We may also call the attachment as devotion. When talking about these three things our sages and the sacred vedic texts call them as the three sacred truths, and they explain about them in detail. Our saint Thirumoolar also talks about these three very nicely in his poems . The Lord is the master. The beings are human beings and the animals each having a life force within. The attachment between the beings and the lord is like a bind.   These three a...