Deivathin Kural Series - 20

OM NAMAH SIVAYA.
04 JULY 2006.
1.These e-mails are translations of talks given by the erstwhile Pontiff of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, over more than sixty years, published by Vanady Padippagam, T.Nagar, Chennai, India, in ten volumes, in the Tamil language. The english version is likely to be available very soon. These e-mails are simply an effort on the part of the sender, to share some of his bliss, as it is said, 'Yam perra peru peruga ivvaiyagam'.

2. To-day's e-mail is the translation of what is given in pages 68 to 71, in volume I, under the heading, 'YOGI'.
3. If sadness or un-happiness does not touch someone, He is a Yogi. Sin or the dirt of the mind is the cause of all unhappiness. When the mind is cleansed of dirt, it automatically turns towards God.
Systematic control and discipline are the essentials, for cleansing the mind. Before the body and life are separated from each other, the mind has to be cleansed of all the dirt, by proper education and disciplined life of regular practice. In such a case, the separation from the body will become a defeat turned into a victory.
4. How to identify a Yogi ? His mind once turned towards God, will not vacillate. Then all the problems arising out of the mind's vacillations, will vanish. How to do this ? Take the mind to it's source. It's origin. Then the mind will melt. It will not move. ' Mano laya leads to Mano Nasha or Mano Nigraha'. That is the ultimate stage of liberation.
5. There is a river. Where did it start from ? The Ocean is its source. From there it went out as the steam and penultimately became the River. What running around it undergoes ! As a rivulet, as a channel, as a canal, as a small river and so on and finally it falls in to the ocean. By then, it loses its shape, its name, its separateness and the restlessness. As the Ocean is the depository for all the Rivers, God is the source and the end point for all minds. The Yogi having dissolved his mind, when he is without any noticeable outer awareness, has actually merged in the Divinity of God. This is a permanent adherence. Even when he is apparently with outer awareness, he has no more goals to reach. He has no more desires. If he has even an iota of desire, he is not a Yogi. " Aasai arumin, aasai arumin. Easarodayinum aasai arumin."
6. Yogi can be identified by another method. Once his mind has merged in the Ultimate, he should not be affected by the greatest of sorrows. He should not be moved or touched by any calamity
whatsoever. He will receive many sad news. For the witnesses, he will be seen to be affected. But he will not know sorrow, since he is in permanent bliss. He is, ‘sada ananda’. He can never get annoyed with anybody. But the one noticeable quality will be, a natural flow of kindness towards one and all. Though in his view there is no, ‘other’, he will be particularly sensitive to the fact that, he should not be the cause of the slightest inconvenience to others. Another important characteristic. Whatever he does, he will never do it with a sense of, ‘doership’ or ‘ego’. In His work one can never detect even a trace of selfishness. God works like this. He is the Yogi of the highest order. Even when He punishes, it is with love and kindness. When Ravana or Hiranyakasipu, is killed, it is done out of kindness. It may seem to be harsh. The sleep every day gives us some relief from the agony of existance. Similarly Death. Another life is given, as an opportunuty to mend ones ways. We must get out of this series of, 'punarapi jananam, punarapi maranam, punarapi janai jatare sayanam, iha samsare bahu dustare, krpaya pare pahi murare.' All this, karuna, tapas, pooja, yagyam, danam and so on are all for this purpose. This graduated raising, from the ignorance to gnanam, is so that, amongst many, one in a million may attain to the level of a "Yogi". That is the quintessential purpose. One person raising to the level of a Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, or a Ramana Maharshi, it is said, automatically benefits, seven generations on either side. If you sit down and calculate, the number of people benefitted will run in to millions.
7. KTSV Sarma, quotes Kural 339 of Thiruvalluvar:-
"URANGUVADU POLUM SAKKADU, URANGI VIZHIPPADU POLUM PIRAPPU."
Sambhomahadeva.