Deivathin Kural Series - 22

Om Namah Sivaya.
06 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 76 to 80, in volume I, under the heading, ' Dwaitam / Bouddam = Adwaitam '.
3. " Brhmam is complete. The Universe is complete. The Universe came into being in Brhmam. Despite taking out the Universe from Brhmam, Brhmam remains complete. " So declares a Mantra from Upanishad. For the word complete, the word ' Poornam ', is used. Poornam means everything. How can this be !? How can two things be both Poornam ? How can the equation, Poornam minus Poornam be equal to Poornam !? What is the meaning of this ? In truth, the world is not taken out of Brhmam. Brhmam itself appears as the Universe. Brhmam has not created the Universe using some other material. Neither has Brhmam transformed itself into the Universe. Brhmam appears as the Universe. That is all.
4. We look at a garland and construe it to be a snake. Now garland appears as the snake. Garland did not convert into a snake. Garland has neither created the snake. When thought it to be the snake, it appeared completely as the snake. When known to be the garland, it is completely the garland. In the Poornam called garland, the Poornam called snake, appeared. Similarly, the Universe appears in Brhmam. The same, at two different times, appears as two different things. When it appeared as the snake, was there any addition ? No. When known to be the garland, was there a subtraction ? Neither. The same way, there is no addition and subtraction to Brhmam, when the Universe seemingly appeared, and when it was realized to be Brhmam. As the magical appearance of the imagined snake,
" poimmail thonrum aravaga ", says Kambar, in an earlier quoted song, the world is an appearance. So, as the Upanishad says, even when we take out the Poornam from Poornam, what remains is Poornam.
5. Why was the garland seen as the snake ? Due to the poor light of the evening. Same way, in the darkness of, ' Maya ', Brhmam is seen as the World. Maya means what is not there. The unreal Maya, ' hides the real and shows the unreal '. How can the unreal Maya, which has no, ' asthitva ', or existance, do this ? I will give a reply as per Mathematics.
6. Regarding Brhmam, we have seen earlier, that, It does not increase with addition and does not decrease with subtraction. It always remains complete or Poornam. Now I will tell as to how, Poornam is not affected by multiplication and division also. We devide a Number by another Number. As the denominator becomes smaller, the resultant quotient becomes bigger. If we devide 16 by 16, the quotient is 1. The same Numerator when devided by 4, the quotient is 4. When the denominator becomes zero, the quotient is infinity. Any numerator when devided be 0, results in, infinity. 1 / 0 = infinity. 2 / 0 = infinity. Million / 0 = infinity. Turn this equation around. Let us represent Infinity by a symbol Iy. Then Iy x 0 = 1; Iy x 0 = 2; Iy x 0 = 3; and so on. Since there can be no seperate Infinities, but the same One Infinity, as the Numerator, by being devided by Zero as the Denominator, becomes, One, Two.....Ten......Hundred......Thousand.....Lac.....Million......Zillion. Now this One Infinity is Brhmam. What is not there, is Maya as represented by Zero or 0. Infinity mutiplies itself by zero and becomes all the Numbers. Brhmam by Maya Shakti, exhibits itself into the endless variety of this Universe. The Numerator can be any Number. Whatever the Number, the denominator being the Zero Maya, the Quotient is always Brhmam The Infinity. So the Universe or this Prapancham, since it can attain to any Number endlessly, unlimitedly, It also becomes an Infinity. ( In Mathematics, Universe ' U ', contains all, and so is Poornam.)
7. Pause to wonder, what variety we see in this Universe. Plants, animals, insects, birds, fishes, germs, bacteria, compounds, chemicals, mixtures, elements, atoms, particles, sub-atomic particles, planets, suns, stars, pulsars, quasers, milky-ways, galaxies, and universes and black-holes!!! Then think far a moment as to how many ways, our individual minds can go in how many directions??? The only way we can try to understand, the mantra of the Upanishad, (quoted in para 3 above), is to think of, Brhmam as the constant Poornam and the Universe as the ever-changing Poornam.
8. The only constant thing about this world is that it is all the time changing. What is changing cannot be real. What ever the value we give to a number, one to infinity; what is unreal is unreal. Asat or non-being, is NOT. Here we should take the Rule of Mathematics, which says, ' any number multiplied by zero is zero only'. So the Brhmam x Maya = the Universe = Zero only. All that variety of Para 7 above is Zero only.
9. Adwaitam says that only Brhmam is Satyam. Dwaitam says that Brhmam and Prapancham, are both Satyam. Bouddam or the Buddist says, Brhmam, Prapancham and everything is Soonyam or Zero or Asatyam. That is Brhmam is the only truth, says Adwaitam. Bouddam says that everything is Maya. Dwaitam says that both Brhmam and the Universe are true. So now we can form a new set of equations:-
BRHMAM X MAYA = PRAPANCHAM, as we said earlier, can be written as,
ADWAITAM X BOUDDAM = DWAITAM, or
DWAITAM / BOUDDAM = ADWAITAM. ( The slash or ' / ' has been used as the symbol for division.)
10. Please read again.
Sambhomahadeva.