Deivathin Kural Series - 99

Om Namah Sivaya.
Deivathin Kural # 99 of 16 Nov 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. On line version of this book in Tamil is available at 'www.kamakoti.org'. 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'. When he adds any personal observations he uses the phrase, 'KTSV adds'.
2. To-days lecture is titled, 'Swami', in pages 467 to 470, in Volume 1 of Deivathin Kural, as the last part of a series of lectures under the Heading, 'Bakthi', or 'The Divotional Path', from pages 467 to 538. Unless specifically mentioned, he or man includes, she or woman.
3. When you see a house or building, we guess that there must be someone who got it constructed. We get to know that so and so engineer constructed it. When we see a vehicle, we surmise that it must have been manufactured by some automobile company. You see a furniture and know that there must be a carpenter responsible. A house or a vehicle or furniture, contains many things mutually complimentary and compatible, put together for a purpose. A house or a car or a plane, did not come in to being, at random by some accident. You know that some intelligence has been at work, with a purpose, putting things together, in a logical sequence, for a function with some discipline. Looking at anything, we know that there is a maker.
4. So, looking at this world and solar system, milky-way, galaxies and the universe, we know that there has to be someone or something, responsible for its creation. This universe is made-up of enormous number of things, tied-up in multi-various ways, with multi-dimentional disciplines, with a profusion of purposes, inter-connected and inter-dependant; You have to be blind and dense, not to see that, the whole thing is immaculate in it's orderliness and procedures with in-built feed-backs and quality-controls! We can easily draw the conclusion that there has to be a super-capability, not bounden by the confines of Time; because it has been, is and will be effective in the past, present and future respectively; not bounden by the vastness of space, because, it is effectively uniform, here, there and everywhere.
5. We are sitting in a this big hall covered by a Pandal. We can know as to who built it up. Who made this Plantain Tree? We do not see someone who can take the credit. But someone has to be there! See how beautifully, layer by layer, the trunk has been put together, with what instrument! Look at that mountain, the sky, the stars, the moon! We cannot point out the person who had made them. If you say that it is not possible to point out the Maker, because, they have been there for millions of years; then who made this Rose Flower? It is of a very recent origin! Yesterday, it was a bud. To-day, it is a beautiful flower. Hudreds of petals. In each petal, so many delicate vessels. Such colour! Such fragrance! Such abundance! It bloomed in front of our eyes. We do not know that power, which made this flower bloom!
6. We are thinking that Man is all-knowing and all-powerful. But we are in the same condition of perplexity and bewilderment about the universe, as would be the condition of a wild animal, if it was suddenly whisked out of it's natural habitat and taken around a modern city like Delhi or New-York. Someone far superior, capable and sophisticated, is keeping Man in that condition of, 'perplexity and bewilderment"!
7. There is uniformity in the way Roses, come-into-being, grow and bloom; in the way mountains behave; all the stars and heavenly bodies are tied up by one Dharma; all the systems are only sub-systems of One Major System. There is a clear 'cause and effect' relationship between all the sub-parts of this complete 'prapanch'. There is one power, one engineer, one manager, one 'Arivu', behind all this.
8. Man who thinks of himself as great, should get to know this one Great Man, because He is not only Great, but also Very Very Good.
He is not only the Creator, but also the Sustainer, Protector and Caterer. All our greatness is His Grace. When we pray to Him with this clarity, that all that we have is His only, we will benefit immensely. He is Swamy!
9. Our capabilities, intelligence, might, power, beauty.......and so on, are indicators of His. The thief leaves foot-prints. This Thief has left foot-prints all over the world, in every iota of existance. This 'ullam kavar kalvan', is the basis of all existance. WE are the indicators of His being the Creator. Can we create the lines as obtaining in each individual's hands? We can only copy, or try to copy. We can only replicate or try to replicate! There is not one Man like another Man. There is not one sand particle, like another sand particle. The most common property in every part of existance is Uniqueness!
10. All the greatness of Man cannot match that Greatness of His, which could create the artful excellence of the structure of even a small leaf! or the crystal structure of a speck of snow. Like a thief He is also hidden. But to the discerning eye, his signature is everywhere. The Vedas keeps repeating that He is hidden in the Cave. Our heart is that cave. Hiding in our own hearts, He makes us search for him, 'kanna moochie' or 'peek a boo'. To search for Him is Bakthi! Devotion is a game He makes us play!
Sambhomahadeva.