OmniLight Invocations 365

Light On The Philosopher: Rembrandt’s “The Philosopher in Meditation”

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet: 164

வெருள்மன மாயை வினைஇருள் நீக்கிஉள்

அருள்விளக் கேற்றிய அருட்பெருஞ் ஜோதி         

Fearsome

Inner

Darkness

Of

Ignorance,

Mind’s

Formations

Of

Fears,

Illusions,

Delusions,

Self-deceptions,

Forming

Karma,

Forging

Fetters

Of

Fate.

But

Overcome,

Dispelled,

Destroyed,

Definitely,

By

Inner

Lamp

Of

Light

Divine,

Substituting,

Kindled,

Subsisting,

Consummately

By the Supreme Compassion of OmniLight!

Note: This autobiographical couplet testifies to Ramalingam’s conquest of the mind’s illusive and delusive formations, and the resulting fetters of Karma or Fate, by the supreme compassion of OmniLight.

In his own words, this was the result of intense, one-pointed aspiration for the OmniLight, sustained inner austerity of renunciation of distracting worldly desires, and the development of compassion for living beings.

The Arutperunjothi Agaval is Ramalingam’s magnum opus of enlightenment poetry composed in 798 couplets in 1872. 

In later posts, I will offer commentaries on these verses.