
Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet: 166
விருப்போ டிகல்உறு வெறுப்பும் தவிர்த்தே
அருட்பே றளித்த அருட்பெருஞ் ஜோதி
Interrelated
Polar
Opposites,
Attraction,
Aversion,
Desire,
Dislike,
Causing
Conflicts,
Ceased
Consummately,
Thwarted,
Terminated,
By
Light
Transcendent,
Bestowed
By the Supreme Compassion of OmniLight!
Note: This autobiographical couplet testifies to Ramalingam’s transcendence of the interrelated pairs of opposites, e.g., love and hate, desire and dislike, and so forth, and the conflicts they generate in the mind and heart, 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.