OmniLight Invocations 365

சத்திய ஞான சபை (Sathiya Gnana Sabhai) or The Great Hall of Truth-Knowledge designed by Ramalingam without any formal training in architecture and constructed in 1871. It was opened to the public in January 1872. It is not a Hindu temple and ought not to be considered one. It has no idols of any kind. In his first prose vinappam or petition, “The Short True Petition” (சுத்த சன்மார்க்க சத்தியச் சிறு விண்ணப்பம்) to Arutperunjothi or OmniLight, Ramalingam testifies that this Great Hall of Truth-Knowledge was built at the behest of Arutperunjothi or OmniLight as the locus and sign of its special manifestation and “Dance of Grace” (அருள் நடம்). This “Dance of Grace” expresses its five cosmic tasks of creation, protection, destruction or dissolution, obscuration or concealment, and illumination or revelation. The structure of this Great of Hall of Truth-Knowledge is a symbol of the nature-body-soul complex in which this “Dance of Grace” continues.

El Ángel de la Guarda (Guardian Angel) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo  (1617–1682)

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet 583

பற்று அயர்ந் தஞ்சி பரிவு கண்டு அணைந்து எனைச்

சற்றும் அஞ்சேல் எனத் தாங்கிய துணையே!   

My

Debilitation,

Dread,

Dejection,

From

Desire

And

Its

Derivatives,

Dispelled,

Destroyed,

In

The

Embrace

Of

Empathy,

Enclasp

Of

Consolation,

Hold

Of

Helping

Hands,

Succor

Of

Support,

By OmniLight Guardian Of Supreme Compassion!

Note:  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.