OmniLight Invocations 365

சத்திய ஞான சபை (Sathiya Gnana Sabhai) or The Great Hall of Truth-Knowledge, and place of special manifestation of OmniLight, designed by Ramalingam without any formal training in architecture. It was constructed in 1871 and opened to the public in January 1872. It has no anthropomorphic idols or images.

“Abstract Painting, Blue” by Ad Reinhardt

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet: 408

பேருறு நீலப் பெருந்திரை யதனால்

ஆருயிர் மறைக்கு மருட்பெருஞ் ஜோதி!

The

Ultimate

Source

Of

Life,

The

Essence

Of

Soul,

Concealed

With

The

Glorious

Immense

Blue

Screen,

By

OmniLight Of Supreme Compassion!

Note: This couplet continues Ramalingam’s remarkable account of the colored Cosmic Screens by which the OmniLight conceals the manifold aspects of mundane, supramundane, and divine reality, from the perception or understanding of ego-bound souls.

In this context, it should be noted that since the OmniLight has obscured its governance with the first screen, the immense dark and dense screen of primordial matter-energy, the other screens are not visible to the unenlightened eye. Naturally, the realms which these screens hide are also opaque to the unenlightened.

Later couplets affirm that the OmniLight also graciously lifts or sets aside these glorious immense screens, removing their obscuration of the vision of the soul, commensurate with the soul’s effort to liberate itself from the threefold defilement and bondage:

ஆணவம் (āṇavam), or egoism, or the disposition to assert separation, independence, and dominance or superiority,

மாயை, or “Maya“, the identification with,  and consequent subjection to, physical body and the laws of impure material stuff

கன்மம், or Karma, or the chain of cause and effect involving thoughts, desires, choices, actions, and their consequences.