OmniLight Invocations 365

Symbol of Divine Light in the சத்திய ஞான சபை (Sathiya Gnana Sabhai) or The Great Hall of Truth-Knowledge, a place of special manifestation of OmniLight.

“Abstract Multicolor” by Susanna Shaposhnikova

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet: 413

கலப்புத் திரையாற் கருதனு பவங்களை

அலப்புற மறைக்கு மருட்பெருஞ் ஜோதி!

Many

Types

Of

Higher

Experiences,

Proffering

Objects

Of

Perception

And

Contemplation,

Concealed

Without

Causing

Confusion,

With

The

Multicolored

Screen,

By

OmniLight Of Supreme Compassion!

Notes:

This couplet continues Ramalingam’s remarkable account of the seven 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 inner eye. Naturally, the realms which these screens hide are also opaque to the unenlightened.

Several of the couplets in this series affirm the reality of other, higher-order kinds of spaces (Tamil: வெளி or Veli). The space in which our universe of impure matter-energy exists is only one kind of lower-order space.

The seventh screen is the multicolored screen which conceals or hides a vast range of experiences proffering their objects of perception and contemplation. Among these are higher ranges of experiences pertaining to supramundane realities.

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.