OmniLight Invocations 365

An old photo of Siddhi Valaagam (சித்தி வளாகம்) or “Abode of Adepthood”, Mettukuppam, Vadalur, Tamilnadu, India. It was Ramalingam’s final residence and venue of his last talk in October 1873.

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet: 674

புடம்படாத் தரமும் விடம்படாத் திறமும்

வடம்படா நலமும் வாய்த்தசெம் பொன்னே!

Impeccable,

Beautiful

Gold

Treasure,

Whose

Excellence

Requires

No

Process

Of

Calcination

Or

Purification,

Whose

Nature

Is

Untouched

By

Contaminants,

Whose

Benevolence

Knows

No

Bounds,

OmniLight Of Supreme Compassion!

Notes:

This couplet continues the series of couplets on the maximal excellence of the nature of OmniLight. These couplets also invoke gold and its aspects to convey this maximal excellence of the nature of OmniLight. The imperishable and immaculate nature of the OmniLight Gold is also contrasted with the perishable and imperfect nature of mundane gold.

The Arutperunjothi Agaval is Ramalingam’s magnum opus of spiritual enlightenment poetry composed in 798 couplets in 1872. In later posts, I will offer commentaries on these couplets.