OmniLight Invocations 365

An old photo of Sathiya Dharuma Saalai (The Home of True Charity) in Vadalur, Tamilnadu, South India – It was opened by Ramalingam on May 23, 1867, and has fed the poor and hungry to this day. 

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet: 718

என்பெருங் களிப்பே யென்பெரும் பொருளே

என்பெருந் திறலே யென்பெருஞ் செயலே!

My

Greatest

Delight,

My

Greatest

Reality,

My

Greatest

Power,

And

My

Greatest

Performance,

OmniLight Of Supreme Compassion!

Notes:

In this couplet, Ramalingam celebrates the maximal excellences of the OmniLight, e.g., its supreme reality, delight or bliss, power, and performance or action. It is also a rapturous celebration of his own realization of the OmniLight.

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.