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: 36

சாக்கிரா தீதத் தனிவெளி யாய் நிறை

வாக்கிய சிற்சபை யருட்பெருஞ் ஜோதி!

In

The

Supreme

Mystic

Consciousness-Space

Which

Transcends

In

Its

Completeness

The

Ordinary

Waking

State,

OmniLight Of Supreme Compassion!

Notes:

Starting with couplet 14, these couplets refer to the higher spaces (Tamil: வெளி or Veli) and levels of consciousness in which the OmniLight manifests itself.

Another connotation of the Tamil expression “வெளி” (Veli), and its cognates “அம்பலம்” (Ambalam) and “சபை” (Sabhai), is the public hall, or assembly, or intersubjectively accessible space. Hence, the “public halls” or higher spaces of manifestation of OmniLight described in these couplets are accessible by qualified persons or beings in advanced states of conscious experience.

The Tamil term “சாக்கிரம்” (cākkiram), or the Sanskrit term “जाग्रत्” (Jāgrat), refer to the waking state of consciousness, of the individual soul or being, in which it is, for the most part, conscious of itself, the world of external objects, and its experiences in that world. This waking state is contrasted with the other two normal states of consciousness, the dream state and dreamless deep sleep.

The Arutperunjothi Agaval is Ramalingam’s magnum opus of spiritual enlightenment poetry composed in 798 couplets in 1872.