‘ENDHURO MAHANUBAVULU, ANDHARIKKI NA (MA) VANDHANAMULU’ – THYAGA BRAHMAM.
There were many great souls (Saints), My (our) head bows to all of them.
It is human nature to ask for proofs for any result or achievement. As far as religious achievements are concerned, it will be very difficult to prove the result.
One Tamil poet quoted as ‘Kandavar vindilar, vindavar kandilar’. It means that those who saw, did not reveal, those who revealed did not see’.
Yogis were getting enlightenment only after entering the samadhi state. As already mentioned, They will never come back to explain. We have to understand that those who wrote about achievements were in the prior or dhyana state.
Yogis could get powers to control nature in dhyana state itself. So, they could write books about their achievements. During samadhi state, yogis would become a part of the God.
The details about the miracles must be revealed either by the concerned or the persons who saw or experienced. Most of the ancient saints became poets on their way of yogic powers and wrote their experiences. There are many books written by saints who achieved goals through their yogic practices.
There were 63 saivite saints called Nayanmars who wrote books about their experiences which were commonly referred as ‘Thevaram’ The names of few saivite saints are Sundharamurthy Nayanar, Sambandhar, Thirunavukkarasar, Manickavachagar, Karaikkal Ammaiyar, Thirumoolar, Seraman Peruman.
There were 12 Vaishnavite saints called Azhvars who wrote many philosophical books on lord Narayana which were referred as ‘Thoiruvai Mozhi’. The names of few Vaishnavite saints are Periyazhvar, Boodhaththazhvar, Andal.
There were 18 yogis called as siddhars who wrote books on philosophy and medical and astronomical sciences. The names of few siddhars are Agaththiyar, Bogar, Karuvoorar, Pattinathar, Thrumoolar, Badragiriyar.
All the above list of saints were lived in South India. Similarly, there were Namadevar, Gorakumbar, Kabir dass, Yogi Baba Sayaji, Yuktheshwar, Siradi Sai Baba and many other saints lived in north India.
Adhi Sankara, Ramanujar and madhvachariyar were lived in the past as yogis and wrote many books on philosophy. Adhi Sankara’s philosophy is called as Adhvaitgham. The other philosophies are Visishtadhvaitham by Ramanujar and dhvaitham by Madhvachariyar.
We understand from the ancient religious poems that there were many saints lived in those days. They were Angirasar, Ambareeshvar, Yavvanasvar, Gowthamar, Kowndinyar, Viswamithrar, Jamadhagni, Vasishtar, Rishyasringar, Vyasar, Suhar and so on.
There were saints in recent past too. They were Ragavendra swami, Ramana Maharishi, Seshadri swamigal, Poondi swamigal, Arunagirinathar, Pamban swamigal, Abiramibattar, Jyothy Ramalingam, Kanchi Paramachariyar, Sathya sai baba and so on.
Miracles: All the above saints did miracles in the past. Miracles are the ones which are performed against the nature. We have already explained in the chapter ‘the benefits of yoga’ about how the power to perform miracles are achieved.
It was not the habit of the above saints to perform miracles to public as a show.
There are differences between saints of Hinduism and other religions. Sainthood in Hinduism is a way of life. Their selfless attitude, life style and service to people made others to call them as saints.
Their way of doing miracles were not be same with all the saints. Seshadri swamigal spitted on a person who was suffering from wounds on skin and got cured. At times he behaved like mad by throwing the vendor’s exhibits on streets. But, venders as they experienced the results already will never get angry. They will rearrange their products to sell. The vendor’s will be gifted with good sales and get good profits on those particular days.
Poondi swamigal will usually sleep on raised front portion of a house (Thinnai) by covering that portion with cloth like a small tent. He will advise his well wishers not to disturb or try to look inside his tent. Once, when a caretaker tried to look inside on curiosity, he found a python there instead of the saint.
The miraculous experiences with Kanchi Paramacharya were told by many of his followers and compiled in volumes of book by few authors. Kanchi Paramachariyar attained samadhi during the end of twentieth century.
Similarly, there are many volumes explaining the miracles of saint Ragavendra too.
Madhvachariyar explained his view that the soul and the God are existing separately forever. Even after getting the bliss of God, the soul will go closer and stay near the God until their good karmas exhausted. Since both the soul and the God were expressed as different, Madhva’s views are called as Dhvaitha or twin.
Ramanujar explained that the soul and the God are different but having some special bond. Because of this special bond, this view is called as ‘Visishtadhvaitham’ or specially bonded twins.
Adhi Sankara expalined the soul and the God are same. Since he expressed there is only one, his view is called ‘Adhvaitham’ or ‘Not twins’
Adhi Sankara’s adhvaitha siddhantha (View) is famous among most of the Hindus. There will be a common question to ask ‘If the God, the soul and the universe are all the one, how we could see the other lives, the world, the sky, the Stars, Planets etc. in front of us? Adhi Sankara quotes that everything we see in front of us as illusion (Maya).
He narrates an event as an example to explain the illusion.
When a man walking on a small village lane surrounded by trees at night time, his leg senses a moving object and immediately screamed as “snake, snake”. He switched on a torch light and found a bundle of dry straw which moved when he stepped on it.
Now, Adhi Sankara questions “Where the snake went which was there in the minds of that man?” That man felt the snake only because of ignorance. It was like a dream state. When got the light, he realized.
The saint Thirumoolar quoted an another example to explain the illusion or maya.
When a child plays with a toy of wooden elephant, it looks at it as a real elephant whereas the elders looks at it as a wooden piece. The child could see an elephant on a toy and wood on the same. The difference is because of illusion. When the child got the knowledge, it comes out of the illusion.
Adhi Sankara rationalized all the Hindu faiths and practices into six broad heads. They are Sowram, Saivam, Vaishnavam, Kowmaram, Ganapathyam and Saktham.
The worshipping system on Sun God was called as Sowram.
Saivam was a method to worship lord Siva.
The worshipping method on Vishnu was called as Vaishnavam.
The method of worshipping lord Karththikeya was called as Kowmaram.
Ganapathyam was the method of worshipping lord Ganesa.
Goddess worship in general was called as Saktham.
It seems that there many saints lived in the same name. Vyasa, a character in Mahabaratha and Vyasa who compiled the Vedas were different. Similarly, there were different people with the name Agaththiyar. We know that Seeradi Sai Baba and Puttaparththy Sathya sai Baba were different.
We have mentioned about very few saints but there were many unpopular saints lived at different parts of India. There is a belief among Hindus that these saints still living in Jeevasamathy state in mountain caves throughout India.
ALL THE ABOVE SAINTS WERE THE PROOFS TO ESTABLISH THE TRUTH IN THE CONCEPTS AND SUCCESS OF HINDUISM
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