sAmAnya dharma

Sunder Hattangadi gourish at INTERNET1.NET
Mon May 10 17:54:08 CDT 1999


It would also be worthwhile collecting Shri Sankaracharya's own writings
on this issue. He introduces many of his works  with these, and
Sadachara is exclusively devoted to it.

Sunder

----- Original Message -----
From: Ravi <msr at COMCO.COM>
To: <ADVAITA-L at advaita-vedanta.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 1:32 PM
Subject: sAmAnya dharma


| In this context, I would like to refer the members to look
| into a jewel called "thirukkuRaL"  written by thiruvaLLuvar
| in Tamil. This book was written close to 2000 years ago
| and for the Tamil speaking population this has offered
| guidance for many and many generations (and continues to do
| so). It is very brief and succint. It has 1330 two line
| verses organized into 133 chapters (each having 10 kuRaLs).
| And these chapters are further organized into three
| sections, aRam (dharma), poruL (artha), inbam (kAma), but
| the author does not directly speak of viiDu (mokSha).
|
| Commentary on this work by parimelazhagar is very old and
| famous. It is explains the text from vedic stand point (for
| this reason, has been criticized severely by dravidian
| movements in this century). I have this work and refer to
| it. I have the original commentary in Tamil (little tough to
| read), but I am sure an English translation of the work
| should exist. Some of the insights of parimelazhagar are
| profound and very helpful in understanding the text.
|
|
| When I utter the word vaLLuvar and thirukkuraL (like many
| millions) my heart is filled with reverence, love and pride
| for this great saint. I bow to him again and again.
|
| vaLLuvar has many sections devoted to sAmAnya dharma.
|
|
| Ravi
|



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