SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

ASHTAMUHURTAM. 99
effect freedom from the bondage of birth and death. Thus,
the
soul passes through its sakala and athitha conditions ;
and it is
the fundamental tenet of every school of Hindu philosophers
that unless the soul enters the cycle of samsara, that wheel of
birth and death, the soul cannot reach Mukti.
We close this paper with a few quotations from the
Dravida Sruti bearing on the question under discussion.
Our saint Tirumular says.
js) (tjj&j (Vj
IL/IEJ&L.
The body and soul, and fire and far spreading
Air and space, and earth, His form,
The fixed sun, cool moon, transcending these,
Yet stands He as the stupendous world.
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CT J.
verse.
The wind that blows in eight quarters is He.
The whirling flood and fire, huge earth and space,
The sentient soul with these His bodily frame*
He joins, and leaves, the God with the frontal Eye.
From our Sainted Lady of Karaikal, we have the following
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&iTr(ry&j(T<58r
Two Lights, the fire and space is He
The earth and water, air is He
The soul, with these His eight forms
He stands as Intelligence pure,