SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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226 THE PERSONALITY OF GOD.
And St. Meykandan comments on this mantra in the
following verse:
"The Vedic text means there is
only one Supreme Being
without a second. And this one is the Lord. You who say
there is one, is the Pas>u bound up in Pasa. The vord
second-less means that, beside God, nothing else will exist, as
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when we say that there will be no other letters (consonants)
when the vowel is not."
No consonant sounds can possibly be formed unless the
vowel sound is
uttered at the same time; and this will justify us
in stating that the vowel is alone, without a second; and yet the
vowel is not the consonant nor the consonant the vowel.
we utter the consonant sound (Q&iL crypgi or e-*_& & ($<$)),
When
vowel and the consonant are linked in a peculiar, inseparable
and eternal manner. This is the link or relation between our
own human body and the mind (e_L_6v or Qu-L and s.aSfr).
And
from analogy we say there is a similar link between God and
the world (including souls).
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And this link or relation is called,
in the Saiva Siddhanta, the Advaita, and the philosophy,
postulating this peculiar link between God and man, is called
the Advaita Siddhanta Philosophy. x
But how does the One link Himself to the many, and be
come the many, and divide Himself among the many as it were?
St. Tirumular postulates "parpaiearcyGeor @jT6ror *$/<8>Jear $&r<g/@Grr"
is the one ;
the second is His Grace (Arul)"
This division
of Him is brought about, because He is also Grace or Love.
His Second is His Sakti.
He is one with His Sakti or Lo\e.