SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

Mind
ADVAITA ACCORDING TO THE SAIVA S1DDHANTA. 25 I
illustrations to describe the relation of God to the world, and
these two illustrations going by the same name show that the
relation between mind and body is what obtains between
vowels and consonants.
Vibishtadvaita writers have
no doubt used the illustration
of mind and body but nowhere do they discuss the nature of
this relation ;
much less do they seem to have apprehended the
analogy of vowels and consonants. Doctor Bain discusses this
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question in his book on and Body,"
and we wrote on
the subject in the Siddhanta Dipika, Vol. II, page 13, and this
is
reproduced in pp. 52-63 of this book.
So tha.t whatever word we may use, the nature of this re
lationship is clear. If the Vedic texts postulate oneness, it is in
a higher sense than what is understood in the current philoso
phies. In this position is reached a higher and truer Monism.
We have shown how true it is that St. Meykandan stated that
there is no other letter but A. So it is, we can state There is
nothing else but God, Only one, without a second. This
comes as the result of the Highest experience or Jnana or Svanubhava
or Sivanubhava. And this is stated in the central
stanza of Tiruvacagam, its Hridaya sloka :
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day in Thy mercy unto me Thou didat drive away the darknes
and stand in my heart as the Rising Sun.
"This
Of this Thy way of rising there being naught
else but Thou I
thought without thought.
I drew nearer and nearer to Thee, wearing away atom by atom, till
I was One with Thee,
Oh Siva, Dweller in the great Holy Shrine.