SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

252 ADVAITA ACCORDING TO THE SAIAA ilDDHAXTA.
Thou art not aught in the universe, naught is there save Thou.
Who can know Thee ?
(from P. A s
Translation).
As man nears God, he wears away atom by atom, so that
at the moment of union, nothing of him is left and what is left
is the Presence of the Supreme One only and the feeling of His
Presence; and no feeling or consciousness of feeling of himself
or others. This feeling of the Presence and Bliss of God, is
One and Advaita, and there is no consciousness oi such oneness
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or Bliss, and duality will certainly arise the moment man re
gains consciousness. So what he is said to lose* in fact atom by
atom is his various conscious selves.
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Though Ether, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth should fail
His Constant Being fails not, knows no weariness!
In Him, my body, soul, and thought and mind were merged (lost),
How all myself was lost, sing we and beat TELLENAM."
(from Rev. Doctor G. U. POPE s Translation).
His bodily consciousness, His life-consciousness, His mental
consciousness, all these alone constitute his individuality, the
feeling of I and mine. This I-ness , /F/rear ,
is what has got to be
rid of. So that when this I-ness or individuality is lost^/ror
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he becomes Sivam or God, rsir&r QsiL @6LLtT<sBrjir .
What perishes of course is the Soul s individuality or consci
ousness of I ness , inducing duality, but what subsists even in
Moksha is the soul s personality, which has Svanubhava or
Sivanubhava, identifying itself with God.
The soul in union with God becomes pure object (God)
as it were, which is the true Monism of Science. Hence it : s
Saint Meykandan states this paradox (xi. 2. "
c.) wlnH^hfir
:
coming one with God,_if the soul perished,
there will be
iiothing to unite with God, as it perishes. If it did not perish,