Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
In India a corresponding identical theology along the Jewish and Thomas Christian
traditions arose as Saiva Siddhanta. Saiva Siddhanta theology is scripturally codified
in the Tamil literature of Tirumantiram by Saint Tirumular.
Tirumular originally known as Cuntaranātar was a Tamil Shaivite mystic and writer,
considered one of the sixty-three Nayanars and one of the 18 Siddhars. His main work,
the Tirumantiram (also sometimes written Tirumanthiram, Tirumandhiram, etc.), which
consists of over 3000 verses, forms a part of the key text of the Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta,
the Tirumurai. Saivism and Vaishnavism were originally two denominations of the
Christian tradition brought to India by St.Thomas the Apostle in AD 52. The identity of
Saiva Sidhantam to the Christian and Jewish mystic traditions supports the above fact
to the detail.
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