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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA M.M.NINAN The dates of Tirumūlar's life are controversial, and because his work makes reference to so many currents of religious thought, the dates that different scholars assign are often appealed to for anchoring the relative chronology of other religious literature in Tamil and Sanskrit. Verse 74 of the Tirumantiram makes the claim that Tirumūlar lived for 7 yuga before composing the Tirumantiram. Some are therefore inclined to place his composition well before the Common Era. Some puts it between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. The scholar and lexicographer S. Vaiyapuripillai, however, suggested that he probably belonged to the beginning of the eighth-century AD, Others wish to push the date still later: Dominic Goodall, for instance, appears to suggest, on the grounds of religious notions that appear in the work with Sanskrit labels for which a certain historical development can be traced in other datable works, that the Tirumantiram cannot be placed before the eleventh or twelfth century AD Saiva Siddhanta In the Vishista Advaita concept the reality is God, Soul, and the World. Saiva Siddhanta in fact adds more eternal realities: good and evil, light and darkness, God, soul and world as the saguna Brahman appears. Siva is All: Saivism describes three perfections of God Siva. The highest is Parasivam, timeless, formless, spaceless and causeless. This is Siva's transcendence, His inmost core and Being for which no description is possible, except to say "Not this. Not that." This is the Nirguna Brahman of Advaita. Satchidananda is Siva's immanent perfection, often described as Pure Consciousness, Love, Light and Energy pervading all things. It is the Primal Substance of which all else is made, the "clay" of the cosmos. This is the first appearance of the Saguna Brahman. Siva is the Beginning and the End, the Author of Existence. Siva is both material and efficient Cause, and thus His act of manifestation is likened in scripture to sparks issuing forth from a fire or a web spun from the body of a spider. 172
MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA M.M.NINAN Soul and world do exist but are not identical to Siva any more than a drop is equal to the ocean, though both are of the same essential nature. Siva is in His creation as immanent but He transcends his creation. Creation is part of Siva and is within Him. As part cannot be equal to the whole, Siva is more than His creation which he has allowed within Himself. Pasu and Pasam Thus as far as the Saguna Brahman is eternal in time, like the Saguna Brahman, Pasu (individual souls, <strong>Jiva</strong>s) are also eternal and has neither beginning nor end. Souls are many and have their own limitations. Its capabilities are limited due to the bondage or Pasam. Pasam, usually translated as binder or a constraint and is the same concept as the “concealment” of the Jewish mysticism. The concealment or pasam (binding or restriction in area) is necessary to provide the freedom of will and independent laws of Physical World. Thus both Pasu and Pasam ( the individual souls and the laws of Physics) are also eternal like God Himself being His body. The soul in Saiva Siddhanta is known as Pasu due to its nature of being under Pasam. This is exactly what makes the individual Souls the freedom that we experience. Within the constraint, the Soul has total freedom akin to the freedom of God and has powers akin to the power of God, but within the constraint. Saivites generally use the word create in the specific sense of manifestation or sometimes Siva's will, activity or overflowing radiance. The Sanskrit word for creation is sristi, which has the implication, "to let loose". Within the Pasam (restricted region within God Himself) God Siva created by emanation everything. Since there was nothing outside of God, the creation was made the material God contained. Each soul is part of the Spirit of God which He had breathed into the beings and they are destined to merge in union with Him, as a river merges into 173
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