THE ESOTERIC
KANDAR ANUBHUTI
THE SECRET TEACHING ON
GOD-EXPERIENCE
(A Treatise on Adwaitic Realization)
OF
SAINT ARUNAGIRINATHAR
| THE ESOTERIC KANDAR ANUBHUTI THE SECRET TEACHING ON GOD-EXPERIENCE (A Treatise on Adwaitic Realization) OF SAINT ARUNAGIRINATHAR | |
 | by N.V. Karthikeyan |  |
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| with its beak each poem on a pipal leave and dropped them. The collection of those scattered leaves is the Kandar Anubhuti, and so there is no sequence in the verses. This does not stand even to simple reason. Because, if we can believe and accept that the parrot wrote the verses, it wrote the verse numbers also. Why not? Would it not be more reasonable and should we not be charitable enough to accept that the numbering of the verses was also done by the parrot? According to some, the parrot flew away to Tirutthani and perching on the arms of Lord Murugan sang the Kandar Anubhuti. Both these views are untenable as they would contradict Thaayamanavar who says, 'Kandar Anubhuti sonna Enthaai' and NOT sonna Enkili. By saying 'Kandar Anubhuti sonna Enthaai' Thayumanavar seems not to accept the view that the Kandar Anubhuti was given by Arunagiri as a parrot. (3) Some hold that the Kandar Anubhuti verses were sung by Arunagiri at different times and that the arrangement of the verses was done not by Arunagiri but by someone else later and that it requires a re-arrangement. This view seems to be meaningless, as the work has come down to us unaltered for over five centuries and accepted as Arunagiri's by great saints like Thaayumanavar, and innumerable devotees have derived immense benefit from a regular Parayana or chanting of it. If the original order of the verses given by the saint is unsatisfactory, how can a rearrangement by an ordinary person be satisfactory? Further, there is a danger involved in rearranging it. The danger is that if someone rearranges the verses in a particular manner, others may find it unsatisfactory and will do it in another manner. Eventually we will have many versions of Kandar Anubhuti, each claiming his version as the true one, leading to confusion. There can be no greater disservice and disrespect to the Saint and his Divine Gift, the Kandar Anubhuti, than to think of rearranging the order of the verses. If someone feels that the verses require rearrangement, it means he is more knowledgeable and competent than Arunagiri himself. Well, in that case it would be better he composes his own work on 'Anubhuti' than to meddle with a work which is divine-inspired and not an intellectual composition. There are some other views also, into the details of which we do not go. All the different views are on account of one reason, i.e., their inability to see a logical sequence of ideas in the verses. Because they could see no logical sequence, they have no alternative except to regard it as a collection of verses and not a treatise given by the saint. But it would be wisdom on our part to accept our inability or even try to seek a remote and far-fetched link among the verses, than to interfere with the work, which is a divine gift. Perhaps during the time of Saint Thayumanavar itself all such views were in circulation. Instead of refuting them or saying they are not true, as a saint he simply told the truth or facts in his tribute, which automatically nullifies them. | ||
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