What is 'Brahma Gnana'?

Gnana means knowledge, and knowledge is of three kinds
1. Paasa Gnana or Knowledge of the world, made of five elements or scientific knowledge.
2. Pasu Gnana or Knowledge of the soul or knowledge of philosophy.
3. Pathi Gnana or Knowledge of Godhead or knowledge of absolute consciousness.

Scientific knowledge of the world of five elements as well as of the human body can be learnt by using our five senses and the faculty of mind.

Knowledge of the soul cannot be attained by senses or mind. It can be attained only by the soul it is called self-realization. It can be done only by activating the sleeping soul. This can be done only by going beyond the mind by some kind of Yoga or Sath Vichara known as self-inquiry.

Knowledge of God cannot be attained by human effort. Atleast this is the point of you expressed by saivism, saiva siddhantha philosophy as well as suddha sanmaarga of Vallalar. But the Godless, athestic religions such as buddhism, Jainism etc., claim it can be known by human effort.

'அவன் அருளாலே அவன் தாள் வணங்கி '. Only by God's grace one can attain His devine feet says saint Maanika vasagar.

Knowledge of God or Brahma Gnana is variously described by various religious leaders. Thiruvalluvar gives God eight attributes. He calls Him engunathaan [எண்குணத்தான்]. God is every where. God is omnicient. God is Omnipotent. God has a pure body. God is basically stainless of any mala or error. God is the creator, sustainer and destroyer of all things and all beings. God is divide of likes and dislikes. God is always blissful. God has got absolute consciousness and in One place Vallalar says God is all good things, all blissful things and all things of knowledge.
In short man is endowed with relative knowledge. God is endowed with absolute knowledge.

Mans mind is divided into 3 facuties,
Itcha or desire.
Kria or will.
Gnana or Knowledge.

But in God these three faculties are always fused together and act simultaneously. There is no intervel of time between them for God is beyond division, beyond time and beyond place.

Brahma Gnana according to Vallalar is absolute knowledge born of total compassion of God towards all beings irrespective of any division of creed / caste / religion / language / nationality or even form.


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What is meant by detachment?

பாச வைராக்யம் என்ட்ரால் என்ன?

Paasam means bondage, Bondage to what? Bondage to the world and worldliness. As long as one is interested in the world and worldliness he cannot be interested in his spirit or God. So one has to detach oneself from worldly things. This attitude of detachment is called 'Vairagya'. In tamil it is called Patru aruthal [பற்று அறுதல்] .

The great sage Thiruvalluvar says 'In order to get away from worldly things one has to catch hold of the devine feet of God.
[பற்றுக பற்று அற்றான் பற்றினை அப்பற்றை
பற்றுக பற்று விடற்கு ]

Worshipping the Lords feet is the way to salvation'.

The moment one is totally devoid of any interest in the world or its things one attains moktsha or salvation, says the Vaishnava saint Namaalvaar.

அற்றது பற்று எனில்
உற்றது வீடு

The state of detachment is normally explained by a simile.
One should live in the world like a leaf of lotus. Though it is always immersed in the water it is not stained by the water. In the same way though one lives in the world and experiences worldly things one should not be merged with them. One should always remember that he is not an innorganic, inert matter like them but a living soul, a spark of divinity. Always with this act of self-remembering one should do all his duties in the world.

Originally according to saiva siddhantha man was like a small atom in a dark room and that atom was not aware of its own condition of darkness, forgetting that he was a being of light, a spiritual being. Then God took pity upon him and he wanted to instruct him that he was a spiritual being.

How did he do it ? God's act of grace was done in 3 stages.
First, He gave the soul a small light of energy called 'Kalai'.
Kalai maeas 'Kria Shakthi' or the energy to perform an act.

Next God gave him another small light of 'Vidhya Shakthi' Vidhya means knowledge.
With that light of knowledge, the soul was able to see something that is, it understood it own condition.

Next God gave the soul, one more energy called 'Aragham' meaning 'Itcha Shakthi' or the power of desire.

Finally God created the outside world and gave this soul a body, a mind and the faculty of enjoying the world with them. Gods intention was to activate man's soul and by making him see the action he would understand his real condition, He thought.

This can be explained by another illustration. It is like washing a dirty linen with soap. Soap is also made up of dirty oil. With one dirt another dirt is removed. With one thorn you remove the thorn in your foot and throw away both of them. In the same way the stain in the attma which was called Aanava malaa must be removed by the blissful experience of the souls interaction with the world. The world and the human body were created by the maya shakthi of God. So Maya shakthi was originally an act of grace by God.

This interaction of the soul with the world is called Karma or action. Unfortunately the soul forgot to remember God's intention of its purification and instead got deeper and deeper into hte dirt of worldiness.

When one eats a sweet one tastes sweetness, it gives him happiness, but that happiness is short lived and also sometimes turns into unhappiness. This is a pointer to everlasting bliss that can be given only be God. Forgetting this higher form of happiness the soul like a buffalo enters into the dirty pond of worldiness and is satisfied with the worldly happiness. Here is born good and bad, Good karma could purify its soul to some extent but it is also bondage. Bad karma is adding to the already existing dirt. So the only remedy for this is to be totally detached from worldly things and be interested only in the self-actualization or atma siddhi and God realization or attainment of Godhead. This is done in various forms of Yoga. But the ultimate aim is to get away from worldly happiness and attain the bliss of aatman and God.

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Sudha Sanmarga Marabu - சுத்த ச‌ன்மார்க்க‌ ம‌ர‌பு

Question :
சுத்த ச‌ன்மார்க்க‌ ம‌ர‌பு , ல‌ட்ஷிய‌த்தை பார்த்தோம்.
இந்த‌ சுத்த ச‌ன்மார்க்க‌ ல‌ட்ஷிய‌த்தை அடைய‌ "சுத்த ச‌ன்மார்க்க‌ சாத‌ன‌ம்" எது என‌ வ‌ள்ள‌லார் கூறுகிறார்?

Answer :

The sadhana or yoga of suddha sanmarga is twofold:paropakaram or compassionate behavior towards other beings and sath vichara or spiritual enquiry. Spiritual enquiry covers a lot of ground such as devotion towards god, self enquiry, meditation on the agna chakra, vasi yoga at agna chakra, kalpa system of food, transferring activities and functions of the body below the neck or pinda to the head or anda and having vision of Arutperumjothi at the centre of the head and bringing it forward throughout the body and transforming all the three billion cells of the body into cells of wisdom-light. It is a vast science of transmutation and transformation of the physical body into a pure body then into a letter-body and then finally into a divine body of wisdom-light. What evolutionary force did in the course of 3.5 billion years, man is expected to perform in a single life time. Burnt out trees are turned into carbon which in turn is turned into diamond under the earth in millions of years by enormous amounts of pressure and heat. The process is duplicated in the laboratory in a few seconds. In the same way the transformation of the physical body into a light body can also be accomplished by giving it enormous amounts of pure heat generated by love and compassion towards all beings and devotion to god at the chit sabha or the life spirit of man. Those who want more details are requested to listen to my lectures on sanmarga.

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R.Kuppusamy.