The Metaphysics of Sleep and Death There is a metaphysical explanation of all events in the world and hence certainly also of the fundamental processes of...
The Mantra Hymn of Sundarar- 9 Tevaram 7: 48 BEING and the Dissolution of Temporality. This verse may sound sectarian , something quite common to the whole...
Universal condemnations piled up against the destruction of 1,500 year old Buddha statues in Afghanistan. The 21st century world is different from that which...
The Metaphysics of Sexual Dynamics One of the themes very frequent in my present spate of metaphysical dreams is the recovery of youthful virility that comes...
The Mantra Hymn of Sundarar- 10(Final) Tevaram 7: 48 The Secrets of Life Without Miseries. BEING does not come down as Avatars which invites death and hence...
The Metaphysical Hymn of Sundarar The Bakti movement that began in Tamil Nadu as a protest against Jainism Buddhism Brahmanism as much as against the...
The Metaphysical Hymn of Sundarar-2 Tevaram 7 : 67 Tiruvalivalam BEING does not Discriminate One of the central messages of the Bakti revolt is that what...
Appar on Myths and Their Meanings Genuine metaphysical life is a life of Hermeneutic Semiotics where the metaphysical dreams are taken as TEXTS and which are...
Dear Dr Kannan Thank-you. One of the things that I am realizing now is that the primordial metaphysical processes are prior to linguistic codifications and...
Dear K Kannan Thank-you and you have raised an important question. Yes there is a place for writing or versification and this is what is done by Namazvar Appar...
Dear Jega/Raji ... My deepest desire would be to see Saiva literaure for their beauty of words and the great philosophy they contain to be popularised through ...
Dear Divakara Soory to say this. You are a stupid fellow with a very closed mind. Shame on you. You have closed your mind to the magnificent metaphysical...
Dear Divakara Sanskrit is just another variant of Archaic Tamil with close relationships with SumeroTamil. The Rig Vedic Rishies were Tamil people and I...
Dear Kannan You are absolutely right here. I have read many books where the hymns of Divviya Prabantam have been studied in relation to Akam poetry of the...
The Metaphysical Hymn of Sundarar-3 Tevaram 7 : 67 Tiruvalivalam The Right Way is Only for the Humble One of the most endearing features of Sacred Tamil is the...
Appar on Myths and Their Meanings-2 Tevaram 4:14 BEING beyond the Reach of the Boar and Swan BEING is absolutely transcendent and truly beyond the reach of the...
Dear Dr Kannan In writing commentaries to Appar I have to be faithful to the meaning of the verse. In the commentary I cannot go into a very extensive...
Dear Dr Kannan One of the things I have noticed in Sacred Tamil is that while they enjoy Icon Thinking , they also mention Mantra Thinking which in turn leads...
Dear Dr Kannan ... Ultimately, the being is accessible all the time in the temple. In fact, this psychology is fascinating. We go to temple not to worship a...
The Metaphysics of Dreams and Visions One of the most important events in my life happened around the year 1988 when my Third Eye opened up and I began to...
Appar on Myths and Their Meanings-3 Tevaram 4:14 Saivism and VaishNavism : What is the difference? Let me begin by saying that the following verse, while...
Dear Sankaran At about your age, I was already very philosophical and at the same very romantic. I was in New Zealand as student and just at that time I had a...
Dear Dr Kannan I very gladly admit that my scholarship is very limited. Though I have studied some hymns in Rig Veda and Bagavath Gita, certainly it is a...
Dear Dr Kannan Thank-you. Now if the cosmology of the Total Annihilation of the cosmos as a whole is available in Vishnava tradition , fine. Then it only...
The Metaphysical Hymn of Sundarar-4 Tevaram 7 : 67 Tiruvalivalam BEING is Beyond even the Transcendent Light The experience of BEING-as-Light is the most...
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