The Sanmaarka Concepts of Mr.Thambaiah,written in Tamil has been Translated into English with love and affection by :
Thiru. M. Umasankar, M.A., M.Phil.,
Prof. of English (Retd) A.V.V.M.
Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur.
He has put in more than 35 years of service. This
translation
Work has been
dedicated to his beloved father and mother.
ANMA’S
DESTINATION
By what means God’s grace can be got?
It can be obtained only by the discipline of mercy shown to
living beings (jeevacarunyam).
What is meant by grace?
An ineffably tangible and favourable God given experience,
simultaneously covert and overt, to the deserving living beings, is known as
grace.
‘Jeevakarunyam’ means an innate as well as encompassing
kindness that spontaneously gushes to serve in the interest of other living
beings in distress.
When does God show grace?
God’s grace can be obtained by means of the individual
‘anma’s’ pity or sympathy shown even in a small way to other living beings. Since God who happens to
be the soul within soul. It This is similar to making great fire with
the aid of a small fire.
What is the benefit of grace?
The pleasant result issuing from what we mercifully do unto
other living beings is graceful. The enlightenment born of this grace is the
revelation of God. The resultant ecstasy of this grace is to be known as God’s
bliss absolute. Those who have thus known, realized and experienced this for
quite a long time are called spiritual achievers and ‘gnanis’(sages).
How does God’s grace manifest?
The ‘anma’ of the noble and compassionate people melts on
seeing the sufferings of the fellow beings. The people who are thus moved in
their ‘anma’ centripetally become centrifugally potential when they remove the
affliction of the suffering lot and make them happy. The more we are intrinsically
touched like this, the more God’s illumination in the form of grace will become
well pronounced in us. It This is comparable to
producing fire by rubbing one piece of wood against another one. Even as the
person who produces this kind of fire is profited by that fire, the impact of
grace will be filled in the physical body, soul and the intellect. At that
time, kindness which in its entirety generates grace, and knowledge to inquire
into God, will appear.
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THE GREATNESS OF St. RAMALINGAM’S
OMNIPOTENT GRACE
The human
birth that we have attained has been stained physically, psychologically and
intellectually. It is beset with disease, senility, fear and sufferings. With
the help of grace achieved through the path of ‘Jeevakarunyam’ St. Ramalingam
has become immanent everywhere, transforming himself into a body of grace,
senses of grace, emotions of grace, intellect of grace and experiences of grace.
St. Ramalingam will appear in the form of grace in the heart of those worship
and contemplate upon him accepting him as ‘sadhguru.’ He is capable of
gracefully giving anything desired from him.
If people
sincerely worship and meditate upon St. Ramalingam, giving up killing and meat
eating, he is capable of knowing them
irrespective of the place where they are in this endless cosmos. Stationing himself where he is, St. Ramalingam
can go beyond the innumerable array of cosmos. His eyes can see the in and out
of the macrocosm and the microcosm everywhere. Similarly, his ears can listen
to the supplication of his true devotees anywhere in the cosmos.
He can
taste the oblation you offer to him from where he is. He can smell from where
he is the fragrant flowers you put at his holy feet. His hands are capable of
extending to any place in this wide cosmos. His holy feet will instantaneously
appear at the spot where you fall prostrate in worship. If he so desires to
talk to people anywhere in this universe, he can do so. No one and nothing,
including the five basic elements, can destroy his body. His wisdom is God’s
wisdom. His experience is God’s experience. His actions are God’s actions. He
is omnipotent and imperishable forever. He is the embodiment of mercy. He
gracefully responds to the call of his true devotees. He serves the holy feet
of the people who are compassionately committed to the cause of
‘jeevakarunyam.’ He removes with grace all the defects and flaws. His body is
golden in colour and it seemingly appears and disappears like the blue sky.
His mind
and heart do not get attached to anything. If, out of mercy, they get attached,
they know in the fraction of a second, the wants, the deep rooted and
infallible conviction about the divine succour and the converse of it in all
the living beings all over the universes. They are capable of knowing their
multifarious aspects, experiences and the concomitant benefits. The dead will
be able to resurrect because of his grace. If we get his grace by unswervingly
adhering to the discipline of ‘jeevakarunyam’ , we can attain a state of
existence wherein knowledge will be the form, knowledge will be the
manifestation, knowledge will be the ‘manas’, knowledge will be the knowledge
absolute, and knowledge will be the experience.
