SWAMI RAMALINGAM LIFE SKETCH
Swami Ramalingam, popularly known as VALLALAR, the Great Munificient, may be regarded as the foremost of the saints and sages of the nineteenth century, considering the heights, widths, depths and intimacies of his integral realization fo the Divine in all the inmost, inner, outer, and the outermost parts of his being. He was a yogi who put before the people deathlessness of body as an essential part of the realisaton of the One blissful Divine, a saint whose very soul stuff was made of infinite love and compassion, a sage of Truth consciousness who possessed the divine knowledge and science of deathlessness of body and attained its deathless transformation along with the self creative power of creating all substances of whatever kind including bodily substances, a born Tamil poet of divine inspiration who could distinguish the variouis levels of inspiration and who received in silence the Word of Truth and Grace from the Cit Shakthi of Grace in the transcendence of Cit Shaba, the transcendent and universal world of Truth Consciousness, Besides, he was a critic, writer and commentator and also had knowledge in occultism, alchemy, astrology, and medicine particularly in the nutritional and medical values of herbs and leaves. He was a musician too with a keen musical taste for lyrical songs and he composed lyrics to express, in an easier and popular style, his highest and sublime realizations of the Divine, particularly that of Truth consiciousness (Satya Janana).
Of the six volumes of Arutpa the poems of divine inspiration, the last volume is unparalleled in spiritual history as its gives expression to his realization of the vast world of Truth knowledge and the Beyond, and touches on subjects like transformation and deathlessness of body. If any sort of comparision has to be made at all or even for its own proper understanding, it can be done only with reference to the vast and infinitely detailed spiritual and yoga literature which Sri Aurobindo has fortunately and gracefully left us behind.
The Swami was the one who affirmed openly and clearly in an unmistakable language the deathlessness of his body which he attained by the power of what he called arutperunjothi the vast grace light of the divine which he identified as the Truth light of Knowledge. Satya jnana joti. In the last decade of his life he started first in 1865 an association of spiritual fellowship called Samarasa Suddha Sanmarga Satya Sangam, the association for the path of purity, truth, the fight and harmony, opened in 1867 a dharmashala at Vadalur for the feeding of the poor and the hungry, inviting the people to express to their fellow begins and creatures compassion which is the grace of ones sould for meriting the Greater Grace of the Divine for his realization, and lastly founded at Vadalur 40miles off pondicherry, in the Siginificant year 1872 a symbolic shrine of worship called Satya jnana Sabha, the sanctum of Truth knowledge in honour and respect of the universal coming of the God of Vast Grace light who was about to manifest, requesting the people to receive him and his rule on earth in all joy and enthusiasm. In this shrine the diffused light of a lamp is worshipped as the divinely sanctioned and blessed symbol of the divine Light of Truth knowledge or Truth Consciousness. He even wrote to suggest that this lamp of light, which is kept behind seven coloured screens of cloth representing the seven veils of Ignorance , might be lit up in the shrine until the God of Vast Grace Light becomes manifest on the earth with His siddhis or miracle such as changing of the aged into youth and reawakening of the death in to bodily life; these siddhis are indications of His manifestation.
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Arutperumjothi
And deathless body
By thiru TR.Thulasiram,.
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