One Verse All Ism of Philosophy. Murugan

 

 

Philosophy is Leaned ignorance.

 

After studying endless texts, finally no one is able say anything about

 

Ontology,

 

Cosmos,

Birth

,Death,

Rebirth,

Why some are the way they are,

 

why things are the way they are,how one perceives,…..

 

the list ind less for the Inquisitive.

 

Verily Socrates said,

 

‘To now is to Know that you Know Nothing.

 

I do not know what even Nothing is!

 

There are many’ isms’ in Philosophy.   Idealism,

 

Objective Idealism,

 

Solipsism,

 

Realism,

 

Rationalism,( not the Tamil Nadu Karunanidhi EVR Rationalism, this is intelligent Rationalism of Rene Descartes, Spinoza< Kant)

 

Empiricism of Locke ,Berkeley, Hume,

 

Pragmatism of Jeremy Bentham,

 

Skepticism and Logical Positivism of Bertrand Russell,

 

Existentialism of Kierkegaard,   t

 

his is also endless.

 

But one verse in Tamil contains all these and some thing more.

 

It is on Lord Subrahmanya, Murugan by Saint Arunagirinathar.

 

Kandhar Anubhuthi.   ‘

Uruvay aaruvau ulathay ilathay,
Maruvay malaray maniyay oliyay,
Karuvay uyiray kathiyay vidhiyay,
Guruvay varvay, arulvay Guhane., 51'


Oh Guha show mercy on me and come,
As one, with form and one without form,
As one, who has and one who has not,
As scent, as flowers, as gems, as light,
As the seed, as the life within the seed,
As the aim and as the fate leading to the

உருவாய் அருவாய், உளதாய் இலதாய்

 

மருவாய் மலராய், மணியாய் ஒளியாய்க்
கருவாய் உயிராய்க், கதியாய் விதியாய்க்
குருவாய் வருவாய், அருள்வாய் குகனே.

 

உருவாய்,Uryvay-With Form.   Existence has form.Realism.

 

அருவாய் Aruvai,- with out From, Without Attributes,Being Nothing,

 

உளதாய்-ulathay-Being,Existentialism,

 

மருவாய் ,Maruvay-as the Sent of Flowers-attributes, Unionism with the Concept of The Flower,

 

மலராய்,Malaraay-as a Flower, the Unitary being that holds together the Attributes,

 

மணியாய்-Maniyaay-as The Sound, the fundamental primordial Sound of the Universe, Pragmatism,

 

 ஒளியாய்க்,Oliyaay-as Light, as a Point of Prception, which may be illusory,

 

கருவாய்,karuvaay-as the Embryo, Ontolgy,

 

உயிராய்க்,Uyiraay- as the Life of the Embryo,

 

கதியாய் -kathiyaay- as the Refuge,As Free Will,

 

விதியாய்க், Vithiyaay- Determinism.

 

What is not mentioned in the translation is embedded within the meaning provided if one ponders over them.

 

Reminds of Nirvana Shatakam or Atma Satakam of Adi Shankaracharya.

 

 

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