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Unique TAMILIAN - CULTURE : "View through HEART"...
Swami Vivekananda was asked by one American: "Why your Hindu Religious Prophets Sankaracharya and Ramanujacharya speak contrarily preaching different Gospels on one and the same Religion of Hinduism?... Will it not be confusing to the disciples as to which one to be followed.?
Swamiji replied:" Basically the so called Hinduism is not at all one Religion but a Composite form of several divergent Gospels suiting to different Souls commensurate with Ones ability of Individual Faith, Approach and Perception..... Besides.....
Sankaracharya speaks through his Brain.... whereas...
Ramanujacharya speaks through his Heart... so both have got to be different.
And the people have the parallel options to chose any one of them.
Ramanujachaarya's Hearty Culture is and was the True and Eternal Culture of Tamilians .....ever from the date of Origination of their Culture.... from the period prior to the Birth of Ramanujachaarya.
This aspect can be ascertained from the underlying high spirit of Overall Tamil-Literature, far highly discernible from the Literatures of other Languages of India.
Some of the ancient Tamil poems of several centuries ago..... speaks for itself....
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ÁøÄ¡ñ¼ ¾¢ñ§¼¡û Á½¢Åñ½¡ ¯ý §ºÅÊ ¦ºùÅ¢ ¾¢Õ측ôÒ
«Ê§Â¡§Á¡Îõ ¿¢ý§É¡Îõ À¢Ã¢Å¢ýÈ¢ ¬Â¢Ãõ ÀøÄ¡ñÎ
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À¨¼§À¡÷ ÒìÌ ÓÆíÌõ «ôÀ¡ïººýÉ¢ÂÓõ ÀøÄ¡ñ§¼.
Says the Vaishnava-Devotee Periaazhwaar alias Vishnuchithar on the God Vishnu.
In this Poetry the Devotee not only describes Vishnu alongside the Beauties of His various Divine Possessions, Paraphernalias and Adorations but also blesses the Supreme God.
Have we ever heard or seen in any Religion in the world..... where the Devotee, so to say the Human-being blesses the God instead of seeking the God's Blessings!...... But NOT with Superiority-Complex.... but sheerly out of .... MUTUAL-LOVE..... further asserted by his HUMBLE-WORDS about self.
"±ø§Ä¡Õõ þýÒüÚ þÕì¸ ¿¢¨ÉôÀЧŠ«øÄ¡Áø §Å¦È¡ýÚ «È¢§Âý ÀáÀçÁ..."
Says Thaayumanavar a Saiva-Devotee....
Stating his Wishes addressing the God Shiva...... for the UNIVERSAL HAPPINESS..... and that he does not know anything other than that WISH !
«ý§À ¾¸Ç¢Â¡ ¬÷ŧÁ ¦¿ö¡¸
þýÒÕÌ º¢ó¨¾§Â þξ¢Ã¢Â¡
¿ýÒÕ¸¢ »¡Éîͼ÷ Å¢ÇìÌ ²üÈ¢§Éý
¿¡Ã½üÌ »¡Éò¾Á¢ú ÒÃ¢ó¾ »¡ý.
Says Poothathaazhwar another Vishnu-devotee
To mean..... that he worships the Lord Narayana with a Flame of Light.... out of a Hand-Lamp base depicted as LOVE.... Oil as the Spirit of ENTHUSIASM..... the burning cotton-chord as the PLEASANT THOUGHTS.
A few out of many such ones in Tamil-Literature..... highlights the spirit of HEARTY LOVE more than the Spirit of Devotion.
When such is the case while approaching the God Supreme as well as....
The vast mass of World-Society.....
What is the INNATE Propensity of the Tamilians ! and ...
How Great and Unparallel their Culture must be.....
Culminating in their Unique Civilisation .... can be well imagined.
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