Essays on Meaning of SivaliGkam
Dr K.Loganathan, 2003
The Meaning of SivaliGkam
is very profound and immensely complex and hence it is not surprising at all
that it is ill understood especially by the Westerners who do not seem to
appreciate the metaphysics behind it. I intend to write few essays based upon
Tirumular’s account of it in the Seventh Tantra that has a chapter of 73 verses
on SivaliGkam, one of the fundamental icons of worship among the Saivas. As an
icon it is something like the notion of MODULE in the newly emerging
Evolutionary Psychology but it goes deeper than the notion of genetic codes
that determine the biological features and so forth. The icons such as
SivaliGkam PREEXISTS the genetic modules though like these, are objective realities out there in the world and which
on taking over the psychobiological processes not only determine the species
characteristics, the sexuality but most important of all, the nature of the
understanding itself. Thus Tirumular approaches the whole issue in terms of
HERMENEUTICS, the seeking to make sense of the genesis and configuration of
Human Understanding in the most comprehensive manner.
I publish here 31
essays and which do not exhaust the wealth of metaphysical insights of Tirmular
on this. I hope to present more essays later.
Loga
[1. The Atara Cakras ( or
Existential Abodes) 2. The Examination of Atara Cakras ( Atara Cootanai) 3.
[ 6. The Psychiatry as
Already There 7. SivaliGkam and Vedic Gods 8. The Temple Structure and
Cataaciva 9.
The SivaliGkam in the Human Body
10. Deep Silence and Metaphysical Wisdom 11. Justice and its Universality ]
[ 12. The Human Body is PiNdaliGkam 13. The Self is not Bodiless even After Death 14. The Body can be a Temple 15. Cataaciva LiGkam and the Homo Hierarchicus 16. Homo Hierarchicus and Human Freedom 17. SivaliGkam and the Natural Pedagogy 18. The True Religion is Already There in the World 19. The Utkiraka Maarkkam or Inner Astronomy 20. The Metaphysics of Colors ]
[ 21. The Weapons of BEING
and the Wars in Nature 22. Physics and Metaphysics Integrated 23. Living in the
real Presence of BEING 24. Becoming a Pure Self with Icon Thinking 25. The
Saivite Cosmo-Sociology 26. The Saivite Cosmo-Psychology 27. The Yantras and
the Psychological Moods 28. Aspects of the Developmental Psychology of the
Saivites 29. Metaphysical Understanding and Existential Application 30. Aspects
of the Saivite Evolutionary Psychology 31. Mantrayana as the Ultimate Science
]