What is the Truth that prevails forever? Tamil philosophical works talk of the one Truth and aver that that is God, the Supreme One. As human beings, we are endowed with the capacity to discern and to analyse, and if we put our discerning capacity to use we will realise that the One undefeatable, indestructible One is God, said Malayaman in a discourse.
The Saivite saint Tirunavukkarasar said that the One with a red hue and with knotted locks is the One who confers great boons on those who distance themselves from material possessions and from their relatives. The great boons that he is talking about are liberation and reaching the abode of Lord Siva.
Manickavachagar, in melting words, addresses Lord Siva as the One who not only guarantees us liberation from births and deaths, but also gets rid of the confusions in our minds in this birth too.
Thanigai Purana, addressing those who are attached to things of the world, says that they have forgotten the ways prescribed by spiritual texts and have indulged in pointless pursuits. They have thus become food for hell. They have an empty mind, for a mind that does not focus on the Supreme Truth is not going to lead people to moksha. “Where are the chariots and all the enormous wealth you amassed? Where is your wife? Where are your children?” asks Thanigai Purana.
The family, for the sake of which one hoards wealth, is not going to come to one’s rescue when one takes repeated births because of one’s sins. Can our family take on our burden of sins? Will it aid us when death comes knocking or when we pay for our mistakes? Gnanis know these truths and spend their time in worship of the Lord.
