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பேற்றைத் தவஞ்சற்று மில்லாத வென்னைப் ப்ரபஞ்ச மென்னும்
சேற்றைக் கழிய வழிவிட்ட வாசெஞ் சடாடவிமேல்
ஆற்றைப் பணியை யிதழியைத் தும்பையை யம்புலியின்
கீற்றைப் புனைந்த பெருமான் குமரன்க்ரு பாகரனே.
The highlighted words, senchadaadavi mel aatrai paniyai idhazhiyai thumbaiyai ambuliyin keetrai punaindha peruman is about Lord Siva. He is the lord who upon his matted reddish hair wears the river, the snake, flowers and the crescent of the moon.
These Gods- Ganesa, Muruga and now, Siva- what are they? Obviously they do not look the same, do they have different personalities? Going by our epics, yes, they have individual characters, if you read them superficially.
But yet, it we are to read the texts like Upanishads, the gods are not that different from one and another, and even you and me:
"Who is he whom we worship, thinking: "This the Self (Atman)? (Of the two mentioned in the scriptures,) which one is the Self? Is it He by whom one sees form, by whom one hears sound, and by whom one tasts
the sweet and the unsweet?
"It is the heart and the mind. It is consciousness, lordship, knowledge (of arts), wisdom, retentive power of mind, sense knowledge, steadfastness, thought, thoughtfulness, sorrow, memory, concepts, purpose, life, desire, longing (for sense-objects): all these are but various names of Consciousness (Prajnanam)
"He is Brahman, He is Indra, He is Prajapati; He is all these gods; He is the five great elements- earth, air, akasa, water, light; He is all these small creatures and the others which are mixed (with them); He is the origin (of the moving and the unmoving)- those born of an egg, of a womb, of sweat, and of a sprout; He is horses, cows, human beings, elephants- whatever breathes here, whether moving on legs or flying in the air or unmoving. All this is guided by Consciousness (Prajnanam), is supported by Consciousness. The basis (of the universe) is Consciousness. Consciousness is Brahman."
-Aitareya Upanishad III
Multiplicity is worldliness; Wholeness is the vision of God.
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