ARUTPA TREATISE
UNIQUENESS OF VALLALARISM :
Preamble:
From the time immemorial, the world has seen many Saints of Great Souls who helped to uplift the mankind in their time of living and after. Their place of birth was different, the language they preached was different, and the names of the philosophy and sects of religion were different. Each one showed his own path of reaching God. But, the nucleus of their thinking was one and the same.
In India too, many great souls and philosophers worked for the same cause in the thousands of years of past history. Their teachings were cantered towards liberating the soul from the vicious cycle of numerous births. Keeping ‘Birthlessness’ as the goal for attainment of salvation (“Mukthi”), various forms of worships, reciting of different stanzas of Vedas, enforcing stress and strain to the body (Thapas and Vridhas) were proclaimed as means of achieving the goal of Birthlessness.
Uniqueness of Vallalar:
- Vallalar’s predecessors spoke on ‘Birthlessness’ as the salvation to be near God. Whereas, Vallalar chose ‘Deathlessness’ as the means of salvation.
- Others took the ‘soul’ in the test tube to experiment the philosophy of salvation (Mukthi). Whereas, Vallalar took the human body in the test tube as the “matter” for chemical reaction to attain the salvation called “Siddhi”.
- Others proclaimed ‘soul’ as immortal; whereas Vallalar reiterated and demonstrated that “human body” transformed into a state of immortality.
- Others believed that prayers, rituals, reciting of slogans of Vedas, performing Homams (sacrifice in fire) painful of body and mind etc. could only come forth Godship. Contrary to this, Vallalar showed to the world that only mind, kindness in heart and compassion to all living beings could transform one’s body into a state of deathlessness which is the visible proof for breaking the vicious cycle of birth and death. He demonstrated to the world that the perishable body of any human being is eligible for this transformation into a deathless body of Light.
Stages of attainment:
He clearly departed from the so called beliefs and myths and depicted himself as a pure scientist speaking on composition of matter in the ever expanding universe and composition of human body starting from sperm to logical transformations of body into Eternal Light. He disbelieved in the statement that Wisdom (Mei Gnanam) is different from Science (Vig Gnanam). He merged the both stating that Wisdom and Science are inseparable.
He classifies the transformation of human body into these stages:
Impure Body -> Pure Body -> body of Sound -> Body of Light of Compassion
It is scientific evaluation of human body, configuring metaphysical changes with the onset of Chemical, Bio Chemical & Theo Chemical changes in one’s body. The starting point of this change is very minute and subtle, that is, budding of kindness in one’s heart towards all living being on the basis of the fact that souls of all living being areas same as our own. Hence there is no distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. Though starting point is simple and subtle, the benefit of resultant process is ultimate state of Light, vibrant everywhere as Omnipresent and Omnipotent as God Himself.
Process of attainment:
Vallalar made a universal appeal to all of us to follow this path of compassionate universal brotherhood (AIM of the mission) and scientific stages of bodily transformations (FRUIT of efforts) in his invaluable Works called “Thiru Arutpa” in the form of poems and prose. To understand his scientific teachings, we need to start our learning process through theory and practice his proclamation on our own body and its tools, as the pre KG course.
Let us start our learning process, taking Vallalar as our Divine Teacher in the days to come.