Totram Odukkam (தோற்றம் ஒடுக்கம்)
Totram , Development of the Tattuvam
By the grace of Parama-Sivan’s Para-Satti (பரம சிவனுடைய பராசத்தி),
Natham (நாதம்), the Male Energy of Deity, is developed from Kudilei (குடிலை) (the primeval mayei, Elemental Matter;
from Natham is developed Vintu (விந்து), the Female Energy of Deity;
from Vintu is developed Sathakkiyam (சாதாக்கியம்), the highest form of organized Deity (that combines the two Energies);
from Sathakkiyam is developed Mayesuram (மயேசுரம்), the obscuring God;
and from Mayesuram is developed Sutta-Vittei (சுத்த வித்தை) otherwise called Rudra or Ruttiran (உருத்திரன்), the Destroying God, or the Reproducer.
For the use of these five divine developments (in their co-operation with the human soul), are evolved, from the before-mentioned Vintu, the following Tattuvam,: viz the four Vakku;
the fifty-one letters of the Sanskrit
the eighty-one Patham (பதம்), Formulas for religious worship
the seventy millions of Makamantiram (மகாமந்திரம்), Great mystic Formulas
and all the Sastiram (சாஸ்திரம்), Sacred Treatises.
Also, for the Vigngnanakalar (விஞ்ஞானகலர்), souls under the influence of two malam, are produced
- tanu (தநு), external forms
- karanam (கரணம்), external organs
- puvanam (புவனம்), localities in the body
- and pokam (போகம்), means of enjoyment and suffering
From the same source, also, are developed the three states of beatification, viz :
- salokam (சாலோகம்), position in the same world or locality with God;
- samipam (சாமீபம்), position near God;
- sarupam (சாரூபம்), position in the form of God.
These are the respective positions of the soul when it has completed the several stages of religious life, called sarithei (சரிதை), the Puranic or historic stage; kirikei (கிரிகை), the mystic or scientific stage; yokam (யோகம்), the meditative or ascetic stage. Finally, from the same are evolved the five kalei (கலை) portions of the Tattuvam combined.
Note : These five kalei are each a distinct avatharam (அவதாரம்), or organism, of the soul, composed of parts of the ninety-six Tattuvam, combined into a system by a distinct development. They are called nivirti (நிவிர்த்தி); pirathittei (பிரதிட்டை); vittei (வித்தை); santi (சாந்தி); santiyathithei (சாந்தியாதீதை). They will be explained below.
The term malam, meaning impurity, evil, will be of frequent occurrence. There are three malam, viz : matter in its obscuring or entangling power; anavam (ஆணவம்), source of sin; and kanmam (கன்மம்), cause of action, mayei (மாயை), delusion. These will be more fully explained in another place.
It is manifest, from an inspection of the foregoing statements, that, while the author has his eye chiefly on the miniature universe, man, he necessarily includes the universe proper, in his strange enumeration and combination of things. That the two views, are necessarily involved in this system, will be still more manifest from what follows.
Thus far we have the direct results of the co-operation of Parama-Sivam, the Supreme God, with Para-Satti, the Supreme Satti, or consort of God. The organisms hitherto specified are from sutta-mayei, or pure Elemental Matter, which was eternally united with pristine Deity, but which had no connection with soul, or with malam, the evil which affects the soul in its several states of existence.
Next are presented the works, or productions, of the developed or fully organised deities above named, in co-operation with their proper Satti. The organisms next produced are from asutta-mayei, an impure form of Elemental Matter, which was eternally associated with Soul, and in which the two malam, anavam and kanmam, or original impurity, and the consequent experience, such as good and evil acts, pleasure and pain, inhered.
By the Grace (Satti) of the Infinite God (Sathakkiyam) are developed from asutta-mayei the first three of the Vittiya-Tattuvam, viz :
- kalam, time
- niyathi, fate
- and kalei, continency.
- And from kalei two others are evolved, viz:
- vittei, thought
- and rakam, desire
- And from kalei two others are evolved, viz:
Note : Thus far we have the work of Sathakkiyam, or Sathasivam, and his Satti. Next are enumerated the productions of Ruttiran, the Sutta-Vittei above named, and his Satti. Pirakiruthi, named below, is the same as the Sanskrit prakrithi. In Tamil, the word has various meanings as foundation, source, cause, nature. In the succeeding productions, it is styled mulapirakiruthi, or the fundamental cause, as the ultimate source to which as the succeeding organisms may be traced.
By means of Grace (Satti) of Ruttiran, mula-pirakiruthi (மூலப்பிரகிருதி) is evolved from the last mentioned kalei. From mula pirakiruthi, the Mukkunam, Three Moral Properties, are developed. The position of the Mukkunam as undeveloped pirakiruthi, is called avviyatham (அவ்வியத்தம்) (Sanskrit, avyakta).
From this avviyattam are evolved
- sittam, the will
- and putti, the judgment. From putti is evolved akangkaram, the individuality
This akangkaram is the Tattuvam which individualize, and leads one to say : “I, myself”, etc. It has a three-fold form, viz; teisatha-akangkaram, veikari-akangkaram and puthathi akangkaram.
From teisatha-akangkaram are evolved manam, the understanding, and the Gnanentiriyam, five Perceptive Organs; in which the sattuvika-kunam operates.
From veikari-akangkaram are evolved the five Organs of Action; in which the rasatha-kunam operates.
From puthathi-akangkaram are evolved the five Rudimental Elements, viz: sattam, parisam, rupam, rasam, and kantam; in which the tamatha-kunam operates.
From sattam is evolved akasam, ether; from parisam emanates vayu, air; from rupam emanates teyu, fire; from rasam emanates appu, water; from kantam emanates piruthuvi, earth.
Odukkam, Resolution of the Tattuvam
At the time of the dissolution of the universe, all these things will be resolved, by successive steps, into their original forms.
Thus end the evolution and resolution of the universe.
Note : According to the doctrine of the Saiva School, at the close of every karpam (கற்பம்), great period, there will be a complete dissolution, and rendering back to their primordial state, of all developed existences, excepting souls. Even deity will then ‘sleep’ as He did before the creation. But souls, once developed, and delivered from the thraldom of their malam, will ever remain intimately united with Deity, clothed in the “resplendent gnanam”.