By Periyava
Translation from Tamil: V. Krishnaraj
http://www.kamakoti.org/tamil/part1kurall01.htm
ஸ்வாமி என்றால் என்ன?
:
தெய்வத்தின் குரல் (முதல் பகுதி)
Swami: What does it mean? : Deivathin Kural (First Part)
Swami
We
surmise, upon seeing a house, that a builder must exist. We come to know
of the engineer of the building. The same is true of a car. It came into
a form to serve a useful purpose. The home and the car did not
spontaneously take shape. An intelligent being must have created it, we
assume. This goes with all objects. There must be a plan and a creator
or maker of all objects.
If that is so, there must exist of a Builder of the universe, with the
later (universe) bound to multimodal disciplines and universal laws. He
made it possible for life to exist on earth, in addition to Nature made
of objects with multiple utilities. These are created with a motive.
There must exist a great power to manage and maintain these objects.
We know who put together the cottage we occupy now.
Who made the plantain tree? We cannot see with our eyes the maker
of the tree. But someone made it. In a plantain tree, we see layers of
leaf stalks in perfect order. The maker has arranged them beautifully.
We cannot show or identify the creator of the mountain, the stars, the
moon… They came into existence long ago. We may ask how to identify and
show the maker. This rose flower came into existence after the plantain
tree. Day before yesterday, it was a bud. Now it is a beautiful blossom.
There are hundreds of petals with minute veins and fragrance. It
flowered right before our eyes. Yet, we do not see the maker of the
flower.
We think we are the
intellectuals. Consider this. An animal that goes around Chennai returns
wonder-struck and not knowing anything it has seen.
Likewise, we live in this universe, not knowing its origin…
The one who is more intelligent than man kept him like this (with
ignorance).
Rose flowers blossom
under its own Dharma. So are the fixed mountains, the roving stars…
under their own Dharmas. It is apparent one Engineer made all these. It
is apparent there is one order under Kāraṇa-Kārya principle (Principle
of cause and effect) that bind the whole universe, the maker of which is
one Supreme Intellect.
The self-enamored,
the self-assured and the self-described intellect, which is man, must
know the Greatest Intellect of all times, because not only He is the
First and the Foremost Intellect of all times but also a good Being. The
Greatest Intellect having planned and created all these, exercises his
power to protect all with compassion. He does us good, if we offer
worship, knowing all these were his bounty and realizing that our
intellect is a grant from him.
Only He is Svāmi.
Our intellectual endowment, though meager by comparison, is evidence of
his existence. The footprints help us identify the thief.
The footprints of Svāmi, who stole our heart, mind, and soul, are
the tracks seen all over the world. Our comprehending intelligence is
evidence of his footprint. There must be a proven base or repository for
our intellectual endowment which is proof (of his immanence) and his
footprint.
We are the evidentiary proof of extant Svāmi. Can we ever draw the
person-specific dermatoglyphics (ரேகைகள்) on the
palms? We see a great city
layout because of the intelligence of man: roads, rails, highways,
buildings, monuments… More surprising and complicated is the wonderous
layout (anatomy) of God-created leaf: petiole, midrib, lateral veins,
sublateral veins, terminal veins, borders…
The objects in this world are the evidence of that Great Thief’s
dermatoglyphics (Palm lines). (We see his palm prints and fingerprints
in all objects of the universe.) As the thief remains in hiding, The
Great Thief -Svāmi-is also in hiding. Vedas say repeatedly that the
Thief of all thieves hides in the cave (the cave of the heart).