Samarasa Suddha Sanmargam – The Universal Path
Swami lived in the midst of people, healing their ailments and teaching them the principles of Samarasa Suddha Sanmargam which is a happy combination of service to fellow beings and spiritual experience. The path of suddha sanmargam is not a new religion but it wants one not to be confined within the limits of any one religion but to reach high spiritual realms, shedding all difference of caste, creed, religion, nationality etc, and to experience the Ultimate reality.
Principles Of Samarasa Suddha Sanmargam
- Universal Brotherhood
- The Right Of All Souls For Integration Through Soul Love
- Arutperunjothi’ The Unique One Common Reality
- One Become The Embodiment Of Grace
- Compassionate Service To All Fellow Beings
Aspects of Compassionate service
- True Love for God
- Worship through service
- Salvation through service
- Non-killing and not taking flesh
The main aim of Suddha Sanmargam is to insist on one’s getting educated in the art of deathlessness. The ultimate ideal of human existence is enjoying the everlasting bliss of the supreme Divine by equipping oneself in a body free from disease, aging, decay and death.Swami states that ‘the various religious spread to this day, yet the people of the world were dead and entered in to darkness. Take my order to spread the common path of Suddha Sanmargam’. To establish Suddha Sanmargam, he founded in the year 1865 a guild of devotees called Samarasa Suddha Sanmarga Sathya sangam. His call to the people to follow in the Suddha Sanmargam is in the form of inviting men to join the ‘Sanmarga Sangam’.
Swami opened Sathya Dharmasalai – House of charity in the year 1867 for the feeding of the poor and the hungry inviting the people to express to their fellow-beings and creatures compassion which is the Grace of one’s soul for meriting the Greater Grace of the Divine for their realization. The feeding is continuously done everyday since from the day of its inception.
Swami had a clear perception of the purpose of his life on the earth. He rewards the ideal briefly and clearly. His was to reform all the worldly whose life was lacking in the harmony between thought and deed and make them to join “Sanmarga Sangam” in order to attain the Divine here and now. He declared that God earmarked his life for this purpose. Through the Sangam, Swami awakened the people to the oneness of spiritual brotherhood and to the foolishness of man in consenting to death. He said, “By an error the people have consented to die and His Sangam is out for annihilation of death itself”.
In the significant year 1872, Swami built a symbolic shrine of worship called “Sathya Gnana Sabha” – The Hall of Wisdom in honor and respect of Arutperunjothi – The God of Vast Grace Light.
SANMARGA FLAG & MAHAMANTHRA
Swami attained the unitive knowledge of the ultimate reality. He unfurled the flag of his Sanmarga Sangam on 22-10-1873 marking the day as its effective beginning and also gave the Mahamanthra of Arutperunjothi Andavar – the Effulgence Supreme by Divine Sanction to the disciples. ARUTPERUNJOTHI ARUTPERUNJOTHI THANIPERUNGKARUNAI ARUTPERUNJOTHI This means the realization of the existence of Supreme Grace Light all over. In the words it means the direct perception of and coming into communion with Omnipresence, Supreme Grace Light.
Identification Method
The most important factor of the experience of the grace light is our Swami’s feeling of his identification with the Lord. In the bliss consequent on this experience Swami sings that the Lord made him one with himself.
“I become that”
In another poem Swami says that the Lord sublimated him in to divinity.
“My Lord, today you have shown yourself to be within me and me to be within you and thus removed my suffering and done me good.”
In one of his poems Swami describes how the lord, merging in his body, bones, heart, loves, compassion, soul and intellect make the whole of him as Himself. Thus our Swami had physically union with Lord.
SANMARGA FLAG & MAHAMANTHRA
Swami attained the unitive knowledge of the ultimate reality. He unfurled the flag of his Sanmarga Sangam on 22-10-1873 marking the day as its effective beginning and also gave the Mahamanthra of Arutperunjothi Andavar – the Effulgence Supreme by Divine Sanction to the disciples. ARUTPERUNJOTHI ARUTPERUNJOTHI THANIPERUNGKARUNAI ARUTPERUNJOTHI This means the realization of the existence of Supreme Grace Light all over. In the words it means the direct perception of and coming into communion with Omnipresence, Supreme Grace Light.
- Swami wrote Arutperunjothi Agaval poem here.
- For the first time swami hoisted Sanmarga flag bearing yellow and white colors at the front of the Siddhivalagam on 22/10/1873 and addressed the people ‘The Great Sermon’.
- Swami started light worship as a common altar for all the people in the world.
- Swami transfigured his physical body into a deathless immortal body.
- On 30-01-1874 swami merged with the Divine in the holy room inside siddhivalaagam.
- On the third day of Thaipoosam festival, Thiruvarai – the Holy Room inside Siddhivalaagam is opened for public Dharshan. Thousands of people worship the Holy room to get Swamis benediction.
Started in the year 1867 by Swami Vallalar and been serving food to the poor and needy non-stop
Swami explains in a poem that he prayed to the Lord for a deathless and indestructible eternal body which cannot be subjected to death by the elements of Nature, by disease, by god of death, by planets or planetary infuences nor by weapons of death, nor by any other violent actions of others, nor by any other means whatsoever and the lord quickly gave him such a body and the Swami entreats the people to seek Arutperunjothi – the God of Vast Grace-Light. There are three stages in the attainment of Immortality. One is the transfiguration of the physical tenement into that of purity. Another is the transfiguration of the pure body into that of gold and light. The final one is the transfiguration of gold body into that of wisdom. This gradual transfiguration of the bodies signifies the Immortality attained and expounded by our Swami. On most of the days, Swami never used to take any food either in any solid or liquid form. Even in the absence of these, he was founded to be ever busy as in the early days. A photographer tried his best to have his photo but never succeeded in his attempt. The above instances clearly prove that though he was seen in the physical body, yet it had undergone changes, which cannot be perceived by materialists.
“Oh my King, my Lord, my mother, my father, all in one, you removed all the inner veils, thereby bringing me to the perception of things unknown to me so far and have given me the experience in the “great intellectual space of Grace” which has caused me bliss. I take refuge with thee”, etc.
So saying, Swami took out the lamp which was kept in his room, placed it outside and directed his followers to consider it as the God of real worship following the path of Love and kindness towards all living beings and there by attain the Bliss he got.
On 30.01.1874 our Swami locked himself inside the room he used to occupy and expressed his desire that none should venture to open it. He also added that if the Government authorities persist to open it, let them be convinced of his desire of not opening it and it is opened, the room will be found vacant, since from that moment itself, he will enter the soul of every one and lead them to the right path of Grace. These utterances proved to be final. Hundreds of devotees and the authorities too were there when Swami went in disappeared bodily. Thus Swami Thiruvarutprakasa Vallalar, the eldest son of the Almighty, Arutperunjothi has become the Immortal Saint of Divine love who brought the whole world under a common altar of light worship. He foresaw a new humanity pulsating with love and benevolence. His ideas of immortality or deathless life of man is based on sound scientific principles with Supramental experience.
Vegeterianism – Seeing The God In All Living Beings
“To kill a being to appease the hunger of another being with meat is not at all following the policy of showing compassion to living beings and it doesn’t have the approval of God and is completely against these; all living beings are part and parcel of the Natural truth and are the place for the manifestation of Grace which is God’s Natural Manifestation; when God’s Natural Manifestation gets veiled, life’s nature will not be there, God’s natural manifestation and life’s natural manifestation are not contrary to each other; God’s natural manifestation and life’s manifestation reveal themselves in each and everybody; therefore, it should be understood that to kill a being to appease the hunger of another being is fully against the policy of showing compassion to all living beings’’. -Swami Vallalar
“GOD IN ALL BEINGS”
It is our conviction that all life forms are manifestations of God in the lower level of evolution and that human birth itself is a step forward from past existence to animal form. The difference between man and animals was only in terms of tattvas (principles) and gunas (qualities). Thus human life is precious because it is attained after many levels of existence in lower form. If the value of such an opportunity is ignored he will only degenerate into lower level again. This belief continues even today among the Pious. Not merely that. The devout person has a sense of gratitude towards all beings that help out in his existence. He respects all beings as himself. Each one of us can help prevent animals from killing simply by choosing vegetarian food. ‘Vegetarian diets can meet all the recommendation for nutrients’.
One of the main goal of our Mission is to propagate the benefits of Vegetarianism by giving pamphlets, books, showing visual demonstration amongst the public.
” On 30-01-1874 Swami Vallalar merged with the Divine inside this holy room “
