Ramalingam : (1823-74), poet-saint of South India; he developed an eclectic mystical philosophy & wrote Tamil prose of epic grandeur.
... may deny any presaging likeness to the Aurobindonian goal in the body of light which the songs of the nineteenth century's South-Indian saint Ramalingam describe. Griffiths has written an Introduction to a full-length biography and interpretation of Ramalingam by G. Vanmikanathan, 3 who argues that the Saint's celebration of a "golden body", won by him and enjoying deathless life or immortality, is... Creed! — 5 or from a proclamation by Ramalingam like: The talk of the adepts and the Jeewan-mukthas is about me. What have I to do any more in this reviling world? All the miseries of birth and death have vanished from today! 6 What can legitimately be said by Griffiths is that the Vedantic mukti is not all in all in Ramalingam. Then his objection would be both correct... correct and salutary. However, he errs in taking the Saint too literally. He overlooks the fact that Ramalingam speaks of "the primeval Civam", who is "transcendental Brahman", 7 having a "golden body" and of Ramalingam "embracing" it and, as a result of that "moment" of "union", becoming "transformed into the form of eternal bliss that is Civam". 8 Here is indeed something ignored by Vanmikanathan, ...
... may deny any presaging likeness to the Aurobindonian goal in the body of light which the songs of the nineteenth century's South-Indian saint Ramalingam describe. Griffiths has written an Introduction to a full-length biography and interpretation of Ramalingam by G. Vanmikanathan, 3 who argues that the Saint's celebration of a "golden body", won by him and enjoying deathless life or immortality, is... Creed! 5 or from a proclamation by Ramalingam like: The talk of the adepts and the Jeewan-mukthas is about me. What have I to do any more in this reviling world? All the miseries of birth and death have vanished from today! 6 What can legitimately be said by Griffiths is that the Vedantic mukti is not all in all in Ramalingam. Then his objection would be both correct... correct and salutary. However, he errs in taking the Saint too literally. He overlooks the fact that Ramalingam speaks of "the primeval Civam", who is "transcendental Brahman", 7 having a "golden body" and of Ramalingam "embracing" it and, as a result of that "moment" of "union", becoming "transformed into the form of eternal bliss .that is Civam". 8 Here is indeed something ignored by Vanmikanathan, a ...
... phenomenon that will try to crystallize once again after Mother's departure. ) I have something about this Tamil Swami who had that experience of the body's transformation.... You remember this Swami Ramalingam who had that vision of the "Grace-Light"? You made a few remarks, part of which I passed on to the person who had asked the question.... And I've raised a storm. Oh, why? Not with this good... collective possibility—that is precisely Sri Aurobindo's and Mothers work: to establish, as a terrestrial fact and a possibility for everyone, the supramental consciousness or 'Grace-Light' as Swami Ramalingam called it." Satprem Ah, what made him indignant is the mixing of the two, "Grace-Light" and "supramental light".... I didn't say it was the same thing. Anyway, it doesn't matter.... It would... light. It's ONE of the actions of the supramental light. But it doesn't matter. So A. says this: Page 269 "Dearest Mother, regarding certain translations of poems of Swami Ramalingam by his disciple T., you answered him through Satprem in such a way that he was led to equate Ramalingam's 'Grace-Light' and the supramental Consciousness.... Yes, I wouldn't have done that ...
... view A Vision of Swami Ramalingam It was by a rare virtue (Punya) that on the first day of Tamil month Thai (14-1-1978), I had a continuous Vision between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in my usual meditation in the night. The vision of dematerialization of the physical body of Swami Ramalingam into and as the Truth-Light of Supreme Grace which contains or... ever increasing aspiration for Grace. At the center of the village was seen a small house in its purity and peace. Sweet Fragrance of Grace radiated everywhere from the house. Vallalar (Swami Ramalingam) , the Great Munificent, was seen entering the house. His face was calm and peaceful. He was seen as the very embodiment of Compassion and his body was filled with the Fire of Tapas of Truth-Con... s experiences were translated from Tamil by T.R.Thulasiram. Source: Arut perum Jyothi & Deathless Body, vol I Reference in Mother's Agenda 1970 .... It seems that a Tamil yogi [Swami Ramalingam] of this region, who lived around 1850, had experiences, which he described in a poem and appear rather connected.... Experiences of the transformation of the skeleton, bones, etc. It's a Tamilian ...
... down the stairs as well as ascending, he had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature. Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body ...
... 1970 Someone sent me a letter on the body's transformation, if you are interested. Page 254 Let's see.... It seems that a Tamil yogi [Swami Ramalingam] of this region, who lived around 1850, had experiences, which he described in a poem and appear rather connected.... Experiences of the transformation of the skeleton, bones, etc. It's a Tamilian ...
... worldings, but of the serious seekers of the Spirit. A glorious future looms before mankind, and the Earth has a most magnificent rôle to play in it. The prophecies of many seers and saints—Ramakrishna, Ramalingam, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, to name only a representative few—about the birth of powerful Yogins in India and a general spiritual renaissance in humanity only confirm and substantiate the persistent ...
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