शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

20 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
that underlies the Tamil equivalents of vowel and consonant (உயிர்
மெய்).
The embodied soul or mind is the உயிர்மெய்.
(அ 'a') is the soul (K 'க்') is the human body. In (க)
embodied soul we see only the (body) consonant and not the
vowel (soul). (அ 'a') again is God ; 'க்' 'K' is the soul;
In 'க்' 'K' Human Soul, we see only the consonant (soul) and not
the vowel (God though) you will realise both when you pro-
nounce it (attain Gnanam).
God is the Life (உயிர்) and the Soul is His body and not a
particle of The Life, (God) nor a spark from it, nor its reflection
nor shadow nor the imagined silver in the oyster shell. In the
latter case the soul is either a nonentity or there is no difference
in kind or substance though there may be a difference in
quantity or quality. In the former case, there is a difference in
substance but an identity in fact as the two exist together.
(c). Sakti literally means power. And the Sakti of the Lord
is therefore His Energy or Power, His Will and His Light or Grace
or Knowledge. Hence we have Three forms of Sakti, Kriya
Sakti, Itcha Sakti, and Gnana Sakti, or Arul Sakti. God by his
first two Powers evolves the universe from their undifferentiated
condition. By the last He links the whole world to Himself. It
is the Arul Sakti which connects God and Man. It is this Gnana
Sakti which gives life to inanimate beings, harmony to things
without harmony and to each and everything its peculiar beauty
or taste or brightness. Without It everything else would be void,
lifeless, actionless and darksome. This Life of Life, This Light
of Light, This Chit Sakti is not the Light which Mr. Subba Row
says enters some mechanism and becomes converted into a Human
monad, man, and then becomes clothed with all the laws of Karma,
&c., (Notes to Bag pp. 16 and 17). If so, what is it worth? Nor
is Mr. Subba Row's Ishwara which he derives in a mysterious