"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
This book is a thematic extraction from a larger research work “Kim tat Brahma (What is That Brahman)?” which is roughly around 4000+ pages (split across multiple volumes) is honestly speaking, a humble yet sincere attempt on an unbiased holistic inter-disciplinary research involving traditional schools of philosophies (oriental and occidental) and modern science in unravelling the mysteries of nature and discovering the supreme divinity which is the infinite dimensional pure absolute non-dualistic singularity that underlies the infinite varieties observed not only in the phenomenal world, but is also the ultimate truth hidden behind all the philosophical perspectives. The present volume provides a detailed inquiry into the spiritual significance of the legends around Lord Murugan, His incarnation, birth and festivals analyzing it from various original sources ancient Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures including Vedas, Agamas/Agamas, Epics, Puranas, Tamil Sangam Literature, Tamil Bhakti Literature, Siddha Literature, Saiva Siddhanta as well ascomparative analysis from modern science and other religions as well. Wherever possible there is a very comprehensive quotation from these sources in its original language as well as an English transliteration and translation (from scholars) of the same. I strongly believe this book will greatly help for Indology research scholars and Murugan devotees.
Shankar Santhamoorthy
Sri Shankar Santhamoorthy who lives in Chennai. is a software engineer by profession with 20+ years of industry experience in Information Technology consulting. But outside official work, from personal front, he is a humble spiritual seeker very passionately involved in the quest on God. From his collage days (25+ years), he has been privately learning and researching on Indological studies particularly on comparative Indian philosophies. He strongly believes in an holistically integral spiritual quest embracing a multi-disciplinary research integrating different schools of spiritual wisdom with modern scientific knowledge. To this end, he has been parallelly pursuing studies of different schools of philosophy including Kevaladvaita Vedanta,
Vishistadvaita, Dvaita, Shaiva Siddhanta, Trika Shaivism etc. He is also a humble devotee who
loves pilgrimages.
