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SYNOPSIS

Origin of Tirumandhiram
Background of Tirumular
Crux of Tirumandhiram
Value and Ethics of
Thirumandhiram
Tirumandhiram in
Management Dimension
Lessons to be learned :
Personal and Professional

Origin of
Thirumandhiram &
Ashram communities would send out
Background
members in response toof
the needs of
the world, pilgrims who would travel
Tirumular
by foot, taking the Eternal Truths to

be taught.
Rishis travelled throughout the known
world in those early days, spreading
the Sanatana Dharma, Saivism.
Saint Tirumular was such a Himalayan
rishi, a siddhar sent on mission to
South India to spread
the purest teachings of Saivism to the
people there.
Rishi Sundaranatha, which was his
name before

 he was sent to the South, had to walk all the

way. Along the way he halted near the
village of Tiruvavaduthurai where he found
the body of a cowherd who had died in the
fields.
The milk cows were wandering around
aimlessly, lamenting the death of their
master whom they loved.
The sight moved Rishi Sundaranatha deeply,
inspiring him to relieve the anguish of the
cows.
Leaving his physical body hidden in a hollow
log, Rishi Sundaranatha used his siddhis or
yogic powers to enter and revive the lifeless
body of Mulan that was the cowherd's
name.
He comforted and cared for the cattle and
led them back to the village. Returning to
the fields he was unable to find his original

 The Rishi was deeply perplexed, and he

sat in meditation to come to some
understanding of these strange
happenings. Through his spiritual insight
he discerned that it was Lord Siva
Himself who had taken his body, leaving
him to live thereafter in the body of the
Tamil cowherd.
Accepted Sivas will and was thereafter
called , Tirumular, or the holy Mular.
He stayed there and recorded the
wisdom of the Upanishads and Saiva
Agamas in the local language, Tamil.
Settled down near Chidambaram,where
he worshipped near a Banyan
tree,began composing Tirumantiram.
He would break his meditation to speak
a single Tamil verse which gives the
substance for that particular years

Crux of
Thirumanthiram has a section called Paayiram and nine
Tirumandhiram
subsections
called Thanthiram.

With 232 chapters of a total of 3100 verses, this is the sole

known Tamil scripture.
The author Thirumoola Nayanar is one of the 63 Nayanmarkal
who contributed Saiva Literature to the Tamil language.
The theme of Thirumanthiram is called Saiva Sidhantham,
with its three basic factors of,
Pathi or God,
Pasu or living beings and
Pasam or the three human bonds called Aanavam,
Kanmam, and
Maayai.
Besides these Saivite principles this work also highlights
common ideals like love, grace, non-permanence, non-killing
and denial of meat.
The famous dictum of Onre Kulam Oruvane Devan is
from this book conveying the oneness of God and the
singularity of human-beings.

Values and Ethics

Beliefs create attitudes
It is very important to remember that
what a person
is taught to believe
creates his or her attitudes toward
others and toward the world.
Confidence
Proceed with confidence. Enjoy it.
Study it. Meditate upon it. Let it become
a part of your inner life, of your
understanding of God, man and world.
Study it. Meditate upon it.
Moral observances
Development of purity,
contentment, introspection, and selfsurrender.

Tirumandhiram in
Management dimension
Kriya practice is one in which the five
elements, in addition to the mind, intellect
and ego, are gradually dissolved into a
broader consciousness. This state the
yogis call samadhi.
Restraint from Violence, dishonesty, theft.
one progresses in the practice of physical
postures, control of the breath, withdrawal
of the senses, ultimately reaching a
capacity for focused attention on a single
object.
When the breath is irregular, the mind
wanders, but when the breath is under
control, the mind is also under control.
Because of this, the fully realized Yogis

Lessons to be learnt:
Personal