Thirukalyanam with life

Descending from the sky, in accordance with the actions, and embodying the truth

Placing the revered feet at the forefront

Standing firm, melting seamlessly; an incomparable bliss

The one who stands firm and removes the filth by showing the way. (Thirukkural 113)

Standing resolutely, the great fool

The delicate bud without a mark stands alone

Wisdom alone stood firm in the soul. (Thirukkural 1182)

The term “Thirukkalyanam” can be broken down into “Thiru” (meaning divine) and “Kalyanam” (meaning marriage). It signifies a divine event where the masculine and feminine energies merge completely with body, soul, and spirit, creating an event of ultimate bliss. In human marriages, the mind and body work together, but the soul’s feelings often stay apart from the desires of the flesh. Only for a few do these three elements work together in unison. Upon death, the mind and body are left behind, and the soul departs alone, indicating that living with the soul’s consciousness is rare.

In society, those who live separated from their husbands are termed “unfortunate,” and widows are labeled as “unlucky.” The term for husband, “kanavan,” comes from “kan + avan” (eye + he), indicating that the husband represents the divine eye, which is referred to as the sacred feet, the lotus flower, and many other names by spiritual sages. Throughout life, a person lives with their soul always active, as the divine breath within us is placed by the Lord during a specific stage of fetal development. This breath is not given by our parents but is a divine gift from the Lord.

To explain further, our soul resides in the pineal gland area as light and sound, shining with a mix of white and blue light. This light is like gold, sparkling brilliantly. The divine breath that is placed within us by the Lord is a wondrous white light radiating in all directions, always moving and dancing.

Although this divine light and our soul light coexist within us, they appear separate due to the absence of a universal force that can unite them. This lack of a binding force prevents the soul from merging with the divine, resulting in death. Death is essential for the birth of knowledge; the birth of knowledge ensures the death of ignorance. To merge our soul with the divine within us, a true realization must occur, called union.

This divine wedding is a knowledge ceremony conducted with the grace of the divine feet. After receiving the instruction of supreme knowledge from the true Guru, this divine union continues to occur daily within the seeker. It is an eternal practice of wisdom. Only through the divine feet can one grasp the deity. That’s why even Vishnu and Brahma, despite searching for the head and feet of Shiva, couldn’t find him.

1. First, one must learn to focus the power of vision on the divine feet.
2. The right divine foot should be understood as the right eye, Akara (the first syllable), the sun, Shiva, and Surya fire.
3. Similarly, the left divine foot should be known as the left eye, the moon, Ukara (the second syllable), Shakti, and Soma fire.
4. The third divine foot should be known as Makara (the third syllable), Sadasiva, the flame of fire, the Sudarshana Chakra that protects our life, the Sanjeevini herb, and the eternal Shakti.
5. After receiving the supreme knowledge instruction from a true Guru, the Guru opens the locked cave of knowledge with his divine gaze and plants the key to the supreme knowledge cave within the seeker’s life.
6. The seeker who receives this supreme knowledge key must open the supreme knowledge cave daily and continuously gather the wealth of wisdom.
7. To see our life, there is only one true path, which is to receive the divine light of Shiva’s moving light arts. For this, the seeker must be in a state of alertness.
8. This state of alertness must be maintained until the end of the supreme knowledge practice. The seeker’s eyelids must remain unblinking.
9. Whenever the seeker keeps his gaze upward in the supreme knowledge practice, the moon’s nectar pot starts melting. When the gaze lowers or blinks, the nectar pot begins to solidify. Wisdom arises when the nectar melts; ignorance prevails when it solidifies. Therefore, only when the eyes remain unblinking can the seeker touch the nectar pot.
10. One must know where the divine truthful life force within us resides. For that, let’s look at Thirumandiram verse 1780. Come.
    • In the western direction, the teacher placed the meaning, “Always think of me.”
    • The upper part of the body and below the head is where this divine place resides. Open the door.
11. Thus, to continually engage the seeker in the event that can radiate the life as light, the dispersed arts and the supreme sound arts at the center of the divine feet must be united with the supreme sound and the nectar wind.
12. The dispersed and supreme sounds are the two energies of the life light. The Vedas referred to them as Iccha Shakti (the power of will) and Kriya Shakti (the power of action). These two energies are portrayed in stories as the two consorts of the deity. The dispersed energy resides in the right divine foot and the supreme sound in the left divine foot, shining in the golden and silver halls, respectively.
13. Without opening and entering these golden and silver halls, it is impossible to reach the place where our life resides.
14. There are three divine arts in the divine feet: three Shiva arts and three Shakti arts. The seeker must undoubtedly obtain these six light droplets through supreme knowledge practice. These light droplets cannot be obtained in any other way but through practice. If the Guru’s complete blessing and the deity’s grace are bestowed upon the seeker, the light arts emerge from within the bones, melting the nectar.
15. These six light droplets fully manifest with complete power and divine truth in the first time unit (the first 24 minutes) after the nectar wind reaches the earth. During this time, the light droplets worship the life fluid in the seeker’s eye pupil. A seeker with true knowledge and a complete divine thirst will not miss this time unit and will remain seated, unmoving, and unblinking, staring at the divine light before him. This is what Avvaiyar referred to as “seeing the full light on the forehead,” and Thirumoolar called it “the mantra that makes one feel the center of the forehead,” and in Melai Annavi, it is said, “Look quickly at the two feet, the death will vanish, and the door will open.”
16. The three Shiva droplets manifest in the essence of the right divine foot. The other three Shakti droplets manifest in the essence of the left divine foot. These Shiva and Shakti droplets exist as lights. During supreme knowledge practice, the dispersed sound and the supreme sound unite as lights. The seeker can clearly see this with his external eyes.
17. The Shiva droplets will strive to emerge automatically with the nectar wind. At that time, we must remain unblinking. To be precise, during the first half of the first time unit (the first 12 minutes), the Shakti droplets strive to emerge, and during the second half (the second 12 minutes), the Shiva droplets strive to emerge. Here, the Guru’s presence is highly essential for the seeker. Without the Guru’s blessing, neither Shiva nor Shakti emerges. The Guru’s practice power stimulates the life within the seeker. The Guru’s wisdom power draws and unites the Shiva and Shakti light droplets within the supreme knowledge cave.
18. During the first time unit (the first 24 minutes) when the nectar wind arrives, the Shiva-Shakti light droplets guide the nectar wind to the life-holding subtle body. The divine arts that form and manifest within the seeker at this time make the life bloom like a flower, spreading fragrance.
19. This life force that blooms and spreads fragrance is prepared to become the bride for the wedding. All living beings in the world are aspects of the feminine truth. The deity is the only male. When the life blooms and spreads light arts through the nectar wind, supreme sound, and the Shiva-Shakti light droplets, a sandalwood and camphor mixed fragrant scent begins to overflow from the life vessel like a water stream. When the life light blooms and spreads fragrance, at that moment, the divine light near the life light manifests as a lingam, a trident, and a golden body, radiating divine arts and uniting with the life light, beginning to merge.
20. At that great moment, Shiva, as Sadasiva, the form of Satchidananda, begins to bestow the Shiva arts to his consort, Uma Devi, in the form of life. At that moment, all the five senses and the mind, intellect, consciousness, ego, the five vital energies, prana, and apana, all the divine energies unite in the center point of the eye pupil, creating tears of joy, soaking the seeker’s body and generating waves of great ecstatic bliss in every hair follicle and body cell.
21. At that time, the seeker will experience boundless ecstatic feelings throughout the body. The eyes will shrink, and due to the intense divine ecstasy, he will be unable to open or close the eyelids, struggling to bear the ecstatic feelings. At that moment, the divine light near the life light will merge and transform into Shiva light arts. This state is the divine wedding while being alive. Manikkavasagar has sung deeply with supreme knowledge and wisdom experience about this in the Punarcci Patthu (Ten Verses on Union) in the Thiruvasagam.