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Respected Swamins/Bhagavathas,
Iam giving below some of my reflections on
Nammazhwar's paasuram no 1, 2nd pathu, 2nd Tirumozhi.
Thinnan veedu mudal muzhuthumai,
ENNin Miithiyan emperuman;
...........................
The eNN (in Tamil) means (1) to think (2) numeral
or counting or Mathematics as seen from Tamil verses
like eNNum ezhuththum kannanethagum
.
>From the books giving the meaning of paasurams it
is seen that Nammazhwar refers the countless
kalyagunaas of the Lord by the eNNin. The second
meaning is Numerals or Sankhya. Sankhya also means 
right knowledge (samyakh jnana).
The sankhya system is predominantly intellectual and
theoritical. Yoga means action and tells us how the
theory of the Sankhya can be put into practice. Thus
Sankhya-Yoga forms one complete system It is also the
philosophy of numbers, because it deals with 25
categories or tattvams. It might have influenced the
Phythogorian philosophy, because 25 is 5 squared
which is 4 squared plus 3 squared.
The 25 principles of Sankhya are 1) Moola Prakriti
2)Mahat(Buddhi,intellect) (3) Ahankara (ego,
ego-sense) 4to 8 Tanmattraas or transitory states 9to
13 Pancha Bhutaas from tanmattraas (14) Mind 15 to 19
five jnanendriyaas 20 to 24 five karmendriyaas
25.Jeevathma.
Thirumazhai Azhwar also refers to the 24 tattvas
in his paasurams 3 and 77 of his Thiruchantavrittam

Sri Mukkur says in his Kuraiyonrumillai Part II 
Page 64. From the three that is prakriti,mahat and
ahankara, evolved the pancha tanmattraas, pancha Maha
Bhutaas, the pancha karmendriyaas, and pancha
jnanendriyaas. Manas or mind is above all these 
tattavaas. The total of these is 24. Jeevathma is the
25th. Paramatma is the 26th.
Paramatma says "I am separate from the 24
tattvams and also from the 25th tattvam." Hence
Nammazhwar says, "Count 1,2,3 etc or meditate or
reflect or contemplate and He will appear".
One more interesting point--the letter ma in ohm
refers to Jeevaatma, which incidentally is the 25th
letter counted from ka, kha, ga, gha etc.
Dasan, T.S. Rajagopalan. 




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