Chapter 1: In Praise of God

 

Chapter 1: In Praise of God

MUTHUMANI MUTHUSUBRAMANYAM·THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The sum and substance of the first chapter of 10 couplets:

God is there.  It is imperative for humans to think, praise and pray to God.  God is denoted and described by the following adjective phrases (Translated by G. U. Pope) : 1.  Primal Deity/Eternal God 

2.  Purely Wise One/Him who is possessed of pure knowledge 

3. Who Over the Full Blown Flower Hath Past / Him who passes swiftly over the flower of the mind

4.  Whom  want affects not, irks not grief /Him who is void of desire or aversion 

5.  Him who has destroyed the five desires of the senses 

6.  Him who is incomparable 

7.  That gracious being who is a sea of virtue

8.  He who is possessed of eight attributes.

The benefits and good of praising and praying to God are listed as:Those who think of God will have good life, will not feel difficulties in life, will not be affected by good or bad happenings, will live long, will have solutions to life’s problems, will be free of guilty conscience, will swim the sea of life.

MUTHUMANI MUTHUSUBRAMANYAM·FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Simple paraphrase of the first 10 couplets (In Praise of God) as expounded by Rev. G. U. Pope

Couplet No.  Paraphrase/Teaching

1.  Defines the nature of God and the relationship between God and World.

  As all letters have the letter A for their first, so the world has the eternal God for its first.

2.  God being the One with pure knowledge, the purpose of learning is to think and bow to God

3.  They who are united to the glorious feet of Him who occupies swiftly the flower of the mind, shall flourish in the highest of worlds (heaven).

4.   To those who meditate the feet of Him who is void of desire or aversion, evil shall never come.

5.   The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God.

6.   Those shall long proposer who abide in the faultless way of Him who has destroyed the five desires of the senses.

7.   Anxiety of mind cannot be removed, except from those who are united to the feet of Him who is incomparable.

8.   None can swim the sea of vice, but those who are united to the feet of that gracious Being who is a sea of virtue.

9.   The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation.

10.   None can swim the great sea of births but those who are united to the feet of God.