The Thirumanthiram (Translation and Commentary)
author: T.N. Ganapathy
edition: 2013, Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Trust
pages: 3832
ISBN-10: 1895383617
ISBN-13: 9781895383614
Topic: Shaivism
The Character of the Soul
This chapter describes The Character of the Soul located on page 2199 in the English translation of the The Thirumanthiram (Translation and Commentary) [also: Tirumantiram, Tirumandiram etc.]. This book by Siddha Tirumular (Thirumoolar) deals with Shaiva literature (such as the Agamas) and, being encyclopedic in form, also deals with topics such as spiritual wisdom, Yoga, Indian philosophy and Tantra. This is Chapter 27 part of "Tandiram (Thandhiram) 7"
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “The Character of the Soul” according to 243 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Brahma Sutras (Ramanuja) [by George Thibaut]
—The teacher Jaimini holds that the soul manifests itself in its Brahman character, i. e. in a character constituted by freedom from sin, and so on. These latter attributes are, in the text of the small lotus, mentioned as belonging to Brahman (Ch. Up. VIII, 1, 5), and may hence be referred to as the Brahman character. And that this Brahman character is the character of the released soul also follows from suggestion and the rest....
Read full contents: Sutra 4.4.5
Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda) [by Rajendralala Mitra]
“It may be urged that the soul is more subtile than the first principle, but, though it is true that the characterless (alinga or Prakriti) is more subtile than the characterised, still the same cannot be the case with the soul, since the soul is not the material but the instrumental cause of character, and therefore the utmost limit of subtility must rest with the First Principle. ”] He now points out the necessity for these mental conditions....
Read full contents: Sutra 1.45
Padarthadharmasamgraha and Nyayakandali [by Ganganatha Jha]
(* 1) Henceforth we shall translate the word ‘atma by the word ‘soul ; as in the sense of the Jivatma at any rate, ‘soul is more easily intelligible to English readers than ‘self....
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[The Thirumanthiram (Translation and Commentary): index]
[Foreword]
[Preface]