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BY: ATHIBAN BOSE

Biography of Vallalar

• Period : 1823- 1874.

• Born : 5-10-1823.

• Death : 30-1-1874.

• Native : Marudur, (Chitamparam, Thenarkatu Dist)

• Parents : Ramayapillai, Chinamaiyar (6 th wife)

• Brothers : Sapapathi pillai, Parasurama pillai.

• Sisters : Sundaram Ammaiyar, Unamalai Ammaiyar.

Biography of Vallalar • Original Name : Ramalingam.

• Special Name : Thiruarutpirakasavallalar.

• Living Places : Chennai 1825 - 1858. Karunguli 1858 - 1867. Vadalur 1867 - 1870. Metukuppam 1870 - 1874.

• Prose work : Manumuraikanda vasakam.

Jevakarunyaolugam

.• Text work : Olivilotukam 1851. Thondamandala sathakam 1855. Chinmayathipigai 1857.

Biography of Vallalar

Founder of : : Sanmarkasangam 1865. Sathiyatharumasalai 1867. Sathiyaganasabai 1872. Sithivalagam 1870.

Vallalar Birth place:

Multiple capabilities about Vallalar

1. Good Orator.2. Scriptwriter.3. Sidha doctor.4. Editor.5. Author.6. Journalist.7. Social Reformer.8. Language Analyst (Tamil).9. The prophet.10. Writer.11. Musician.

Multiple capabilities about Vallalar

• Besides, he was a critic, writer, publisher and commentator and also had knowledge in occultism, alchemy, astrology, and medicine particularly in the nutritional and medical values of herbs and leaves. He was a musician too with a keen musical taste for lyrical songs and he composed lyrics to express, in an easier and popular style, his highest and sublime realizations of the Divine, particularly that of Truth-consciousness (Satya Jnana).

Ramalinga Adigal's Literary works

• As a musician and poet, he composed 5818 poems breathing universal love and peace, compiled into 6 Tirumuraigal, which are all available today as a single book called Thiruvarutpa (tiru-arut-pa, holy book of grace).

• Another work of his is the Manumurai Kanda Vaasagam describing the life of Manu Needhi Cholan.

.• Jeeva Karunya Ozhukkam.

Samarsa sanmarka sangam

• There were innumerable scriptures present in our holy country. All scriptures is about Sanadhana Dharma – Sanmarga only. Our country India is not Hindu Country. It is a holy country which taught to the whole world the Sanadhana dharma and which contains the greatest culture and which gave the teaching to this world so that a man can live as a human and not as animal.

• Here there is no distinction or difference in caste, religion, race or language.

• There is no culture in the world equivalent to the culture present in india.

Samarsa sanmarka sangam

• For the complete humanity our culture – Sanadhana Dharma – Sanmarga is the one which gives one thestate of greatness and divinity.“All are equal” this is our culture. “There is only one race and Only one God” is the truth that our culture conveys.

• EveryPlace is our Place and Everyone are our brother and sisters”. – This is the culture of India.

• Vallalar has conveyed very clearly that the supreme lord is Paramatma and he is present everywhere as supreme divine light and this supreme divine light is ArutPerum Jyothi (Supreme Infinite divine light).This is the truth that is accepted by Vedas, Bible and Koran

Sathya Dharma Salai • Construction of a house to feed the poor. The

main theme of the mission of the saint is to dedicate himself for a selfless service to the human brings at large. It is this higher aspect of every religion to which the saint gives prominence. He holds compassion as the basis of higher spiritual experiences. According to him, he who loves best serves best.

• Vallalar could not bear the agony of people suffering from hunger. So Vallalalr established Sathya Dharma Salai in 1867 at Vadalur to eradicate hunger. This has been feeding the poor, sick and the hungry twice a day for the past 138 years. The Dharmasalai trust has 2830 members and a fixed deposit of two crores of rupees. Saint Ramalinga believed in the immorality of man.

Dharma salai Food for hunger

Sathya Dharma Salai• First he established Dharma Saalai and by using the donations

given by the noble souls he provided free food to lots of people daily.

• Vallalar established Dharma Saalai with the noble intention that people who come to see him and people who seek the supreme lord should never suffer from the disease of hunger. That’s why he build the Dharma Saalai.

• The fire that was started by Vallalar in the stove in Dharma Saalai is still burning and is providing food for all the people who come there.

Sathya Dharma Salai• Construction of a house to feed the poor. The main theme of the

mission of the saint is to dedicate himself for a selfless service to the human brings at large. It is this higher aspect of every religion to which the saint gives prominence. He holds compassion as the basis of higher spiritual experiences. According to him, he who loves best serves best.

• Vallalar could not bear the agony of people suffering from hunger. So Vallalar established SATHYA DHARMA SALAI in 1867 at Vadalur to eradicate hunger. This has been feeding the poor, sick and the hungry twice a day for the past 138 years. The Dharmasalai trust has 2830 members and a fixed deposit of two crores of rupees. Saint Ramalinga believed in the immorality of man.

Siddhi Valaagham• As second Our Vallalar created Siddhi Valaagham. This is the place

where our saint vallalar spent lot of time and did divine research to find out who is philanthropist. For the great Discipline of Sanadhaana Dharma to spread, vallalar who also founded Samarasa Sutha Sanmarga Sathya Sangam gave a flag to Sanmarga Sangam. In his Writing of UraiNadai he has told even the explanation of this flag is also divine wisdom and shows the way for Gnana to the divine seekers.

• Even today we can get the darshan of this holy room in siddhi valaagham where vallalar went inside and locked himself and from where he became divine light and united with the supreme space. Our Vallalar says the significance of this place as “In Siddhi Valaagham I got all the siddhis (divine powers)”.

Satya Gnana sabai• As third the institution that vallalar established by being in front is Sathya Gnana

Sabai. Our vallalar who gave the teaching of divine wisdom through his songs in Thiruvarutpa also established Satya Gnana Sabai for the sake of common people to understand the divine experiences.

• Like other temples Sathya Gnana Sabha doesn’t have any divine images of Gods nor is there any puja that is performed there.

• Sathya Gnana Sabai resembles our head. In the front there are two chambers called as Chirsabai(meaning Small chamber) and Porsabai(meaning golden chamber). In the middle of this two and inside you have Gnana sabai. During the auspicious day of ThaiPoosam in the gnana sabai, screens numbering seven with different colors will be removed and the bigger flame will be shown. This arrangement is made by our vallalar.

• This type of structure is not made by any one else. That’s why instead of calling it a temple he called it as Satya Gnana sabai.

Stamp issued on vallalar

On 17.8.2007 the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu released postage stamp on Vallalar. After that writ petition was submitted against the portrayal of Ramalinga Swamigal with ‘thiruneeru’ (sacred ash) on his forehead. But The Judge gave liberty to the petitioner to raise his objections before the Union Ministry of Communication.

Ramalinga Adigal's disappearance• Ramalingar raised the flag of Brotherhood on his one-room residence Siddhi

Valakam in Mettukuppam on October 22, 1873. He gave his last and most famous lecture, entreating his audience to undertake a spiritual quest and look into the "nature of the powers that lie beyond us and move us," and asking them to meditate on the lighted lamp from his room, which he placed outside.

• Adigal on January 30, 1874, entered the room and locked himself and told his followers not to open it. He said that even if they did open it they would find nothing (United with Nature & ruling the actions of 'all of the alls' - as told in his poem called 'Gnana Sariyai'). His seclusion spurred many rumors, and the Government finally forced the doors open in May. The room was empty, with no clues. The Madras District Gazetteer published by the South Arcot District in 1906 records his disappearance

Government Gazette 1878

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