THE WORLD HAILS TAMIL

THE WORLD HAILS TAMIL FROM THE BOOK THE WORLD HAILS TAMIL BY MU.TIRUVENGADAM

MOST ELABORATE, INFLUENTIAL The Saiva Siddhanta system is the most elaborate, influential and most intrinsically valuable and undoubtedly valuable of all religions of India. It is peculiarly the South Indian and Tamil religion; and must be studied by everyone who hopes to understand the influence of the great South Indian People. DR. GEORGE UGLOW POPE

MERITS OF GREAT ANTIQUITY There is no school of thought, and no system of faith or worship that comes to us with anything like the claims of Saiva Siddhanta. The system possesses the merits of great antiquity. REV W GOWDIE

CLEVEREST OF HUMAN THOUGHT "The philosophical system of Saiva Siddhanta, a system which may be ranked arnong the most perfect and cleverest of human thought". DR. KAMIL ZVELEBIL

PRE-HISTORICAL RELIGION Saivaism is the old pre-historical religion of South India, essen tially existing from pre-Aryan times, and holds sway over the hearts of Tamil people. But this great attempt to solve the problems of God, and soul, humanity, nature, evil, suffering and unseen world, has never been expounded in English. Its text-books exist in Tamil only. DR. GEORGE UGLOW POPE

HEIR TO ALL THAT IS MOST ANCIENT In the religious world the Saiva system is the heir to all that is most ancient in South India. It is the religion of Tamil people by the side of which every other form is comparatively foreign and recent origin. REV W GOWDIE

PRODUCT OF INTELLECT Saiva Siddhanta philosophy is the choicest and product of the Dravidian intellect. DR. GEORGE UGLOW POPE

MOST COPIOUS, REFINED, POLISHED The school of Bhakti ... Saiva, which is one of those most sincere and passionate efforts of man to grasp the Absolute; and its supreme literary expression in the works of  Manikkavasagar, Tirugnana Sambandar are among the most remarkable contributions of the Tamil creative genius to the world's cultural treasure. DR. KAMIL ZVELEBIL

INNER ESSENCE OF INDIAN CULTURE "If Kali, Siva, and Vishnu are not Vedic deities and certainly they are not, they can hardly be Aryan, there seems no other possible ~lternative than to suppose they are Dravidian."The worship of Kali, of Siva, of Vishnu, of Parvathi the consort, ~d of Subramania and Ganesa, sons of Siva and of Krishna the last incarnation of Vishnu, these things are not mere alien and unimpor tant accretions to an Indian culture of Aryans and Vedic origin; they are of the inner most essence of Indian culture. DR. GILBERT SLATER.

HIGH WATER MARK OF INDIAN LIFE "As a system of religious thought as an expression of faith and life, the Saiva Siddhanta is by for the best that South India possesses. Indeed it would not be rash to include the whole of India and to maintain that judged by it intrinsic merits, the Saiva Siddhanta rep resents the high water mark of Indian life." REV W GOWDIE

BEYOND ANY OTHER FORM The largeness of its following, as well as in regard to the antiquity of some of its elements the Saiva Siddhanta is beyond any other form. The rligion of the Tamil people and ought to the studied by by all Tamil missionares. REV W GOWDIE

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