Thayumanavar biography of mahatma

For The 1938 film, see Thayumanavar (1938 film).

Thayumanavar or Tayumanavar (Tamil: தாயுமானவர்Tāyumānavar) (1705–1744) was a Tamil spiritual philosopher from Tamil Nadu, India.

Thayumanavar articulated the Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. He wrote several Tamil hymns of which 1454 are available. His first four songs were sung 250 years ago at the Congress of Religions in Tiruchirappalli.

Thayumanavar was a respected scholar in both Sanskrit and Tamil and was a minister to the King in Trichinopoly in South India.

Voice of Thayumanavar is a great achievement.

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Gandhi seldom mentions Thayumanavar (–), or even Kumaraguruparar, who belonged to seventeenth century, and took Tamil Saiva Siddhanta.

The ubiquitous religious shrines of Mysore are a constant reminder of the many great saints of South India.

His poems follow his own mystical experience, but they also outline the philosophy of Hinduism, and the Tirumandiram by Saint Tirumular in its highest form, one that is at once devotional and nondual, one that sees God as both immanent and transcendent.

Thayumanavar's key teaching is to discipline the mind, control desires and meditate peacefully. He went on to say that "it is easy to control an elephant, catch hold of the tiger's tail, grab the snake and dance, dictate the angels, transmigrate into another body, walk on water or sit on the sea; but it is more difficult to contr