The Eighteen LIberal Arts and the Eighteen LIberal Sciences are so called because they have the power to Liberate, to grant Self Actualisation. For eg – Advaita Siddhiiki Amaratna Labdiki, Music can give the Ultimate Non Dual Experience and can grant Immortality or Self Actualisation !
Indian Music is a Confluence of 3 Sciences, the Science of Lyrics, the Science of Instrumental Music and the Science of Dance – Geetham Vadyam thadha Nrittam trayam sangeetham uchyathe !
Chandas is the Science of Prosody, of Poetic Meters, which they say , is the Feet of the Veda Purusha, the Absolute Self as Wisdom Eternal, Chandau Pada Shabdsastram cha Vaktram !
Buddha and Sankara thought the world to be false and miserable, and escape from it was the only wisdom. Auro contradicted this stance. Why ? Because the world is Brahm, the world is Self, the world is Ananda. If so, why there is so much sorrow in this world ? It is due to our senseless attachment to the sensory world !
May I not be bound by females, as the male elephant, loses his virility, when he comes in touch with his feminine counterpart, Ma baddhsaym tharunyam – Narayaneeyam
I will learn from that Thou Art an Invariable, from the Sun, Who is One and Invariable, though its hundred thousands reflections shine in ponds many ! The Poet Melpathur
Victoriorus are they / The Blissful Self Actualised Poets / Aas their famebody knoweth/,Neither diseases nor Death / Jayanti te sukruthino / rasa siddha Kaveeswara / Nasti Tesham Yasakaye Jara Maranajam Bhayam
