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Supreme basic principle of the universe, but who, finding at last their efforts fruitless, gave them up in despair, and took to preaching what they deemed best under such circumstances; so long the humanity can have no true conception of the Personality of God, nor can they know anything definite of Him to fix their mind upon. Without a form physical or ideal before him, man will never be able to think of God in the true sense of the term. It is this necessity of his nature that makes him create from his crude imagination a multitude of fantestic form and ascribe them to God. But God has a personality of his own which man can never perceive, unless God himself appears before him and reveals it by His grace. In the case of St.Manickavachakar and St. Thirujnana Sambandar we have strong internal evidence in their hymns to establish that God appeared before them in the form of a respledent person uniting in itself the rose-coloured side of the father and the blue coloured side of the mother. I have given a scientific treatment of this dual aspect of Godhead in my paper on 'The conception of God as Rudra' and so I do not like to enter again into this subject in a preface like this. To the reader it will be now plain how clear/ how definite has been the manifestation of God's Personality, it would be better for mankind to meditate on His gracious form that revealed itself to Manickavachakar and is described by him in vivid and unambiguous words. For it is plainly laid down in the Isavasyopanished that those who worship the forms and images of their own make mistaking them for the real Person of God, enter, at their death, into the regions of blinding darkness. Therefore let those who hanker after the salvation of their souls, accomplish it by a whole- hearted devotion of their mind to the contemplation of the one Almightly Parent of the universe as He is depicted in the Sacred Utterances of St.Manickavachakar.
Now, with the object of presenting the life of Manickavachakar in the form in Which it discloses itself incidentally in his own hymns addressed to Lord Siva, I Studied his "Thiruvachakam' and
