* தமிழர் மதம்
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Whether this hope of his will prove fruitful or will turn out to be a mere dream depends upon whether or not the realization of an ever-flowing source of infinite joy and bliss attainable. Inner as the experience of a pleasurable feeling is, in order to excite it every sentient being stands in indispensable need of a contact with an outer object. For instance, the feeling of sweet taste cannot be kindled unless a sweet thing, say an orange fruit or sugar, be brought close to one's tongue and palate. Similarly, for the enjoyment of each and every kind of pleasure, man necessarily needs the contact of objects that can severally excite one and all. Now and again he clearly perceives that no object of this earth is capable enough to kindle in him the kind of pleasure at once permanent and unaccompanied by pain. Then, if there should be an infinite being as the inexhaustible source of an infinite pleasure-the existence of such a being is necessarily presupposed in the conception of the very finite as its contrast and correlate-then the hope of effecting a union of his self with that Supreme Self would find itself completely realized.
Strongly convinced therefore of the existence of such an infinite being, the acute intelligence and the highly developed instincts of the ancinet Tamils anxiously set out to search for the principle in which it could reside in a way perceptible to the outer and inner vision of man. And in their quest of this source they finally succeeded in feeling it in the light and heat of the blazing fiery bodies. Light and heat are pure spiritual energies since the modern science has not proved them to be either matter or material energies. In the view of Tamil Saints and Sages, God is not a transcendent being but a being of supreme love who is ever near to his creation, to his created beings human and animal; he resides in and out of their substance and every thing lives, moves and has its being in him, in him alone. Before the creation of hot and resplendent bodies such as the sun and stars - each star being a sun millions of times bigger than our own sun, how the universe was, whether it was bright or dark, is quite unimaginable; and so far as our knowledge goes no
