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them from the very remotest past. For, from the antediluvian compositions such as the Tholkappiam and some lyrics that have outlived the ravages of time, to the works of our own time all the wise men who came in close succession as their authors have praised and worshipped God as the father and mother intimately and inseparably united and the many verses quoted from them in the body of the work will corroborate the truth herein emphasized. But what is the vital point in this conception of God which the Tamil Saints and Sages cherished in their hearts and which distinguishes them from all other wisemen of other countries who too seem to have held the belief that in the Godhead there are both the paternal and maternal principles in intimate and inseparable union? yes; it is the knowledge possessed by the Tamils of the colour which the two principles assume that distinguishes them from all other people of all other countries. The Tamils tell us that the male principle of the Godhead glows with a red colour while the female glow with a blue. Whenever they pray to Lord Siva, they speak of him as being of brilliant red, and of mother Uma they speak as being blue and as being also in intimate union with Siva. This knowledge of the two colours of the two Divine principles marks the high significance of the Tamilian conception of God, since without having colour no object, no person can present its from either to the perception of our eyes or to the perception of our mind. It must be borne in mind that nowhere can this notable conception of God be met with except in the Saiva religion of the Tamils. This point is stressed at great length in the body of the work and the reader is referred to it for further details.
Now, to many an unreflecting mind such an ascription of form and colour to the Deity may seem not only strange but also degrading to the Supreme Being who is beyond the reach of five senses and human thought, who is untouched by the ills and impurities that are incident to the mortal frame of man. Those who take delight in thus asserting that God is transcendent, do so simply out of fancy, while in reality God is a substance of substances that is ever accessible to reason and intuition and is not a mere zero so
