The Sanskrit word : Allah

Allah is Sanskrit

This came without any asking!  I mean, it was like an answer to many things!!

I had some years back proposed through the Orkut medium, that the number 786 was actually Aum (ॐ) by a mere reflection of the numerals in Devanagiri script.  There was great acceptance of that idea and many years later I had seen that some had put presentations and even animated videos explaining the same!

(See my other blog:- http://sunambiar.blogspot.in/2013/06/pranavam-aum.html)

While I have already explained that Aum is that pranava mantra that can be uttered even without a tongue, here is another word that is formed of three letters of the Devanagiri alphabet. Srishti (Brahma), Stithi (Vishnu/Shakti) and Samhaara (Shiva) can be denoted by the vowels A, L, aH.  A is the first  vowel, L is the ninth and aH is the last. 

अ - आ - इ - ई - उ - ऊ - ऋ - ॠ - ऌ - ॡ - ऎ - ए - ऐ - ऒ - ओ -  औ - अं - अः

1  - 2   - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 -  7 -  8 -  9 - 10 -11-12-13-14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18.

(Note :- The original Vedic script has hraswa (short) for ए and ओ and are denoted with backstrokes. (as can be verily seen).

The Malayalam language has maintained them while Hindi & modern day Sanskrit seem to have dropped them. The corresponding Malayalam script is as follows:
അ ആ ഇ ഈ ഉ ഊ ഋ ൠ ഌ ൡ എ ഏ ഐ ഒ ഓ ഔ അം അഃ

It is interesting to note that in Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon the words ilah (god) and Allah occur under the root A-L-H. 

(Interestingly, immediately after the introduction in the Surat 1 Al-Fatihah, containing just 7 lines in which God is praised with his attributes,  the Surat 2 Al-Baqarah (The Cow) starts with the 3 letters before going on to introduce the Qur'aan.  The three letters are Alif-Laam-Meem about which standard commentaries say that "These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'aan and none but Allaah (Alone) knows their meanings".  Perhaps they accomplish some meaning if interpreted as the first, middle and last letters of the Sanskrit Alphabet viz. अ, ऌ, अः while that of the reference of cow needs to be imagined)

अऌः = AllaH

Giving a tantric touch (see the link given in the bottom), it can be seen that since अ is masculine, ऌ is neuter and अः is feminine, the word is to denote Purusha, Parabrahma and Prakriti - Shiva, Brahman & Shakti as the trinities. That are the running energy - Purusha (He who resides in the body), the creator who is Parabrahma, and the body itself that is Prakruti - Nature.

As an analogy let us take a car for example.  There is a creator who first invented the car and he is the Para-Brahma - the great guy. The car is created in a factory which is Prakruti (Pra - (as) per, Kruti - work = According to Design).  Once on road, it is given the fuel that is energy and once started, the Purusha (Puri - body, sha = shayi = sleeping inside guy) keeps it alive.  Thus the car is alive because of all the three. Here the creator is given 'Royalty' and does not involve in the day to day affairs. The day to day affairs are managed by the Purusha and the Prakriti.  However though the Purusha and the Prakriti are worshipped daily, it is the Parabrahma that is ultimately worshipped. 

Just as we explained ॐ in the other blog, pronouncing अऌः (AllaH) is composed of three steps, touching the energy source Purusha so that the अ starts in the stomach / belly and it goes to the mouth where ऌ makes a communion with the upper palate - Cerebral/Retroflex (symbolically yoga with the Creator / Parabrahma & duly acknowledging) the tongue touching the upper palate of the mouth and then अः as visargah, salutes the Mother Nature.

It is interesting to note that the Aramaic word "El", which is the word for God in the language that Jesus spoke, is certainly more similar in sound to the word "Allah" than the English word "God". This also holds true for the various Hebrew words for God, which are "El" and "Elah", and the plural form "Elohim". The reason for these similarities is that Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic are all Semitic languages with common origins.

(http://www.emuslim.com/whoisallah.asp)

This means that Jesus referred to God as "EL" and that is the same in Aramaic as well as in Hebrew.

See Mathew 27:46 :
"About three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani?", which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  (ἐγκατέλιπες)"

 See again that the word Rama appears in many places.  Whether it is Ramadan or Ramzan, Ramallah, ARamaic or AlRahman or for that matter even Rome or Roman.  Oh my, it is there in Aramaic too - the language that Jesus spoke when he died on the cross.

אלה is the representation of EL or Elaha in Aramaic and behold as they are written right to left, can't one see the Swastika and then Aum in it if you looked bottom up? There it is! Yet another one that Establishes that Allah and Aum are the similar.
If we see into the English alphabet, the 'L' (Allah) is the 12th and 'M' (Aum) the 13th. Can we infer anything from this?
Also see that the ऌ is the Aum rotated by 90° clockwise and along with anuswaara!

A point that is to be noted however, is that the  Aum (ॐ) that starts with the Stomach (Creation) and ends in the Mouth (Air / Praana) denotes Sustenance while AllaH (अऌः) that starts with the Stomach/Mouth (Praana) and ends in the upper palate, is about 'after' Death and therefore, while  Aum (ॐ) represents Vishnu, AllaH (अऌः) represents Shiva.  

There is also an interesting discussion on the Sanskrit Alphabet and the Gods associated with it in the following link :- 

http://www.srikanta-sastri.org/download/i/mark_dl/u/4008488728/4594419621/tantric)

There is this one too on the Tantric aspects (Parātrīśikā-Vivaraṇa) of the letters  ऋ - ॠ - ऌ - ॡ.  It is said in this that  ऋ is the seed-letter (bija-akshara) for tejas or fire.  (RgVeda starts with Invocation to Agni).  While  ऋ  is agni-beeja (of seed of fire),   ऌ is prithvi-beeja (of seed of earth)  In the Bible/Quran, God created man from earth (ie. prithvi).
(https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Dv4P88vXwzMC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=tantric+letter+lu&source=bl&ots=ehtCIqmJX0&sig=SVp2wfrqtBmXTLmFsmpukd31FfI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAWoVChMI7oiD2vWtxwIVUY6OCh0ZVQ2M#v=onepage&q=tantric%20letter%20lu&f=false)

See Point 24 above :  Au is called Trisula or Sula-beeja ie. trident because all the shaktis, viz. icchaa, jnaana and kriya are present in it in the clearest form. 

The three prongs of trishula (trident) are Soma (moon indicating Icchaa or Desire), Soorya (sun representing Jnaana or Knowledge) and Agni (fire representing Kriyaa or Activity).

Taking the discussion further, let us examine the Sanskrit Language once again. 

The principle of SELF & BODY is primordial to eastern languages, like for example, in one of the oldest languages, namely Tamil or in the most scientific of all languages Sanskrit.

We can see a clearly differentiated classification of Vowels from Consonants in them unlike those that we find in the western languages. 

English	~	Tamil	~	Sanskrit	~	Meaning
Vowels	=	Uyir / உயிர்	=	Praana / प्राण​	=	SELF / LIFE
Consonants	=	Meyyu / மெய்ய்	=	Saroopa / सरूप	=	BODY

It is very typical of the Indian way of relating even the basics of the language to spirituality and science - of life and body, both of which together constitute an organism. Seeing spirit in everything is the universal and eternal way of life, enshrined in Sanatan dharma. Shiva is considered the propounder of Akshara [alphabet], Yoga, and all other sciences including Vedas, Ayurveda, Siddha, etc.

When the 18 vowels and 33 consonants dance, from the 51 such aksharas, we obtain everlasting happiness in words, sentences, and literature. [Note also that the numbers 18, 33, and 51 are all considered sacred numbers because science & knowledge start from them].

“O ye Eleven Gods whose home is heaven, O ye Eleven who make earth your dwelling, Ye who with might, Eleven, live in waters, accept this sacrifice, O Gods, with pleasure” – (Rg.Veda 1.139.11)

The 33 consonants are considered as the 33 devatas. 

AshtaVasu - 8 - [Dyaus, Prithvi, Varuna, Agni, Vayu, Nakshatra, Surya, Chandra]

Aaditya - 12 - [Vishnu, Aryavan, Indra, Svatsva, Varuna, Bhaga, Savistr, Vivatsr, Amsa, Mita, Pusan, Daksha]

Rudra - 11 - [Aananda, Vijnaana, Manas, Praana, Vaakya, Ishaana, Tatpurusha, Aghora, Jatpurya, Satjyota, Aatma]

Aswini - 2 - [Nasatya, Dasra]

When the 51 are gone, there is no life (praana) in the body (saroopa).

The 33 saroopaas are those that start from कः etc. [ka: + aadi = कोदि]

Therefore we call 33 kodi consonants / saroopaas.

The 18 praanaas together are denoted by combining into ॐ ( अ + उ + अं ) or otherwise taking the first, middle, and last vowels making it الله (अ + ऌ + अः) i.e Allah or taking only the middle vowel ऌ it is Elah [אלהא] in Aramaic (note the swastika on both sides of the ॐ written 90deg rotated anti-clockwise) or in biblical Aramaic as ܐܠܗܐ.

As already told, in Tamil, praana is uyir [உயிர்] and saroopa is meyy [மெய்ய்]. There is a possibility that Sanskrit evolved from Tamil as we can find Tamil to be more primitive. 

Kodi in Sanskrit also means crores. Hence it got misinterpreted so.

They are therefore the 33 crores of gods that we usually get to hear and often are made fun of!! 🤣🤣🤣 - though they are the gods who really exist and stand and stare before us every time day in and day out in our daily life.

If one were to examine Paanini's Ashtadyaayi, the most scientific grammar text ever written in the world, we will find that he uses अल् as the single sutra/code to denote all the vowels and the consonants together. Thus Allah becomes the personification of not only the 33 kodi devataas, but also including the 18 praanaas making it 51 in all. 

A bridge & Padmapaada

Recently, I was having a WhatsApp chat with one of my learned elder cousin brothers where a discussion on idol worship came up.

He was mentioning about some 'Learned Lectures' inside temple premises like "the deity worshipped in the temple is an idol or just a stone which is meant to help achieve the ultimate goal of 'Self Realization' and has to be dispensed with thereafter since a self realized person becomes God Himself".

Some questions arise.

If the deities worshipped in the temple were farce,

How could Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa & Jayadeva be divine?

And how at all did Sri Adi-Sankara establish so many temples in Kerala and some in the North like Badrinath, Kedarnath?

That the Bhagavad Gita talks about detachment is well known.  Whether we still require the bridge after we crossed the river is to be pondered.  (Unless of course we plan to return the same route).

Some need the bridge and some not.  Those who don't become the Padmapaada - the one who crossed the river without the bridge.  (Adi-Sankara's disciple Sanandana, crossed a river by walking over it keeping the foot over lotus flowers and hence became known as Padmapaada)

Certainly those who use the bridge also cross the river and reach the same place where the ones who don't use it to cross.  While some get happiness by using the bridge, other 'acrobats' would go without it and they too enjoy the ride to the destination.

Neither is therefore wrong.  One might be more safer though slower; while the other faster but riskier.

Verily, speed is not to be counted in this case of pursuit of moksha.

Maharishi Ramana once asked Sree Narayana Guru: "Isn't it time yet that you shun the stone?"

He replied:"I don't carry it"

Story of Airaavatam - the Multi-tusked White Elephant

Let me tell you a story I heard about 30 years ago (1986) from my Malayalam teacher who was a 'Father' (A Christian priest).  He was explaining us in the class on a poem about 'Airaavatam' - by the famous nature poet Shri P. Kunhiraman Nair.

As a preface, he told that this poem was about a myth of Airaavatam the white multi tusker vehicle of Lord Indra of the Hindu puraanaas.  "The story is about how few apsaras who had prepared a very special fragrant garland wished to give it to an eligible person like Lord Indra.  As they wondered as to who that could be, Sage Durvaasaa known for his short temper passed by them.  The apsaraas felt that it wouldn't be nice if the sage was not offered the garland. Having received the offering from the apsaraas, the sage was confused (what can a sage do with the garland after all) and wished to offer it to the first eligible guy he met.  As he moved on, he saw Indra upon his Airaavata.  Indra paid his respects to the great sage and the sage gifted him the special garland he just received from the apsaraas.

Indra got back on his Airaavata and kept the garland upon the elephant's head and started dressing up his hair so that the garland could look more beautiful.  A swarm of bees surrounded the garland which irritated the elephant who pulled out the garland and swung it to the ground to keep the bees away.  In the meanwhile the garland was crushed under its feet.  Unfortunately Sage Durvaasaa saw this and considered it an insult to him & his valuable gift. He cursed Indra that he and his follower gods would be on accelerated ageing.

Lord Indra rushed to the sage's feet and begged pardon and convinced him that it was not his intention to insult him the least.  The sage gave then the antidote that they should take Amrut to become eternal so as to nullify the accelerated ageing.

Now the problem was that Amrut could be obtained by churning the Milky Way. For which he organised the help of the flying mountain Manthara, with Vaasuki the snake god as the rope, his all time foes - the asuraas on the head side and the devas on the tail side.  As the manthan went on, many things came out viz. the deadly Kaalakooda poison, Mahalakshmi, Jyeshta, Kaamadhenu, Kalpataru, etc.  Shiva drank the poison to rescue the teams from its bad effects.  The poison was very powerful and Vishnu had turned blue instantly.  Finally when the Amrut was delivered, Vishnu saved it from the Asuras and gave it to the Devaas having allured the asuraas by the charming beauty of Mohini avataar.  And Garuda secured it from the Naagas. By the by, one other that came as a by-product was the Airaavata itself that went to become the vehicle to Indra."

He stopped here and said:  "This is now a chicken & egg story!"

"Because the very cause of the Paalaazhi (Milky Way) Manthan was Airaavata while Airaavata itself was the byproduct."

He paused again.  "So what do we conclude?"

He continued: "That the story is false and a myth"

(And the class learned this for the exams).

Few Years passed by until once I saw an interpretation of this very story by Aachaarya Narendra Bhushan, an ardent follower of Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati.
In that he said: "The vapour from the waters go up to form the clouds that shower as water; and that again turns to vapour."

Airaavatam is this cloud on which Indra The Lord of Rains rides on with his Thunderbolt.

Needless to say, this prompted me to take a path of trying to understand the meaning of these stories (that are termed myth), rather than simply listening with emotions.