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CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, December 21, 2009 (Press Release): A new English language translation of the Tirumandiram will be released at a gala celebration in Chennai, India on January 17, 2010.
The Chief Guests will be Sri P. Chidambaram, the Honorable Union Home Minister, and the heads of the Saiva monasteries at Dharmapuram, Tiruvavaduthurai, and Tiruppanandal.
This monumental work has been produced by a team of eminent scholars and yogis under the direction of Dr. T.N. Ganapathy and sponsorship of Marshall Govindan, President of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas.
The Tirumantiram is one of the most important works related to Yoga, Tantra, Saiva Siddhantha philosophy and spirituality ever written, compiled more than 1,500 years ago by the Siddha Tirumular. It is being published in ten hard cover volumes, over 3,200 pages. It contains over 3,000 verses in Tamil, and for each there is the original Tamil script, its transliteration, translation and commentary. There is also a select bibliography, glossary, and an index. In addition the work contains introductory chapters from the two sides of the debate within Saiva Siddhanta, Tirumular’s monistic theism versus Meykandar’s pluralistic realism.