Vivarta siddhānta: Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 1 & Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 83

What Bhagavan says in the, the first verse of Ulundu Napidu is, um, the basic meaning is because we see the world accepting one fundamental that has a power that becomes many, is certainly the one best option.

The picture of names and forms, the one who sees, the cohesive screen, and the pervading light, all these are he who is oneself.

Um, [clears throat] the, the word he uses here for one fundamental is, uh, the Tamil word `mool', which means the first thing or origin, source, base, or fundamental reality.

Um, the logic in the first sentence, because we see the world accepting one fundamental that has a power to become many, is certainly the one best option.

Um, there are of course many options where we can interpret our experience in many different ways.

Um, from a, a theistic perspective, um, as he, Bhagavan explains in the next verse, they, they, they...

You start with three things.

Um, that is the, um, [clears throat] the world, soul, and God.

That is the, the world is what is seen, the soul is what is seeing, and God is the power behind all these things.

So all theistic forms of religion accept these three fundamentals.

So there are various options.

If we take...

If we accept these three fundamentals, either we can say that they're always three.

In other words, they're always separate, or but they are actually, um, ultimately just one.

Um, uh, uh, so we...

There are different, different options.

And if we, if we don't, um, believe in a theistic religion, there are other forms of religion where there's some sort of idea of an ultimate reality, whatever that may be, but they don't call it God.

But still, there's something beyond this world and, um, the- beyond the seer and the seen.

Some reality that underlies that or whatever the relationship between that re-reality and what is the seer and the seen.

There's some relationship.

So most forms of religion have three fundamentals.

Are these three fundamentals intrinsically separate, or is there...

Are, are they just seemingly separate? So there are these different options.

Or if we are a materialist, we can say the world exists and we are born into it, and we see it, and we die, and that is the end of our story, but the world goes on.

So there are so many different options.