Aintiram

Aintiram (ஐந்திறம் Ainthi’ram) is a Tamil text on Vastu Shastra attributed to Mamuni Mayan

“The Science related to numerical order enables one to know the principles of role of number, space order nature of inner space and significantly know the potency of micro-structure. (atoms)”

Mayan’s Aintiram …page 347

Aintiram refers to a text written during the first Sangam period in ancient Tamil land -South of India (10,000 BC). The name refers to the fivefold process of consciousness transforming itself into the material world – or energy transforming into matter. This is a scientific process according to Mayan the rishi who cognized this process and wrote the Aintiram. It reflects the fundamental unfoldment of the quantum field into waveforms that make up the material world.

Mayan stated that this process could be replicated by humans in dance, music, poetry, sculpture and architecture (vaastu architecture). This formed the basis of traditional arts in India for thousands of years.

In the Aintiram, Mayan speaks of the unfolding of letters (visual forms) from what he called OM Light; and, sounds of consonants and vowels (aural forms) from what he called OM Sound. He indicates this phenomenon by beginning every verse of his commentary on the Aintiram (called the Pranava Veda – first veda) with Oli, O’li (ஒலி, ஒளி) indicating OM Light and OM Sound. OM, being a universal sound and light form and not a Sanskrit term nor a Hindu term. These are the only texts in ancient literature that mention both OM Light and OM Sound. In addition, they are the only texts that elucidate the manifestation process as both a spiritual and scientific process.

In Tamil’ Aintu’ stands for five. The five aspects are

1. The primary source of creation (moolam – மூலம்),
2. The vibration factor leading to creation or the Time factor (kaalam – காலம்),
3. The order inherent in the vibration (seelam – சீலம்)
4. Form emerging from the primary source through the vibration (kolam – கோலம்) and
5. Finally the end result being the form emerging from the primary source through the vibration (kolam) and finally the end result being the all–encompassing universe.

…The following is a summary of some of the principles put forth by Mayan in the Aintiram, the Tamil text of Indian Architectural philosophy.

1. All objects of nature are unified entities (forms) of energy and matter.
2. The free space is the unified field of energy and matter and source of all forms that we see in material world.
3. There are two OMs: OM Light and OM Sound, the former is the source of all visible objects and the later, the source of all aural forms.
4. All material forms of the universe are musical forms or have taken shape on musical rhythm or musical scale.
5. Time creates, sustains, and destroys all, so created.
6. The primal manifest form of the unmanifest is square (primal wave pattern).
7. The primal square pattern in designated as the diagram of embodied Energy – Vaastu Purusha mandala.
8. The free space is packed with cubical atoms of energy. They are building blocks of the structure of the universe.
9. The cube is micro-adobe called Sittravai (சிற்றவை) / Chittrambalam (சிற்றம்பலம்) (mini hall in Tamil).
10. Within the hall there is a vertical luminous shaft called Brahma Sutra (Oli nool – ஒலிநூல்).
11. The Olinool / Brahma Sutra is a shaft of consciousness also called Moolathoon (மூலத்தூண்) / Moolasthambham.
12. This shaft of consciousness vibrates in a particular order called rhythm. This is the order of nature.
13. This rhythmic vibration of the shaft of consciousness is the dance of Shiva, the Space.
14. The micro space, in the cubical shape is foetus, Garbha or Bindu. This is known as Vinkaru (விண்கரு) in Tamil.
15. This micro adobe is the repository of light and sound.
16. The free space is Light and the Light is Moolam or source of the universe and universal forms. Light is Brahman, Atman, Vastu Brahman – Nunporul (நுண்பொருள்) in Tamil.
17. The embodied energy is Vaastu Brahman / Vastu Purushan. The space enclosed in a building is Prasada Purushan – energized building – building is a living organism, built of musical units of measure.
18. Architecture is the supreme achievement of mathematics.
19. Mathematics is rooted in the dynamism of Absolute Time.
20. Time is the vibration of Space.
21. Time and Space are equal.
22. Time is one of the subtle elements of Space (akasa).
23. Time is the causal element of all objects of the Universe.
24. The microcosmic structure is in total identity with macrocosmic structure.
25. The supreme space is throbbing every moment to express itself out.
26. Through the power of inner consciousness, the knower of Vastu should know about light aspects and sound aspects of OM pertaining to both inner and outer space.
27. Those who do not realize the creative dynamism of inner space cannot know the dynamism of outer space.

Dr. Jessie Mercay

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