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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494" /><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Ayyavazhi" title="Category:Ayyavazhi">a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background:#f96;"><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi" title="Ayyavazhi"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:black">Ayyavazhi</span></a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Brownring-Lotus.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Brownring-Lotus.png/250px-Brownring-Lotus.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Brownring-Lotus.png/330px-Brownring-Lotus.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="986" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #f96; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi_theology" title="Ayyavazhi theology"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:black">Theology</span></a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ekam</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahma" title="Brahma">Vethan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Thirumal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Sivan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ayya_Vaikundar" title="Ayya Vaikundar">Vaikundar</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi_Trinity" title="Ayyavazhi Trinity">The Trinity</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #f96; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi_scriptures" title="Ayyavazhi scriptures"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:black">Scriptures</span></a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"><div style="color:#005e07; background-color:#FFCC99;"><b><a href="/wiki/Akilathirattu_Ammanai" title="Akilathirattu Ammanai">Akilathirattu Ammanai</a></b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_one" title="Akilam one">Akilam one</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_two" title="Akilam two">Akilam two</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_three" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam three">Akilam three</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_four" title="Akilam four">Akilam four</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_five" title="Akilam five">Akilam five</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_six" title="Akilam six">Akilam six</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_seven" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam seven">Akilam seven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_eight" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam eight">Akilam eight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_nine" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam nine">Akilam nine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam ten">Akilam ten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_eleven" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam eleven">Akilam eleven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_twelve" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam twelve">Akilam twelve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_thirteen" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam thirteen">Akilam thirteen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_fourteen" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam fourteen">Akilam fourteen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_fifteen" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam fifteen">Akilam fifteen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_sixteen" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam sixteen">Akilam sixteen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akilam_seventeen" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam seventeen">Akilam seventeen</a></li></ul> <div style="color:#005e07; background-color:#FFCC99;"><b><a href="/wiki/Arul_Nool" title="Arul Nool"> Arul Nool</a></b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukappadippu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukappadippu">Ukappadippu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uccippadippu" class="mw-redirect" title="Uccippadippu">Uccippadippu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadutheervai_Ula" title="Nadutheervai Ula">Nadutheervai Ula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pothippu" class="mw-redirect" title="Pothippu">Pothippu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saattu_Neettolai" class="mw-redirect" title="Saattu Neettolai">Saattu Neettolai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patthiram" class="mw-redirect" title="Patthiram">Patthiram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panchadevar_Urppatthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Panchadevar Urppatthi">Panchadevar Urppatthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivakanta_Athikarappatthiram" class="mw-redirect" title="Sivakanta Athikarappatthiram">Sivakanta Athikarappatthiram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thingal_patham" class="mw-redirect" title="Thingal patham">Thingal patham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saptha_Kannimar_Padal" class="mw-redirect" title="Saptha Kannimar Padal">Kannimar Padal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyana_Vazhthu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyana Vazhthu">Kalyana Vazhthu </a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #f96; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi_holy_sites" title="Ayyavazhi holy sites"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:black">Holy sites</span></a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"><div style="color:#005e07; background-color:#FFCC99;"><b><a href="/wiki/Pancha_pathi" title="Pancha pathi"> Pancha pathi</a></b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swamithope_Pathi" title="Swamithope Pathi">Swamithope Pathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambala_Pathi" title="Ambala Pathi">Ambala Pathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mutta_Pathi" title="Mutta Pathi">Mutta Pathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thamaraikulam_Pathi" title="Thamaraikulam Pathi">Thamaraikulam Pathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poo_Pathi" title="Poo Pathi">Poo Pathi</a></li></ul> <div style="color:#005e07; background-color:#FFCC99;"><b><a href="/wiki/Pathi" title="Pathi"> Pathis</a></b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vakaippathi" class="mw-redirect" title="Vakaippathi">Vakaippathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avathara_Pathi" title="Avathara Pathi">Avathara Pathi</a></li></ul> <div style="color:#005e07; background-color:#FFCC99;"><b><a href="/wiki/Nizhal_Thangal" title="Nizhal Thangal">Primary Thangals</a></b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nizhal_Thangal_of_Chettikudiyiruppu" title="Nizhal Thangal of Chettikudiyiruppu">Chettikudiyiruppu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizhal_Thangal_of_Agastheeswaram" title="Nizhal Thangal of Agastheeswaram">Agastheeswaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizhal_Thangal_of_Paloor" title="Nizhal Thangal of Paloor">Paloor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizhal_Thangal_of_Sundavilai" title="Nizhal Thangal of Sundavilai">Sundavilai</a></li> <li><a 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title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> for "<a href="/wiki/1_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="1 (number)">one</a>, single, solitary" (neuter gender), as a noun meaning "<a href="/wiki/Henosis" title="Henosis">unity</a>". In <a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi" title="Ayyavazhi">Ayyavazhi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, it refers to a concept of <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">monism</a> akin to that of <a href="/wiki/Brahman" title="Brahman">Brahman</a> in <a href="/wiki/Advaita" class="mw-redirect" title="Advaita">Advaita</a> philosophy and <a href="/wiki/Smarta" class="mw-redirect" title="Smarta">Smarta</a> theology. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Truth_is_One">Truth is One</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ekam&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Truth is One"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ramakrishna" title="Ramakrishna">Ramakrishna</a></div> <p>A well-known statement is "<a href="/wiki/Satya" title="Satya">Truth</a> is one, sages call it by various names." It is derived from <a href="/wiki/Rig_Veda" class="mw-redirect" title="Rig Veda">Rig Veda</a> Samhita <a href="/wiki/Mandala_1" title="Mandala 1">1.164.46</a>: "They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, and he is heavenly nobly-winged <a href="/wiki/Garuda" title="Garuda">Garutman</a>. To what is One, sages give many a title. They call it Agni, Yama, Matarisvan.".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to William A. Graham, "the one" in verse 1.164.46 refers to <a href="/wiki/V%C4%81c" title="Vāc">Vāc</a>, goddess of speech, appearing as "the creative force and absolute force in the universe." In later Vedic literature, "Speech or utterance is also identified with the supreme power or transcendent reality," and "equated with Brahman in this sense."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frauwallner states that "many gods are traced back to the one <a href="/wiki/Conceptions_of_God" title="Conceptions of God">Godhead</a>. The one (<i>ekam</i>) is not meant adjectively as a quality but as a substantive, as the upholding centre of reality."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrauwallner1973xvii_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrauwallner1973xvii-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ayyavazhi">Ayyavazhi</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ekam&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ayyavazhi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Ekam</i> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: ஏகம், "the supreme oneness") is the term used in <a href="/wiki/Akilathirattu_Ammanai" title="Akilathirattu Ammanai">Akilathirattu Ammanai</a>, the holy book of the religion of <a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi" title="Ayyavazhi">Ayyavazhi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to represent <a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ultimate (philosophy)">The Ultimate</a> <a href="/wiki/Henosis" title="Henosis">Oneness</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Thiruvasakam" class="mw-redirect" title="Thiruvasakam">Thiruvasakam</a>-2 it was stated that it was from this <i>Ekam</i> that all objects, including the separate <a href="/wiki/Three_godheads_(Ayyavazhi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Three godheads (Ayyavazhi)">Godheads</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deva_(Hinduism)" title="Deva (Hinduism)">Devas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asuras" class="mw-redirect" title="Asuras">asuras</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> formed. As per <a href="/wiki/Akilam" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam">Akilam</a>, this state of <i>ekam</i> is beyond the consciousness and derived to beyond the state of changing and is the extreme state in which the whole universe exists. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ekam_evolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ekam_evolution.jpg/250px-Ekam_evolution.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ekam_evolution.jpg/330px-Ekam_evolution.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Ekam_evolution.jpg/500px-Ekam_evolution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2588" /></a><figcaption>Evolution of Ekam, the source of whole <a href="/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">existence</a> as described in Akilam</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Saivism" class="mw-redirect" title="Saivism">Saivism</a>, <i>Ekam</i> is used commonly to refer to the oneness of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, but in Ayyavazhi the basic oneness is separately symbolized to be supreme and ultimate beyond all God-heads and powers. The derivations of <i>Ekam</i> in Ayyavazhi scriptures are sometimes close to the <a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">pantheistic</a> form of theology. In the mythology of Ayyavazhi God-heads such as <a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Siva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Vishnu</a> are said to be the godheads who have power to rule this Ekam, varying from time to time, Siva until <i><a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></i> and Vishnu from the starting of <i>Kali Yuga</i>. There are separate quotes in <a href="/wiki/Akilam" class="mw-redirect" title="Akilam">Akilam</a> for focusing Siva as well as Vishnu in charge of this position. But, still the <i>Ekam</i> is addressed beyond these god-heads. </p><p>But when <a href="/wiki/Vaikundar" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaikundar">Vaikundar</a>, is jailed in <a href="/wiki/Singarathoppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Singarathoppe">Singarathoppe</a>, he says "I am the one who created the Ekam and the one who is omnipresent everywhere". By this, the theology reveals Vaikundar (God) as beyond the attributes of Ekam, which moves the theology of Ayyavazhi more towards <a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">pantheism</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ekam&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi_Trinity" title="Ayyavazhi Trinity">Ayyavazhi Trinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta" title="Nasadiya Sukta">Nasadiya Sukta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sufi_metaphysics" title="Sufi metaphysics">Waḥdat al-Wujūd</a> in Islam</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ekam&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rig_Veda/Mandala_1/Hymn_164">Rig Veda Samhita 1.164.46</a>, Wiki Source</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">William A. Graham, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XzYX0T-ZqTcC&dq=Rig+Veda+1.164.46&pg=PA70"><i>Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion</i></a>, pp. 70–71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrauwallner1973xvii-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrauwallner1973xvii_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFrauwallner1973">Frauwallner 1973</a>, p. xvii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <i>Akilattirattu Ammanai</i> published by T. 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