The Soul
Being the Soul of Vaikundar is of the Paramatma or the Ultimate God, (see:Ayya Vaikundar) it was viewed that the Ultimate God or Ekam, the God beyond Consciousness incarnates here in the world. The Thiru Nadana Ula which was told by Sivan, which was a part of Akilam states it clearly. "An assemblage was rended by getting a great Assemblage which arose with its own intention and by the rended assemblage there formed a great world of righteousness and by which the kali is destroyed as its age is over." Here the 'Great assemblage' (assembled of the whole which exists in a globular shape) represents the Ekam or the Ultimate God which is beyond Consciousness, the 'rended assemblage' represents Vaikundar, and the ‘world of righteouseness’ represents Dharma Yukam. This verse says that Vaikundar was the one by which Dharma Yukam created, and Vaikundar was rended by getting the power of Ekam without which kali would not be destroyed.
Immediately after the ceremony of avatar of Vaikundar, Narayana called Vaikundar "Your self is Sivan, your self is Vethan, your self is Thirumal and your self is the austerity, your self is Brahman and your self is the whole which exists." Vaikundar was also called as Muthalvan, which in Tamil means the one who formed first. Also as per the boons that Kaliyan claimed, Narayana or any other else could destroy Kaliyan. This is also the reason which paves the way for the soul of the Ultimate Being to come as Vaikundar. During the Katuvai Sothanai, Vaikundar says that, "Iam the one who created the Ekam and Iam in every thing which exists. Since the trimurti was concealed into my self, myself is the soul of all living beings”. And also, in the event of the Marriage of the Deities, Vaikundar unified into himself, Sarasvathi, Laksmi and also Parvathi and in addition, the ‘Goddess of Earth’ (Poomadanthai) and by which it was clearly stated that Vaikundar is the incarnation of Ekam ‘The Ultimate’, which is beyond all these.
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