Why was the Sittar poetry of Tayaumanavar famous?
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The writings were nationalist compositions
Incorrect AnswerThe writings were romantic epics
Incorrect AnswerThe writings were devotional songs
Correct AnswerThe writings were protests against the caste system
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Thayumanavar or Tayumanavar was a Tamil spiritual philosopher from the Tamil Nadu, India. Thayumanavar articulated the Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. He wrote various Tamil hymns of which approx. 1454 are available. His first 4 songs were sung 250 years past ago at the Congress of Religions in the Tiruchirappalli. His poems followed his own mystical experience, but they even highlight the philosophy of South Indian Hinduism, and the Tirumandiram by the Saint Tirumular in its highest form, one that is at once devotional and nondual, one that saw God as both the immanent and as transcendent. Thayumanavar's important teaching is to discipline the mind, control the desires and meditate peacefully. His Spiritually Elevating songs: Thayumanavar was a very respected scholar in both Sanskrit and in Tamil and was a minister to the King in Trichinopoly in South India. His name got hails from the name of the deity of the Rockfort Temple located in the Trichinopoly. When he became godminded, he left his job and began roaming, preaching the ShaivaSiddhanta philosophy and started Shiva worship. His songs are complete of the divine bliss which he enjoyed and transmitted in his abundance.
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