{"id":232002,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essaysparlor.com\/?p=192879"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:23:41","slug":"compare-and-contrast-the-purpose-and-practices-of-flower-divination-of-and-prescriptions-for-achieving-cukam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/compare-and-contrast-the-purpose-and-practices-of-flower-divination-of-and-prescriptions-for-achieving-cukam\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare and contrast the purpose and practices of flower divination of and prescriptions for achieving cukam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast the purpose and practices of flower divination of and prescriptions for achieving <em>cukam <\/em>(see Daniel Ch. 5) with the purpose and practices of undertaking a pilgrimage to worship Lord Ayyappan in order to achieve a kind of temporary <em>moksa <\/em>(Tm: <em>mokam<\/em>) or what Daniel refers to as \u201cequipoise (see Daniel Ch. 7).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to address (a) concerns about kunam\/dosa disequilibrium in flower divination and (b) the metaphysical movement from \u201cfirstness\u201d to \u201csecondness\u201d to \u201cthirdness\u201d in a Tamil pilgrimage (in Daniel Ch. 7).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another way to think about this is to explicate the following semantic opposition:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDegraded\u201d equilibrium (Tm: <em>cukam = Kn: madi = \u201cpurity\u201d<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\u201cGenuine\u201d or \u201cultimate\u201d equilibrium or \u201cequipoise\u201d (Tm: <em>mokam<\/em>; Sk: <em>Moksa) <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the name of the book we have to use.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel, E. Valentine<\/p>\n<p>1984 <em>Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast the purpose and practices of flower divination of and prescriptions for achieving cukam (see Daniel Ch. 5) with the purpose and practices of undertaking a pilgrimage to worship Lord Ayyappan in order to achieve a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/compare-and-contrast-the-purpose-and-practices-of-flower-divination-of-and-prescriptions-for-achieving-cukam\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}