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'''Kandar Anubhuti''' ({{Langx|ta|கந்தர் அநுபூதி}}) is a work of Tamil Hindu literature composed by the poet-saint [[Arunagirinathar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=University |first=Vijaya Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALUvDwAAQBAJ&dq=kandar+anubhuti&pg=PA68 |title=Historical Dictionary of the Tamils |date=2017-08-25 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-0686-0 |pages=68 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Sujit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCJrUfVtZxoC&pg=PA27 |title=A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850 |date=1998 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-1453-9 |pages=27 |language=en}}</ref> The collection of songs are dated to around 1500 CE.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Subramuniyaswami |first=Satguru Sivaya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bd_EAAAQBAJ&dq=kandar+anubhuti+verses&pg=PT1050 |title=Dancing with Siva |date=August 2004 |publisher=Himalayan Academy Publications |isbn=978-0-945497-96-7 |pages=1050 |language=en}}</ref> It consists of 51 hymns<ref>{{Cite book |last=Division |first=Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QhspDwAAQBAJ&dq=kandar+anubhuti+51&pg=PT115 |title=Cultural Leaders of India - Devotional Poets and Mystics : Part - 1 |date=2017-06-21 |publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting |isbn=978-81-230-2482-0 |pages=51 |language=en}}</ref> dedicated to the Hindu deity [[Murugan]], asking him to grant wisdom in order to overcome [[Maya (religion)|maya]], the 'illusory nature of the world'.<br />
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== Description ==<br />
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Translated as "The perception of Skanda", the Kandar Anubhuti describes the themes of the detachment from the world, a spiritual experience of the deity Murugan, and observation of the deity both [[Saguna brahman|with]] and [[Nirguna|without]] form.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalal |first=Roshen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC&pg=PA40 |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |date=2010 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-341421-6 |pages=40 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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