Tirumantiram - TANTRA THREE Verses 640 - 660 of 883

Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

TANTRA THREE  Verses  640 - 660 of 883

 

11 THE EIGHT GREAT SIDDHIS

 

640: Perform Siddhis in Meekness

 

Pray and seek Lord in directions eight

Adore Lord with constancy in directions eight

Attain Eight Siddhis Great in directions eight

And in meekness perform in directions eight.

 

 

641: Nothing Impossible Then

 

Lord is the Prized Being of Celestials,

I sought His Feet in devotion

All my blemish vanished

And I visioned the Mystic Void

Nothing impossible for me now;

He blessed me with Eight Great Siddhis

And ended my birth to be.

 

 

642: Sambhavi and Kechari Mudras for Siddhis

 

By Muladhara Way,

With Grace of Guru

Vision Sakti,

Seated fragrant and lovely;

Practise Sambhavi and Kechari mudras

You shall attain Siddhis Eight,

That to mighty Siva's goal leads.

 

 

643: Power of Transmigration

 

The Elements, Kalas, Time and Maya

Escape unentangled in them,

That is but Wisdom;

And embrace fast the Truth of Lord

That Uncreated and Unending One;

Then can you transmigrate

Into mortal coils of beings other.

 

 

644: Karma Yoga Practices are Inferior to Eight Siddhis

 

Karma yoga is several, several in number;

Twenty thousand eight hundred kinds they count;

And all they can give is but physical work,

Inferior are they to the Eight Siddhis Great.

 

 

645: Twelve Years for Eight Siddhis

 

On the Moon's nadi to the left (Idakala)

The breath of Prana measures units twelve;

Of this, exhale four;

If the eight saved is within retained,

And that for twelve years continuous practised,

Then shall Siddhis Eight ever abide.

 

 

646 Subtle Sounds Signifying Siddhis

 

Abounding in wealth of men around,

You but pave the way for birth again;

Nor can Siddhi be attained

By art, learning, genius and wisdom subtle;

At the end of diverse melodies heard in Yoga

For twelve years long

Does it take Siddhi for fullness to attain.

 

 

647: Siddhis in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Years

 

In the seventh year of his practice

The Yogi becomes fleet of foot like wind;

His footfall touches not the ground

He divines the thoughts of other beings;

In the eighth year he becomes eternal young,

For ever bereft of graying hair and wrinkled muscles

In the ninth, he transmigrates into other coils mortal.

 

 

648: Siddhis in the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Years

 

In the tenth year the yogi can expand and contract into space

In the eleventh he can assume form he meditates on;

In the twelfth all eight siddhis complete he masters;

He then gains the powers to roam the worlds

Seven above and seven below

And take one cosmic form spanning space all.

 

 

649: The Eight Siddhis Enumerated

 

Himself the atom, himself the cosmos

Himself light, himself heavy

Himself invisible air,

Himself migrating into mortal bodies other,

Himself possessing prowess of the Truthful One

Himself immanent in all

--These eight are the Siddhis Great.

 

 

650: Anima Siddhi to Mukti

 

The Yogi assumes atom-size,

Into lives of several beings enters,

And then returns to his form original;

Either way is he least affected;

From that stage reached in Anima Siddhi,

He rises further

Into Nada chanting Aum,

And thus toward Mukti hastens.

 

 

651: A Year for Anima

 

Days are counted by astral Nazhigai sixty

And year by days three hundred and sixty;

Do meditate incessant through time thus reckoned,

And pierce the Chakras upward from Muladhara;

At the Navel-Center arises the power of Anima.

 

 

652: On the Way to Siva Mukti

 

They are Siva Muktas

Who turned their thoughts to Siva

Who became Siva-suffused,

Who attained Mukti

By silentness that leads to it;

They abandoned the senses five

In search of Divine Purity

Their thoughts centered on Dance Cosmic.

 

 

653: How the Vayus Stand for Yogis

 

Nine the Vayus in body equal are,

Dananjaya, the tenth superior is,

When the nine in their channels accord

Life and body well accord, too.

 

 

654: Importance of Dhananjaya

 

Dananjaya pervades other the nine Vayus

Within the body it permeates

Nadis two hundred and twenty four

If Dhananjaya does function not thus,

This body will swell and burst.

 

 

655: Diseases Appear When Dhananjaya Does not Function

 

Boils, itches and leprosy

Anaemia, and like diseases

That swellings show

Paralysis, hunchback, arthritis

And diseases of eye that bulging show

All appear

When Dananjaya in disorder functions.

 

 

656: Importance of Kurma Vayu for Eye

 

When Dananjaya malfunctions

The eye gets diseases like cataract and glaucoma

But Kurma is goodly to the eye;

If Kurma permeates not the eye,

It receives light none.

657: The Three Gods Animate Three Nadis

Through the Nadis that pulsate

In the ear, eye and heart

Animates the one spark of Light Divine

That is God;

The Gods, Rudra, Vishnu, and Brahma

Respective there seated art.

 

 

658: Mukti Vision in Center of Nine Nadis

 

Within the fleshly body

That has gates nine,

There is a Center

Where the Nadis nine meet;

For them who can contain the Nadis nine

Not nine their vision, but several, several.

 

 

659: Practice of Kundalini Yoga

 

Kindle Kundalini Fire

That burns lamnent in Muladhara

Send it up through Sushumna

The spinal column Central,

Course into it Prana breath

That runs through Nadis Sun and Moon,

That the way to reach

The seven mystic worlds in Cranium

To them we bade this

That are wise to learn.

 

 

660: Conquest of Bindu Through Nadi

 

O! Jiva! you seek woman in lust

And Lo! like a fawn are you caught in net;

And you know how to make

Central Nadi the Way Great,

The seed (Bindu) you kept for sale,

May your own be to consume.