Tirumantiram - TANTRA THREE Verses 701 -723 of 883

Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

TANTRA THREE  Verses  701 -723 of 883

701: Prana Merges in the Five-Letters

When the precious prana reached Siva

It pervaded the nadis two hundred and thirty three

And in the Letters Five

Where Prana finally merges.

702: How Prana Pervaded the Nadis

The Prana that reaches Sakti

Emanating from the four petalled Muladhara

Where Kundalini fire is,

How Prana Pervaded the Nadis

The Prana that reaches Sakti

Emanating fro

703: Samadhi When Prana Reaches the Ninth Center

When Prana course through adharas six

Then will nectar be;

Then Prana reaches the Seventh Center of the Sun

And further onward proceeds to the Eighth Center of the Moon

In the Ninth Center Prana attains Samadhi.

704: In Samadhi Yogi Visions Light Divine

The Moon and the Sun are in the Uncreated Being

The Yogi that visions the Moon at the mystic junction of Nadis three

Is in Light merged;

He, attains Samadhi,

That had its beginning at the Navel Center.

705: Conduct of Aspirant For Yoga Samadhi

To give up thoughts of women

To think no more of kith and kin

To be meek in learning

To abound in jnana

To be sparing of speech

To listen to deeds of Siddhi

To sit unruffled

--These the ways of the aspirant of yoga samadhi.

706: Prowess of Those Who Attain Samadhi

He vanquishes death and age,

He enters into other bodies at will,

He confers paradise to the dead

He assumes form divine of Gods

He becomes learned in the twenty-one branches of Sivagamic lore

He who has mastered the Science of Breath.

707: Seek Lord Within

Vain is it seeking Lord

Wearing away sole of their feet

In pilgrimage to corners four

Of the seagirt world;

Only those who seek Him in love intense

Shall know the City of Lord.

708: Gods in Successive Adharas and Niradharas

Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra

Maheswara, Sadasiva,

Bindu, Nada, Sakti,

Para Bindu and Para Nada

In that ascending order

They all seek

Feet of Para-Para Beyond.

709: Unalloyed Bliss Beyond the Adhara Yoga

Worshipping the appropriate God at Centers

Ascend above;

There the cranial region is

Where Sakti and Siva reside

Shedding Sixteen Kalas of Mystic Moon;

Ascend yet beyond

There lies the region of Effulgent-Light;

Yet above it is bliss

Defying speech and thought.

710: Lord Himself Appears Before Yogis

They who practise yoga

Through Nadis breath in one flowing Moon and Sun

Become Beings Celestial;

To them who perform it unceasing true

The Lord Himself reveals.

711: Immortality for Yogis Who Have Reached the Ultima Thule

They who control breath

Will pervade all everywhere, unseen;

They who pierce the Mystic Lotus

Sending breath up through spinal column

And taste of its fragrant nectar

Will never death know.

12 KALA UNWAVERING

712: Yoga Leads to Divine Nectar

The Lord of the Fore-head-eye

That showed the path of Love Divine;

Seek Him in love intense;

The Ganga in cranium will in grace flow;

And in love exceeding, He your saviour will be.

713: Anchor Thoughts Firm on Lord

Anchor your thoughts firm on the Lord

Impregnable then you shall be;

Impregnable shall be your cognition organs four;

Impregnable shall be Kalas six and ten of the Moon within;

Impregnable shall be the Prana that is of life breath.

714: Way to Steady Kalas

Straight through Sushumna

The Prana stood unwavering

As a steady flame

And unto a still stone;

They who know

How the Lord stood commingled with Kalas

Know the Way True;

Even those in despair

Will espouse that Way.

715: Steady Prana Breath, Sankara Appears

When life breath is coursed up

Through the single channel Sushumna,

The Lord of Bhuta hordes,

Sankara of matted locks

Appears before you

Mounted on the Sacred Bull.

716: Sadhaka's State in Samadhi

They know not the time that passes in Samadhi

They look forward to the Big Time ahead,

Thus they direct the breath

Through the single channel Sushumna

To the void in cranium

There he stands, all conflicts resolved,

He truly is the Sadhaka.

717: Perform Yoga Penance and Reach Lord

Thus toward that goodly state

Practise yogic penance;

If you succeed in coursing breath

Into the lotus in cranium,

You shall gain the Lord

That remains hidden in Vedas.

718: Stages of Prana's Ascending Course

The breath has stages three

As Prana it courses upward

In single stream through spinal nadi;

And then spreads into cranial space

For the lotus there to blossom

And finally merges into the Divine Flame there.

719: Kundalini Yoga Turns the Body into Temple of Siva

The Kundalini Sakti that thus arose

Made her way aloft through the fleshly coil

And yet within me remained;

And She who created the worlds of Devas

Churned the mystic ambrosia within;

Drinking deep of it

This body became Siva's temple.

720: Know the Mystery of Prana Merging in Nada

The breath that glows within

None knows how it merges

When you know how it merges

Then can you reach the region

Where Nandi holds His sway.

721: Treasure Guru's Guidance for Yoga

As through breath you pierce the adharas

You shall vision clear;

Prana leaving the Kundalini Sakti

On its upward journey through Sushumna;

That you gain through the Guru guiding;

Take that as treasure precious gained.

722: Immortality Through Samadhi Yoga

The breath that arose twelve matras long,

If you control and absorb within,

Well may you live a thousand years on land and sea;

The body perishes not;

True this is,

Upon Lord Nandi I declare.

723: Experiences of Yogi When Prana Ascends

When Prana and Sakti their departure take

One from the other,

The yogi knows it this way;

Seven sounds he hears

Five colors he sees

Three odors he smells,

Two tastes he knows

Thus has the Lord of Light

The symptoms indicated.