Tirumantiram - TANTRA THREE Verses 724 -739 of 883

Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

TANTRA THREE  Verses  724 -739 of 883

 

13 WAY TO KAYASIDDHI

 

724: Importance of Preserving Body

 

If the body pershes, so does Prana

Nor will the Light of Truth be reached;

I learned the way of preserving my body

And so doing, my Prana too.

 

 

725: Why I Preserve Body

 

Time was when I despised the body;

But then I saw the God within

And the body, I realised, is the Lord's temple

And so I began preserving it

With care infinite.

 

 

726: Purification of Internal Organs of Body

 

Churn the intestines in Suddhi practice

Your bowels become clean;

Then control the breath in the heart's region

And make it pervade the nadis entire;

They who can do this

Will gain a body

That no fire can burn.

 

 

727: Effect of Practising Yoga at Dawn, Noon and Dusk

 

As body wax-like suppleness attains,

Practicing yoga in dusk

The phlegm leaves;

At noon leaves the wind that is treacherous;

At dawn practised, the bile leaves;

Thus all poison from body expelled

And you shall know no greying, nor wrinkling.

 

 

728: Yoga Leads to Imperishable Body

 

Three the coils of serpent Kundalini

Ten the Vayus that agitate the body;

Twelve finger-length the Prana breath;

When the two bags of spiration

Are tight controlled,

And you sit in meditation unwavering

The body perishes not ever.

 

 

729: How to Live for 166 Years

 

Breathe by the Right Nadi a hundred and sixty six matra

Breathe by the Left a hundred and sixty six matra

And then reverse the rhythm

If you do it in alternation thus

You shall live long

A hundred and sixty six years.

 

 

730: Divine Music in Yoga Practice

 

In the body-temple where Sakti is seated

If you practise transference of breath from right to left and vice versa,

You can hear the mystic sounds from Forehead Center

And Lord Siva will Himself reveal

Dancing to rhythmic music;

This we declare true

In the name of Sadasiva.

 

 

731: In Yoga Practice Soham is Chanted

 

In the Bindu that is pure by far

Shines the sound "Ha"

In the Nada that abides

Lives the sound "Sa"

Together they become the mantra "Soham"

The yogi who silent chants it while breathing

Sure attains the Holy Way.

 

 

732: Course Prana and Apana Through Meditation

 

Rouse the Prana that resides in the Navel Center

By meditating and chanting Siva mantra;

Retain that breath in the Ajna frontal

Then rouse the apana breath by meditation;

That way you Siva become.

 

 

733: Center Thy Thoughts on Muladhara

 

Two finger length above the anus

Where faecal matter leaves not;

And below the male organ

Is the Linga in Muladhara;

Meditate on that Center;

There resides the Lord of the six adharas;

This my upadesa, rare revealed;

Do take it and vision the Lord.

 

 

734: Eternal Youth Through Yoga

 

They who effect the mystic union

With the azure-hued Sakti within

Will shed greying and wrinkling

And regain youth for all to see;

This I say is true, by Nandi the Great.

 

 

735: Continence Leads to God-hood

 

If the seminal seed thickens by sexual absention

It shall never be destroyed;

If the body is lightened by austere discipline

Long shall the life be;

If food is eaten sparingly

Many the good that flow;

You may verily become

The Lord of Dark-Hued throat.

 

 

736: Yoga Gives Comeliness of Body

 

If Kundalini that is in Muladhara

Is sent upward often to reach the space in cranium,

Comely your body becomes;

A desire-object for damsels bedecked with flowers

Around which bees swarm humming.

 

 

737: Imperishable Life in Yogic Vision

 

The Lord, of yore, spurned the mighty God of Death

Who ever harasses life;

The Lord rides the Chariot of Fire within;

If you vision His Holy Feet,

Decked with triumphal anklet

You shall for ever live

In the canopied terrace above.

 

 

738: Yogi Vibrates With Youthfulness

 

The Fire I saw in Kundalini radiates Kala four

The Prana I kindled and coursed through Centers seven

Pervades the body entire;

With divine life that suffuses the fleshly body as ambrosia;

I grow unto a tender fawn.

 

 

739: Meditate on Appropriate Mantra to Attain Kaya Siddhi

 

If you in ardor pursue

The search for power to acquire Kaya Siddhi,

You shall flourish far and wide

Like a seed of paddy planted

In a million, million fields;

Do you therefore meditate single-minded

On the mantra that conquers Fate.