Tirumantiram - TANTRA THREE Verses 770 -788 of 883

Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

TANTRA THREE  Verses  770 -788 of 883

 

15 MEASUREMENT OF LIFE SPAN

 

770: Breath—Astrology

 

Put your hand on forehead

And look,

If you see the breath rhythm unchanged

Well and good;

If you see it enlarged,

Death awaits in six months;

If you see it doubled,

In a month shalt life depart.

 

 

771: Transcend Nada and Realize God

 

Nada and God are one in Consciousness

Only they who transcended Nada

Will on God centre;

God appears in the heart

Of them who Nada transcend

This the truth I realized

And so merged in Nada.

 

 

772: Course Breath Upward and See Light of Jnana

 

The breath that is in vain spent

If turned upward to flow

Will give the good that of fixity of mind comes;

The Jnana that comes from cranial spaces will beam;

And the yogi becomes Lord of earth.

 

 

773: Importance of Nadi Suddhi for Longevitiy

 

None there the Jiva who practices Nadi Suddhi,

Breathing from left to right and right to left;

He who does it visions Sakti;

The senses five his way come;

To a hundred years, he sure lives.

 

 

774: Exhalation Measure for Ages 80 and 60

 

If Prana flows outward

To matra six in length,

Eighty the age you live up to;

If seven, sixty;

These two know clearly.

 

 

775: Exhalation for Ages 50 and 33

 

If to eight matras Prana runs out

Through nostril left

Fifty the age; know you;

If nine, leaving three matras inside,

Thirty and three but the age.

 

 

776: Exhalation for Ages 28 and 25

 

If in matra ten, it flows out in nostril left

Twenty and eight the life here below;

If fifteen,

Then for twenty and five years only do you see him.

 

 

777: Kumbhaka of Ten Matras Leads to Concentration

 

Breathing inward in measure twelve

The ten may you retain inside

And direct into oneness upward;

Thus may you practise

The entire day of thirty naligas!

 

 

778: Effect of Ten-Matra Kumbhaka for Three Days

 

If for two days continuous,

The ten matra of Prana is inside retained,

It will no obstacle from apana encounter;

If for three days this is maintained glowing

Then may you be certain

The ascension through Centers Six come soon.

 

 

779: Vision of the First Three Adharas in the Fourth and Fifth Day

 

If thus the practice is for days four continued,

The four petalled Muladhara will visioned be;

If further continued,

On the fifth day,

The Second and Third adharas visioned art.

 

 

780: Collective Vision of Five Adharas on the Fifteenth Day

 

When ten days thus pass

Two more adharas (Fourth and Fifth)

May visioned together be;

On the fifteenth day,

Shall be the collective vision

On the five together.

 

 

781: Visions of the 20th, 25th and 26th Days

 

On the twentieth day

The Sixth Adhara (Ajna) will visioned be;

On the twenty-fifth day

The Three Mandalas (Sun, Moon and Fire) will visioned be;

On the twenty-sixth day

The Two, Siva and Sakti, will visioned be.

 

 

782: Visions of 27th and 28th Day

 

On the twenty-seventh day

May well be revealed the One Being Supreme

That collectively rises in centers all;

On the twenty-eighth day

May revealed be

The ten centers together

In vision Collective rare.

 

 

783: On the 29th Day and 30th Day

 

If the journey upwards resumes

Ten the days that apana stands as impediment;

If the journey takes thirty days

Seven the days that take the apana to leave.

 

 

784: On the 31st Day and 32nd Day

 

On the thirty-first day of the journey upward,

Three the days that still delay the union

On thirty-second day that Prana takes to reach,

Two the days that are still in the way.

 

 

785: Jiva's Union in God on 33rd Day

 

Thus when Prana reaches the cranial heights

In a month and three days;

From within the fountain of nectar

Nandi bellows aloud;

If in the space within He reveals Himself,

You shall truly be one in Lord.

 

 

786: Greatness of Kundalini Yoga

 

None knows Kundalini that spans high

None knows the science of breath control

They who know it not perish away

I knew the truth that none know.

 

 

787: God as Knowledge

 

The Lord is the Knowledge

He stood as knowledge of elements five--air and the rest;

He stood as knowledge pervading world all and life

Inseparate from them;

If sought within,

That knowledge will in pervasive richness glow.

 

 

788: Sakti Grants Grace

 

That God who is knowledge--All thus

Grants this world that is unreal;

For the goodly ones of high praise

He grants the vision of His Dancing Hall;

The Sakti that grants all this

Is the fragrant flower-bedecked Grace

That is the Consort of Lord.