Tirumantiram - TANTRA THREE Verses 799 - 824 of 883

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Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

TANTRA THREE  Verses  799 - 824 of 883

 

18 KECARI YOGA,

 

799: How to Practise it

 

Control the spiration

And see that breath is wasted not;

Bind it tight,

Dam the source of Kundalini at Muladhara,

Lock the chimney up in the mouth;

Bolt the cavity above with thy tongue's tip

And sit erect in yoga Samadhi

No more shall be death for you.

 

 

800: Technique of Kecari Yoga

 

On the square plank of Muladhara,

Where Jiva the washerman performs the cleansing act,

Erect bunds that the sluices leak not (apana);

And then let in the heavenly stream for the lake to fill;

Thus sit looking skyward

Be thou rid of impurity, all.

 

 

801: Immortality in Yoga Way

 

Alternating breath's course from left to right and vice versa,

They who can force breath through spinal Sushumna

Shall know tiring none;

They can abolish sleep for ever

And attain God-awareness;

They die not;

Immortal they shall be.

 

 

802: Nectar in Kecari Mudra

 

If skillfully rubbed by the tongue's tip

The mystic nectar will begin to ooze;

When it comes, with care manage it

That you may swim in Moon's Region mystic;

And that which flowed and roared

May preserved be.

 

 

803: Vision of Gods in Kecari Mudra

 

Fan tongue's tip upward in palate centre;

There abides Jiva and Siva;

The Gods Three, and Devas three and thirty crores

Will there appear;

No death shall there be;

A million, billion years this fleshly body will be.

 

 

804: Transform Fleshly Stream Into Heavenly Stream

 

From the lofty peaks of the cranium

Flows the stream that is of the flesh;

It is a heavenly stream;

They know not how to make it so;

They who know that art

Will swill the divine nectar

And be forever, doubt free.

 

 

805: Kecari Mudra Leads to Youthfulness

 

If you can send the breath twain

Into the mouth's upper cavity

You shall then know death none;

And the gates of nectar will open be;

Greying and wrinkling will disappear

For all to see;

Young will the Yogi be

True this, I say, in the name of Nandi Holy.

 

 

806: Leakage of Restrained Breath Leads to Evil Consequences

 

With Nandi to guide

If we upward ascend

We shall meet Lord;

We shall then hold sway over world all;

They who let the restrained breath out

Through the Sun Nadi

And yet meditating sit

Art verily to Evil Fate decreed.

 

 

807: Perfect Practice of Kecari Leads to Immortality

 

They who sat bewildered

Overwhelmed by Karma Evil,

Let them perform the Karma of Tongue

(That Kecari Yoga prescribes);

Then no more is there room for death;

They who seek proliferating Karma

And render life useless,

Will remain unto sugarcane

Of its juicy sweetness pressed away.

 

 

808: Erect Posture for Kecari Mudra

 

The Yogis who thus divine sweetness experienced

If in a bud-like formation

Send tongue upward

Their spinal chord erect as a stiff rod

Then will trickle nectar from within

And body becomes sweet as sugarcane.

 

 

809: Chant Sivayanama as You Swill Nectar

 

Upward twirl

Tongue's interior

Through which saliva flows

And drink of nectar welling up

And remain chanting "Sivaya Nama;"

The waters that breath brings

Streams as unto Ganga flow;

Learn this Way

To the flow of the Heavenly nectar.

 

 

810: A Cave Temple Within

 

Knowing way appropriate

Those who worshipped thus within

Will receive shower of Grace

That is Jnana ripe;

If they but know how to bolt the door within

And check the flowing stream,

Well then may they become

Abiding cave temples within.

 

 

811: God's Attributes

 

He who takes His abode within that temple

Is kindlier than mother for world entire

Good is He, even when harsh,

He is within them too,

Whom He deals harsh;

For those of evil deeds,

He is deadlier than fire itself.

 

 

812: God's Abodes

 

He is seated at the Forehead Center

Of those who perform yoga with Kundalini Fire;

He is in the Golden City

Of those who reach the Flower of cranial spaces;

He is in the imagination

Of those who sing of Him;

He is in the intelligence

Of those who perform deeds rare.

 

 

813: He Sat Supreme

 

He sat like the Moon

Beaming Kalas Sixteen;

In His Mansion that is body,

Art Kala worlds two hundred and twenty four;

And within that Divine Mansion shedding rays,

He sat Supreme in accord within.

 

 

814: In Praise of Sakti7There sat Sakti

 

Kalas enveloping Her too;

There She sat, the Virgin in the midst;

There She sat, the Divine Fawn,

Her Visage shedding rays soft;

There She sat,

Herself too streaming ambrosia down.

 

 

815: Guard Nectar From Flowing Out

 

Within the Golden Regions of Cranium

The sparkling nectar flows in cascades silvery;

There it was inside,

In the astral sphere above;

They who can guard it from flowing out,

Will become eternal young;

That its blessing, for sure, for sure.

 

 

816: With Sakti Stood Siva

 

If Sakti that is unto a tender Vine of Goodness

Resides within in fragrant delight;

Then Lord that is a treasure-house of Tattva Jnana

Also stood in amity within.

 

 

817: Prana Reaches Moon's Region

 

Prana within if made to rise,

Through Sushumna cavity

To blossoming Lotus at cranial heights,

Then opened Moon's Mystic Region;

And there may you for long live.

 

 

818: Practise Uddiyana Bandha

 

As Prana stand in Mystic Moon's Region

Practise Uddiyana Bandha,

And dam the course of downward Apana;

Then in dazzling brightness of sun

The Lord with Kundala in his ear lobe

Stands transfixed in their awareness,

His dance having ceased to a stop.

 

 

819: When to do Uddiyana Bandha

 

The exhaling breath will inside retained be;

The retained breath will from escape prevented be;

In due time,

From the Moon's Region starts ambrosial flow;

When it ceases,

Undo the Uddiyana Bandha.

 

 

820*36Open a Wicket Gate Within and See Light

 

Within the body-bag

If you but open a wicket gate,

The Light will shine inside;

If breath that is controlled spurts there upwards

Then will this dark body

As a temple lamp lustrous bejewelled be.

 

 

821: Inexplicable Experiences of Kecari Yoga

 

Course Prana upward

And retain breath through Kumbhaka

In the mystic regions of Fire and Sun

Around navel and throat;

And there be fixed in thought

What stood there, how possible to say?

 

 

822: Distant Vision of Five-Element Combination

 

Well may described be air in the body

Well may described be earth and water

Well may described be all these elements five;

But when all these together combine,

Well may then be

The power of Vision in cranium distant.

 

 

823: Nature of Distant Divine Vision

 

That Distant Vision I shall here describe:

Having attained Grace of Sakti of collyruim eyes

If thought is centered on the Divine Light that is Lord

Then may you vision worlds all

As in day-light bright.

 

 

824 Reach Nada Through Kundalini

 

Twelve finger measure below the navel

The light bright as day (Kundalini)

Thus say Vedas;

If with that Light

The Nada Lamp above is lighted

You become the Master

Of Mansion that rises within you