Tirumantiram - TANTRA Four - Ovi 1155 - 1174 of 1418

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Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA Four  - Ovi  1155 - 1174 of 1418

 

 

8 SUPPORT-SUPPORTED

 

1155: Sakti is the Support of Adharas

 

Kundalini in the four petalled Muladhara

Into Six and ninety Tattvas blossomed

The Adharas four above have petals forty four in all;

Beyond is the Adhara with sidereal petals

Yet beyond (twine) Lotus blossom is Sakti seated;

Herself unto a tender petal

Supports them all.

 

 

1156: Sakti is Support-All

 

She remained the Support-All,

Looking aloft to Her own Divine Light,

She spread Herself over Adharas six;

She held the Vedic Truth in Her Thought;

She centered on Her the Letters Five

She, the Lady Benevolent.

 

 

1157: Follow Lady of Divine Light

 

The Lady Benevolent with Her Spouse remained,

Sharing Her Half with Supreme God

Follow that Lady of Divine Light

And gain Her support;

All sorrows will see their end;

And you become blemishless Pure.

 

 

1158: Siva Arises in Sakti

 

The Lord of Spaces Vast

Abides in loving heart of Lady,

That bedecks honeyed-flowers in Her tresses;

He shares Her in His Form;

And He from Her arises

Himself thus a woman too!

 

 

1159: From Female Arises Male

 

Woman espousing Woman

Strange indeed it is!

From Woman arose Man;

When you know the why of this,

No more will there be talk

Of Sakti from Sivam arising.

 

 

1160: As Siva-Sakti She is in My Heart

 

She is the goodly Truth of silentness

She is graciousness high manifest

She is Pure Light

She is Manomani Sakti;

The Blemishless Light espousing God

Entered in me and delighted me.

 

 

1161: Siva-Sakti is Support-All

 

She is Virgin of Delight

She is Sakti, Manonmani,

As Woman She pervades the world

And supports it,

She is the Mistress of the Five Acts

She is the Fountainhead of Vedas

Her, the Lord in delight espoused.

 

 

1162: Siva Stood Entwined With Sakti

 

With Fore-head eye,

Lord stood in delight;

Lord stood in delight

Seeking to enter our hearts;

Lord stood in delight

For all worlds to delight;

Lord stood in delight with Sakti

Her shoulders in embrace entwined.

 

 

1163: She Entered My Sentience

 

Dagger-breasted She is,

Supple-waisted She is,

Spreading yellow-spotted is Her skin,*

Of Pure speech She is,

Soft-footed unto a feathery peacock She is,

She in my sentience entered,

How Shall I describe it?

 

 

1164: She is of Unconquerable Powers

 

Beyond description is the fiery sphere that envelops Her,

Beyond description it is even for bedazzled Jnanis

She is Supreme Mistress of unconquerable acts

She is Manomani that is beyond grasp.

 

 

1165: He is All

 

Holding the worlds apart, as the Heavens high He spreads;

Himself the scorching Fire, Sun and Moon,

Himself the Mother that sends down the rains,

Himself the mountains strong and oceans cold.

 

 

1166: The Humans Who Reach Her are Above Gods

 

They who reach Her, of Compassion Divine

Well may they be here on earth below

Yet regard them not as humans;

Divine are their qualities;

Serene is their composure

Higher than Celestials are they.

 

 

1167: Omniscience and Omnipresence of Sakti

 

She is Virgin that oversees directions eight,

She is One that pervades there,

She is beginningless Parasakti that everywhere are;

With fragrant flowers in hand,

And songs in their tongue,

The devotees pray and praise Her

In directions eight.

 

 

1168: Parasakti is in the Cranium

 

The moon within shines with virgin rays,

Red in hue is the mansion where She is,

It is in Cranium within the head

Follow Her (Manomani),

Beaming with Kalas ten and six;

You shall reach Parasakti.

 

 

1069: She is Multiformed, Praised in Vyamala Agama

 

Parasakti is Power that supports all

And everywhere;

She resides within head;

She is Sakti of the Night;

She is of Vyamala Agama expounded,

She is Sakti that comes as Guru

Diverse indeed Her Forms, I perceived.

 

 

1170: She is Kriya Sakti, Bhoga Sakti and Parasakti

 

She conceives worlds seven;

She is Yogini Sakti,

She cognizes life and as its support stands;

Of yore she joined Lord in creative union

And became Bhoga Sakti;

And then She was Param Herself (Parasakti)

Undifferentiated from Siva.

 

 

1171: Sakti's Union in Bhoga was Yoga

 

This Sakti

And that Our Lord Great

When together united,

It was Yoga and Bhoga divine;

Manonmani Sakti of fragrant tresses

In that union was verily in Yoga

That in truth it is.

 

 

1172: Yoga Sakti Described

 

The goodly Yoga Sakti's pedestal is Light within;

The goodly Yoga Sakti's visage is toward south;

The goodly Yoga Sakti's navel is Cosmic center;

The goodly Yoga Sakti's feet are sublime exceeding;

--This may you realize.

 

 

1173: In Siva-Sakti Union Maya, Bindu and Nada Arise

 

She Siva high in Cranium

Unites in Kundalini Fire,

With Maya

And finite Bindu and Nada

Sakti rises,

She that is in bejewelled bangles bedecked.

 

 

1174: Further Evolutes of Sakti

 

From Parasakti,

Who thus evoluted,

Arises the Eight Saktis;

And of equal Kalas twice seven;

And Bindu that manifests creation entire;

Indeed Her Divine Mutations are,

She remaining Param as ever.