Tirumantiram - TANTRA Four - Ovi 1255 - 1274 of 1418

Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA Four - Ovi 1255 - 1274 of 1418

 

 

9 EROLI CHAKRAM (CHAKRA OF RADIANT LIGHT)

 

1255: From Nada in Muladhara Rises Eroli Chakra

 

In Muladhara Lotus of petals four,

Are Nadas four*

With radiant Bindu arise;

When Nada's radiant Kala everywhere suffuses,

Then does arise Radiant (Eroli) Chakra

In Central Kundalini Fire.

 

 

1256: Letters in the Chakra Have Great Power

 

Letters in Kundalini Fire are mighty great

Letters in Kundalini Fire arose to heavens,

Letters in Kundalini Fire form a great Chakra

The Way Letters are placed,

I shall now relate.

 

 

1257: How Chakta is Formed

 

Bindu aforesaid with Nadas four,

In the four petals of that Adhara stand as Letters respective

Chant Letters a hundred and forty four times,

They as Chakra form and lofty arise.

 

 

1258: Earth Chakra

 

Bindu letter conjoining Nada Letter

Together fill Muladhara

When Conjoint Letters are thus repeated

They form Earth Chakra.

 

 

1259: Cosmos Chakra Expanded into Five Elements

 

The Earth Chakra expanded,

When the Bindu and Nada conjoint became

That Adhara (Muladhara) to immense distance lengthened,

As Earth the letters thus expanded.

 

 

1260: Elements Earth and Water

 

The Letters arose as Bindu and Nada,

The Letters expanded as Chakra

The Letters lengthened into Element Earth,

The Letters lengthened as Element Water beyond.

 

 

1261: Beyond Appeared Elements Fire, Wind and Sky

 

As Element Water, Chakra lengthened,

Then further as Element Fire,

Then still further as Element Wind

And further beyond as Element Sky.

 

 

1262: Letter for Sky is Ha(m)

 

To speak of Astral Letter,

In Astral Letter are all other letters contained,

Astral letter is "Ha", that is Sivananda Bliss

That the Astral letter, know this.

 

 

1263: Sun Chakra

 

Know this, thus it is the Chakra,

Of five times five Bindu dot is it made;

With Nada the Chakra commences

With letters in the Chambers placed

Thus it is the Sun Chakra.

 

 

1264: Letters of Siva-Sakti and Kundalini

 

"A", and Letters Five that follow*

These six are Letters of Primal One;

The six letters thus formed,

Are Sakti's Letters

The middle Letter of the first Four (Va) aforesaid

Is Letters of Element Fire

Thus it is with these Letters holy.

 

 

1265: The 144 Letters of the Radiant Chakra

 

The Letters of Chakra radiant are a hundred and forty four

The Letters are but the Six Letter Mantra

Whose Central Letter Va to Fire belongs

That Letter central as radiant Fire flames

Thus are the Letters Six, first and last.

 

 

1266: Mystic Moon Sphere Visioned

 

For the birth and death to end

The finite position is for the Sixteen (Vishddhi) and Two (Ajna) to reach

And so when Kundalini that was at base

Ascends and crosses beyond the third center from it (Anahatha)

Then is visioned the Mystic Sphere of the Moon.

 

 

1267: Time Measured by Sun Within and Without

 

There they are to the Goat's Group belong

The days three hundred and sixty;

There they are in fortnights of days fifteen reckoned;

There they come as in the Centers Sixteen are Two Kundalini ascends

There they come as the 'Sphere of the Mystic Sun' within is reached.

 

 

1268: Duration of Day, Month and Year

 

Across the firmament vast

The Sun travels through Zodiac houses twelve,

In time span reckoned

As thirty naligai's in the day,

And in days reckoned as three hundred and sixty

In the full year round.

 

 

1269: Group Distribution of Rasis in Zodiac

 

The Zodiac houses (Rasis) are in three clusters reckoned,

With the Goat (Mesha)* comes its group of three

With the Plough (Rishabha)* comes its group of three

With the Veena (Mithuna)* comes its group of three

Thus are the Rasis in Zodiac in clusters three reckoned.

 

 

1270: How Rasi Chakra is Formed

 

When the Chakra fills the Zodiac,

The Chakra is by Bindu filled,

And when Nada too therein fills

The Rasi Chakra is in Zodiac fixed.

 

 

1271: Formation of Taraka Stellar Chakra

 

The Bindu letters with Nada letters arise,

When in each Adhara the appropriate letters

Bindu and Nada carry out are placed,

Then the Taraka (Stellar) Chakra appears!

 

 

1272: Taraka Chakra is the Support of Sakti

 

When the Chakra as a Star its form thus assumes,

On that Star does a divine light beam,

When on to this Star, Moon and Sun comes

That Star for Sakti support becomes,

Sakti that supports all.

 

 

1273: In That Chakra Arises Dark Smoky Flame

 

In Chakra, Bindu ascends,

In Bindu, Nada ascends,

In Nada, Flame of Fire ascends,

Beyond, appears a Light that is Dark (smoky).

 

 

1274: That Flame Pervaded the Five Elements

 

That Smoky Light enveloped universe all,

It became light of earth, water, fire, wind and sky,

Thus as it flamed and rose together,

As One Divine Light it pervaded everywhere.