Tirumantiram - TANTRA Four Verses 1015 - 1030 of 1418

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Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA Four  Verses  1015 - 1030 of 1418

 

 

4 NAVAGUNADAM (NINE SACRIFICIAL PITS)

 

1015: The Nine Sacrificial Pits are Blessed

 

To recount greatness of sacrificial pits nine is thus:

In sacrificial pits nine,

Will blaze the blessed fire;

In the sacrificial pits nine

Will arise all things goodly;

Thus shall I speak of sacrificial pits nine.

 

 

1016: Shapes of Sacrificial Pits

 

The sacrificial pit is triangle-shaped;

It is square shaped, pentagon shaped;

And hexagon shaped, triangle upon triangle made;

Other pits that blaze in fire, we later relate.

 

 

1017: Pervasiveness of Kundalini Fire

 

Breath through Sushumna coursing,

Kundalini fire blazed aloft;

Light on top emanated,

Pervaded world,

And engulfed entire cosmic space

That I saw in me, and sought within.

 

 

1018: Power of Sacrificial Fire

 

Becoming the Light within the Light

That from the sacrificial pit arises,

You attain the power,

To create and dissolve worlds twice seven;

The truth that is spread

Over extensive Vedas ancient,

I here state explicit

In one single book.

 

 

1019: The Sixteen Kalas are in the Sacred Fire

 

In the sacrificial pit thus formed,

The sixteen kalas luminous

Will sixteen points occupy;

Those who can see that Fire within

The broiling Pasas will not touch.

 

 

1020: The Glow of the Triangular Pit

 

In the triangular pit within (Muladhara), and without

The Five Letters stand dancing in Fire

The humming orbs of Zodiac, twelve, will appear;

A resplendent Light it is

For those who seek.

 

 

1021: Holy Effects of Sacrificial Fire

 

The head and face will glow in a halo of light,

On the hand, Fire will appear if so they will

The glowing body trembling and shaking

Will give forth the shining Linga

Goodly indeed is worship of sacrificial Fire-pit!

Thus said Sakti Divine.

 

 

1022: Sakti Affirms Sacredness of Sacrificial Fire

 

"Goodly" She said, Our Lady of esteem high;

"That the Word" (Five letter), said She,

Who radiant from head to foot in tenderness stood;

They who do not ask of Her,

Though learned unto roots of learning,

Yet are in confusion distracted.

 

 

1023: With Fire in Pit Kundalini Fire Also Shot Forth

 

The sacrificial pit takes the shape of

Shining-bow and crescent moon;

The tongues of Fire shot forth

Unto mythical serpents from directions eight;

And Kundalini too with its petals four

In me flamed,

Filling my inside with radiant light.

 

 

1024: Sacrificial Fire Reaches Dancing Siva

 

The Fire reached Feet of Dancing Siva,

It flowed as water of worship at His Feet;

It reached the mighty arms eight of Dancer

That fills universe entire;

It reached the fire in the Fore-head eye of Lord.

 

 

1025: Sacrificial Fire is Siva Himself

 

The Three-eyed Lord is Fire entire;

The Lord of self-same eye,

Engulfed universe entire;

With eyes in directions all,

He sees directions eight;

He is Lord, my Father,

And for all lives everywhere.

 

 

1026: God Kanda Arose Out of Lord's Fire

 

Out of my Father arose six orbs of Fire

The six Faces before Him appeared;

The God Kanda in Him is intermingled;

And so is He His Son;

Thus do you in understanding connect.

 

 

1027: When Lord is Visioned in Ajna (Eye-Brow Center)

 

Within the sacrificial pit, that is Muladhara,

Arises the Vedic Fire that is Kundalini,

When controlled breath through Sushumna in unison flows,

The two petals in Ajna Center open;

Then with trembling hands

Folded into one they rise;

They who thus worship and vision,

Are verily Celestials of Light Divine.

 

 

1028: Lord is Light Divine

 

As goodly Light, He pervades worlds all,

Latent as sparkle in gem,

He is immanent in all;

For all those who sought Him as Light of Divine Word

He stood as beacon light on hill top,

And as the light within the eye too.

 

 

1029: The Hexagonal Sacrificial Pit Within

 

This sacrificial pit within

Is a hexagon of six Adhara formed;

In its circle Tattvas six times six,

Trembling arises;

With these Tattvas under your command,

You can ascend into very Heavens high.

 

 

1030: Form of Sacrificial God

 

Three His feet, Seven His hands,

Two His faces, six His eyes,

Seven His tongues, four His horns

Thus does He rise from the Sacrificial Fire Pit

He the one that no end knows.

 

 

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