Tirumantiram - TANTRA Four Verses 931 - 950 of 1418

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Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA Four  Verses  931 - 950 of 1418

 

 

931: Siva and Sakti Interchange Their Bija Mantra States

 

The Lord is seated in His Consort's Letter (Sauh)

The Lady is seated in Her Lord's Letter (Hum)

When thus the Two are in amity seated

The holy beings comrehend the meaning inner.

 

 

932: Linga Chakra

 

Describe Letter "A"

Above it inscribe "Hara"

Further above Place Letter "E"

Then is Linga Form shaped;

Center your mind on it

And course your breath above,

You shalt vision indeed

The Dance of Divine Light.

 

 

933: Au and Sau are Mantras of Siva-Sakti Union

 

There is Letter Hau

There is Letter Sau

In them are comprehended all;

How they entwined are,

None knows;

They who know this union mystery

Are indeed blessed

Of both, Sakti and Sadasiva.

 

 

934: Panchakshara Chakra

 

Letter-Five is seat of Nandi

Letter-Five is Holy Mantra

Letter-Five is Divine Chakra

Letter-Five is Lord's abode.

 

 

935: Chant Letter of Dance—Si

 

How do you see the Dancer?

Many are the ways;

Chant first Letter of Dance (Si),

Thou with Dancer will one in thought be;

That the way to see the Dancer truly.

 

 

936: Chant Om and Rouse Kundalini

 

Kindle the Fire (Kundalini) where it dormant lies

Chant letter "OM" that in Kundalini is,

The Lord of Vedas stands in there

You His friend in there become.

 

 

937: Chant "Ma" of Grace--Sakti

 

She Herself Grace grants

If upward you lift Kundalini;

She Herself granting Grace

High above in Sahasrara places thee;

There do you chant Her syllable "Ma"

You shall indeed be placed

As unto a gem of ray serene.

 

 

938: Lord Revealed His First Letter "Si"

 

The North beamed in radiant light

There stood Lord of Devas (Indra) crowned in diadem bright;

And the Lord revealed His letter "Si"

Sparkling as rays within gem pure,

It beamed aloft for all to see

Unto a light set on mountain top.

 

 

939: The Lord is Uncreated

 

Himself He stands as the Soft Light Uncreated,

Himself He stands as the Vedas Self-Existent,

Chant His uplifting attributes

Himself He reveals,

The Sage Unborn of Vedas.

 

 

940: Lord of Vedas in Letter-Five

 

He, Lord of Vedas, gave us this birth,

That we might the Lord of Vedas become;

The Lord of Vedas stood within Letter-Five;

The Lord of Vedas is Himself Letter-Five.

 

 

941: Five-Letter Form of Siva

 

His Feet are Letter "Na"

His navel is Letter "Ma"

His shoulders are Letter "Si"

His mouth Letter "Va"

His cranial center aloft is Letter "Ya"

--Thus Five-Letter Form of Siva is.

 

 

942: See Lord in Five-Letter

 

Of greatness thus are Letters two and three,

And in it as His Radiant Form Nandi shone;

See Him as Letter "OM"

Wide He spreads unto Ocean Vast.

 

 

943: Power of Five-Letter Mantra

 

That Mantra spread everywhere

That Mantra its boon grants to lives all,

Do you chant it appropriate,

All hostility that harasses you shall flee;

It is the Mantra that makes you mighty and strong;

That Mantra do you invoke chanting OM.

 

 

944: Vision Divine Dance

 

Chanting Om

Invoke Holy Nandi;

Chanting "Na"

Kindle Kundalini Fire,

The goal to reach;

Make it blaze;

They who know Him thus

Verily saw Divine Dance,

For ever steeped in ecstasy.

 

 

945: Fifty-One Letters are Five-Letters Also

 

In Chakra that is designed

Are Letters Five in places appropriate;

There stands He the Para Para

Who the Fifty One Letters fills.

 

 

946: Sivayanama

 

Inscribe Letters Five Si Va Ya Na Ma;

In the next row place Letters Ya Na Va Si Ma;

Further on place the letters in order thus:

Ma Va Ya Na Si; Si Ya Na Ma Va;

And Va Si Ma Ya Na

Thus do the Five Letters in Chakra permuted stand.

 

 

947: Five Letters are the Five Elements and Five Colors

 

The Letters that stood thus

Are the Elements Five;

The Letters that stood thus

Are the Colors Five;

If Letters stood in order appropriate

He stood within the Letters, for sure.

 

 

948: Chakra Leads to Nandi's Grace

 

Thus stood Chakra;

And thus did it extend,

To the four corners of earth;

And thus did Lord stand in Celestial arena

He, Master of comely Maya Land;

And from Nandi flowed Milk of Grace

As from mother-cow unto calf;

Nandi, who stands high aloft Mount Kailas.

 

 

949: Significance of Chakra

 

Within this Chakra is much good that comes

Within this Chakra are Names Five

This Chakra is Letter-Five of Dancer Divine

This Chakra is where Dance Divine incessant goes on.

 

 

950: Yantra for Siva Mantra

 

In the Space Center (Eye-brow)

There mark letter "A"

At the top of cranium place letter "U"

Surround with letter "ma"

On its "leg" place Bindu letter "Si"

On its "horn" place Nada letter "Va"

This the Siva Mantra,

You clear shall know.