Tirumantiram - TANTRA FIVE – Verses 1477 - 1494 of 1572

Tirumantiram

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

TANTRA FIVE – Verses 1477 - 1494  of 1572

 

 

9 SANMARGA (PATH OF KNOWLEDGE)

 

1477: San Marga

 

They glimpsed the Light of Holy Scriptures,

The revealed word of the Self-Existent Sivam.

They lost the sense of ego,

Became Siddhas of SivaYoga,

And over Death triumphed;

Only they that had thus evolved

Knew meaning inner of Sanmarga.

 

 

1478: Nandi Showed Sanmarga Path

 

The peerless Master Nandi

Of Saivam honoured high,

He showed us a holy path

For Souls' redemption true

It is Siva's divine path, Sanmarga's path

For all world to tread

And for ever be free.

 

 

1479: Guru Adoration is Sanmarga

 

To see him, to adore him, to meditate on him

To touch him, to sing of him,

To bear his holy feet on humbled head,

They that render devotion to Guru

In diverse ways thus,

They indeed walk the Sanmarga path

That to liberation leads.

 

 

1480: Sanmarga Gives the Vision True

 

They that have true Vision none,

Shall never Siva know;

Nor shall even Jivas be;

Nor indeed Siva become;

Never, never their birth's bondage broken be.

 

 

1481: Sanmarga Leads to Supreme Grace-Bliss

 

When you scorch Impurities five

And listen to the Voice of Silence

You become a pure Mukta;

And I and You in one merge;

And by the unsullied Grace Jnana grants

You shall joy of the Bliss Divine;

Verily, then by Sanmarga Path

You become He indeed .

 

 

1482: Greatness of Sanmargis

 

The visage of Sanmargi is Pedestal of Sakti

Where Sanmargi is there God is,

To see assemblage of Sanmargis is to vision Lord,

This I proclaim,

To whatsoever path you do incline.

 

 

1483: Sanmarga Path Purest

 

Alone of all paths

Sanmarga grants God-head through knowledge;

The rest of paths are for un-illumined;

Renouncing the ways of impurities

And transcending limits of Turiya

It merges I in You;

Verily, Sanmarga is Path Purest.

 

 

1484: Other Three Paths Open of Themselves

 

Unto that rare seeker in Sanmarga path

The rest of three paths, of themselves open;

That alone is True Path union with Siva seeks;

Seek that Path

As Guiding Word scriptures proclaim.

 

 

1485: Sanmargi's Vision

 

The bondage that keeps Jiva an alien to God,

The Karmas that flow from it,

The avastas that the Self experiences,

The Primordial Stuff that is Matter's nucleus,

The Consciousness that entwines it,

The million, million mutations that pervade the universe,

They who see them all and their own Selves

Verily are they the Sanmargis true.

 

 

1486: Sanmarga Leads to Svarupa State

 

Rending the Soul's bonds asunder

Conjoining him to the Lord

Melting the heart that knew no melting

Merging into the Primal Manifestness (Svarupa)

That is Truth Eternal

Sanmarga verily gives Jiva

The rest that knows no commotion ever.

 

 

1487: Sanmarga is Only Path to Finite Goal

 

That alone is Path Divine

The Sanmargis for Goal ordain;

Other Path there is none,

Than this path to the One;

They that straight reach it not,

Through Yoga's Path may yet climb.

 

 

10 SAHAMARGA (PATH OF YOGA)

 

1488: Sahamarga Leads to Sanmarga*3Sahamarga (Yoga) blossoms into Sanmarga,

 

ThThrough Siddhi it leads to Supreme Mukti;

It is the Path lower to Sanmarga,

Involving myriad birth and death

But eventually landing in Jnana Finite.

 

 

1489: Without Sahamarga They Lost All

 

They that follow not twelve-tiered Path of Sahamarga,

Neither will they know Guru nor God, nor Faith True;

The Goddess of Grace will frown at them;

Salvation shall never their portion be;

And they do lose both-

Their stature and kith.

 

 

1490: Fruits of Yoga Samadhi

 

In Yoga Samadhi is Space Infinite;

In Yoga Samadhi is Light Abiding;

In Yoga Samadhi is Sakti Omnipotent;

They that joy in Yoga Samadhi

Are verily Siddhas great.

 

 

1491: Yoga Confers Blessings of Here and Hereafter

 

Both yoga and bhoga, yogis may have;

Through yoga is attained Siva's Form divine;

Through bhoga all earthly blessings;

Thus may he enjoy both-he, Yogi immortal.

 

 

1492: Yoga Leads to Supreme Awareness

 

Through this path of Sahamarga

The Yogis pierce the Adharas

And the Nadis they purify;

Envision the Kalas sixteen,

And glimpse their heavenly radiance;

And then are they merged in Awareness Supreme

Their organs of sense, internal and external,

All atrophied.

 

 

1493: Siva is in Yogi's Thought

 

He harries and subdues the conflicting senses five

With the sharp sword of his determinate will;

In his thought emerges Lord

Whom the eighteen Ganas seek;

Verily, the yogi deserves our obeisance.

 

 

1494: Love Basis of Yoga

 

Even for the Yogi austere

Who attains the glossy hue of the rich ripe fruit

The Lord is hard of shell unto the wood-apple fruit,

But to them whose hearts ripe in love,

And taste the sweets of divine rapture,

He opens all of Himself

Unto a rich fruit mature.