English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular
TANTRA FIVE – Verses 1550 - 1572 of 1572
19 NIRAKARAM (DISSENSION REFUTED)
1550: Who Attained Divine Tranquility
The Heavenly Beings, immortal as the mountain Himalayas,
Received the Darshanas that are Six;
"We learned them all and attained the Other World"
-Thus quote they;
But, in sooth,
The Primal Lord is in intimacy within
Of those that have Divine Tranquility attained.
1551: Worship Siva and Siva Become
They who bow their head at the Feet of Lord
Of spreading matted locks and Konrai bloom bedecked,
They shall, like unto Him, become;
But they that yearn not for Him in constant eagerness
Shall be in sorrow immersed,
Sighing eternal here below.
1552: Worship Brings Immortal Life
Despair not!
You that thus sit and bewail
And you that have lost your better nature!
Seek Lord in penance true,
The Heavens' Lord shall wipe your tears away,
And grant you Greatness;
And you shall then know births no more.
1553: Lord is Unto Gentle Rain
Who seeks Finite Truth
They His friend are;
Who does not seek Him
They but know the Worldly Men's Misery-Way,
Enveloped in darkness of bondage
In vain shall they be born again and again;
Who seeks Path True
To them, the Lord is unto richly laden clouds
That drops gentle rain of Heavenly Grace.
1554: Lord Guides the Boat of Life
The Boat of Life
By Divine Wisdom guided
Discharges quick its cargo
At the City Ancient;
Having seen that unerring prospect
These wretched men of ignoble deeds
Think not of His Holy Feet,
In devotion replete.
1555: Lord is Within You
The Only Being, the Eternal Being
Within you He dwells;
When you say so,
These ignorant men laugh low;
Poor folk! if they but seek Him in prayer within
Then shall they meet Him-the Peerless One.
1556: Who Pursued False Faiths
They wake not to Inner Light of Aum within;
And joy not in ego-effaced bliss ensuing
They wot not of approaching death,
They seek not end of recurring birth,
Lo! they pursued the unending path of contending faiths,
And stood forlorn, for ever lost in faith false.
20 INNER FAITHS
1557: Lord Pervades All Six Inner Faiths
He is the Ancient One,
He created the beings of earth and heaven,
In days of yore, in Order Divine;
The Six Faiths seek the Feet
But of the One Primal Peerless God;
And in them all He pervades
In measure appropriate.
1558: All Faiths Lead but to Lord
One, the Great City,
Six, the roads that lead to it;
Thus are Faiths Six;
They that contend, "This true; That false"
Are unto the dog that in ire barks
To its own echo at hilly side.
1559: Come, Stand Apart and Seek Lord
He is the incomparable Lord
Of the magnificient path of Saivam;
He is Nandi of Divine Lustre
That breaths the eternal life of Grace;
Beloved is He of the truly great;
The Lord of all universe, the source of all Joy;
Come, stand apart, seek, realize,
And be redeemed.
1560: "You Are He"-Is the Teaching of True Path
Siva laid the divine path ancient
That leads to the Home Eternal
Seek Him that way;
And know you are He
You shall duly find Him within yourself.
1561: The True Path is Through Kundalini
The Six Faiths that profess the means to Becoming
Are by themselves but blind alleys all;
No good comes by following them alone;
The true path of Becoming for all life to pursue
Is but the path of divine Kundalini Sakti,
The blossom-vine that through Six centers courses.
1562: Lord Ever Guides
Now have I realized the Path of Hara;
In the past I sought Him in narrow paths
And strayed;
Lo! all the while He stood before me
Like a beacon light in firmament
Guiding my voyage
Across the sea of my Soul's longing.
1563: Siva Path is Proven Path
The Path of Siva is the proven path
It led them to Hara;
It is the royal path that renowned Souls had walked;
The Path Divine
That took the devout to Cosmic Space;
That path, do seek,
Enter and persevere.
1564: Vision of Light Effulgent in Saiva Path
Still your wandering thoughts;
Chant sacred syllable "Si"
And so persevere in Path of Hara
You shall envision Primal Light Effulgent.
1565: Vision Through Saiva Path
He that belongs to the Lady of Lightning Form
He that belongs to the Vedic Fire of Brahmins
He that belongs to them that think of Him
He, the Primal Lord
He, the tender shoot of Jnana,
When you glimpse His loving signs,
Then have you walked in Path of Siva.
1566: Adoration of Siva is Bliss
They that discriminated not
Knew not Hara's Path;
Their souls in myriad machinations caught,
The Truth saw not;
They that followed Hara's Path
Of a certain reached His Feet of Grace,
And joyed the Bliss, all senses uplifted.
1567: Saiva Path was Laid by Holy Nandi
The Holy Nandi, the acclaimed Master of Saiva Faith
Has showed a Way-the Master's way of Redemption;
That, divine Path of Saiva
He did chalk out for those here below
To walk in Sanmarga's trail
And be for ever free.
1568: Attune to Infinity
This the right Faith, that the true Faith
When my Lord Nandi thus sees
Mad men in two contend
He smiles in pity;
What though the form of Faith?
What though the place of Birth?
They with mind to infinity attuned
Sure enter the City of God.
1569: Siva is Inclusive of Jiva
Siva has faces five
And with His downward looking visage for Jiva,
He has faces six in all;
The Lord by Himself All
Sports the garland of heads
That verily is the Human Aspect
Of the Godly One.
1570: Lord is Beginning and End
The Primal Lord spanned the worlds seven
He stands as the sea and the myriad life here below,
And with Parasakti pervades all
In Union that no separateness knows
Verily, God is the Beginning and End of All.
1571: The Path of Siva Leads to Bliss
The immortal Beings, Devas and Vidyadaras,
Sought after Him, but knew Him not;
But pursuing the proven path of Siva
I reached His Feet of Grace to adore
And so realized the bliss of Here and Hereafter.
1572: Macrocosm in Microcosm-A Mystery
Baffling indeed is the mystery of Life's Goal
Baffling it is, why into the six systems was it made;
A baffling mystery far,
How into the shedding sheaths of this body microcosm
Got imprinted a veritable macrocosm.
TANTRA FIVE ENDS
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