TIRUMANTIRAM - TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1773 – 1791 of 2121

TIRUMANTIRAM

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1773 – 1791 of 2121

 

 

7 SIVA LINGAM

 

1773 Siva is Immanent and Transcendent

 

He pervades the roaring waters of the seas

He permeates the spreading winds and flaming fire

Thus is He immanent in all Nature

Yet I know Him not, adore Him not.

 

 

1774 Only Way of Knowing Siva is Worship

 

There is but one way here

Of knowing Him and adoring Him

They who with water and flower chant His name

They shall know Him;

And from them He of the matted lock

Separates not.

 

 

1775 Worship Him as the One Being

 

As the One and Only Being

I saw the Lord,

And full well I adored His Holy Feet,

Subduing my senses five;

And He His blessings granted,

The gracious One, the Lord Primal.

 

 

1776 Linga's Nine Aspects

 

Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa

The five-faced Sadasiva, Bindu and Nada

Sakti and Siva--

All these as Linga His blessings grants,

He is but Nandi that is Para Supreme.

 

 

1777 Rouse Kundalini and reach Supreme State

 

Rouse with the flaming Kundalini

And upward your Prana course;

Halting within the body

The acts of inhalation and exhalation

This, if you, through practice accomplish

You indeed have reached

The Supreme State Divine.

 

 

8 SAMPRADAYA (HOLY ORDINATION)

 

1778 Lord appears as Siva Guru and Baptises the Soul

 

My body, wealth and life,

He took from me as sacrificial offering,

Through ritual appropriate;

He directed his spiritual glance at me

And dispelled my Karma's network to destruction;

And then He laid His hands on me

And planting His Feet on my head

In a trice imparted Spiritual Awareness

And thus my birth's cycle He ended

He, the Nandi,

Through these acts of Diksha, successive.

 

 

1779 Guru works for Disciple's Redemption

 

Life and body, and Prana breath that fleets after,

Siva the mighty and Chit Sakti that consorts

And Param the Truth Supreme

--All these to attain,

Gurupara my redemption worked.

 

 

1780 Guru imparts the Secret Divine

 

To His west (right), He seated me

"Daily on me meditate"--said He,

"That it is but the Truth that lies seated

Between the crown of the head and the palate of the mouth

This the Word True,

Cherish it as secret divine."

 

 

1781 Siva makes Jiva Pure as Himself

 

Indulging in talk indiscriminate

Aimless I wandered;

--Me, He made pure,

All my impurities cleansed

Me and He, to balance brought

--A barter, all to perfection indeed!

 

 

1782 Siva Extricates Jiva from Maya

 

He is the Lord of all life existent,

His true nature they know not,

He extricated me from Maya that separates,

Lo! then I beheld the Lord that is seed of all.

 

 

1783 Siva takes Jiva into Himself

 

Intent on redemption of my body, wealth and life

He sought me and planted His Feet on my head

And with the Grace of Sakti divine He exorcised

My love for the body fleshly;

And He and I as one He made

Intermingling in union inseparate.

 

 

1784 Siva by taking all, Gives All

 

He marked me out his vassal to-be

My life, possessions and body He took as His own;

But as he it was that all my sustenance gave

How dare I say, He took anything from me?

 

 

1785 Ghosts do not know the Truth of Life

 

This body, the Lord within,

The Prana that is breath,

And the Soul that dwells inside

The truth of all these

That to the perishable body pertains

They who know not,

Unto ghosts of the dead they are.

 

 

1786 Know the Finite Truth

 

They the Awareness have, see worlds all,

They the Awareness have, know sorrows none,

When they that Awareness have truly realized,

They indeed have the Truth Finite seen.

 

 

1787 Woken from the Primordial Turiya State,

 

Wandering in the Bodily State--

Active in the Sakala State

With Tattvas six times six,

On them whose souls have thus roamed,

Nandi His Grace bestowed;

What shall I say of His greatness infinite!

 

 

1788 Siva and Jiva are inseparable

 

There is approach none as I and You;

Like body and life inseparate are We;

Together are We like the heavens and the heavenly beings;

Like the honey and its sweetness that I do savour.

 

 

1789 Knower becomes the Known

 

He and he knows Him not;

If he knows Him, then Knower is he not;

If he knows Him

Then he the Knower and He the Known

Become but one.

 

 

1790 Lord's Infinite Bounty

 

As life and body alike feel

He in me stood in identity full;

Bounteous as He is unto the rains from heavens,

I with the heavenly Lord, one became.

 

 

1791 Lord wrought Me to Perfection

 

Himself as Being Supreme

He stood not apart from me;

That the Lord Knows;

Unto the body and life are We;

This the truth;

He to perfection wrought me

He the Lord of Immortals.