TIRUMANTIRAM - TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1892 – 1909 of 2121

TIRUMANTIRAM

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1892 – 1909 of 2121

 

 

17 MUDRA VARIATIONS

 

1892 Significance of Mudra

 

The Mudra is to transcend avastas eleven,

Fix awareness on Silent Letter Pranava (Aum)

That the Way is;

And reach the Holy Feet of Nandi;

And all desires worldly quelled

You attain Mukti divine.

 

 

1893 Mudras--Sambhavi and Kecari

 

In the palatal place where the three Turiya states of awareness subsume,

Insert your tongue inward, and there contain it;

Thus practise the Mudras, Sambhavi and Kecari

Divine Jnana's light to flood.

 

 

1894 Sambhavi Mudra brings Grace and Kecari Jnana

 

Sambhavi Mudra brings Nandi's glance

In Grace abounding and birth ending;

Kecari true where Aum is in silence chanted

Is the Mudra that divine Jnana brings;

That the one I practise, as Natha (Guru) divine.

 

 

1895 Mauna Mudra Leads to Mukti Final

 

He who appears in Adharas is Sadasiva;

He who appears in Jnana is the goodly Siva;

In the silence of Mauna Mudra, Siva's form disappears;

That verily is the Mukti Finale, the Ultima Thule.

 

1896 Mauna is Stillness of Both Thought and Speech

 

 

To attain stillness of Speech and Thought at once is mauna

Mauna sans Speech alone

Is but state of dumbness;

Only when Speech and Thought are alike in mauna

Are you in State Suddha (Perfection)

Who but knows

That Suddha state to bring about?

 

 

1897 Yoga Mudra and Jnana Mudra

 

Sambhavi is the lion among Yoga Mudras

That leads certain to Siddhis eight;

When Jnana Mudra you seek

Appropriate indeed is Kecari

That by Vedas lauded high.

 

 

1898 Yogi attains Nada State

 

Yogi attains siddhis eight

He experiences the divine Nada State;

He is of Karma rid

He is of calm mind

He pursues the Four Ends of Human Goal,

He courses the Sakti Kundalini

Through centres six within the body;

That way he reaches the One

And union in Him attains.

 

 

1899 Yoga is the Pure Way of Siddhanta-Vedanta

 

The Yogic way of Dvadasa

But leads to Sodasa Kala Prasada

It sunders desires;

This the pure way of Vedanta-Siddhanta;

To meditate on the Mantra that begins with "Na" (Nama Sivaya)

That verily is Suddha (pure) Saivam.

 

 

1900 All Mudras firm up breath

 

The Mudra that is Mauna

Is the Mudra for those Mukti seek;

The Mudra that is Jnana (Kecari)

Is the Mudra for those who Gurus be;

Mudra that draws nectar of Grace is the Mudra

That is Siddhanta (Sambhave)

Mudras all firm up breath,

That Siva Truth, of yore revealed.

 

 

1901 Pure Vision inside Cranium

 

In the Sushumna Nadi Central

The Lord's Holy Feet will appear;

The lotus center (Sahasrara),

Within a Golden Sphere is;

Beyond, the upward course (of Kundalini) lifts you

To the Moon's Sphere that is white;

And there you vision the Pure One.

 

 

18 PERFECT (CAVE WAY) SEPULCHRAL MADE OF SAMADHI

 

1902 Soul's Journey after Yoga-Samadhi Attained

 

When the Yogi his mortal coil shuffles,

During the phase the Crescent moon waxes

He (the soul) shall reach the world of Devas;

There for a while abiding,

Into the Sphere of Sun he subsides;

Thence He reaches the Sphere

Where the Souls of Ancestors dwell;

And from there, finally in the Sphere of Moon, he abides.

 

 

1903 When Samadhi is not Reached

 

All these of the Yogi,

This life in Samadhi ended;

When that does happen not,

He will in this world take refuge again,

And by Lord's Grace

Resume Yoga in practice continual

And thus complete the undertaking, unfinished.

 

 

1904 Siddha-Hood

 

Thus in the world they will be

And in Siva Yoga again be;

And as Siva Yogin in Bindu merge,

Many miraculous powers attain,

The Siddha-hood their fleshly body reaching.

 

 

1905 Continuity of Yoga through lives

 

While in the pursuit of Yoga

If Siva Yogins, holy, die,

They reach the World of Tapas

Only to this world return

And to Yoga repair;

Blessed indeed are they,

Whom the Beings Celestial praise high.

 

 

1906 Mauna Samadhi Leads to the Unitive State

 

If Sivayogi gives up life,

In mauna Samadhi he enters

To seek the state unitive;

He will not in another body be born,

Nor as Jivan Mukta return

Conscious of here below;

But with Lord get united in one.

 

 

1907 Siddhas even when Dead in Body are Alive in Awareness

 

Blessed indeed are those who die

If in death they unite one with Lord;

Then, even dead, alive are they;

They who are dead unto the Impurities Three

Are Siddhas true.

Siva they become.

 

 

1908 Jnani Shapes Disciple towards God-hood

 

Who intense seek the Grace of Lord Exalted

Their birth to sunder,

He himself draws them

Into the fold of His devotees dear;

Unto it, the Jnani draws unto him

His disciples, in love abounding,

In his own way subtle,

Toward Godhood, He shapes them.

 

 

1909 Jnani Exists in Siva's Pervasiveness

 

The heart of Siva Jnani overflows in Grace;

He sees Siva everywhere;

He feels His presence pervasive;

Fragmented may be the sky you see;

But all space it engulfs;

Unto it, the Jnani,

Though rid of consciousness here,

One with Siva pervasive exists.