English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular
TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1044 – 2066 of 2121
34 WAYS OF UNHOLY GURU
2044 The Unholy Guru Has Virtues None
A fool he is,
Wisdom none he has;
Truth he has realized not;
Versed is he not in the way
Of Vedas and Agamas;
Humility he has none;
Of God he speaks ill;
Worldly life is his sole concern;
He, verily, is the Guru unholy.
2045 The Unholy is only in Search of Food
Mantra, Tantra, Mahayoga and Jnana,
Bondage, and Mukti
--These they seek to know, the holy ones;
The Gurus unholy
Them, they seek not;
Doubts they clear not;
Food are they in search of,
Verily blind are they.
2046 The Unholy Guru is Bereft of Knowledge
Fool is he,
A big fool is he;
The Way of Becoming he knows not;
A vile fellow that is not of passions rid,
To vile men he teaches things vile;
Bereft of knowledge,
He no teacher exalted is;
--The Guru unholy.
2047 The False Guru is an Enemy to Himself and World
If without driving away
The illusory thoughts
That imagination breeds,
A teacher teaches,
He will in divinity lose faith;
Unto his own self an enemy be;
For the king and the kingdom an evil be;
--Thus has Nandi of yore declared.
2048 The Blind Leading the Blind Together Fall
The blind (the unholy Guru), who lead the blind (foolish disciples)
Will into the eternal pit first fall;
Then the foolish disciples too fall;
And in the end in disorder together they fall,
--The blind that lead and the blind that are led--
Indistinguishably, jumbled in one.
35 WAYS OF HOLY GURU
2049 Holy Guru Leads Disciple to Truth
Placing his feet on my head
The Master blesses me;
He is Guru Holy;
He, my self-realization, works;
He takes the Jiva to the State beyond Tattvas;
He subdues my Pasas,
All these he performs
--He that is Truth itself.
2050 What the Holy Guru does for His Disciples
From their Karmas, he extricated his disciples
Blessing them with his feet on their head,
He drove away their evil stars;
The messengers of Death
He kept at bay from them;
The miseries of unending birth
He ended for them.
2051 He Takes Them to the Bourne From Which They Return Not
The black iron, transmuted into gold,
To black iron returns not;
Even unto it,
He who once the Guru's grace received
Does not to birth return.
2052 Holy Guru Does not Exult in Vain Contentions
He liberates you from Pasas;
He removes your Malas, entire;
He makes you seek the Lord in love;
--Such are the Gurus Holy, blemishless;
They who in contention exult
Are no Gurus enlightened.
2053 Holy Guru Assesses Worth of His Disciples
He is a pure being
He is so endearing;
He can give you love,
That is from Malas free;
He is immortal,
He is holy;
He assesses the worth of his disciples;
And on those who are impurity rid,
He bestows his grace;
He, the Master High.
2054 By His Alchemic Touch Jiva Becomes Siva
All that the alchemist touches
Turns into gold;
Even, unto it,
The Jivas blessed by Guru
Siva become,
Freed from Malas Triple.
2055 Holy Guru is Siva in Flesh
The Holy Guru
As Siva Himself stands;
In his presence
Jiva, his self-realization attains
If you, your self-realization seek,
Think of him, within,
As Siva in fleshly body.
2056 Follow Holy Guru and Reach the Great Way
The Way of birth,
The Way of death,
The Way of Maya;
The Way they have not seen
Who the birth's Way saw;
The Great Way that Nandi speaks of
That Way you can reach
If your Holy Guru you follow.
2057 Holy Guru Leads to Lord
He is Guru Holy,
Who, entranced in bliss
The Vedas and Agamas speaks of,
Enters into Siva Yoga;
And all thoughts stilled,
Removes the bondage of Pasa
And leads you to Lord.
2058 Holy Guru Imparts Nature of Truth
He reveals the Real (Sat), the Unreal (Asat) and the Real-Unreal (Sat-Asat);
He takes Chit (Jiva) and Achit (Tattvas) into Siva-Para;
The words the blessed Guru speak
Are blissful,
Beyond Pure (Suddha) and (Asuddha) Impure.
2059 True Disciples Adore Holy Guru
By Pasa's sensations, the Five Malas arise;
Adoring feet of Guru in love intense,
Purified in Turiya Awareness Three
They the Supreme State attain;
They alone are Sadhakas true.
2060 Jiva Subsiding in Silentness in Self Ascends to Siva-State
Powerful are the senses,
From them arise pleasure sensations;
If Jiva, in silence, subsides in Self
And ascends high,
It shall reach Siva-State;
All, but play of Siva and Sakti.
2061 From Jiva's Birth to its Final Emancipation--It is All Lord's Work
Consigning Jiva to birth's sorrows,
Rescuing it by ministrations gentle,
Assigning it positions appropriate,
Baptising it in Jnana,
Redeeming it,
And in Mukti establishing it,
And in the end,
Placing it in Mystic Silentness (Mauna)
--All these are but Lord's work.
2062 Lord's Play in the Arena of Jiva's Body
The fleshly body is arena of Lord's Play,
He imparts to Jiva,
Knowledge clear of Chit and Achit,
Purifies him,
Wipes off the Malas
And consigns him to the Sat (Real),
Unto Himself the Five Acts to perform;
--These the Play of Lord's Grace.
2063 Love for Lord Takes You to Siva State
Beyond the state of Isatva (Siva State)
Nothing there is;
Realizing this,
Continue ever, in love intense, for Lord;
My Lord is the Pure One
Who in love abides;
He it is,
Who illumined directions all.
2064 Divine State Ends Birth's Cycle
In the sphere (of cranium)
Where the garland of scarlet rubies glows,
He the unalloyed Gold,
There stood;
The divine nectar welled up there;
They who swilled it,
Ended their birth's cycle;
They who did not
Remained but to gormandize.
2065 Lord Attaches Mayas to Jiva for Attainment of True Knowledge
The Sat, Asat, and the Sat-Asat to free,
The Pasa's bonds here to sunder,
He activated Mayas Two--Suddha and Asuddha--
And to Jiva, He them attached,
And imparted the peerless Light of Knowledge, too,
He, the Lord.
2066 Siva is the Supreme Guru
The way of Adhara ascending scorches Malas,
The endless chanting of His name dispells Darkness (of Ignorance)
Harass the Pasa, Jiva a heir to,
Thus do you liberation seek;
The Lord, forsooth, is the Guru Supreme.
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