TIRUMANTIRAM - TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1792 – 1813 of 2121

TIRUMANTIRAM

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA SEVEN - Verses 1792 – 1813 of 2121

 

 

9 PLACING OF GRACE

 

1792 Truth is Indivisible

 

Darkness (ignorance) and Light (knowledge)

Are the states two;

Life and body are the forms two;

Dharma and penance are the graces two;

Truth is but the blessing within.

 

 

1793 Pray and receive Divine Light

 

Elusive is He for us to see;

Beyond our Thoughts is He, the Nandi,

Distant is He to touch and feel,

Pray long in the light of your heart,

The darkness that envelops you dispelled stands.

 

 

1794 God's Grace Leads to illumination

 

In the hint of His grace,

All universe shall be revealed to you;

When the darkness of ignorance lifts,

The Great one stands revealed;

When you seek Him,

Your swarming thoughts on Him centered,

You shall see the light of Jnana,

And thus immortal become.

 

 

1795 Lord Knows His Devotees in Time

 

In ignorance my time rolled on;

Yet my Lord will in time know me;

By their light of Knowledge and love intense

He will know them,

He the Bounteous One.

 

 

1796 Lord, of Himself, will Know You

 

Himself will know me,

When my Karmas perish;

I know not when; but Nandi will;

Do melt in piety

And reach divine Consciousness;

Sweet unto honey is our Lord of Immortals.

 

 

1797 If I do not Know Lord who else shall?

 

I have known the Lord from days bygone

But the Celestials knew Him not,

Doubt-tossed were they;

The Lord is the Light

In my fleshly body as Prana pulsates

If I know Him not, who else will?

 

 

1798 Grace is All

 

They know not the measure of Grace

That is pervasive all;

They know not the ambrosial sweetness

That from Grace flows;

They think not of the Five Acts

That Grace subtle performs;

Who knows how all-pervasive is Grace, indeed!

 

 

1799 Various Acts of Lord's Grace

 

To seek the Divine Light

He grants the light of knowledge;

He infuses the organs of sense

With desire

And leads you to enlightenment;

He then seats you

In the midst of the devout and holy;

They who His Grace thus received,

Verily became Siva themselves.

 

 

1800 From Birth to Liberation--All Acts of Grace

 

In His Grace was I born,

In His Grace I grew up;

In His Grace I rested in death;

In His Grace I was in obfuscation;

In His Grace I tasted of ambrosial bliss;

In His Grace, Nandi, my heart entered.

 

 

1801 More Acts of Grace

 

By His Grace was I bathed in the ocean of nectar;

By His Grace He rested His Feet on me

By His grace He granted the fervour of devotion

By His Grace He fed me the bliss that is ambrosial

By His Grace, Nandi my heart entered.

 

 

1802 Grace Grants Mukti and Beyond

 

It was His grace that led me into Pasa

It was His Grace that freed me from that Pasa

It was His grace that in divine love granted Mukti

It was His Grace that granted me the love

For the State beyond Mukti.

 

 

1803 Lord is of Infinite Grace

 

Of infinite Grace is the Lord

Who my birth's bonds sundered;

Of the holiest of holy is Nandi

He is the Dharmic sea;

The Pure One;

The Primal Lord

In amity my heart entered.

 

 

1804 Nandi entered my Heart and made me Sivam

 

In my heart He entered, grace abounding;

Even if He is in there,

Those devoid of Grace know Him not;

Entering the heart,

He filled me with bliss;

As Sivam, he made me

As Nandi my heart entered,

And I blissful became.

 

 

1805 Bounties of Lord's Grace

 

He gave me the intelligence that reasons

He gave me the senses that Maya inscrutable fashions

He gave the five elements

And the diverse sense organs

And the Five Acts of Grace

--All these are but the bounties of His Grace.

 

 

1806 All Phenomenon is manifestations of Grace

 

All manifestations of Nature are His Grace

All animate and inanimate are His Pure Grace

As darkness, as light, the Lord's Grace pervades,

All, all are but the Grace of His Form manifest.

 

 

1807 The Nine God Forms are of Siva

 

Siva, Sakti, the luminous Nada and Bindu

The five-faced Sadasiva holy,

Mahesa, Rudra, Mal and the lotus-seated Brahma

--All these forms nine

He assumes.

 

 

1808 Grace Gives Divine Vision

 

They whose eyes are blind

See not the sun even;

They that have vision divine

See the light everywhere;

They who have not the vision of Grace

See not the Lord that is Truth Subtle;

They that have the vision of Grace

See Hara face to face.

 

 

1809 Lord Alone Performs the Five Acts

 

Himself creates; Himself preserves

Himself destroys; Himself obscures

Himself, all these He does

And grants Mukti after;

Himself the all-immanent Lord.

 

 

1810 The Form, Formless and Form-Formless Aspects of Siva

 

The first four (Siva, Sakti, Nada, Bindu) are His Form-less ones;

The un-moving Form-Formless is the Sadasiva;

The abiding last four (Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa)

Are the Formed ones;

All these and the One beyond too are He.

 

 

1811 God is Immanent and Transcendent

 

One Being is He, immanent in all life

Indestructible He is;

In them He is; but He is not they;

He indwells them as Friend Divine

This His play, He of my heart's desire.

 

 

1812 Nadam and Bindu are Devoluted when Siva Activates Pure Maya Sakti

 

The Immaculate One who in my heart dwells

The Kudilai (Pure Maya) Sakti He activates;

And from that act is Nadam born;

That emanating Kala rays diverse

As seed the imperishable Bindu produces.

 

 

1813 The Devolutes of Bindu

 

The Bindu that thus arose pervades everywhere;

From it rises the Maya per se and the Mahamaya

And from them emanate the immortals and their clans

The Mantras and the Vedas too,

And the countless countless worlds swarming in the spread.