TIRUMANTIRAM - TANTRA SIX - Verses 1573 - 1589 of 1703

TIRUMANTIRAM

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA SIX - Verses 1573 - 1589 of 1703

 

41 DARSHAN OF SIVA GURU

 

1573: The Holy Guru is God Himself

 

He taught me the meekness of Spirit,

Infused in me the light of devotion,

Granted me the Grace of His Feet;

And after interrogation holy, testing me entire,

Revealed to me the Real, the Unreal and Real-Unreal;

Of a certain is Siva-Guru Lord Himself.

 

 

1574: Power of Guru Presence

 

Gathering the strands of my fetters

He knotted them together;

And then wrenched them off;

Freeing me thus from my fond body,

Straight to Mukti he led me-

Behold, of such holy potent

Is the Presence of the Guru Divine!

 

 

1575: Attainments Through Guru's Grace

 

The miraculous powers of Siddhis eight,

The immaculate purity of Saktis eight,

The baptismal act supreme that turns Jiva into Siva,

The mystic powers of occult Yoga,

Of Mantra, of Bhakti, and of Jnana,

All these shall you attain

If the Guru but his grace confers.

 

 

1576: Guru-Siva Parallelism

 

He is beyond worlds all

Yet, here below, He bestows His grace abundant

On the good and the devout,

And in love works for salvation of all;

Thus is the Holy Guru

Whose praise is beyond speech

Like unto Siva, the Being Pure.

 

 

1577: Compassionate Acts of Holy Guru

 

The Holy Guru is truly a Deva;

By his divine art he makes me perceive

All things in categories three;

By his sacred precepts sunders the bonds of Pasu-Pasa

And makes me drink of the milk of Mukti

All in benign compassion the Gurupara does.

 

 

1578: Discerning Holy Guru

 

The Guru comes, purifies and grants Godhood,

They see this not,

The witless ones of vision faulty;

But the holy ones take to him

In endearment as unto kith and kin,

And worship him as Lord Himself.

 

 

1579: All Good Attainable With Guru's Grace

 

To dissolve the false in the true,

To derive the omnipotent might of Truth,

To possess the bounty of splendorous Siva's Grace,

To realize the fantasy of the famed Siddhis eight

Who learns all these

But with Guru's blessing?

 

 

1580: Siva Guru Like Siva Grants Finite Liberation

 

Siva Jnani is none but Siva Himself;

And they who seek his feet as Siva's

Shall in sooth the wondrous Tattva mukti gain;

They shall no more be in the cycle of births;

Sure their reward, the Liberation Finite.

 

 

1581: Guru-God Identity

 

Guru is none but Siva-thus spoke Nandi;

Guru is Siva Himself-this they realize not;

Guru will to you Siva be,

And your Guide too;

Guru in truth is Lord,

That surpasses speech and thought, all.

 

 

1582: Think of Siva and Be Siva

 

Let all your thoughts be thoughts of Siva,

And the Lord by His Grace shall reveal all;

If your thoughts be Siva-saturated

In you shall He then close abide.

 

 

1583: Nandi is Peerless Luminosty

 

Of Himself He sought me in the Truth's Way

He the Blessed, the King of Kings,

Nandi, mine Father,

But they know not his intent;

To them that rejoice in Him

As the Nandi of heavenly might,

Verily is He the peerless luminosity

Of crimson twilight fire.

 

 

1584: Things That Flow From Guru's Grace

 

The Siddhis that are a veritable treasure-trove,

The Mukti that is salvation finite,

The heavenly Grace that vanquishes doubts and fears

And the Jnana that is essence of Vedas

All these,

When the Guru himself imparts not,

Never, never shall you learn.

 

 

1585: Jnana Easy With Sakti's Grace

 

Bhakti and Resoluteness Spiritual (Vairagya)

Are the seeds of State Transcendental;

In turn, these lead to Sivoham;

And in Sivoham shoots the Jnana for Mukti,

And that shoot yours easy shall be

If Sakti but Her Grace bestows.

 

 

1586: When God Reveals Himself

 

This life of pleasures here below

The Lord for you of yore ordained

That you may the Greater Pleasure attain;

Where your mind reaches to Him in resolve,

Then of Himself, He reveals to you.

 

 

1587: Siva Jnana Leads to Sivananda

 

When you realize the Jnana of Siva

You shall achieve the Siddhis luminous

When you realize the Jnana of Siva,

You shall attain the Mukti resplendent;

When your Jnana of Siva reaches to Siva Supreme,

Then shall it yield the Bliss of Sivananda.

 

 

1588: How Tirumular Ended Birth Cycle

 

All this space infinite

I cognized and realized;

Adoring with devotion replete

I received His Grace Divine;

Now am I past all rememberance of Ignorance exceeding,

For ever have I bidden adieu to birth recurring.

 

 

1589: How Tirumular Met the Lord

 

He is the Lord of all living creation

Yet naught they know of His State Existent;

I cut the tangle that separated Him from me,

And lo! I met the Lord, the seed of all causal phenomenon.