TIRUMANTIRAM - TANTRA SIX - Verses 1590 – 1604 of 1703

TIRUMANTIRAM

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA SIX - Verses 1590 – 1604 of 1703

 

 

2 GRACE OF GURU'S FEET

 

1590: Guru Blesses With His Hand on My Head

 

Rise in loving praise of Lord

And having risen, in piety melt for Him;

Then the godly Guru comes

-He who had scorned Pasa's fetters-

And lays his hand on your head,

And lo! in you wells up

The rapturous Grace of His Holy Feet.

 

 

1591: Grace of Feet is Kingdom Won

 

Even as mine Master granted me the Grace of His Feet,

He had made me the head of all;

And investing me with the regalia-might of Jnana-sword,

He placed on my head the Crown of Grace Abounding,

And thus proclaimed:

"May you forever hold sway over this Land of Deliverance"

-All these He did, descending on earth, here below.

 

 

1592: Guru is God in Human Form

 

He assumed human form,

Discarding divine forms four,*

And Himself as exalted Guru came,

Signifying the Mudra of Jnana;

He, Nandi, my goodly Saviour

Blessed me;

It was He who of yore

Planted His Feet of Grace on me.

 

 

1593: Guru United Me in Sivam

 

There was neither speech, nor feeling

Neither self, nor Over-self;

Like unto a sea where no wave lashes,

He made me unite in Sivam;

And he granted me the Boundless Form

That transcends the states four, Nada and rest,

And lo! it was beyond all words.

 

 

1594: Gurupara Worked for My Redemption

 

My divine preceptor Nandi

Seized life's forms all three;

He assumed the Mudra of Jnana

And drew me to his Feet so godly;

Bereft of speech, I melted in bliss

Thus did He work my redemption eternal.

 

 

1595: How Guru Transformed Jiva Into Siva

 

He cleansed me of my blemishes,

Transformed me into Sivam Supreme,

And immersed me into His bliss infinite;

Bliss that is beyond, beyond words!

The fire of His Grace scorches not

Yet drank dry the three seas of mine impurities;

And annihilating my primal ego to its traces

He granted me His Feet of Grace;

And there does he abide, forever, in me.

 

 

1596: Guru's Acts of Grace Beyond Description

 

Into my bosom, on my eyes, over my head

He gently planted His loving Feet

Nandi, my Lord Supreme;

He laid me the Path,

He showed me the Truth,

He settled the course of my Destiny

Truly, truly, all that I can not describe.

 

 

1597: Master Nandi Ended My Birth-Cycle

 

He placed his haloed Feet on my head

He fixed his benign gaze on me

And he granted me the Form Mighty,

He, mine Nandi Great;

I saw him, my monarch, in Guru Form,

And saw the end of all births to come.

 

 

1598: Greatness of Jnana of Holy Feet

 

Jnana of Holy Feet makes you Siva,

Jnana of Holy Feet takes you to world of Siva,

Jnana of Holy Feet free you from imprisoned impurities,

Jnana of Holy Feet is Siddhi and Mukti too.

 

 

1599: When True Enlightenment Comes

 

When the Master blesses you not thus

With the grace of His Feet on your crown,

The Karma of yore shall distort your thoughts;

Only when the resplendent Lord of milk-white brow

Places his blessed Feet on you,

Only then, arr you truly instructed.

 

 

1600: Grace of Feet Granted Soul's Liberation

 

I reached the cool umbrage of His triumphant lotus Feet,

That standing as a crimson pillar of flame,

Defied the grasp even of godly Mal;

And there, the Primal One saw

The eternal denoument of the fleshly cage

That held my soul a hoary captive.

 

 

1601: Grace of Feet Exceeds Kingly Greatness

 

The crowned monarchs at best may sway the worlds three;

But they who reached His Holy Feet

Their joy no bounds shall know;

Know this:

The heavenly beings attired in kingly diadems

But turned his vassals;

And thus became for ever blemishless free.

 

 

1602: Truth of Hallowed Feet is End of Vedas

 

I treasured His hallowed Feet

In the depths of my heart;

And so, shunned the deceitful course of scorching senses,

I swam past the dangerous swirls of twin Karma,

And I tasted the nectar of Truth

-The end of all Vedas.

 

 

1603: Lord's Feet is Goal of the Pure

 

The sages of yore bore full on their crown

The Lord's Feet twain;

They are blissful and hoary

This earth has known;

And the goal of the Pure Ones

That walk the Path of Truth;

May you reach those Feet.

 

 

1604: Lord's Feet is All

 

Verily are they, all mantra and all medicine;

All tantra and all giving;

All beauty and all pure way;

Mine Holy Father's Feet Twain.