Tirumantiram - TANTRA FIVE – Verses 2067 - 2083 of 2121

TIRUMANTIRAM

English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular

 

 

TANTRA SEVEN - Verses  1067 – 2083 of 2121

 

 

36 UNHOLY CONDUCT

 

2067 God is Omniscient

 

Thinking there is none that oversees

They many evil deeds perform;

None the place, in fact,

Where the over-seer is not;

The Lord pervades all, overseeing all;

They who the Over-seer saw,

Abandoned evil deeds all.

 

 

2068 Speak Truth

 

He who this sea-girt world created

He knows all;

Men falsehoods many utter,

Let them the Truth speak;

He will make Celestials revere them

--He, that is of the lustrous dark throat.

 

 

2069 Conserve Bindu

 

They sell the Love of God,

They make a daily business of it;

Pride-filled are they,

They in birth's whirl will be;

They who pound the Seed (Bindu) and consume

Lay waste the body-land;

But, verily, for the God-mad,

Forever no birth will be.

 

 

2070 Acquire True Jnana

 

"North, North" they say;

Nothing there in the north is;

Northward they walk,

Of Jnana bereft;

All the world in the north,

Is in their heart contained,

For those that knowledge truly possess.

 

 

2071 Look Inward

 

He who made this body-mix,

He who this body land holds,

He who within this body shines,

He is Nandi;

Him they seek and search in lands all;

They know not

He within the body stands.

 

 

2072 Lord Oversees From Within You

 

Visible to your eyes,

He rises in your very palm;

Over-seeing All,

He in your thoughts stands;

As light within the eyes,

He guides your way;

He is Love Embodied,

That Oversees you ever.

 

 

2073 How the Lord is Seated

 

The Virgin Sakti on one side

The learned ones on one side,

The Tapasvins steadfast on one side,

The Self-Realized beings on one side,

Thus is the Lord seated;

How is it they know not His nature true!

 

 

2074 Lord is the Light of Our Eyes

 

The eye that sees not

Is by cataract (ignorance) covered;

The Lord is the Light Unseen,

Even for those

Whose eye no sight has;

He is the Eye Divine,

Even for those

Who have seen Him not;

They who have seen Him

In the inward eye

Have verily the Truth seen

All illusion rid.

 

 

2075 By His Grace Our Thoughts Become Serene

 

Even as

The lunatic by medicine administered

Lucid becomes,

And his true self realizes;

Even as,

The eye its sight regains,

So, too,

Nandi bestowing His Grace on me

Serene my thoughts became,

To actionless state heightened.

 

 

2076 Unholy Men Do Not Think of Attaining Divinity

 

The directions eight moved,

The Lord pervading them all;

Of this, His Omnipresence, they think not;

From their stupor they wake not;

Drunk are they in their Karmas inebriate;

Lo! all thoughts of Divinity-Becoming

They, forever, abandoned.

 

 

2077 They Think of I and You as Two

 

The two, I and You, in union one stood,

Undifferentiated as One Becoming;

For them is there no more Two, I and You;

They who speak of I and You as two

To them He is I and You, forever two;

He, the Being, One and One above.

 

 

2078 They Do Not Know the Inter-Relation of Body and Life

 

When life ebbs away,

Where the sensations are?

Sentience lost,

The body drops;

Life and body as one flourish

That state, they know not.

 

 

2079 Lord is in Awareness, not in Prana

 

Prana is from pervasive Awareness apart;

When you know what Prana is,

You shall know what Awareness is,

Awareness is Knowledge, (not Prana),

That pervades the body;

He within that Awareness

Is the Lord Great;

That they know not.

 

 

2080 Realize the Self

 

He is the world's axle-pin;

The Light Resplendent;

The Siddha True;

He pervades the elements five,

The earth, sky and the rest;

He is the Lord of Devas

He with Sakti stands;

To praise Him in Words high

Is your Self to realize.

 

 

2081 Give Up Worldly Pleasures

 

He is the peerless Light

He is the end of all;

He is the resplendent Light;

He is the goal of fleshly body

And worlds all,

And the worldly pleasures

To you honey-sweet;

Give them up;

The Lord of limitless goodness

On you His Grace bestows.

 

 

2082 Efface the Ego

 

He is your Beginning;

He is the life in your fleshly body;

He is the God in Mountain Kailas

None knows His design;

When the Primal One sways you,

And your ego entire effaced,

Then shall you reach the Lord,

Above Tattvas all.

 

 

2083 Unborn Being Above Tattvas

 

He is not Indriyas (external sense organs);

Nor the Antakaranas (internal sense organs);

Nor the the Subtle body that life carries;

Out of the mighty Maan

Arose the Maya Inscrutable,

And the Tattvas thirty and six;

Above them all, high at the apex stands

The Being uncreated, the Eternal and the Everlasting.