Hymns of Tayumanavar

Obeisance to Mauna Guru (4/10)

Holding as real
This body that is evanescent
Unto the flash of lightning;

Holding as real
The pleasures of flashy women
That intoxicate the senses
With their collyrium painted eyes;

Holding as heaven
The stately mansion and mounting riches;

Holding gold as imperishable treasure
That waxes high;

Putting on false appearances
To degree exceeding;

Abandoning to winds all virtues -
Patience, wisdom, renunciation and charity;

To be possessed of greed, miserliness
And other devils;

To walk about here below
Caught in the faith of the materialist;

Thou with one single Word prevented me
From all these, in compassion
That I might receive the Grace
Of the great Vedanta-Siddhanta accord
And enjoy the life eternal.

Oh! Thou Jnana Guru!
Oh! Mantra Guru! Oh, Yoga Tantra Guru!
Mauna Guru that comes in the line of Mula the Holy!