The book proof arrives from Amazon with a grey “Not for Sale” band across the cover- Table of Contents
- Translator Dr. B. Natarajan hears Tayumanavar’s songs for the first time
- The poet’s love of religious harmony, samarasam, is depicted
- Ten of the works of art are by Kerala muralist, Suresh Muthukulam. Here he shows a Vedantist and a Siddhantist both receiving Siva’s blessings. Their love of Siva is feeding both traditions through the intertwined roots below.
- The Muruga temple near Trichy where many of the songs were composed
- Inside the Muruga temple, Tayumanavar composes on palm leaves
- The itinerant mystic poet would often scold Siva
- A typical page showing the songs in Tamil and English
We are celebrating the publishing of our latest book, The Songs of Tayumanavar. Most CyberCadets will have followed our long process (some four or five years in all) from Kerala art to Singapore audio recordings to design and typesetting and editing and more art by DALL*e, and now it is done. The proof arrived some days back. Finding no errors, we released it for sale. It is available here: nall.ai/tayu-book-amazon. It’s a full-color, 540-page tome, so it is a bit pricey, but it is full of some of the most amazing mystical/devotional poems ever composed. As with all of our books, it will be online in a couple of weeks in PDF format, free to the world. The PDF will make a great gift to all who love Siva. We think it will prove to be the most authentic English translation ever done. The remarkable work (all 1,452 songs) was personally gifted to Gurudeva in the 1980s by Dr. B. Natarajan, the translator.