Songs of Saint Tayumanavar

Songs of Tayumanavar

The Pervasiveness that is Bliss (10/10)

''Never are you the master of thy action,
So helpless are you.''

So saying, in silentness Thou came
And took charge of my life, body and possessions
And claimed me as your own.

From that moment on,
Illusory became time and space,
Illusory became the desire for objects illusory,
Illusory became the attachment
That holds the illusory body as real,
Illusory of all became the ''I'' that is illusory.

And so
No more the maya that is pitch dark,
No more the occasion for the twin karmas to creep in,
No more the mind,
No more the cognates of that mimd.
No more the coming, no more the going,
No more the tenses that speak of
''That time'' and ''This time.''
All transcendent beyond consciousness!

Oh! Thou, Param that is Bliss
Encompassing in Pervasive Fullness,
The Universes many and Spaces vast!