Songs of Saint Tayumanavar

Songs of Tayumanavar

One Thought (6/9)

Thinking it is Truth
Do not let your thoughts go after something else.
Even as you were taught by the Renunciate Great -
Who, pure as the moon bereft of its dark patches,
Renounced all,
And immaculate in thought became.
Plunge yourself in the ocean of Expanse Vast
That knoweth no night or day.
And devour the substance of Bliss in profusion,
With mouth none to describe its sweetness,
With tears welling in continuous streams
And body trembling in excitement divine,
Bowing low, do thou proclaim
To the accompaniment of jnana drum
''False is this world, false is this world.''