TANTRA SEVEN
(Verses 1704-2121)
1 THE SIX ADHARAS
1704 The Six Adharas and their petals
Piercing the Chakras that are petalled
Four, Six, Ten and Twelve
And the Six and Ten still above;
Lo! Behold then the Twin petalled Center finale;
You have indeed beheld the Holy Feet of the Timeless One.
1705 The Spheres of the upper Adharas
In the Nada sphere is the Twelve petalled Center
In the Nadanta sphere is the Ten and Six petalled Center
Beyond the Nadanta is the Two-petalled Medha Center
Where Parasakti enshrined is;
Enter there in Consciousness Undifferentiated Bodha;
There, above the Medha Center, is the Truth Finale.
1706 Parapara pervades all the Six Adharas
When thus through Adharas
You course Prana breath
Neither Up nor Down do you know
Neither He nor I do you cognise
The mighty Parapara that pervades all
Envelops you,
Bounteous as the celestial Kalpaka tree.
1707 Experience is Adhara Yoga
Ascend Adharas step by step,
Your Nadis purified thus,
You shall have ascended
Into the heavenly effulgence of Medha
Whose twin petals into Kalanta sphere rise;
And then you reach the state of Bodha,
Of Awareness Unitive, senses petrified;
That verily is Yoga--the Saha Marga.
1708 Ascending further above Six Adharas
There you stop not--at Medha's Center--
But evoke Aum,
And beyond Adharas now proceed
And ascend the Adhvas with Prana for support
When thus you practise, to perfection's end,
Your body becomes a doughty receptacle
Of Joy Eternal.
1709 The One Letter "Aum" is beyond the Fifty Letters distributed over the Adharas
In the body where the Centers Six are,
Do seek the Adharas and above,
Over the letters five times ten
Rises the one Letter (Aum) that is basic to all.
1710 The Letters Fifty the subtle in Adharas, and Adharas subtle are in Body
As the Gross body that decays
And the Subtle body that escapes
Are in union unseen,
So are the subtle letters fifty to tattvas that are gross,
So are the Centers Six to the body corporeal.
1711 The Sixteen-Petalled Lotus in Visuddhi Adhara Leads to Knowledge-Bliss
Above the discriminating heart's lotus
Is that jewelled flower
Of ten and six petals;
There, Awareness Pure, turns into Bliss of Siva
And to Jnana (Light of Knowledge) that is Reality Supreme.
2 THE COSMIC LINGAM
1712 Linga or Sadasiva is World manifest
They know not what Linga is
Linga is directions eight
Linga is Kalas, eight times eight
It is as Linga the world emerged.
1713 Sakti in Sadasiva manifested as World
In the World His Sakti He manifested first,
In the World as His Sakti's Form He pervaded
In the World His Sakti's Powers He filled
But He who this World's creation conceived
Was Sadasiva (the Linga).
1714 Sadasiva is the Adhvas too
Worldly joys and heavenly pleasures
Wisdom and miraculous powers
The body and the state beyond
The Tattvas six and thirty
All these Sadasiva granted;
The Adhvas six, too, of Agamas sacred
Are all but He--Sadasiva.
1715 Lord (Sadasiva) protects the Celestials from afar
The countless Devas gloried My Lord
"O! Southern Breeze, fragrant cool" they praised,
"O! Bounteous One," they adored,
But they know not this:
From beyond the Spaces Vast
He His protection granted.
1716 Lord (Sadasiva) is the Light of Life of Gods
The resplendent Brahma, Vishnu, Prajapati
The luminous Sun and Indra
The bright-eyed Devas swarming celestial Spheres
He, indeed, is their Light of Life--
He the Being Uncreated.
1717 Lord is the Golden support of Heart
Pervading all Nature, Siva blesses all;
But they know not the Truth and adore Him not;
To them that adore Him that is immanent
He is the golden stalk of the heart's lotus within.
1718 Sadasiva (Linga)'s Form, manifest and subtle
The Vimana pure is the Sthula Linga
The Sadasiva enshrined is Sukshma Linga
The Bali-peeta is Bhadra Linga
Thus it is for those who Siva's Form seek.
1719 How to fix Linga
Pearls, gems, corals and emerald
Wood of sandal, granite hard, and ashes holy
Siva's Agama, and rice in grain and cooked
When you pour in these and fix the Linga
Haunting indeed is His flavoury fragrance.
1720 How Linga is shaped
Curd, ghee, milk and wax pure
Copper, mercury, fire and conch
Bricks hard, Bilva shapely
And Konrai bloom of golden hue
From these do you shape
The Linga's Form Divine.
1721 Lingas for the Four Varnas
Of crystal made is Linga, Brahmins worship
Of gold, the Kings worship
Of emerald, the Vaisyas worship
Of stone is Linga, Sudras worship.
1722 No one way of worship
They who sought Him in one Special Way
Knew Him not in any way;
And thus it is the Lord
That the eight universes pervades;
Of my heart, too, a temple made.
1723 God is Pervasive
In the Spaces Vast, unknown He pervades,
In the fleshly body He rapturous resides,
He dispells sin and Wisdom's Sunlight spreads
He, the Holy One, that our Refuge is.
1724 Siva's Pervasive Form
The Earth is His flower-bedecked feet
The Heavens, His Ganga-girt crown
His Body fills the Spaces Vast
In continuity unbroken;
Thus did Lord His Form assume
From Time's Eternity, Beginningless First.
1725 Siva's Cosmic Form
The Earth is His Sakti Peeta,
The Heavens the Linga Pure,
The billowing seas His bathing ghat,
The cascading streams on mountain tops
Their cool water laves His crown heavenly,
The countless stars, His garland;
The Eight Directions His limitless raiment.
3 MICROCOSMIC (PINDA) LINGA
1726 Human form is Siva Linga
The Human Form is unto Siva Lingam
The Human Form is unto Chidambaram
The Human Form is unto Sadasivam
The Human Form is unto the Holy Dance, forsooth.
1727 Desire for Births persists
Tired they are not;
Still they want to live
In this fleshly body,
Of earth, water and other matter made;
They seek not to adore Lord
Whom the Elements Five
Together in prayer beseech.
1728 Lord is Master of the sense gates of body
The day the Lord entered this body tabernacle
The Five Senses who their places had taken
Opened the gates;
And showed you the way of redemption;
As unto the mother's home
He in me entered;
And taking charge of the gates, Master became.
1729 Lord opens the sense gates
At the Feet of the Lord
Who this body as His temple chose
Lies the forest of Vedas;
At the Feet of the Lord
Who these gates made His own
Lie the Nadis ten;
He who, our adoration received
Subduing our senses five
In me entered operating the gates wide;
He, My Lord, the Nandi Great.
4 SADASIVA LINGAM
1730 Sadasiva form with Five Faces
His twin Feet are planted on earth below;
The ten hands, the holy in praise sing,
In directions all spread;
Five His Faces that are sought,
Five times three his eyes fiery;
Thus is Sadasiva that you seek
The Pearl that is lustrous, beyond, beyond compare.
1731 Sadasiva comprehends all Nine God-Forms
Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa,
And the Five-faced Lord above,
Bindu, Nada, Sakti Primal, and Siva
--All these are but Sadasiva in general.
1732 When Sakti Evolutes
Within the Becoming Sakti the Kalas repose
Within the Becoming Sakti their rays emanate
Within the Becoming Sakti the Lord His seat takes
Within the Becoming Sakti the directions ten as Space appears.
1733 When Sakti further Devolutes
In that Space thus opened up
The Six Vedangas took their place;
In that Space thus opened up
The Four Vedas took their place;
In that Space thus opened up
The Four Paths beginning with Chariya
Took their place;
In that Space thus opened up
The Saiva Truth the Four Paths comprehended
Took its place.
1734 Sakti Devolutes still further
In that Truth arose the Avastas (States of Awareness) twice five;
In that Truth arose the Rasis (Zodiacal houses) twice six
In that Truth arose the Tattvas (Body Constituents) twice forty-eight;
In that Truth arose the Sadasiva Supreme.
1735 The Five Faces of Sadasiva and their Hues
Central, East, South, North and West
These the Five Faces of Sadasiva;
The Central Face is of crystal hue;
The Eastward Face is crimson unto Kum-Kum
The Southward Face is dark unto thick pitch
The Northward Face is red unto Aratham flower
The Westward Face is white unto milky hue;
Thus did He reveal unto me,
His lowly vassal.
1736 Sadasiva's Form
Five His Faces; thrice five His eyes;
Twice Five His hands number,
Five and Five Weapons He holds;
Thus my dear Lord, my heart entered
And in fullness pervaded.
1737 Sakti is the Kinetic and Siva the potential Aspects of God-head
Sakti is this wide world
Sakti is this universe vast
Sakti-Siva conjoint is the Kinetic and Potential
Sakti is the Formed;
Siva the Formless;
Sakti-Siva Tattvas are six and thirty true.
1738 Sadasiva is Tattva (Truth) Real
Formless is the Tattva primal
Formed, it is the world, animate and inanimate;
A source of pleasure then indeed it is;
Tattva is all and pervasive,
Sadasiva is Tattva (Truth) Real.
1739 Sadasiva is Our Lord
"Sadasiva is our Lord"--
Say this times hundred;
Anything else you try to say,
He will still be beyond it;
He suffers not those Gods
Who themselves exalt;
He, who my heart entered.
1740 Muse on Sadasiva's Form
The dark throat, the up-lifted axe,
The matted red locks, the radiant crescent moon,
The Primal Lord that is Grace abounding,
Him I mused, all dark doubts dispelled.
1741 Names of the Five Faces of Sadasiva
To recount the Five Faces where His Grace abounds
Thus it is:
The Northward Face is Vama
The Westward Face is Satyojata
The Eastward Face is Tatpurusha
The Southward Face is Aghora
The Upward Face is Isana.
1742 How Sakti dwells in the Five faces of Sadasiva
In the shining Isana face is Sakti's Crown;
In the Tatpurusha face is Her Visage
In the Aghora is Her Heart and Waist;
In the Vama face are Her Feet blessed.
1743 Form of Sakti in Sadasiva
The breast, the head, the tresses long,
The eyes, the fore-head mark, the armour
These the Sakti's are
Of growing green hue
As lightning is She, the dazzling crowning Sakti
Fiery bright, Her ten Weapons.
1744 The Five Saktis are seated in Sadasiva
The heart is the divine Jnana Sakti
The head the heavenly Para Sakti
The tresses the Adi Sakti
The colorful armour is Icchha Sakti
In the eyes is the active Kriya Sakti.
1745 Sakti in the First Three Adharas
In the quadrilateral Adhara (Muladhara)
Sakti in firmness stands;
In the hexagonal Adhara (Svadhishana)
Sakti is in sleep;
In the circular Adhara (Manipuraka)
Sakti is in agitation;
Of Sakti's Form is Sadasiva.
1746 Sadasiva is seated in Sahasrara
Whatso be the time you seek the great Nandi,
He stands unique,
His Five Faces glowing unto the evening sun;
Rousing the Kundalini through Yogic breathing
When you upward course through centers nine
Upon the lotus top, He aloft stands.
1747 Sadasiva abides within body
In union inseparable
He ever abides in this fleshly body
That is His nature divine;
His Perfection's Feet upon my head I bore,
And in my heart's deep, I prayed.
1748 Sadasiva is realized in the Body
The shining Truth He is
Him I realized in this world below;
Into my heart's temple here on earth
I brought Him, lo!
Him in union I embraced and prayed
Truth it is, pure and simple;
To Him, the Sun Resplendent, I sang
To music and to measure appropriate.
1749 The Lord is the Source of Light and Energy for Sun, Moon and Fire
To Sun, Moon and Fire
He lends His fiery rays;
The seven worlds twice he supports;
And in the Center of Spaces Vast
He stands,
He is the Beginning, He is the End,
His own Form, cool as moon.
1750 The Lord is uncreated
He standes
His Form as Uncreated Siva Linga
His Form as Sadasiva Divine
His Form as Sivananda, bliss unalloyed
His Form as Tat-Para Eternal Supreme.
1751 The Lord is the Cosmic sound "Aum"
None knows He is Ahara, the letter "A"
And the pervasive Sakti is Uhara, the letter "U"
The two sounds swelling alternate
Fill the world as Aum in unrelieved entirety.
1752 Linga is Aum
The Linga's Holy Pedestal is the humming Omkara (Aum)
The Linga's Center part is filled with Ahara (A)
The Linga's inner round is with Uhara replete (U)
Linga is Bindu-Nada, Makaram (M) pervaded.
5 ATMA LINGAM
1753 In the Beginning was Aum
Aharam (A) as beginning, all exist
Uharam (U) as beginning, all life exists
If Aharam Uharam are together known
Aharam Uharam is but Linga divine.
1754 Bindu is the Support and Nada the Supported
Bindu is the Support Finite
Nada in Medha as the Supported expanded;
Bindu that is Support is the Pedestal
Nada on to it is conjoint,
That verily is Linga's union.
1755 Siva-Sakti (Linga) is Static, Kinetic, Sadasiva and Unborn Being
Linga that is Sakti-Siva is Static all
Linga that is Sakti-Siva is Kinetic all
Linga that is Sakti-Siva is Sadasiva
Sakti-Siva is Tatpara, the Being Unborn.
1756 Lord is Light and Support
Upon the heavenly letters five times ten
Well may you behold the self-illumined Light (Aum);
That which thus arises with His Sakti (U)
Like a golden vine that blooms pretty
Is but He that is Ahara (A)--the Support Finite.
1757 Linga Comprises both Bindu and Nada
Bindu and Nada together form Linga
Bindu is the Pedestal, Nada the Linga
With them two as support divine
The Five gods arose, their Five functions to perform.
1758 All the Tattvas are in Linga
The goodly pedestal of Sakti holds the Atma Tattvas
The central part of Sakti holds the Vidya Tattvas;
The Linga of Sakti, the Siva Tattvas
Sadasiva is Sakti's Soul Divine.
1759 Seek Lord within and be Blessed
In my heart He entered,
In my life's being He entered,
He poured His blessing to my heart's fill;
Do with me the Lord seek
He enters your home, and blesses you.
1760 Lord is Sovereign Supreme
The Supreme Parapara is He;
My Father Divine;
He sports the crescent moon;
He rules the universe;
Into the heart's temple of His devotees too he reigns
He the Hara to whom the Immortals in worship bow
He in my heart resides firm.
1761 Lord is tender as Mother-Cow
"He is not the Lord, I am the one"
If you this conceit have,
The world will call you a fool;
Tender as the yearning mother cow,
He in me is enshrined,
With serpent, fire and water in His matted lock
He, in amity, stands,
He the Holy One.
1762 Hold Lord in Heart of Heart
"There He stood," "There He lay"
--Thus the Immortals in directions eight
Adore Him;
But how shall I praise my Lord
Who in my heart's heart ever resides.
6 JNANA LINGAM
1763 Lord is Bounteous
As Form, the Formless and Form-Formless
Thus is Parasiva in all life immanent;
As Guru, too, He stands;
Unto the Kalpaka tree His bounties bestows
He, the Sadasiva.
1764 Sadasiva is Form-Formless
In the Center He is, Sadasiva,
The Four below are the Formed,
(Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa)
The Four above are the Formless
(Bindu, Nada, Sakti, Siva)
Thus are His parts
He, the Parasiva.
1765 Seek Sadasiva
He is the Lord of the Immortals,
He is the Lord with Faces in directions all,
He is the Lord of Four (Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra and Mahesa)
He is Nandi that central stands;
They who adore Him as their Lord
Themselves His ways attain;
Do you, so, seek the Lord's Holy Feet.
1766 Sadasiva Dispels Karmas
Him I prayed,
My Karma to dispel and destroy;
He measures out Time's Eternity
As year, month and day;
Worthy is He of your visioning;
And with His virgin Sakti seek Him;
Even when your folded hands unfold
The One is He to you.
1767 Sadasiva dispenses Divine Justice
The Primal Lord is He,
The God of the Universe is He;
God is He whom the illumined devotees praise;
Great God is He of Justice Divine;
The Pure is He my Lord;
As half-and-half in Para Sakti He is.
1768 Truth of Supreme Siva
Beyond Sakti, inside Para Sakti
Is the Pure Siva State, as Light undimmed
Still beyond and beyond are the Lord's Feet;
This the Truth of the Lord Supreme.
1769 See Siva and Sakti and see All
See that Tender Flame
You will have seen all universe;
Rise and see His World
There you shall forever remain;
See the Expanses Vast
You shall have seen the Lord with Sakti entwined;
The Lord that in your thought resides.
1770 Worship Siva-Sakti and Realize Jnana
The Lord, my Father
His Sakti-Cluster, my Mother
Chant their name in order according
That verily is Jnana Divine;
Above the navel, in my heart,
There with Her He resides
In rapture unceasing.
1771 The Play of Sakti--Sakti activates Jiva
Into the Maya Group--Suddha and Asuddha
They induct the Jiva;
From Pure Turiya State disentangling him,
They his thoughts enter;
And inside him, Siva His habitation takes;
--This the play of Sakti-Siva.
1772 All Creation is Sakti-Siva Play
All the Universe is the play of Sakti-Siva
Sakti is Siva, and Siva is Sakti
Without Sakti and Siva is no manifest creation
It is Sakti and Siva that forever Form assume.
7 SIVA LINGAM
1773 Siva is Immanent and Transcendent
He pervades the roaring waters of the seas
He permeates the spreading winds and flaming fire
Thus is He immanent in all Nature
Yet I know Him not, adore Him not.
1774 Only Way of Knowing Siva is Worship
There is but one way here
Of knowing Him and adoring Him
They who with water and flower chant His name
They shall know Him;
And from them He of the matted lock
Separates not.
1775 Worship Him as the One Being
As the One and Only Being
I saw the Lord,
And full well I adored His Holy Feet,
Subduing my senses five;
And He His blessings granted,
The gracious One, the Lord Primal.
1776 Linga's Nine Aspects
Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa
The five-faced Sadasiva, Bindu and Nada
Sakti and Siva--
All these as Linga His blessings grants,
He is but Nandi that is Para Supreme.
1777 Rouse Kundalini and reach Supreme State
Rouse with the flaming Kundalini
And upward your Prana course;
Halting within the body
The acts of inhalation and exhalation
This, if you, through practice accomplish
You indeed have reached
The Supreme State Divine.
8 SAMPRADAYA (HOLY ORDINATION)
1778 Lord appears as Siva Guru and Baptises the Soul
My body, wealth and life,
He took from me as sacrificial offering,
Through ritual appropriate;
He directed his spiritual glance at me
And dispelled my Karma's network to destruction;
And then He laid His hands on me
And planting His Feet on my head
In a trice imparted Spiritual Awareness
And thus my birth's cycle He ended
He, the Nandi,
Through these acts of Diksha, successive.
1779 Guru works for Disciple's Redemption
Life and body, and Prana breath that fleets after,
Siva the mighty and Chit Sakti that consorts
And Param the Truth Supreme
--All these to attain,
Gurupara my redemption worked.
1780 Guru imparts the Secret Divine
To His west (right), He seated me
"Daily on me meditate"--said He,
"That it is but the Truth that lies seated
Between the crown of the head and the palate of the mouth
This the Word True,
Cherish it as secret divine."
1781 Siva makes Jiva Pure as Himself
Indulging in talk indiscriminate
Aimless I wandered;
--Me, He made pure,
All my impurities cleansed
Me and He, to balance brought
--A barter, all to perfection indeed!
1782 Siva Extricates Jiva from Maya
He is the Lord of all life existent,
His true nature they know not,
He extricated me from Maya that separates,
Lo! then I beheld the Lord that is seed of all.
1783 Siva takes Jiva into Himself
Intent on redemption of my body, wealth and life
He sought me and planted His Feet on my head
And with the Grace of Sakti divine He exorcised
My love for the body fleshly;
And He and I as one He made
Intermingling in union inseparate.
1784 Siva by taking all, Gives All
He marked me out his vassal to-be
My life, possessions and body He took as His own;
But as he it was that all my sustenance gave
How dare I say, He took anything from me?
1785 Ghosts do not know the Truth of Life
This body, the Lord within,
The Prana that is breath,
And the Soul that dwells inside
The truth of all these
That to the perishable body pertains
They who know not,
Unto ghosts of the dead they are.
1786 Know the Finite Truth
They the Awareness have, see worlds all,
They the Awareness have, know sorrows none,
When they that Awareness have truly realized,
They indeed have the Truth Finite seen.
1787 Woken from the Primordial Turiya State,
Wandering in the Bodily State--
Active in the Sakala State
With Tattvas six times six,
On them whose souls have thus roamed,
Nandi His Grace bestowed;
What shall I say of His greatness infinite!
1788 Siva and Jiva are inseparable
There is approach none as I and You;
Like body and life inseparate are We;
Together are We like the heavens and the heavenly beings;
Like the honey and its sweetness that I do savour.
1789 Knower becomes the Known
He and he knows Him not;
If he knows Him, then Knower is he not;
If he knows Him
Then he the Knower and He the Known
Become but one.
1790 Lord's Infinite Bounty
As life and body alike feel
He in me stood in identity full;
Bounteous as He is unto the rains from heavens,
I with the heavenly Lord, one became.
1791 Lord wrought Me to Perfection
Himself as Being Supreme
He stood not apart from me;
That the Lord Knows;
Unto the body and life are We;
This the truth;
He to perfection wrought me
He the Lord of Immortals.
9 PLACING OF GRACE
1792 Truth is Indivisible
Darkness (ignorance) and Light (knowledge)
Are the states two;
Life and body are the forms two;
Dharma and penance are the graces two;
Truth is but the blessing within.
1793 Pray and receive Divine Light
Elusive is He for us to see;
Beyond our Thoughts is He, the Nandi,
Distant is He to touch and feel,
Pray long in the light of your heart,
The darkness that envelops you dispelled stands.
1794 God's Grace Leads to illumination
In the hint of His grace,
All universe shall be revealed to you;
When the darkness of ignorance lifts,
The Great one stands revealed;
When you seek Him,
Your swarming thoughts on Him centered,
You shall see the light of Jnana,
And thus immortal become.
1795 Lord Knows His Devotees in Time
In ignorance my time rolled on;
Yet my Lord will in time know me;
By their light of Knowledge and love intense
He will know them,
He the Bounteous One.
1796 Lord, of Himself, will Know You
Himself will know me,
When my Karmas perish;
I know not when; but Nandi will;
Do melt in piety
And reach divine Consciousness;
Sweet unto honey is our Lord of Immortals.
1797 If I do not Know Lord who else shall?
I have known the Lord from days bygone
But the Celestials knew Him not,
Doubt-tossed were they;
The Lord is the Light
In my fleshly body as Prana pulsates
If I know Him not, who else will?
1798 Grace is All
They know not the measure of Grace
That is pervasive all;
They know not the ambrosial sweetness
That from Grace flows;
They think not of the Five Acts
That Grace subtle performs;
Who knows how all-pervasive is Grace, indeed!
1799 Various Acts of Lord's Grace
To seek the Divine Light
He grants the light of knowledge;
He infuses the organs of sense
With desire
And leads you to enlightenment;
He then seats you
In the midst of the devout and holy;
They who His Grace thus received,
Verily became Siva themselves.
1800 From Birth to Liberation--All Acts of Grace
In His Grace was I born,
In His Grace I grew up;
In His Grace I rested in death;
In His Grace I was in obfuscation;
In His Grace I tasted of ambrosial bliss;
In His Grace, Nandi, my heart entered.
1801 More Acts of Grace
By His Grace was I bathed in the ocean of nectar;
By His Grace He rested His Feet on me
By His grace He granted the fervour of devotion
By His Grace He fed me the bliss that is ambrosial
By His Grace, Nandi my heart entered.
1802 Grace Grants Mukti and Beyond
It was His grace that led me into Pasa
It was His Grace that freed me from that Pasa
It was His grace that in divine love granted Mukti
It was His Grace that granted me the love
For the State beyond Mukti.
1803 Lord is of Infinite Grace
Of infinite Grace is the Lord
Who my birth's bonds sundered;
Of the holiest of holy is Nandi
He is the Dharmic sea;
The Pure One;
The Primal Lord
In amity my heart entered.
1804 Nandi entered my Heart and made me Sivam
In my heart He entered, grace abounding;
Even if He is in there,
Those devoid of Grace know Him not;
Entering the heart,
He filled me with bliss;
As Sivam, he made me
As Nandi my heart entered,
And I blissful became.
1805 Bounties of Lord's Grace
He gave me the intelligence that reasons
He gave me the senses that Maya inscrutable fashions
He gave the five elements
And the diverse sense organs
And the Five Acts of Grace
--All these are but the bounties of His Grace.
1806 All Phenomenon is manifestations of Grace
All manifestations of Nature are His Grace
All animate and inanimate are His Pure Grace
As darkness, as light, the Lord's Grace pervades,
All, all are but the Grace of His Form manifest.
1807 The Nine God Forms are of Siva
Siva, Sakti, the luminous Nada and Bindu
The five-faced Sadasiva holy,
Mahesa, Rudra, Mal and the lotus-seated Brahma
--All these forms nine
He assumes.
1808 Grace Gives Divine Vision
They whose eyes are blind
See not the sun even;
They that have vision divine
See the light everywhere;
They who have not the vision of Grace
See not the Lord that is Truth Subtle;
They that have the vision of Grace
See Hara face to face.
1809 Lord Alone Performs the Five Acts
Himself creates; Himself preserves
Himself destroys; Himself obscures
Himself, all these He does
And grants Mukti after;
Himself the all-immanent Lord.
1810 The Form, Formless and Form-Formless Aspects of Siva
The first four (Siva, Sakti, Nada, Bindu) are His Form-less ones;
The un-moving Form-Formless is the Sadasiva;
The abiding last four (Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa)
Are the Formed ones;
All these and the One beyond too are He.
1811 God is Immanent and Transcendent
One Being is He, immanent in all life
Indestructible He is;
In them He is; but He is not they;
He indwells them as Friend Divine
This His play, He of my heart's desire.
1812 Nadam and Bindu are Devoluted when Siva Activates Pure Maya Sakti
The Immaculate One who in my heart dwells
The Kudilai (Pure Maya) Sakti He activates;
And from that act is Nadam born;
That emanating Kala rays diverse
As seed the imperishable Bindu produces.
1813 The Devolutes of Bindu
The Bindu that thus arose pervades everywhere;
From it rises the Maya per se and the Mahamaya
And from them emanate the immortals and their clans
The Mantras and the Vedas too,
And the countless countless worlds swarming in the spread.
10 LIGHT OF GRACE
1814 Be Born in Grace and Receive Grace
Those who do not take their firm stand on Grace
And in conscious determination steep in it not,
Will never Grace receive;
Nor be freed of Pasas Five;
They will not know greatness that Grace gives;
They will not resolute be;
They alone know Grace who to Grace are born.
1815 Nandi Grants Unending Grace
Nandi the great, Nandi the famed,
Nandi that barred the way of my future birth;
He gave me the ambrosial bliss that never cloys;
He the Lord of a thousand names;
In one word He said, "Bathe eternally
In the unending sea of Grace."
1816 Imparting Grace Siva Grants His Form to Jiva
I danced and sang and wept and lamented
Thus I sought Him, and Siva's greatness saw,
And as I with Him united
He, His indefinable Form granted
And in me pervaded, His Grace imparting.
1817 Nandi Planted His Feet on me and imparted Grace
The birth I took,
The impurities (malas) I bore
He dispelled as but Maya's cloud;
"You are of these rid"--so saying
He planted His Feet on me--
He the Nandi famed;
All unworthy knowledge I gave up,
I prostrated and at His feet prayed.
1818 Light the Lamps of God by Inner Light
Light the Lamp, and see the Void
Before the Lamp all pangs cease
They that have the Light to light the Lamp
Are but the Light, in the Divine Lamp shine.
1819 By Inner Light Unite One in Siva
Interminable are light and darkness
Only to those who have light, will darkness cease;
To the eyes that see light, darkness is not;
So, too, when the inner light dispells darkness
The Jive with Siva one becomes.
1820 Lord is Gracious
Aimless I wandered,
On me He planted His golden Feet,
In purity He entered, and made me pure
In charity He entered, and gave me the bliss of ambrosia
What ho! this gracious act!
In wonder limitless, I stand bedazed.
1821 Grace is the Refuge
There is a Space Vast that is Grace
There is a Refuge Safe that is Lord
In me He entered, my darkness to dispel;
Know Him fully; then indeed, is Siva-State.
1822 Save the Soul
If other gods be born, live and die
Are they the True Ones? Speak;
Let us this body leave, to vultures a prey
And save our Soul--this you should proclaim.
11 SIVA PUJA
1823 Soul is Siva Linga
For the Bounteous Lord
This heart is the sanctum holy,
The fleshly body is temple vast
The mouth is the tower gate;
To them that discern,
Jiva is Sivalinga;
The deceptive senses but the lights that illume.
1824 Prayer is True Sacrifice
To Nandi of the spreading matted locks
That the sacrificial oblations takes,
We nothing offer;
The sacrifice that we morn and even can give
Are songs of praise that melt His heart;
Let us that sacrifice offer;
Verily, that is sacrifice, milk that is sweet.
1825 Worship Sadasiva and Become Siva
The Lord that with Lady of milky speech consorts
Is the Para Para Supreme;
In Him enshrine Sadasiva
His upward looking Face as Isana consider
And thus your worship perform
You shall Siva Himself become.
1826 Adore the Lord and Behold Him
You can think of Him, you can speak of His Truth
But rare indeed to see the Lord of the Holy Feet;
They can but see the Lord of the Holy Feet
Who adore Him with flower and water.
1827 Celestials Worship Lord with Archana
Why is it the Lord has taken His seat
In the heart of Beings Celestial
That consecrated water and garland of flowers bear?
With offerings five of dishes sweet
And with upachara* rituals two times eight
They humbly prostrating, in archana, worship. evocative
1828 Pray and Receive Grace
The devout are they with flower and water pray
The Lord seeing that bestows His Grace on them
Countless are the sinners that know not how our Lord to approach
Thus they slip by in ignorance deep.
1829 Anoint Feet of Holy is Unto Bathing in Holy Waters
Know the reward of bathing
In the nine waters of the Lord;
Mukti indeed for those
That anoint the feet of holy men
Who in Jnana are upraised;
Thus does Mula proclaim.
1830 My Prayer is to Worship Lord with Archana
Even if in thoughtlessness
I world's ways pursue,
Do grant me this:
That I with water and flower
Unceasing adore You;
This my prayer;
O! Lord of immortals!
1831 Chant the Thousand Names of Lord
The Immortals swarm in hordes seeking Him;
The seas and lands unending,
All that yours shall be,
When you chant unceasing
The thousand names of the Primal Lord,
And the One Sacred name Special.
1832 Lord is in Our Heart
Bathing Him in the five products of cow (Pancha Kavya)
The Celestial beings in hordes seek the Lord
Who knows end none;
Within the honeyed flower that is heart
His Grace stands revealed;
He who the five elements and their attributes created.
1833 Celestials Pray and Receive Lord's Grace
Bearing choicest flowers and water
The heavenly Beings over clouds traverse;
And with Pasa subdued, stand and pray
And unfailing, My Lord's Grace receive.
1834 Enter the Sea of Heart's Faith
In the expanse of waters (Ganga),
With spreading matted locks is Nandi;
Renounce the sea of unbelief;
Enter the sea of heart's faith;
They who adore Him not thus
With hands laden with flowers
Will in the sea of sorrow fall,
And forever immersed be.
1835 Break the Banks of the Sea of Sorrow
Breaking the marshy banks of the sea of sorrow
They adore Him with buds and blossoms;
They who know this not, into error great fall;
But those who know it, will see the Lord
In the crown of their head, seated within.
1836 Adoration is the Way to Reach Lord
There is one way to reach Him
Adore Him with flowers many;
To them that do this,
The Lord by Himself stands revealed;
This the way to the Holy Feet of the three-eyed God;
Adoring Him thus, He fails never to stand before you.
1837 Seek Him In Prayer
"My Lord, the Primal One, the Timeless Eternity,
The Holy One,"
--Thus they adore Him with flowers diverse,
And in love endearing at His Feet worship,
His Grace to receive;
How then do you in prayer seek Him not?
1838 Siva is the Primal One of Plural Three
Laden with flower and water
The Celestial beings seek the earth
And sing the praise of the Pure One;
Who who thinks of His bounteous Grace
Him He blesses,
He, the Primal One of the Plural Three.
1839 Pray and Prosper
You that labour hard
Gather flowers and carry water pure;
Adore the Lord in unfailing piety
And at His shining Feet lay the flowers;
And stand and pray
And unto the rain-laden clouds
Forever prosperous you shall be.
1840 Lord Receives Worship
To perform Lord's worship in manner appropriate
Senses subdue, hasten, and quick at His Feet fall;
And offering water and flower daily worship
He will accet you, thus I said, even in days of yore.
1841 Way to Goal Supreme
Adorn Him with garland of flowers
Place them at His feet
Praise Him as the Lord Primal;
Those that have daily prayed to Him
And yet have known Him not
Let them adore Him with Athi flower, so dear to Him
And pray, their base nature be cleansed of impurities;
--That the way to Goal Supreme.
1842 Nandi is Within
Above the lotus of the heart, beyond
In Bliss abides,
Nandi of the spreading matted locks;
Yet they know not the mantra to muse and chant
That will to Him lead and there abide.
1843 Lord is a Gem-Set Jewel
He is the gem that lies embedded in the cubit of the heart
Until they see Him, they think not of Him;
Into them who cherish and muse on Him over and over
As a gem-set Jewel He shines.
1844 Nandi Dispels Darkness
Nandi of gracious qualities
Is the Chakra (discus) that cuts the Darkness (of impurities)
He takes his abiding seat in my heart,
While the Celestial Beings to whom He bestows His gifts
Come in prayer, beseeching Him from afar.
1845 The Four Dikshas or Ordination Rites
By Samaya Diksha, the Primal Malas their potency lose;
By Vishesha Diksha, the Mantra purification insures;
By Nirvana Diksha, the Kalas purification is effected;
The Abhisheka Diksha is for those
Who the Jnani State has attained.
1846 Seek Him Incessantly--He is Timeless Eternity
Unless they have adored Him through aeons and aeons
They will not have become the Jiva that is Karma devoid;
Hari on the sea, and Aya besides,
Seek Him through ages after ages;
Yet is He beyond reach;
He that shines atop of Time.
12 GURU PUJA
1847 Nandi Imparts Upadesa
Grasping the lotus feet of Nandi that blesses me,
I shall relate the way of Upadesa, (imparting divine knowledge)
That to redemption leads;
Of Puja that is performed;
And of the Way to transcend Adharas six
And to ascend beyond.
1848 Rid Fleshly Desires and Know Him
With the sweet scented sandal
That in the forest recesses grows,
And with flowers rare
That heavenward blossom
You may adore Him;
But unless you know Him,
Your fleshly desires rid
You cannot reach His Feet
That are with honeyed flowers bedecked.
1849 Path of Jnana is Supreme Archana
When you excell in the Path of Jnana
That leads unto the Para Supreme,
The Path of Jnana is all Archana;
Great indeed is constant worship within;
To reach the Lord's Feet is to still actions all.
1850 Pray Thrice a Day
Morn, noon and eventide
Adore the Lord;
Adoring chant the word "Nama"--(I worship)
Chanting, invoke Him in luminaries three--the Sun, Moon, and Fire;
The famed Nandi is the Lord Supreme.
1851 To Feed Jnani is to be Supremely Blessed
A hundred times blessed
Is to perform puja in places holy;
A ten hundred times blessed
Is to worship His Presence;
A hundred, hundred times blessed
Is to feed those their thoughts have stilled;
Blessed, blessed far indeed is to see
That a Jnani is to contentment fed.
1852 Perform Pujas, Nadis Quelled
The Pujas that you perform
When Nadis, sun and moon, active beat
Are for Asuras meet;
The Pujas that you perform
When Nadis sun and moon are quelled
Are alone for Holy Nandi appropriate.
1853 Worship Nandi Beyond the Spheres of Sun and Moon
When beyond the Spheres of Sun and Moon you ascend
There Bindu and Nada are;
Ascending (through Adharas) thus,
Your Awareness crosses
The frontiers of Waking State;
There when you continuous worship Nandi,
That verily is worship Divine.
1854 Cross the Gates of Awareness and Tattvas
Course the Sakti Kundalini,
Transcend the successive gates of Awareness;
Reduce the perishable body to its elemental (tattva) constituents
And then discard them;
Then do you enter the Grace of the Holy One
And there you abide and adore
That indeed is the worship meet for Sadasiva.
1855 Practise Worship where neither Night nor Day is
The worship that you perform
By day and night
Is to the Lord an offering of flower twain;
The worship that you perform
Where neither day nor night is
Is to Him of the flowing matted locks
Acceptance full and replete indeed.
1856 Where Neither Day Nor Night is, there No Maya is
Seated in the sphere where neither day nor night is
The supreme honeyed bliss I imbibed;
Lost in thought to events outside
At the holy Feet of Lord
Where neither day nor night is,
I dispelled the Maya twain,
That with day and night compare.
13 MAHESWARA PUJA (WORSHIP OF DEVOTEES)
1857 Devotees are Walking Temples
The offering you give
To the Lord in the temple steepled high
Reaches not His devotees,
Who the walking temples noble are;
When you offer things
To the walking temples noble,
That sure reaches the Lord
In the temple steepled high.
1858 Feed Tapasvins, Feed All Worlds
The food, Tapasvins of blemishless thought took
Is food, all three worlds took;
The offerings they cheerfully received
Are offerings the three worlds received;
--Thus He proclaimed, Nandi the Great.
1859 Offering to Tapasvins is Oblation to Gods and Ancestors
The things you gave His dear devotee,
Who in Him is seated,
Are verily oblations meet for the Gods Three;
And for ancestors too,
Through generations three times seven;
This for certain shall you know.
1860 Feeding the Tapasvin is superior to feeding Brahmins and Gods
Though you a thousand abodes to holy Brahmins give
Though you a thousand temples for the gods build;
None, none is of merit compare
To a day's feed to a holy devotee given;
This be of certain.
1861 Even the Thought of Feeding Siva Jnanis is most Efficacious
Well may you feed a hundred hundred thousand Brahmins
That the holy thread wear and goodly sacrifices perform;
But holier far is the desire to feed in endearment great
A morsel albeit, to
The Lord's devotee true
Who the holy ashes wears.
1862 Siva Jnanis are Gods on Earth
"You, the Divine Bull ride,
My Lord, My God"
--Those who wear the holy ashes saying thus;
Verily are unto Devas on earth;
They that worship them as the Lord Himself,
--Who the Ganga on His russet matted locks wears,
Will have their Karmas end consummated.
1863 Call Nandi until He Appears
Of resplendent beauty is His Face
Of glowing sheen is His matted locks
He the Nandi famed;
In intense anguish I call His Name
And until He appears before me
I shall not cease to clamour, "My Nandi! My Nandi!"
1864 Worship Siva's Devotee and the World will Rejoice
In this world worship
Siva's devotees, who no death know;
The hanging darkness of ignorance forever disappears.
Unfailing seek the devotee pure
And your obeisance make;
Of a certain will the world rejoice.
1865 Worship without Love for Siva Jnanis Leads Nowhere
With endearment none for holy ones
With pride brimming to full
They Pujas perform;
Thus through ages and ages they tried and perished,
Their faces turned unto agitating churns hard,
Their hearts with egoity extreme filled.
1866 Food for Holy Men is Food for Gods
The food the holy men partake
Is verily food for the gods,
Siva, Vishnu and Brahma;
To partake of the leavings
Of holy men that have realized Truth
Is the way sure to Mukti;
--Thus affirms our Mula in meaning unmistakable.
1867 Give to the Holy Ones and Reach the Golden Land
Depressed are they not;
In holy Tapas they persevere still;
To them give
Your Karmas away to hasten;
You shall that Golden Land reach,
Where Karmas three, past, present and future, exist none.
14 GREATNESS OF HOLY MEN
1868 That Land Prospers where Holy Men are
Where there is a holy man of divine worth
Who pursues the Lord,
--That all space embraces--
There enemies none are;
Rains in abundance fall;
Full the people's contentment
Evil none befalls that land.
1869 The Land of the Holy
There in that Land are they born;
There in that Land in that body they Tapas perform;
There in that Land they reach the Feet of Lord
There in that Land will they His Grace receive.
1870 I am Redeemed when I reach the Goal of Union in Siva
The goal I sought (of union in Siva)
The peaks of mountain high in there, (Sahasrara)
The denizens of heavens,
The immortals celestial,
The hordes of humans from quarters eight
And the Primal One, too,
--If toward me they come,
And in my hands I hold them,
Redeemed am I, forever and ever.
1871 Then I engross All Creation
The universes seven,
The cosmic space beyond,
The life--animate and inanimate--
The gunas three,
The Vedas ancient,
The Gods that create and preserve
And their Primal Lord that is Siva
--All they are but in me.
1872 Lord Can be seen only with Inner Light
Neither male, nor female, nor hermaphrodite,
The light that is within ignorance concealed
Never, never can cognise Him;
Without eyes He sees,
Without ears He hears,
Only those in Knowledge ripe
Have for sure, seen Him.
1873 Lord's Devotees Rule the High Heavens
In the world existent
The Lord's devotees pursue the sure path;
They will rule in the heavens high;
They Siva become;
Whose arms stretch embracing directions eight;
In the nether world are His Feet;
In the peaks of the cosmic universe,
The Crown of His Head rises.
1874 Muse on the Lord and Know no Sorrow
Muse on the Lord;
He resides in your heart;
They who see Him residing within
Know sorrows none;
The heart that knows Him enter in,
Loses its ego,
Well may that be destroyed too;
Do strive that state to reach.
1875 Renounce: God ploughs your Life for a Rich Harvest
He is the Beginning Finite,
He is companion endearing;
He causes dissolution too,
--He, the Lord Primal;
I gave up blame and praise,
And possessions entire;
Then my life, He ploughed
For a harvest abundant.
1876 My Life willed to Siva
He is my mother and father in one
My births seven fold seven are to Siva willed;
--This the document drawn up even in days of yore;
Brahma who this world created wrote it thus;
And Vishnu the cloud-hued witnessed it.
1877 Devotees treasure Lord as Heart's Jewel
In the hearts of the resolute He firm abides;
In the hearts of those who adore, He in accord comports
Those who held the Primal Lord as their heart's Jewel
And so reckoned Him
How can they part from Him, ever?
1878 Lord lifted me to perform His Holy Work
The Celestial Beings bore on their heads
The Nandi of the flowing matted locks;
He on earth raised me high
His holy work to perform;
Higher still will He lift me,
Unto the Golden Kingdom of Purity to rule,
--He of the spreading matted locks.
1879 How Tapasvins Look
In the days of childhood innocence
By their insignia external
I marked out the Holy Ones;
And becoming their devotee, I rejoiced;
Their matted locks tied in signal knot,
Caring not for this world
The Holy ones wander;
They return not to here below;
Immersed are they in the waters of Contemplation Divine
--This their tapas intense.
1880 Seek Devotees; Seek Siva
They who seek the devotees holy in love endearing
Can in depth Siva seek and be near;
The devotees who the Holy One seek
Will in Siva's greatness merged be.
1881 Celestials Seek the Jnanis
Seeking the Holy ones
The eight clans of Celestial Beings
Swarm the earth in endearment surpassing;
The earth seems unto a crowded heaven
For twelve leagues, in directions eight.
1882 Land of Siva Jnanis is Blessed
Where Siva Yoga Jnanis flourish
Misfortunes will not be;
New ways of prosperity dawn;
All things good befall;
A very heaven that land will be;
With rebirths none for its denizens.
1883 Greatness of Siva Yoga Jnanis
They who the Higher Knowledge attained,
Can even create this world;
They who the Higher Knowledge attained,
Can transcend worlds several;
They who the Divine Light perceived
Are verily immortals here below;
They indeed are Siva's devotees true.
15 RULES FOR FEEDING HOLY MEN
1884 Lord cares for Siva Jnanis
Wherever it be
The food that is to them offered,
The Lord's devotees receive as sweet ambrosia;
Even as those who own a lone plot of land
Will unhappy be,
If that land uncared for lies.
1885 Jnanis accept alms to sustain the Body-Temple
The holy ones who have tasted of Lord's inner grace
Will at noon-tide accept alms
To sustain the body temple where the Lord resides;
Of differences they think not;
All desires extinguished,
They in solitude are seated.
16 RULES FOR RECEIVING ALMS
1886 Jnanis harvest the Body-field
In the body-field is the seed;
The field has a fence;
In the crown of the head
The crop ripened;
If without fear they harvest not,
And feed themselves not,
They are but those
Who beg for hunger's sake.
1887 Why Lord Begged
The Lord begged in Brahma's skull,
The Lord begged for Dharma to perpetuate;
The Lord begged in Brahma's skull,
That Brahma to Brahmam become.
1888 Why Devotees Beg
The Lord who the seven worlds created
A beggar they call Him?
Why, though, He begs?
That the holy devotees
Who constant think of Him,
Beg and reach His Feet.
1889 Lord Waits for His Devotees
The Lord stands waiting
For them that come seeking Him;
For the holy ones He waits
His bliss to bestow;
He stands waiting, them to enter;
Can you say "He knows me not."
1890 Devotees Constant Seek Siva
Gnawing hunger, greed and anger
These bodily evils
Siva's devotees possess not;
Neither in this world below,
Nor in the blessed world above
Will they remain;
Seeking Siva and Siva alone
Will they engrossed ever be.
1891 World Seeks to feed; Tapasvins do not Beg for a Living
Though they received the clear light of Jnana,
Yet they perforce seek portals of the bounteous for alms;
To these Tapasvins that beg not for a living,
All the world in reverence repairs.
17 MUDRA VARIATIONS
1892 Significance of Mudra
The Mudra is to transcend avastas eleven,
Fix awareness on Silent Letter Pranava (Aum)
That the Way is;
And reach the Holy Feet of Nandi;
And all desires worldly quelled
You attain Mukti divine.
1893 Mudras--Sambhavi and Kecari
In the palatal place where the three Turiya states of awareness subsume,
Insert your tongue inward, and there contain it;
Thus practise the Mudras, Sambhavi and Kecari
Divine Jnana's light to flood.
1894 Sambhavi Mudra brings Grace and Kecari Jnana
Sambhavi Mudra brings Nandi's glance
In Grace abounding and birth ending;
Kecari true where Aum is in silence chanted
Is the Mudra that divine Jnana brings;
That the one I practise, as Natha (Guru) divine.
1895 Mauna Mudra Leads to Mukti Final
He who appears in Adharas is Sadasiva;
He who appears in Jnana is the goodly Siva;
In the silence of Mauna Mudra, Siva's form disappears;
That verily is the Mukti Finale, the Ultima Thule.
1896 Mauna is Stillness of Both Thought and Speech
To attain stillness of Speech and Thought at once is mauna
Mauna sans Speech alone
Is but state of dumbness;
Only when Speech and Thought are alike in mauna
Are you in State Suddha (Perfection)
Who but knows
That Suddha state to bring about?
1897 Yoga Mudra and Jnana Mudra
Sambhavi is the lion among Yoga Mudras
That leads certain to Siddhis eight;
When Jnana Mudra you seek
Appropriate indeed is Kecari
That by Vedas lauded high.
1898 Yogi attains Nada State
Yogi attains siddhis eight
He experiences the divine Nada State;
He is of Karma rid
He is of calm mind
He pursues the Four Ends of Human Goal,
He courses the Sakti Kundalini
Through centres six within the body;
That way he reaches the One
And union in Him attains.
1899 Yoga is the Pure Way of Siddhanta-Vedanta
The Yogic way of Dvadasa
But leads to Sodasa Kala Prasada
It sunders desires;
This the pure way of Vedanta-Siddhanta;
To meditate on the Mantra that begins with "Na" (Nama Sivaya)
That verily is Suddha (pure) Saivam.
1900 All Mudras firm up breath
The Mudra that is Mauna
Is the Mudra for those Mukti seek;
The Mudra that is Jnana (Kecari)
Is the Mudra for those who Gurus be;
Mudra that draws nectar of Grace is the Mudra
That is Siddhanta (Sambhave)
Mudras all firm up breath,
That Siva Truth, of yore revealed.
1901 Pure Vision inside Cranium
In the Sushumna Nadi Central
The Lord's Holy Feet will appear;
The lotus center (Sahasrara),
Within a Golden Sphere is;
Beyond, the upward course (of Kundalini) lifts you
To the Moon's Sphere that is white;
And there you vision the Pure One.
18 PERFECT (CAVE WAY) SEPULCHRAL MADE OF SAMADHI
1902 Soul's Journey after Yoga-Samadhi Attained
When the Yogi his mortal coil shuffles,
During the phase the Crescent moon waxes
He (the soul) shall reach the world of Devas;
There for a while abiding,
Into the Sphere of Sun he subsides;
Thence He reaches the Sphere
Where the Souls of Ancestors dwell;
And from there, finally in the Sphere of Moon, he abides.
1903 When Samadhi is not Reached
All these of the Yogi,
This life in Samadhi ended;
When that does happen not,
He will in this world take refuge again,
And by Lord's Grace
Resume Yoga in practice continual
And thus complete the undertaking, unfinished.
1904 Siddha-Hood
Thus in the world they will be
And in Siva Yoga again be;
And as Siva Yogin in Bindu merge,
Many miraculous powers attain,
The Siddha-hood their fleshly body reaching.
1905 Continuity of Yoga through lives
While in the pursuit of Yoga
If Siva Yogins, holy, die,
They reach the World of Tapas
Only to this world return
And to Yoga repair;
Blessed indeed are they,
Whom the Beings Celestial praise high.
1906 Mauna Samadhi Leads to the Unitive State
If Sivayogi gives up life,
In mauna Samadhi he enters
To seek the state unitive;
He will not in another body be born,
Nor as Jivan Mukta return
Conscious of here below;
But with Lord get united in one.
1907 Siddhas even when Dead in Body are Alive in Awareness
Blessed indeed are those who die
If in death they unite one with Lord;
Then, even dead, alive are they;
They who are dead unto the Impurities Three
Are Siddhas true.
Siva they become.
1908 Jnani Shapes Disciple towards God-hood
Who intense seek the Grace of Lord Exalted
Their birth to sunder,
He himself draws them
Into the fold of His devotees dear;
Unto it, the Jnani draws unto him
His disciples, in love abounding,
In his own way subtle,
Toward Godhood, He shapes them.
1909 Jnani Exists in Siva's Pervasiveness
The heart of Siva Jnani overflows in Grace;
He sees Siva everywhere;
He feels His presence pervasive;
Fragmented may be the sky you see;
But all space it engulfs;
Unto it, the Jnani,
Though rid of consciousness here,
One with Siva pervasive exists.
19 SAMADHI RITUALS
1910 Do not Consign Siva Jnani's Body to Fire; Nor Neglect it
If the body of Siva Jnani is to fire consigned,
The people entire will in burning fever suffer;
If his body a prey to dogs and jackals left,
Tumultous war the land will see,
And the people a prey to dogs and jackals be.
1911 Disasters Follow if Jnani's Body is Consigned To Fire
If to fire the Jnani's body is consigned
That will be unto fire the Lord's temple consigned;
No more will rains fall on the land,
Famine shall ravish the world,
Countless kings will their kingdoms lose.
1912 Bury Jnani's Body in Proper Way
Proper indeed is to bury them;
If to fire they are consigned
Destruction dogs the land;
If left to perish, uncared for,
The world its prosperity loses,
A fell prey to devastating fire falls.
1913 Bury Jnani's Body in an Underground Sepulchre
Let the body of Jnani,
When Lord's Grace receives,
Be in a cave seated,
Appropriate in earth's bowel dug;
Then stately rulers and people in land
Receive blessings,
Of Grace infinite.
1914 Samadhi Rituals
Well dig the sepulchre,
Heap the earth five cubits around,
Shape it into a triangle
Three cubits on sides;
And there in Padmasana,
Seat the body.
1915 Samadhi Cave Locations
One's own homestead, roadside, tank bund, riverbed,
Flowery grove, city's common
Forest dense, and mountain valley high
--These the sites appropriate,
For the sepulchre to shape.
1916 Dimension For the Sepulchre Cave
Five feet on four sides all,
Nine feet straight deep,
Three feet each on the triangle's sides
--These the dimensions
Appropriate for the sepulchre to shape.
1917 Samadhi Rituals
In abundance spread the five metals precious
And the nine gems rare;
Upon them place the seat,
Scatter the Kusha grass,
And shower the holy ashes white;
Above that scatter
Turmeric powder that is of color gold
And incenses richly mixed.
1918 Samadhi Rituals (Cont.)
Shape the cave inside into a square,
Upon that lay garlands of honey-dew flowers;
Sandal, musk, civet, and unguents diverse;
And pouring rose's water
Light the ritual lamp, in devotion ecstatic.
1919 Samadhi Rituals (Cont.)
Smear the body entire with ashes white and holy
To form a shroud protective;
Place the body on an Asana (seat) appropriate,
Spangle bright with incenses several and ashes holy;
And thus seated, cover the cave with earth.
1920 Samadhi Rituals (Cont.)
Having covered thus, level the four sides;
Place his sandals and ear rings,
And an image with face and eyes
Decked in dress appropriate;
Offer parched rice, food, and tender coconut.
1921 Samadhi Rituals (Cont.)
Then pour the ashes white and powdered incense,
Shower flowers diverse, Kusha grass and Bilva leaves,
Sprinkle water holy,
And raise a platform three feet by three.
1922 Samadhi Pujas
Upon the platform plant
The sapling of peepal tree, or a Lingam holy,
Arrange the Sannidhi (face) toward north or east
And perform pujas with rituals sixteen,
In devotion endearing.
20 RISE OF BINDU
1923 Devolutes of Bindu
When Creation commenced,
From Para Bindu arose Kundalini
And from Kudilai the Vaindavam in the firmament vast
And the nine gods Brahma and the rest
And their Saktis
And in order corresponding
The Karanas, the Kalas and the sound Vaikari (Nada).
1924 Thirty Six Tattvas Devolute
Bindu attains modification five times five (twenty-five)
Nada attains modification four and six (ten)
The rest two--Sakti and Siva--attain not modification
But activate the other two--Bindu and Nada.
1925 Saktis Devolute from Bindu
Out of the Mamaya
Para Bindu gives rise to--
All these manifestations
Vagesi, Tatparai, Kudilai and Kundalini;
These Saktis four ultimate from Bindu evolute.
1926 Kalas Nada and Karanas Devoluted
The Kalas Nivirti and the rest,
In which repose sounds "A", "U" and "M" composed
There in Nadanta Bindu enters
And into the Karanas that include the Mind
And the internal organs intellectual
Devolute manifesting these
The Bindu its act of creation ceases.
1927 Bindu is the Causal Seed of Five Acts
The Parapara that is the End and the Beginning
Immanent, He expands thus;
As Cause and Effect, too, well He is;
And as Bija
The Five Acts performs.
1928 Bija is the Macro and Micro Causal Seed
By the power of Bija that from Bindu emanated
The world and the cosmic universe arose
From out of Casual (Asuddha) Maya (Stuff of matter)
Arose the elements five--the sky and the rest;
And this Bindu, micro and macro, is.
1929 Bindu is White and Nada Red
The Bindu that shines
Within the body and without (in all Nature)
Is white in hue;
Red is vibrant Nada;
As Sakti and Siva embedded within
Well can they Mukti grant,
If in wisdom activated.
1930 Bindu is Cause-Effect
All-pervasive unto the Param
The Bindu stands;
Veiling all unto a filament vast;
And filling everywhere as the space in pots all;
As Mamaya that is Cause and Effect
It all cosmos pervades.
1931 Bindu is the Seed in the body and Divine Swan in Cosmos
There in the Bindu,
Nandi stands His Grace to bestow;
That it is in their Bija within, they know not;
That Seed as scented flower in the (body) into microcosm blossoms
As a Divine Swan So-ham in the macrocosm it is;
He the Blessed One that is the Causal Seed of all.
1932 Siva is Seed, Bindu is Embryo
Without seed is embryo none,
Except from seed the embryo appears not;
The seed and the embryo are but one, separate never;
Thus are the Bindu and Siva too;
This you should know.
1933 How Food Builds Body, Blood and Mind
The food you partake in divisions three go
To the body, to the mind and to the excreta;
The parts that to the body and the mind go
Verily become the blood, first.
1934 How Bindu is Formed From Food
Out of the seven constituents food breaks into,
(Blood, lymph, bone, skin, flesh, brain and semen)
The Bindu forms in days three
Unto the tiny dew drop on a blade of grass;
And full matures in days three times seven.
1935 Bindu is Transformed into Mind and Kalas
When in the body for three days it remains thus,
It becomes a part of the Mind;
As Kala Bright--Intelligence illumined;
For those immersed in thoughts holy, it is there retained;
For those who in sex intercourse indulge,
It will depart, their mental powers deteriorated.
1936 Waste Bindu, the Body Perishes
They know not the destruction that wasting of Bindu results in;
They resolve not their decay to prevent by will power determined;
They who thus perish in this perishing body
Know not the way they perish;
And give it up not.
21 CONQUEST OF BINDU--REGULATION OF BINDU FLOW
1937 Siva Yogi Sublimates Bindu
Do not look at women
Who intent on lust look at you;
Away from them;
Light the fire of Kundalini;
Melt your heart in divine love;
Uproot the evil desire that sight kindles;
Fix it on the source of Primal Energy
He who does it is verily the Siva Yogi.
1938 Waste Not Bindu
He to lust a slave becomes,
Will in constant fear be;
His body deteriorates,
And his life ebbs away;
He will not Grace receive,
And in Siva Yoga lasts not.
1939 Regulation Days for Sexual Union
Those who wish to sleep with women
Let them observe the periodicity thus:
Of the two phases of the moon,
The first eight days of the waxing moon
For union appropriate are not;
In the six days that remain,
And in the first six days of the waning moon
Can they in union be.
1940 Regulation Days for Practising Yogis
Let those that Yoga practise
Avoid the fifth, the sixth and the eleventh days
After the woman menstruates;
The rest, who the pleasure seek,
Take the six days, in the middle
Of the three weeks that follow.
1941 Duration of Sexual Union and Rules for Release of Bindu
When on union they decide on,
Let it be for muhurtas* four,
Following the injunctions of Kama Sastras,
Let them the sexual act perform;
When the Moon's Kalas (Left Nadi) shine bright,
And breath in Sun Nadi's low runs
Emit Bindu, the breath holding,
Breathing through nostril right, quelling left.
1942 Sublimate Sex Act
Embrace the damsel,
Your five sense organs with her five conjoining;
But, detached your passion for the woman be;
Like the senses that are Godward sublimated
Be calm; excited be not;
Control your breath, senses and mind,
Concentrated be your thought,
Thus emit your Bindu.
1943 Direct your senses Inward
Goodly amour, beauty and youth
Shapely form and coral lips
And breasts that swell,
--When in union with damsel such as she--
You the Bindu emit,
Emit, your senses inward directed.
1944 Determine the Results of the Act
Having emitted,
Examine the laws of conception
The time of union, of pregnancy and delivery
The baby's length of life, and death;
Its character, good and bad,
These you in detail determine.
1945 Seek not Further Union
Having examined these,
Abstain from worldly concerns,
And leave the maiden of shapely breasts;
And further union seek not;
Within months two
Will the baby its form take,
And all the rest you have reckoned follow.
1946 Know the Seed of Seed and Preserve Body
Except for those who plant the seed,
Harvest there be none, future;
Except for those who plant the seed,
Wisdom great there be none;
If they know the Seed of seed for certain
Preserved their body be
Unto the mango fruit kept in vessel suspended.
1947 Lord Settles Fate and longevity of Embryo With Concern
The Lord has concern great
For the seed in womb;
Even in the seed with forethought
He settles its fate and span of life;
Thus, when the Seed itself is the Causal Thought,
To attribute Cause and Effect to factors outside
Is but imagination's figment.
1948 Conserve Bindu and Attain Siddhis
If Bindu stands retained in body
Life ebbs not;
Great strength, energy, intelligence alert,
Tapas, contemplation and Maunam (silent-ness)
And siddhis enduring,
--All these are attained,
--If Bindu be conserved true.
1949 Conservation of Sex Energy Vital for Yoga Practice
Thus conserved, they light the Fire of Kundalini,
And forcing it upward through Nadi Sushumna
Reach the state of illumination;
There they partake of the ambrosia
From the Moon within flows;
Those who do this in unbroken continuity,
Are verily Siva Yogins true.
1950 Conserve Sex Energy and Become Heroes
The Yogi, the Jnani, and the Siddha high
The Bhoga Yogi who is yet the king of Jnanis,
All these, though troubled by passions
Yet savour the ambrosia within; (in the Yogic way)
Heroes, all, they are indeed,
Who the Bindu had conserved.
1951 Burn Bindu in Fire of Kundalini
The fiery Bindu above is Lord's Body (macrocosmic)
The Bindu wasted here below is vital Prana (microcosmic)
If mixing the two, they burn it in the Fire of Kundalini
Then they consume the very ambrosia
--This, the wisdom of Yogis true.
1952 In Yoga Bindu is Divinely Assimilated
In ignorance the folks waste it daily,
And destroyed by senses, in pain weep;
If in wisdom, they conscious perform Yoga supreme,
The Bindu disppears, divinely assimilated.
1953 Lust is Death's Messenger
If you hold women as Death's messengers,
Love's passion vanishes away;
Death there is none;
For ages innumerable will you in Divine Light be,
Your Impurities forever totally rid.
1954 Conquer Bindu and Conquer Time
He that has conquered Bindu has conquered Time;
He that has wasted Bindu has perished before his time;
They know not that Bindu that has been preserved
In time becomes one with Kundalini,
Their breath controlled in the Yogic way.
1955 Embrace Woman after Cleansing Her
If you desire woman's love, intense to excite,
The day before you in sexual union indulge,
Cleanse the woman of her bowel, phlegm and bile,
Then in union embrace her.
1956 Bindu is Assimilated in Body Through Yoga
Direct Prana breath to Bindu and Nada
That in cranium Sphere arises,
Upward through Sushumna Nadi
By devices appropriate;
Thus you reach to the nectar divine;
Hold on to it,
That Bindu in you indissolubly dissolves,
Your illusions to disappear.
1957 Conquest of Bindu Leads to Nada
The ripening of Bindu,
The result full of that ripening,
The dire consequences of wasting it,
And the blessings of retaining it,
The Nada that ensues
And the transformation that Nada effects,
--Those who all these realize
Have verily conquered the Bindu.
1958 Fry Bindu in Kundalini Fire
The Bindu that is Bija (Seed)
Burn it agreeably,
In the Fire that is Kundalini,
That from Muladhara flames;
Course it upward into the Solar Sphere within
And touch the Lunar Sphere beyond;
There, indeed, is the nectar divine.
1959 Bindu Sublimated by Kundalini Yoga Leads to Ambrosial Flow
When the Bindu of the body
Thus perishes (by Yoga)
It is into Divine Bindu transformed
Of the ambrosial Lunar Sphere within;
When the Bindu of the body
Perishes in the fire of Kundalini,
The ambrosial waters flow and fill the body;
Then indeed is Siva Bhoga that is ambrosial sweet;
And thus bathed in divine waters of ambrosia
The Yogi attains Siddhis rare.
1960 In Yoga Way Bindu is not Released
Two bodies in union may unite,
Yet if he emits not Bindu
That union is Yoga way;
That Bhoga is Siva Bhoga;
That the true Bhoga
Where the Yogi emits not
To quell the witless woman's passion.
1961 Bindu is not Emitted
They who stand in Yoga way
Even though with women unite,
Their Bindu, in passion, they emit not;
And the women their life's passion unquenched
Will verily pine and droop,
Yearning still for love,
As lovers new forever do.
1962 Bodily Bindu Becomes Cosmic Bindu
By Kundalini Sakti, Bindu conquer;
Kindle that Fire in Muladhara
Course it upward straight
Through central Nadi, Sushumna;
Reach Nada,
And swill ambrosia there flows;
Your Bindu the Divine Bindu becomes.
1963 Union of Bindu and Nada
When Bindu and Nada unite,
And Kundalini Fire each minute hair root permeates,
All thought devoid,
Siva Himself you Become;
And the Bindu then dies in the Primal Bindu
Of the Body Divine.
1964 Yogi Sublimates Bindu
He who pounds seed and consumes it
Knows not good that of harvest comes;
Different is he,
Who fries it (in Kundalini Fire) and in body absorbs;
The latter, of the seed a meal does not make,
But the Seed of Birth he ends.
1965 Merging of Bodily Bindu in Cosmic Bindu
Coursing upward, Bindu that is Prana vital
Merging it in Divine Bindu
That the "Swan" in cranium (Sahasrara) is,
There, uniting in Nadanta,
The luminous Bindu is in body absorbed.
1966 Absorb Bindu in Body and Become Immortal
The Swan (the macrocosmic), and Prana (the microcosmic)
--Bindu is thus two for all;
Those who realize this
And absorb one in Other
--The Prana (Individual) in the Swan (Cosmic)--
Will eight siddhis attain;
Their body as gold glitters;
They immortal become.
1967 Secret Way of Bindu Conquest
Intone sound "Si" (the first sound of Panchakshara)
In your Prana (life breath)'s silent thought
Merge in "Aum"--the sound cluster of "A, U, M"
Thus ParaSakti reach;
That indeed is the way of Bindu Conquest
--This the Mystic Secret (upadesa)--you hold.
1968 Conquer Bindu and Attain Siva State
This the Mystic Secret
There is none--but this
He alone is; nothing else there is;
The Bindu heavenward ascends,
The Organs Fourteen
(Jnanandriyas five, Karmendriyas five and Antakaranas four)
Their action cease;
Then does Jnana follow;
That verily is Siva State.
1969 Sivoham when Bindu Subsides
In union of Bindu and Nada
Was born this creation vast;
It is beginning and end of all life,
Of great mantras too,
When Bindu subsides,
Then is Sivoham.*
1970 Fry Bindu and End Birth
Fry the Bindu, Mind its balance winning;
Raise it high, to mount of Sushumna;
That way, your interminable Karmas are scorched;
Then the day you pluck away
The Fruit of Fig that holds
The seeds of birth, innumerable.
1971 When Bindu Merges Ambrosia Wells
When Bindu and Nada uniting in one
Enter the Sphere of Moon within,
The heavenly ambrosia wells and flows;
The Mantra (Aum) that arises there
Is the sacrificial offering to Lord Supreme.
1972 Merge Mind in Bindu, Away From Lust
When the Mind in the Bindu merges,
Then the Mind, the ears and all organs besides
Will together rise the Divine Goal to seek;
But when thought and sound and words
That in the Mind arise
Seek lust,
As fluid thick it transformed be.
1973 Jnanis Know Lord's Seat
The Sound (Nada), and the Mind that perceives Sound,
And the place where Mind undistracted discerns Truth,
--These they know not;
That place the Jnanis truly know
That verily is Lord's Seat.
1974 Regions of Five Elements in the body
Earth is, where the legs are (Muladhara);
In the navel (Svatisthana) is the Region of Water;
Below the breast (Manipura) is the Fire;
Above the breast (Anahatha) and below the shoulder (Visuddhi) is Air;
And around the neck and beyond (Ajna) is the Region of Space.
22 THE SUN'S POSITION--THE COSMIC SUN
1975 Sun and Other Gods Adore Lord to Receive Illumination
The fiery Sun and the Celestials rest
Circumnambulate the snow-clad Mountain Meru;
And adore the luminous Lord's Holy Feet in Tapas,
That they might, themselves illumined be.
1976 Sun is the Primal Energy
The Sun is Vishnu;
He is Siva Holy too,
Who as refuge of all creation stands;
He brings prosperity to the seven worlds in accord;
He, the Beginning of lives all.
1977 Worship Sun, Primal Lord Blesses
Chant in love the thousand names of Sun,
He in you as spark divine glows;
The Vedic brahmins pray,
The Celestial immortals his name chant;
It is the Lord Primal verily
Who blesses all.
1978 Primal Lord is Source of All
He stands as the Tattvas for the world,
He stands as Sakti for the world,
He alone is the Being Uncreated (Sambhu),
He for the world is the Moon too,
Of soft light divine.
1979 Position of Sun in the Body
Above the triangle of Muladhara Center,
Above the hexagonal Center of Svadishtana,
Above the twin-circle of Manipura Center,
In the moving Center of sixteen petalled Visuddhi,
There indeed rises the Sun within.
1980 The Sun Confers the Kalas in Adharas
The Sun is within;
When his beams beat
On Muladhara triangule
That receives Kalas four;
When on Visuddhi his shafts fall,
That with Kalas sixteen shines.
1981 Experiences in the Sphere of Sun Within
When you reach the Sphere of Sun
Your worldly thoughts fade into darkness;
The cognitive organs four no more contend--
The Sakti in the light within reveals
The truth of Vedas
But alas! You seek not to understand!
1982 Sun's Route Inside
Below the Earth Center that is Muladhara
The Sun its route takes;
Invisible indeed is he,
Between the Fiery Center (Manipura)
And the Watery Center (Svatishtana) within.
1983 Sun's Course in the Higher Adharas
Breaking through the Earth (Muladhara)
He penetrates beyond into the Adharas that
Are Sky (Visuddhi) and Space (Ajna) within;
He is the very source of joy that dazzles the eye;
He indeed responds to contemplation sweet.
1984 Sun Circumambulates Sahasrara
The sun that penetrates Earth (Muladhara)
His route none knows,
That are but versed in worldly lore;
He circumambulates Mount of Meru, (Sahasrara)
Of the Lord Unconquerable;
--Thus they say;
Only those who have realized Truth
Know His abode real.
23 THE MICROCOSMIC SUN
1985 Vision Sun Within Through Spinal Way
Staning, sitting, walking and lying prostrate
Nandi the benevolent in my thoughts incessant stood;
Destroy your Malas (Impurities)
And ascend the Adharas
Through Sushumna Central;
There shall you vision the Sun
That within shines in brightness nonpareil.
1986 The Self-Realized Reach Sun
They who by Adhara-ascending
Reach and see where the Sun within reposes
They indeed are the self-realized ones;
They who differ from this
And say aught they like,
Are in darkness enveloped,
As when the Sun here, below horizon dips.
1987 Those Who Know the Sun Within is Worthy of Adoration
They penetrate not the Adharas,
Search not the world within,
And know not where in its midst Sun is;
Those who know where he furtive lies
To them my heart
In love melts.
24 MIND'S SUN
1988 Life's Full Moon Within
The luminous Sun dewy cool becomes
When Moon spreads its contending rays;
In the luminosity that commingling emanates,
My yearning Prana as a ray beams,
That verily is my life's Full Moon.
1989 To See the Blending of the Rays of Sun and Moon is Divine
When on Sun, Moon's rays afore fall,
That in order is;
When on Sun, Moon's rays beat,
Divine indeed;
In that mystic land
Where the two shafts mingle
They who the Light see,
Have Siva Himself become.
1990 Full Moon Within
With Kalas three of Sun, Moon and Fire
Arises the Kala from intermingling of their rays
Thus are they, Kalas Four;
When Sun, Moon and Fire mingle their rays,
Then is Full Moon within, know this.
1991*36The Vision of Ethereal Light Within
The Light that shone beyond the orbs two,
Is a Light that none in any realm can perceive;
It is a Light that shone piercing the Cosmic Universe;
Who can near it, who can perceive it!
1992 The Nine Planets Lacking Grace Whirl in Darkness
The nine orbs (planets) go round the earth,
But none of nine, knows Lord;
Well may the nine orbs, Him, propitiate;
Yet His Grace they receive not;
Devoid of bliss, in darkness surrounded they are.
25 JNANA-SUN
1993 Sun's Para Kalas evoluted from Bindu Through Para Nada
The Bindu expand into two Apara and Para
The Apara becomes the Para Nada
From Para Nada arises the Para Kalas
With those Kalas the Jnana Sun within dawns.
1994 In the Five Kalas Arise the Five Sound Forms
The Sound that arises
When Sun within dawns
Is emanation from Para Nada;
The Sounds Five, Vaikhari and rest
That to Para Bindu belong
Arise in Kalas Five, one in each.
1995 Sadasiva is the Finite Source of Formless and Formed Sounds
He is the Lord of Devas;
He creates the directions ten;
Of yore they hailed Him as Lord of Three;
He is the Lord of the Four too;
In them He stands as Being Central,
Thus verily, the Immortal Celestials say.
1996 Siva Dispels Darkness
He is the Truth,
Unreal He is not;
He is the Lord of the Universe;
My Father;
He is the Sun, Moon and Fire that darkness dispel;
He dispels too the darkness of Karma,
He, the Nandi Holy, to me appeared
The darkness of my low desires to dispel.
1997 Siva is the Light Resplendent
With His peerless rays
He dispelled my darkness;
And the divine fruit's honey within flowed;
Beaming with benevolent rays
As Lord of Kailas, He stood;
Within me too He stood aloft
As Light Resplendent.
1998 He is Supreme Light
His dazzling Light as Wisdom True spreads;
Unhindered, it invades worlds all;
It is the light pervasive, none can fathom;
Who does know it as the Light Supreme!
1999 The Jnana Sun is Within and Without
The Sun that rises in firmament vast
Stands within too shedding rays divine;
In directions eight he traverses constant;
Yet in them that Truth know
He stands for ever fixed within.
2000 Five Centers where the Light of Lord is
In the navel, eye and nose tip,
In the center of eyebrows, and within crown of head
In these five places, Lord resides as Light Divine;
He is the One Lord
The Devas saw as Three,
Brahma, Vishnu and Isa.
2001 Siva is Sun of Jnana
The darkness of contending Pasa,
And the Ignorance vast
These flee fast,
Before the Jnana Light of Siva,
Even as when the luminous Sun rises,
The murky darkness, before him, flees.
2002 Sivaditya is Immanent and Transcendent
In pot to pot the sun appears,
Well may you the pots close,
Yet in them you contain him not;
So, too, when Lord that poison swallowed
This body enters,
There can you contain Him not
He pervades all.
2003 Sivaditya is Space, Light and Darkness
Himself as the Three Lights (Sun, Moon and Fire) in one stands;
Himself as Brahma and Vishnu stands established;
Himself as life and body indistinguishably stands
Himself Space, Light, and Darkness too.
2004 Nine Abodes of Sivaditya
The divine Fire, Sun and Moon,
The earth, water, fire, wind and space
And the creation countless
These the abodes ancient of Siva are;
The Five Gods, (Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesa, Sadasiva)
Are in the Vedas that has Angas six.
27 NATURE OF JIVA PRANA
2005 He is Para-Bindu
The One whom I in contemplation realize,
The One Param whom Vedas praise,
The Undying Light in me shines,
Him I beheld, as Divine Swan (Para Bindu).
2006 Cosmic Bindu and Micro-Cosmic Bindu Are Inseparate
Two the swans on the river bank (of life)
The two swans separation know not,
If one Jiva says he is by himself,
Then that foolish swan, Grace receives not.
428 PURUSHA*5
2007 Lord Creates Activating Saktis Jnana and Kriya
Vaikhari and rest of Sounds,
Maya and rest of Impurities,
Purusha and rest of Tattvas illusory
--All these,
Acting on Saktis, Jnana and Kriya,
The Lord True from time immemorial made.
2008 Lord is Atom-Within-Atom
The Lord is the Beginning of all,
He is the Atom-within-the-atom;
Divide an atom within the atom,
Into parts one thousand,
They who can thus divide
That atom within the atom
May well near the Lord,
He, indeed, is the Atom-within-the-atom.
2009 Seek the Jnana Way of Lord
Tiny unto the seed
Of the spreading banyan tree
Is the atom that is Jiva;
If by fire of Jnana
Your way purifies,
The dark Pasas that malign you
May well driven away be;
Seek the Divine way,
The Dancing Lord shows you.
2010 Jiva and Siva Commingling Stand
He within the atom (Jiva),
And the atom (Jiva) within Him
Commingling stand,
They know this not;
The peerless Lord pervades all
Unintermittent, in creation entire.
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2011 Size of Soul
To speak of the size of Jiva
It is like this:
Split a cow's hair soft
Into a hundred tiny parts;
And each part into a thousand parts divide;
The size of Jiva is that one of part
Of the one hundred thousand.
2012 Siva's Infinite Size
Infinite great is my Lord,
Yet within the littleness of this body
He dwells permeating;
He is the Lord Supreme
Whom the Celestials cannot know;
As much as your Tapas is
So much also is He known.
2013 Practise Yoga in Perserverence
You may not for Yoga inclined be,
But if your Guru Illumined teaches you,
You may yet accomplish it;
And so perservere
In lives several;
And seeing you thus practise,
Sivva's Form will in your thought arise.
2014 Guru Illumines You
Harassed are you
By Maya's manifestations;
But when the Guru Illumined
By His grace lights you up
Your troubles entire cease;
The Jiva illumined in Jnana
Will Turiya State reach.
30 JIVA (PASU)
2015 Jnani is the Mature Jiva
The learned cows(Jivas) may wander bellowing,
The power-giddy cows may strut about,
Their insignia displaying;
But precious is a pot's milk (Jnana),
The goodly mature cows (Jnani's) yield;
The rest are but barren cows indeed.
2016 Jivas Graze in the Backwood of Worldly Pleasures
What to do with those cows
In the backwoods of desires graze?
Take them beyond,
And lead them to Feet of Lord;
Discipline them in ways superior;
Thus manage the herd;
Until then, their thoughts turn not
From the backwoods of worldly pleasures.
4 BODHAN (LORD AS GIVER OF LIGHT OF JNANA)
2017 Jiva and Siva are One
Jiva and Siva
Separate are not;
Jiva knows not Siva;
When Jiva knows Siva;
Jiva becomes Siva.
2018 Lord is Light
The Dancing Lord is the Light Benevolent,
He is the Joyous Light for Creation all;
He adorns the many hooded serpent with gemlike shining eyes
He is the Cluster of Lights that oversees all.
2019 Lord is Knowledge and Knower
He is all Knowledge, immune from Ignorance,
Without aid of sensory organs, He is self-Illumined,
Himself as Knowledge and Himself as the Knower too
He is the Jiva as well,
He stands pervasive all.
2020 He is Beyond Tattvas Thirty-Six
To me that knew not the truth of Tattvas six times six,
He taught the truth of Tattvas six times six
He, Nandi Famed;
And when by His Grace I learned the truth of Tattvas six times six
He stood beyond the Tattvas six times six.
2021 Lord is Truth
They know Him not as Grace that is Siva,
They know not the Malas (Impurities) Five to rid of,
They perform penance diverse,
And are in distraction lost,
They seek not the Tattva (Truth),
That is ever New.
2022 Lord Bestows His Grace on the Good
They think not of divine acts, Lord daily performs
They think not of the ministering acts, Lord daily performs;
The Lord daily bestows His Grace on the good,
They who know this not, daily seek Him not--
Entangled in their work-a-day Karmas interminable.
4 IMPORTANCE OF CONTROLLING
THE FIVE INDRIYAS (SENSES)
2023 Do Not Delay to Control Senses
Five are the elephants (Senses)
That are in MAST
Their MAST increasing
They do not to the (Divine) Post remain tied;
As the mahout (Jiva) tires,
And the elephants (Senses) too, get their energy exhausted,
Then they turn to Yoga;
Why this way (they delayed) we know not!
2024 Difficulty of Training Senses
Attentively learning holy lore
And coursing breath in Yogic way,
Unless the rider (Jiva) thus trains,
The restless steed (Senses),
Its wayward course it takes;
Firm may the rider on its neck sit
And hard the punishment he administers,
Yet the animal forward moves not.
2025 Harassing Senses Bring Sorrow
Five the Sense Organs,
Five the Sense-birds, (Jnanendriyas)
Five the Fields (Tanmatras)
The Sense-birds seek to feed,
Five the waters (Kanmendriyas),
Five their functions,
Yet are they of one lineage;
And one the hunter (Jiva)
That herds them together;
Nine the exits of body
Where he in sorrow wanders.
2026 Senses are Like Roaming Lions
Five the lions, that roam the forest
The Five seeking their prey, get filled;
And to their caves the Five return;
If the claws and teeth of the Five you pull,
You shall sure the Lord reach.
2027 Senses are Like Ministers that Seek to Usurp the Body-Kingdom
Five are the ministers,
Ninety six (Tattvas) are within they,
The Five and their brood of sons within
Seek you to rule;
If the Five in their fiery passion stand,
Endless indeed is the tribute
That to the Five we are to pay.
2028 Without Sense Control Jiva is Like a Murderous Steed
I praise not daily
The Holy Light;
I speak not of Sakti
That is within there;
I conquer not the senses Five;
Unto a murderous steed headlong that races
Verily, am I.
2029 Control Desires, and Attain Bliss
Countless the holes
In this body's chamber dark;
If with the countless holes (desires) I run,
Faulty will my lot be;
If you run not
With the countless holes of desires,
Countless indeed the bliss you attain.
2030 Strength of Wisdom Leads to Higher Life
Of their Karma's strength is life here below,
Of their prayers' strength is life in heaven above,
Of their wisdom's strength is men's higher life;
Verily, of their strength of Grace
Is their way of life.
4 HOW TO CONTROL SENSES
(WAY OF SUBLIMATION)
2031 Lord is a Fisher of Desires
One cubit its depth,
Half cubit its diameter,
Thus shaped round is the body pond;
The Fisherman (Lord) His net spreads;
Many the fish (of desires) He caught;
No more--the troubles I encounter.
2032 Control Senses and Become Immortal
The stirring Indriyas within the body dwell,
He who controls them is immortal verily;
If your thoughts seek the pleasure twain--
Food and sex,
Only that far will they last,
Until your breath lasts.
2033 Not Control But Sublimation of Senses is Wisdom's Way
"Control, control the senses Five,"
--Thus say those who know not;
None, not even the Immortals
The senses Five control;
When you the senses Five control
Verily are you an inert mass;
(There is a way alternate open)
Sublimate them toward the Lord
That Wisdom's Way, I learned.
2034 Mere Control Does Not Avail7Loud they roar, the elephants in MAST triple, (Pasas)
I applied the goad of knowledge to them control;
But they romped about and in fury escaped,
They fat became, causing destruction in their train,
And sweet fields of sugarcane (goodly qualities) devastating.
2035 Sublimation is the Way to Grace
If the senses Five you sublimate
Then all worlds are yours;
That is tapas rare;
That is the Lord's Feet too;
That indeed is the way to Grace receive.
2036 Control of Thought is the Key to Control of Senses
Why drivel at length?
Why the mirage think of?
The thought is the seed
Of things all;
Expand your thought
The things too expand;
Contract your thought;
That is all there is to it,
For those who think about it.
2037 Control the Serpentine Thought in the Yoga Way of Kundalini
Knowing well how spent away you are
The Lord comes to dwell in the body
For the soul to lean on;
And He of blemishless fame
To aubdue the five-headed serpent
That in Pasa coiled lay,
Provides the fluted Sushumna
That central stands.
2038 Control Senses By Jnana Yoga
Tie the prancing senses five
To the post of Jnana that illumines;
Thus you attain Grace that is Bliss;
This the Way of Yore, high and true.
2039 Control Thought and Make it a Temple
Daily think of the Living Nandi
Gently control your thoughts distracting,
Course your thoughts through Muladhara,
Then your thoughts a temple become,
From north to south extending.
2040 Control Senses and Bear Your Troubles Gently
The hours sped,
The days many passed away;
Unto the writing on the water
Transitory your possessions are;
Conquer the senses,
Quickly give them up;
Then even if as mountain,
Your troubles roll on you
Well may you bear them, gently indeed.
2041 Redeem the Senses By Intelligence and Prayer
Praise the Holy Form
Of the Pure One;
Praise Him,
The Senses redeeming by intelligence;
In your heart welling up in love,
You shall become one with Him,
--He the Lord of directions four
And of beings, in others all.
2042 Senses Are Very Powerful
None knows that the senses Five,
Within body thoughts engrossing,
Slowly eat you away;
Do not take them lightly
And talk away;
They are verily unto a mountain range
That are by dark clouds capped.
2043 Give Up Nothing; But Sublimate Your Thought Towards God
There is nothing, you need give up;
The Five senses are organs false
That the five cravings to meet arose;
Reach to Him in your thoughts
And praise Him in songs sweet.
434 WAYS OF UNHOLY GURU*5
2044 The Unholy Guru Has Virtues None
A fool he is,
Wisdom none he has;
Truth he has realized not;
Versed is he not in the way
Of Vedas and Agamas;
Humility he has none;
Of God he speaks ill;
Worldly life is his sole concern;
He, verily, is the Guru unholy.
2045 The Unholy is only in Search of Food
Mantra, Tantra, Mahayoga and Jnana,
Bondage, and Mukti
--These they seek to know, the holy ones;
The Gurus unholy
Them, they seek not;
Doubts they clear not;
Food are they in search of,
Verily blind are they.
2046 The Unholy Guru is Bereft of Knowledge
Fool is he,
A big fool is he;
The Way of Becoming he knows not;
A vile fellow that is not of passions rid,
To vile men he teaches things vile;
Bereft of knowledge,
He no teacher exalted is;
--The Guru unholy.
2047 The False Guru is an Enemy to Himself and World
If without driving away
The illusory thoughts
That imagination breeds,
A teacher teaches,
He will in divinity lose faith;
Unto his own self an enemy be;
For the king and the kingdom an evil be;
--Thus has Nandi of yore declared.
2048 The Blind Leading the Blind Together Fall
The blind (the unholy Guru), who lead the blind (foolish disciples)
Will into the eternal pit first fall;
Then the foolish disciples too fall;
And in the end in disorder together they fall,
--The blind that lead and the blind that are led--
Indistinguishably, jumbled in one.
435 WAYS OF HOLY GURU*5
2049 Holy Guru Leads Disciple to Truth
Placing his feet on my head
The Master blesses me;
He is Guru Holy;
He, my self-realization, works;
He takes the Jiva to the State beyond Tattvas;
He subdues my Pasas,
All these he performs
--He that is Truth itself.
2050 What the Holy Guru does for His Disciples
From their Karmas, he extricated his disciples
Blessing them with his feet on their head,
He drove away their evil stars;
The messengers of Death
He kept at bay from them;
The miseries of unending birth
He ended for them.
2051 He Takes Them to the Bourne From Which They Return Not
The black iron, transmuted into gold,
To black iron returns not;
Even unto it,
He who once the Guru's grace received
Does not to birth return.
2052 Holy Guru Does not Exult in Vain Contentions
He liberates you from Pasas;
He removes your Malas, entire;
He makes you seek the Lord in love;
--Such are the Gurus Holy, blemishless;
They who in contention exult
Are no Gurus enlightened.
2053 Holy Guru Assesses Worth of His Disciples
He is a pure being
He is so endearing;
He can give you love,
That is from Malas free;
He is immortal,
He is holy;
He assesses the worth of his disciples;
And on those who are impurity rid,
He bestows his grace;
He, the Master High.
2054 By His Alchemic Touch Jiva Becomes Siva
All that the alchemist touches
Turns into gold;
Even, unto it,
The Jivas blessed by Guru
Siva become,
Freed from Malas Triple.
2055 Holy Guru is Siva in Flesh
The Holy Guru
As Siva Himself stands;
In his presence
Jiva, his self-realization attains
If you, your self-realization seek,
Think of him, within,
As Siva in fleshly body.
2056 Follow Holy Guru and Reach the Great Way
The Way of birth,
The Way of death,
The Way of Maya;
The Way they have not seen
Who the birth's Way saw;
The Great Way that Nandi speaks of
That Way you can reach
If your Holy Guru you follow.
2057 Holy Guru Leads to Lord
He is Guru Holy,
Who, entranced in bliss
The Vedas and Agamas speaks of,
Enters into Siva Yoga;
And all thoughts stilled,
Removes the bondage of Pasa
And leads you to Lord.
2058 Holy Guru Imparts Nature of Truth
He reveals the Real (Sat), the Unreal (Asat) and the Real-Unreal (Sat-Asat);
He takes Chit (Jiva) and Achit (Tattvas) into Siva-Para;
The words the blessed Guru speak
Are blissful,
Beyond Pure (Suddha) and (Asuddha) Impure.
2059 True Disciples Adore Holy Guru
By Pasa's sensations, the Five Malas arise;
Adoring feet of Guru in love intense,
Purified in Turiya Awareness Three
They the Supreme State attain;
They alone are Sadhakas true.
2060 Jiva Subsiding in Silentness in Self Ascends to Siva-State
Powerful are the senses,
From them arise pleasure sensations;
If Jiva, in silence, subsides in Self
And ascends high,
It shall reach Siva-State;
All, but play of Siva and Sakti.
2061 From Jiva's Birth to its Final Emancipation--It is All Lord's Work
Consigning Jiva to birth's sorrows,
Rescuing it by ministrations gentle,
Assigning it positions appropriate,
Baptising it in Jnana,
Redeeming it,
And in Mukti establishing it,
And in the end,
Placing it in Mystic Silentness (Mauna)
--All these are but Lord's work.
2062 Lord's Play in the Arena of Jiva's Body
The fleshly body is arena of Lord's Play,
He imparts to Jiva,
Knowledge clear of Chit and Achit,
Purifies him,
Wipes off the Malas
And consigns him to the Sat (Real),
Unto Himself the Five Acts to perform;
--These the Play of Lord's Grace.
2063 Love for Lord Takes You to Siva State
Beyond the state of Isatva (Siva State)
Nothing there is;
Realizing this,
Continue ever, in love intense, for Lord;
My Lord is the Pure One
Who in love abides;
He it is,
Who illumined directions all.
2064 Divine State Ends Birth's Cycle
In the sphere (of cranium)
Where the garland of scarlet rubies glows,
He the unalloyed Gold,
There stood;
The divine nectar welled up there;
They who swilled it,
Ended their birth's cycle;
They who did not
Remained but to gormandize.
2065 Lord Attaches Mayas to Jiva for Attainment of True Knowledge
The Sat, Asat, and the Sat-Asat to free,
The Pasa's bonds here to sunder,
He activated Mayas Two--Suddha and Asuddha--
And to Jiva, He them attached,
And imparted the peerless Light of Knowledge, too,
He, the Lord.
2066 Siva is the Supreme Guru
The way of Adhara ascending scorches Malas,
The endless chanting of His name dispells Darkness (of Ignorance)
Harass the Pasa, Jiva a heir to,
Thus do you liberation seek;
The Lord, forsooth, is the Guru Supreme.
436 UNHOLY CONDUCT*5
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.
20723*6Lord 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.
437 IN COMPASSION FOR MEN'S EVIL LOT*5
2084 Ungodly Ones do not Think of Soul's Liberation
They germinate the seed;
They plant the seedlings;
They think not of their own fleeting life;
Poor are they in spirit;
They know nothing of Karmaic sorrows;
They perish in the blazing fire,
Verily are they such.
2085 What do they get, Who do not Adore Lord
Well do they see
Life in a trice fleets away;
Yet do they in contention stand;
What though these men get?
They stand not in ways righteous,
They adore not His Holy Feet
They know not the Primal One
In love endearing.
2086 They Care Not for Soul's Well-Being
They borrow grain;
They pound it hard,
Feed the base (senses),
And nourish the body;
Thus they wander
Their lives to live;
But in the valley broad
A prey to raging flames
The body finally lies;
This they realize not.
2087 They Stand in Wait for the Burial Heap
In days of yore, the Sages Four
Sought the Holy One in Kailas;
There, under the wild banyan tree
The Supreme One His teachings imparted;
They are of evil speech
Who think not of Him;
Ready to march to the burial heap
They stand in wait.
2088 They Are Distracted by Doubts
Imperishable fame,
And truthful fruit of Tapas full,
The Lord ever bestows
Only on those who endear Him;
Yet the world think
"This the God, That the God;"
Thus distracted
Bruised they fall, hands hitting on rocks.
2089 They Pursue not the Way of Bliss
Born in bliss, grown in bliss
Steeped in thoughts of bliss
This way, they forget;
Instead,
Hankering after food and raiment
In sorrow steeped they are;
And in sorrow steeped, they insensible slumber.
2090 Human Birth is Rare; Yet They Seek Not Lord's Feet
Rare is human birth,
Yet they seek not Lord's Feet,
So rare to reach;
They attained the rare human birth,
Yet missed this Treasure Rare,
They are but crawling creatures, indeed.
2091 They Think Not of Heavenly Pleasures
Ardour of mind, ever fresh youth, and endearment of heart
These considering good,
They in pleasure indulged,
And in acts of love diverse sported;
Lo! They forgot the heavenly bliss
The Lord bestows
And for ever, for ever missed it.
2092 They Sought Not Lord
Thus He is,
Unto the rising sun, His Form;
That He is,
Within the Fire Kundalini resides;
There He is,
In the Lotus of Heart seated;
The True He is,
The Lord, we sought not.
2093 They Dance and Waste Away Their Lives
They unite in Him not,
The Way Guru showed;
They seek Him not,
In aimless talk indulging;
They sing Him not,
His benevolent deeds realizing;
What will they get,
They who dance and wastes away?
2094 They Fall a Prey to Senses
He is the Great Light
That fills my heart;
Melting in love
Daily adore Him,
Unto the end of your days;
If you adore not,
The Five senses havoc cause
Unto the elephants that roam loose.
2095 They Care Not for the Fruit of This Birth
The birds, beasts, and the humans several,
They all, all, in endearment seek Him not;
They who in Tapas intense realized Him
Drink and run in rapture surpassing;
They indeed are the beings
Who have reaped the fruit of their birth here below.
2096 They Seek Not Light
They seek not His Light
In unbroken continuity;
They are unto those
Who cherish not Him that is gold,
The Unrighteous they are;
"O! Lord, the Primal One!
You the Fruit of Wisdom!
The Lord of Celestial Beings!
My Sole Refuge!"
Thus I seek Him, ever and ever.
2097 They Seek Not the Divine Honey
The bees flit from flower to flower
And in rapture incessant gather
The honey sweet;
Of this they think not;
There is a Honey Pure sweeter far
That in their mouth wells up (in Yoga)
None knows that Honey Rare.
2098 They Slip Low Down
Seeking Him not,
I wasted my life away;
In my love
Is the Lord of Celestial Beings;
He is the One Being,
For the worlds all;
Yet in their thoughts
They praise Him not,
Low down they slip.
2099 Death Nears; Yet They Seek Not Peace
The God of Death leaps forward,
Agreeable to him
The fated days too roll away;
You tremble and shake,
What, though, that comes of it?
If Peace you seek,
Dip the ladle of your heart
In the boiling broth of love.
2100 Seek Lord Before Floods of Age Swell
Along the banks of the river (of Life)
The field ripened;
Before the floods (of age) swell,
Seek the Bliss Divine;
Practise Yoga
That takes you to the Mountain top
Where the ambrosial waters flow;
Then no more does greying age seize you.
*2
2101 Their Thoughts Do Not Reach to the Lord
He who knows the Origin of all,
He who knows the Night (end)
That envelops worlds all,
The Luminous Light that self-rises,
He whom the Enlightened held aloft
As the One God Supreme,
Him they know not;
And thus on this world their thoughts still stand.
438 SALUTARY INSTRUCTION*5
2102 Think of Siva's Holy Way
Away forget,
This transient life here below;
Even unto the day your life passes away
Think of Lord;
Flying He comes to you,
And your distracting sorrows end;
Do, therefore, think
Of Siva's Holy Way.
2103 Seek the Holy Path of Hara
Think of Him
As far as your thoughts go;
Speak His truth
As far as you can;
"Lord," they may say, "He is not."
Very much He is, everywhere;
Seek the Holy Path
Of Hara that is good ever.
2104 One the Family, One the God
One the family,
One the God;
Thus intense hold,
No more will death be;
None Other is Refuge,
With confidence you can seek;
Think of Him and be redeemed,
In your thoughts, holding Him steadfast.
2105 Praise Lord and Spurn Death
Praise the benevolent Lord,
He of Mount Kailas;
He as central stood,
In cardinal directions four, our Lord;
With the precious body
That Prana's vital breath holds
Praise the Lord and be redeemed,
The Lord,
Who with His Feet the God of Death spurned.
2106 Seek Lord; No More Births Will Be
Seek the Way
That when this body leaves,
Another body, you enter not;
"When did this human body come to me?"
Of that time you think of;
Verily will you His Grace receive.
2107 Lord is Your Redemption
The Lord who enters into you
And walks with you in the life
Knows sure when you in holiness ripen;
Seek the Lord
Even on the eve of your death;
He will your Redemption be
For the life to be.
2108 Think of Lord unto Your Last Days
If your fleeting life
Is its goodly goal to attain,
Even on death-bed
Think of Lord;
Then will follow Siva's grace,
No more birth will be;
The heavenly world will yours be.
2109 Lord Yearns After Devotees
Praise Our Lord
In devotion congregational;
Sing His praise within,
And at His Feet adore;
Dance within and know Him;
Then He yearns after you,
Like the cow after its calf.
2110 Attaining Celestial Status
When in death
Your life breath upward ascends
Course it through central Sushumna
And seek the Feet of Lord;
Your evil Karmas dire perish;
He of the blemishless fame
Seats you among Beings Immortal.
2111 Devotees Become Celestials
"O! Lord on the bull mounted,
O! God, My Lord--"
The devotees who thus praising
His holy ashes wear,
Celestial Beings, indeed, become;
For them who adore the Feet of Lord,
Who the Ganga on His matted lock wears,
No more Karma further is.
2112 Know Lord and Be in Bliss
Know Our Lord,
And in bliss be;
Be filled with love;
Perform Tapas;
Perfect Jnana True;
You, who has laboured hard,
In worldly pursuits,
Of miserable Pasa entangled.
2113 Ways to Seek the Higher Goal
There is a Tapas High
That you should seek;
There are Feet True
That you should adore;
There is a Way True
That you should adopt;
For all those
That the Higher Goal in earnest seek.
2114 Seek Lord and Be Blessed
On them who seek Him
He, His blessings bestows;
To them, who do not
He sorrows of birth gives;
To those who intense adore Him,
He reveals the Grace of His Holy Feet;
Joining the horde of Devas
They seek and realize Him,
Him, the Fire-hued Lord.
2115 Lord Stands as Ghee in Milk
He is Mukti, Jnana and Nada
That in the three branches of Tamil resound,
Thus they praise Lord
Through time unending;
As the ghee within milk
The Pure One within them stands;
That Light they seek not, and love not.
2116 Cascade of Births
The Pure One, as Creator of all
Many aeons, allotted;
How many they are,
None knows;
Into the cascade of births they leap;
Beyond that,
Of Siva they nothing clear know.
2117 Pray in Pure Heart
Filled with misery
Is life here below;
When to sleep in death
You near,
Praise the Pure One,
Of gem-hued Form;
Unless you in melting heart hail Him
As "Oh, Lord, who in Light Divine abides"
You realize Him not.
2118 Fate of Knaves who Seek the Holy Guru
Some, who, knaves in real are,
Seek the Holy Guru;
If such be there,
Famine strikes the land;
At them even the Lord is appalled;
And to bottomless hell He consigns them;
To meet them
Who the righteous path tread,
That is Siddhi, verily.
2119 Holy Guru Shows the Way
The countless Devas worshipped Siva;
What becomes them
By worshipping Him?
Far better it be,
That you worship the Holy Guru
--Who, having himself worshipped Lord
Shows the Way of Becoming, too;
Sure, indeed, is your Mukti finite.
2120 Hold on to Guru
The humans and Celestials
Inveighed by Pasas
In Karma perish;
Seeing this,
Why not hold to Guru
That is Jnani,
And blemishless Pure
As Param Supreme itself?
No more then to speak of.
2121 Guru is Lord Siva Himself
The Guru who admitted him into his loving Grace,
Is Lord Himself;
He works day by day
For the disciple's Karma to perish;
In the form of Lord
Of flowing russet locks
That wears the dripping Ganga
The Guru appears
And our sorrows ends.
TANTRA SEVEN ENDS
