TIRUMANTIRAM
English translation of the Tamil Spiritual Classic by Saint Tirumular
TANTRA EIGHT - Verses 2610 to 2632 of 2648
439 WAYS OF JNANI
2610: How They Deal With Karma
If Karma from past
Overtakes them,
They exterminate them,
Patiently experiencing them;
But they see,
Future Karma is created not;
They realize the Self,
They are Jnanis,
That have Tattvas cognised;
They train senses five,
In ways goodly.
2611: Tattva Jnanis Crush Karma
The Tattva Jnanis realize the Self;
The Gordian knot of Karma Past
They cut asunder;
Future Karmas they seize and crush,
By Grace of Siva,
Whom they hold,
High on their heads.
2612: No Karma, if Thought and Word are Consistent
Through thought, word and deed
Karmas accumulate;
If thought and word consistent stand
Karma bides not;
Thought and word conquering,
They experience Karmas,
And alter their course,
They the great Jnanis are.
40 SUNDERING OF DESIRES
2613: Conquer Desires
No use prattling of
Breath and Sushumna;
Sunder your desires and passions;
Having sundered,
The Lord's place, easy be.
2614: Lord is in the Desire-Abnegated
In stony houses and stately halls, He is not;
In parlors deep and temples massive, He is not;
In holy garbs He is not;
In the thoughts of those,
Who have desires abnegated, is He,
Fleshly body, though therein be;
He, their liberation granted.
2615: Sunder Desires
Sunder your desires, sunder your desires
Sunder your desires even unto Lord;
The more the desires, the more your sorrows;
The more you give up, the more your bliss shall be.
2616: Jnana Way
The five senses burn you up;
They lead you to destruction's way;
Give up desires and scatter them away;
Reach to the Truth of Jnana;
That the Way to reach Lord.
2617: Perish not in the Flood of Pleasure and Pain
Unto the ocean that foams and rages
At full-moon tide,
Many, many, floods rose and passed away
Through passage of Time;
Caught in floods of pleasure and pain,
Celestials numberless perished;
Caught in the floods of desires
The humans countless sank;
God alone forever stood
In the Ocean of Bliss Eternal.
2618: Jnani's Purified Way
Emancipated from Karmas of past,
Rid of disease of Pasa,
Prolonged activity suspended;
They, the Suddha State reach;
Then transcending the five acts of God
(Of creation, preservation, dissolution, obfuscation and Grace-granting)
His direct Grace, they receive
There they forever immersed are
These, Jnanis, purified ways are.
2619: Jnanis Remain Immortal in God-Love
Realizing Truth in full,
Luminous Siddhi and Mukti they attained;
Sex desire entire devoid,
They achieved mighty Siddhis eight;
As Siva Jnani leaves behind this body,
Divine Grace descends on him;
And then in God-Love, forever, he remains.
2620: Realize the Truth that Jiva is Siva
That this Jiva to become Siva
They in love sought not;
That this Jiva is Siva
That truth they know not;
Knowing not this Jiva is Siva,
They diverse births take,
And into worlds several wander
When Truth they realize not.
2621: Jnanis are not for Becoming Performing Gods
The Five Gods consign Jiva to broiling miseries,
And then cooling him,
Again consign him to fresh birth;
Thus in the whirl of creation endless they them ordain;
The status of these Five Gods
The Jnanis seek not;
But within the fleshly body itself
Through the mystic thread of Sushumna
They enter into union,
One wih the Lord.
2622: Seek Nandi Within
You say, redeemed you are;
But you have not seen the Way appropriate;
Nandi merges in fragrant flower within;
Hold Him in your thoughts in vision clear,
Then have you sown the seed
Of birthlessness-to-be.
41 TO BE POSSESSED OF BHAKTI
2623: He is Lord of All
He confers Mukti;
He is Jnana and Mantra;
He is the Father;
He is the Lord of Celestials immortal;
He is the Pure One;
He is the Light that is the Holy Way;
He is the Pasu-Pati (Lord of Jivas)
Whom the devotees in ardour adore.
2624: Be a Devotee of Devotees
To devotees of devotees of Lord
In succession continuous,
I a devotee became;
Giving myself thus,
Into their vassalage I entered;
With the Grace of devotees
I reached His Feet;
Then saying, "He my devotee is"
He accepted me in His vassalage (of Grace).
2625: Lord is Righteous and Bounteous
Cooler than water is He;
Hotter than fire is He;
Who this Ocean of Nandi is-
Who knows?
By far righteous is He;
Than all bounteous beings in world;
Within the heart He stood,
As Umapati (Sakti's Lord) He stood.
2626: Where is That Peerless Pearl?
Well may denizens of seven worlds, all,
Entire try,
They cannot know Him;
Who can say where Lord is?
Unless He of Himself appears
In devotion of His devotees,
Who dares say,
Where that peerless Pearl is!
2627: Year for Lord
As the calf that searches,
And calls for mother-cow,
I, in yearning, sought and cried for my Lord;
He is Hidden Truth of Vedas
Who beyond heavens eternal stood;
In endearness tender,
He entered into me,
In this body fleshly.
2628: Birth and Release are God's Giving
The Jivas in born-condition
Have tasks none to perform,
As of itself their birth comes;
The Jivas in Mukti State too
(By the very condition of that state)
Have nothing to perform;
Lord by His Grace grants states both;
What then is there for devotees to do
(But to hold Lord in their thoughts?)
2629: Reach God the Kundalini Yoga Way
With Prana breath for Seed-Energy,
And the serpent (Kundalini) for body,
To the resounding music of Nada,
Upward I climb to the cool mountain within;
And with fragrant flower there blooms,
I adore Nandi;
None else the God to adore,
My mind I let.
2630: God Grants Protection
Nandi is my Protector in need;
He is Lord of Celestials;
Seek His protection;
And ending birth cycle, be redeemed;
Think constant of Siva's Feet,
He, Divine protection grants,
He, who as Fire stood.
2631: He Protects Good Against Evil
The Dhanavas (of Dark World)
Held the Vanavas (of Luminous World)
In fief;
He the Lord destroyed,
The Three Forts of the Evil Ones;
Him the devotees worshipped,
As Lord of Forests;
And of Mountains Black;
Thus adoring Him in fleshly body,
They in Him united.
2632: Seek Him Within and Without
This birth is a lasting curse to me;
And so, I seek Him in drooping heart
In Mountain and Sky
Within and without;
And in Fire within too;
Thus in holy thought immersed,
I stood.
