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The Songs of Tayumanavar Translation from the Tamil by Dr. Natarajan 1,447 SPIRITUAL HYMNS IN PRAISE OF GOD SIVA BY THE GREAT SAINT AND TAMIL POET 2 The Songs of Tayumanavar The Illuminated Outpourings of One of Lord Siva's Great Saints "What I do is what You do. For ever ever is this true. What I am is what You are, none different. This the truth of Vedanta -Siddhanta Samarasa." "Eternal, Pure, Groundless, Death and Birth Free Pervasive, ever Immaculate Distant, Near, Enveloping Effulgence of Void, The Support of all, the Fullness of Bliss. 3 I N D E X (Summary by Canto) Biographical - Background of Saint Tayumanavar (1706 - 1744) The Songs of Tayumanavar [1] Adoration to Omnipresent God That Is The Presence of Holy Grace Let us in Meekness Worship 0001 - (1.1) What is it, Which is Uncircumscribed Effulgence ... 0002 - (1.2) Countless the habitats lived ... 0003 - (1.3) That which is Non-dual, That which is the unique Light of Word ... [2] Bliss That Is Perfect Full 0004 - (2.1) Except by way of words and rituals ... 0005 - (2.2) All visible life that is clothed in body vesture ... 0006 - (2.3) The Gods are powerless to act on their own ... 0007 - (2.4) The Cosmos and the countless universes vast ... 0008 - (2.5) What I do is what You do ... 0009 - (2.6) The Maya into which the Elements subside ... 0010 - (2.7) Who was it that converted my heart ... 0011 - (2.8) To have reached the state of impassivity ... 0012 - (2.9) Are not the deep oceans contained without banks ... 0013 - (2.10) Limitless indeed are the bounds of Desire ... [3] Prayer to the Being - Let us Contemplate 0014 - (3.1) Eternal, Pure, Groundless, Death-and-Birth-Free ... 0015 - (3.2) As the Thought behind whatever Thought the Mind thinks ... 0016 - (3.3) As Expanse Vast, As the Source of the Elements Five ... 0017 - (3.4) The Life of Life of this World and That ... 0018 - (3.5) No caste, no family, no birth, no death ... 0019 - (3.6) This world is but an Indrajal, a dream, a mirage ... 0020 - (3.7) As the Primal Substance of all ... 0021 - (3.8) As the Crowning meaning of Vedas rare ... 0022 - (3.9) As the Empty Spaces Vast ... 4 0023 - (3.10) The Infinite Expanse that filled the heavens ... 0024 - (3.11) The Being Primal that has neither beginning nor end ... 0025 - (3.12) As (all that is denoted by) the alphabet entire ... [4] Adoration to the God-Guru Who Is Knowledge-Bliss 0026 - (4.1) With flowers in out-stretched hand ... 0027 - (4.2) How I consider the body real, while it is the fragile as a river bank ... 0028 - (4.3) There is envy; There is Anava that is I-ness in its massive fullness ... 0029 - (4.4) Thou created the five elements ... 0030 - (4.5) When in the days gone by, I realised not ... the elements five ... 0031 - (4.6) When in my pre-biographical state ... 0032 - (4.7) In the midst of this body cavern that holds the birth seed ... 0033 - (4.8) With meeting nor parting none, with attachment none ... 0034 - (4.9) O! Mauni! Thou granted me Grace beyond grace ... 0035 - (4.10) Thou art the Bodha; Thou hath neither beginning nor middle, nor end ... 0036 - (4.11) Standing in the Path of Bhakti ... [5] Obeisance to Mauna Guru 0037 - (5.1) Fragmenting the chains of desire to smithereens ... 0038 - (5.2) Thou fashioned the Void of Voids for the Five Elements and Nada to contain ... 0039 - (5.3) Who was it that gave this Egoity so much authority ... 0040 - (5.4) Holding as real, this body that is evanescent unto the flashing lightning ... 0041 - (5.5) In a house of refreshment enough will be the choice ... 0042 - (5.6) Untaught knowledge, indifferent listening, pitless seeing ... 0043 - (5.7) At Thy glance the tiger that roams the forest ... 0044 - (5.8) A million million are those who live on withered leaves and plain water ... 0045 - (5.9) Know ye mightier far than accursed Anava, is Ahankara ... 0046 - (5.10) So very diverse being my desires, like the crawling worm ... 5 [6] God of Compassion-Fullness-Fullness 0047 - (6.1) O! Thou attributes, disease-free, Blot-less, Supportless ... 0048 - (6.2) The Earth and the rest of the Elements Five, the external Organs of action ... 0049 - (6.3) All are but Thine liege vessals, All are but Thine possessions ... 0050 - (6.4) Am I of the vague way of thinking ... 0051 - (6.5) Seated inmost within the heart of Truthful Ones ... 0052 - (6.6) I worship Thee not in any Form; for when I seek to gather the flowers ... 0053 - (6.7) What the Vedic Mantra Thou constantly hold to ... 0054 - (6.8) My mind that frisked like a lamb, I sacrificed, no more the evil gods of Karma ... 0055 - (6.9) The body drooping in tenderness ... 0056 - (6.10) "Even as the detachment here so it is above" ... [7] The Siddha Elite 0057 - (7.1) You traverse with speed of thought to the cardinal directions all ... 0058 - (7.2) You can bring down to the earth the heavenly Kalpaka tree ... 0059 - (7.3) When at the end of aeons, the elements, earth and water merge ... 0060 - (7.4) Of the countless species of creation, the human birth is the most precious ... 0061 - (7.5) What shall I speak of these worldly ways full of deceit? ... 0062 - (7.6) The four internal organs of intellect standing in accord ... 0063 - (7.7) Is there a fool like me among men or women in all this world? ... 0064 - (7.8) "Sweet as sugar cane, delicious as the triple fruits" ... 0065 - (7.9) Possessed of curved claws in hands and feet, taking shelter in caves ... 0066 - (7.10) Of a certain are they the goodly ones, that have learning none ... [8] The Pervasiveness that is Bliss 0067 - (8.1) How many the vices the virtue of nonkilling dispels in me ... 6 0068 - (8.2) As the mind that is tossed about in the light and darkness of knowledge ... 0069 - (8.3) Well do they know to indulge in contentious arguments ... 0070 - (8.4) Satisfying gnawing hunger by unripe fruits and leaves ... 0071 - (8.5) Purity and Impurity, Sorrow and Joy, Attachment and Detachment ... 0072 - (8.6) Destroying the dark forest of anava, breaking the stubborn rock of ahankara ... 0073 - (8.7) As the sky and the elements rest, as the countless universes vast ... 0074 - (8.8) Liar, wicked, murderous - Thus I am ... 0075 - (8.9) However much I learn, however much I listen, my heart does ... 0076 - (8.10) "Never are you the master of thy action, so helpless are you" ... [9] Ocean of Bliss 0077 - (9.1) Sweet ambrosia, ripe, rich fruit, treacle and candy of sugar and honey ... 0078 - (9.2) Thou followed me who knew not the way of love ... 0079 - (9.3) My Lord! Even stone may melt at one time, but not my heart ... 0080 - (9.4) Bones melting, hair standing on end, body softening ... 0081 - (9.5) My body cannot stand even water that is hot ... 0082 - (9.6) As you get rid of attachments all you will catch on to the land of nondesire ... 0083 - (9.7) "Oh! Gold Rare! Oh! Gem Pure! My Love! My beloved Light of Knowledge! ... 0084 - (9.8) Revealing the birth of the Limitless Expanse ... 0085 - (9.9) The warring faiths contradict one another ... 0086 - (9.10) Is it on top of this universe? Or on top of the universe yet beyond ... 0087 - (9.11) When is the day I am destined to receive Thy Grace ... 0088 - (9.12) Wert Thou not with me constantly as Life within my body? ... 7 [10] The Pervasive Being 0089 - (10.1) "Not an atom moveth without Him" ... 0090 - (10.2) 'Mother! Mother'' I cry sometimes. ''Father! Father!'' ... 0091 - (10.3) The Vedas, the Agamas, the Epics And all the rest of scriptures ... 0092 - (10.4) Even as the unruly child is rocked and rocked ... 0093 - (10.5) Though a hypocrite I am, who never shed a genuine tear ... 0094 - (10.6) In million, millions may the crows flock ... 0095 - (10.7) Will not the world tolerate if I, so lonesome, come to receive Thy Grace ... 0096 - (10.8) External is this body - That I know ... 0097 - (10.9) Wearing the bark of trees, pecking at wild grains ... 0098 - (10.10) Teeth like pearl, lips like coral, words like sugar ... 0099 - (10.11) ''Your condition and my condition are one'' ... [11] Siva That is Truth-Knowledge-Bliss 0100 - (11.1) Does this Earth and its sky take up space at all? ... 0101 - (11.2) Like unto containing the cardinal directions East and West ... 0102 - (11.3) If I am to sing melting songs I do not have the devotional love in me ... 0103 - (11.4) A moment looks like an aeon. This world looks like another dream world ... 0104 - (11.5) "Will Thine Grace ever come to me?" Thus thinking, my heart yearns ... 0105 - (11.6) With gates guarded by elephantine hordes Dark as cumulus clouds ... 0106 - (11.7) Of the findings of the Vedagamas ... 0107 - (11.8) Who will throw a stone at a tree that bears no fruit? ... 0108 - (11.9) If I am to be born again, grant this monster this boon ... 0109 - (11.10) If I ask Brahma the Creator, ''How is it that you decreed thus?'' ... 0110 - (11.11) Whether I seek the cool shades of the goodly bower ... [12] Refulgent Bliss 0111 - (12.1) Serving in reverence the munis that resort to mountains 8 and glades ... 0112 - (12.2) Immersed in the dark sea of this birth ... 0113 - (12.3) Father, mother, wife, children - All these are but unto a crowd ... 0114 - (12.4) Did my mind, like the top that has lost its speed, cease to whirl? ... 0115 - (12.5) "See this man! See this man! How he has mastered and digested" ... 0116 - (12.6) Furthermore, Thou appearing as the Holy Temple of Spaces Vast ... 0117 - (12.7) Whoever teaches me, whatever they like, will they be able to ... 0118 - (12.8) Well may ye tame the elephant in mast ... 0119 - (12.9) In this world where it is said that there is none who knows all ... 0120 - (12.10) Is there anyone among the educated or the uneducated ... 0121 - (12.11) To swill with pleasure the freshly distilled ... [13] Beauty of Knowledge Bliss-Dawn 0122 - (13.1) The leather bag holding rice, around which hover ... 0123 - (13.2) With form none, with attributes none, with furnace none ... 0124 - (13.3) Oh! Thou the Spaces Vast! Where the elements five as one merge ... 0125 - (13.4) That the haughtiness of the hunter - that is the senses five ... 0126 - (13.5) Thou of Form that is the only One ... 0127 - (13.6) Knowing deep the ways of yama, and the ways of niyama ... 0128 - (13.7) Riches, vast as the wavy seas, are a curse unceasing ... 0129 - (13.8) "All life here below is my life" - Thus, melting in heart, may I speak ... 0130 - (13.9) Partaking of the nature of madmen, demons and children ... 0131 - (13.10) They of the pantheistic way that follow faiths many-faced ... 9 [14] Pervasive Cosmic Form - Secret of the Intelligence of the Infinite Space 0132 - (14.1) Oh! Thou, the Protector of life of Thine dear devotees ... 0133 - (14.2) Thou standeth as the Life of life, of countless species of lives ... 0134 - (14.3) Thou! The Flood of Bliss Supreme, That made me scorn all riches ... 0135 - (14.4) Thou flourisheth, with neither beginning nor end ... 0136 - (14.5) Beginning with Immaculate Purity, thou possess all the attributes ... 0137 - (14.6) Oh! Thou art one and many! Thou art light, space and forms ... 0138 - (14.7) Oh! Thou, the Juice of Fruit, that the Tree of Grace bore, ... 0139 - (14.8) The celestials, Indra their king and the rest ... 0140 - (14.9) The faiths numberless, All, all say: ''Our God alone is God.'' ... 0141 - (14.10) Unchanging ever in its contents ... 0142 - (14.11) Ah! How very wonderful it is! Unto this Faith ... 0143 - (14.12) The meaning of sanmarga ... 0144 - (14.13) Oh! Thou art the same God as seen from without ... 0145 - (14.14) Thou art the Purity that is proven by objectivity and by inference ... 0146 - (14.15) As the hauteur that is ''I'', affects and harasses you ... 0147 - (14.16) Sights visible, as mountain after mountain ... 0148 - (14.17) All that are rare to see, Will of themselves occur en mass ... 0149 - (14.18) Coming thus, he takes hold of my body, life and possessions ... 0150 - (14.19) If you desire to be enlightened ... 0151 - (14.20) He imparted the silent way of true knowledge, Of sundering the bonds ... 0152 - (14.21) "Devoid, devoid" does not mean nothing there is ... 0153 - (14.22) Nothing will it permit to appear except it be of its own essence ... 0154 - (14.23) If you say ''it,'', The question arises ''what.'' ... 0155 - (14.24) All thought of Thee in this world and next ... 10
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