Songs of Saint Tayumanavar - Himalayan Academy

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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
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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[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 ...
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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?
...
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[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
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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
...
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[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 ...
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