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1) Hymn 1 Sivapuranam – Civan’s Course from Everlasting Scriptures Translation in English 2) Hymn II Sivapuranam Kirttit Tiru Akaval Civan’s Fame The Sacred Song Of Civan’s Renowned Acts Translation in English 3) Hymn III Sivapuranam Thiruvanndappahudi The Nature And Development Of The Universe Translation in English 4) Hymn IV Sivapuranam Porrith Thiru Agaval the […]
This hymn was composed after he had settled down in Tillai, his active life finished, and was waiting for the great release. He surveys, as he was so fond of doing, the whole course along which his Master had guided him; acknowledges how often he had fallen through an undisciplined and unpurified mind; and records […]
1) How may I join my friends beyond? Th’ Immortals all have gained Thy flower-like feet, bright as the lightning’s glance;- have crossed The world’s wide sea, and bearing golden flowers they praise ! Reveal in love, I pray,- Thou Refuge of the stony worthless heart, how one like me,- distressed,- cast off,- Sunk in […]
It was no easy taks to work out a version of this lyric, the rhythmic beauty of which is very remarkable. I have striven, at the risk of sundry irregularities in metre, to imitate the flow of the original; but the numberless allusions in a poem, which sums up the whole Caivite idea of the […]
1) No requital of electing grace The ancient fourfold mystic word draws not anigh His seat;- Nor Mal nor Ayan Him have seen; yet me, the most abject, By grace He made His servant ! To Gokari’s King, my heart, Say, is there any just return ? || 4 || 2) The great manifestation in […]
This purports to have been composed immediately after his return to Perun-turrai, when he was hoping for speedy consummation, but felt impatient. 1) How shall I endure this state of imperfection? What shall I do while twofold deeds’ fierce flame burns still out,- Nor doth the body melt,- nor falsehood fall to dust ? In […]
1) Strike the sounding drum of the Guru, Wielder of wisdom’s sword; Spread the white canopy over the Guru, Who mounts the charger of heaven; Enter and take to you armour of ashes, fragrant, divine; Possess we the heavenly fortress, where hosts of illusion come not ! || 4 || 2) Servants of His,- march […]
This is our Sage’s wonderful ‘psalm of the up-going,’ He commemorates his first visit to Tillai, and thence mystically sets forth the soul’s pilgrimage through the world of sense to union with Civan on the silver mountain. 1) The setting-forth on the journey Our King with head flow’r-wreath’d, BHUYANGAN-LORD, by mercy’s swelling flood that all […]
1) The gracious incarnation. The Lady’s Spouse; of mystic word Proclaimer skill’d; Light seen mid blooming flowers; the faultless Grace supreme; Who to His servants grants the boon of justic bright; the King of virtuous excellence Who reigns benign, In Perun-turrai girt with fragrant flowery groves;- Himself hath come, and on this earth, a gracious […]
1) Civan a light The God of gods; the Warrior true; south Perun-turrai’s Chieftain dear; The First; the Blissful One, Whose forn the Three could not attain to know; The Flower full-blown of LIGHT is He, to all save to His loving ones, unknown ! UPON HIS MIGHTY ROSEATE FOOT’S PURE FLOWER OUR HEADS SHALL […]
