1) He enters on a life of absolute renunciation.
The potsherd and the skull I deemed my kin; my soul dissolved;
Wealth to be sought was Civan’s foot alone, I clearly saw;
With soul and body to the earth in worship bent, a slave,
I’VE REACH’D HIM WHERE HE DANCES, LORD OF TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY! || 4 ||
2) Here shall I be set free.
Through fond desire of those of slender form and gentle words,
How many deeds soever guilt increasing, I have done,
Nor ‘death’ nor ‘birth’ I dread ! He caus’d me to embrace His feet;
A slave, I’VE REACHED HIM WHO BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY ! || 8 ||
3) He brought back my wandering mind.
Melting my inmost frame, He killed the germ of twofold deeds;-
Pluckt out my rooted griefs;- made purely one the manifold;-
So that all former things might perish quite, He entered in !
I’VE REACHED HIM WHO IN LOVE BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY ! || 12 ||
4) Civan made known only to disciplined minds.
Who severs not Himself from those whose minds are severed still
From vain assembles void of sign, and way, and temper meet,-
The ‘goal of bliss,’- Ambrosia’s mighty flow,- to chastened thought
Revealed,- I’VE REACHED HIM WHO BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY ! || 16 ||
5) The consummation gained in Tillai
This same embodiment bound up with name and quality
To consummate, He cuts off sin that clings ! His servants all
As they draw near, the honey taste of Civan’s mercy, and
Are filled, where I’ve REACHED HIM WHO RULES IN TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY ! || 20 ||
6) My being in His hand.
Bud on the bough, then rounded flower, next fruit unripe, then fruit
Matured,- my frame thus formed He made His own, nor hence departs;-
That trusting thought may ever cling to Him, as it clings now,
I’VE REACHED HIM WHO BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S GOLDEN HOME OF JOY ! || 24 ||
7) The mighty foot.
The demon’s arm for strength renowned, by the same sacred foot
That pressed upon my head, was crushed, and glorious rested there;
Thus by His grace I’m freed galling bonds of life, and here
I’VE REACHED HIM WHO BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S HOME OF THRILLING JOY ! || 28 ||
8)
The sacred foot that walked within the wilds after the wild
Black boar that digs deep down, He planted on my head;
And so surpassing power of the five fierce ones’ mighty play
Doth cease, when I’VE REACHED HIM WHO RULES IN TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY ! || 32 ||
9)
I lay as one who tills a barren field and reaps no crop;-
‘Twas then the gain of penance done of old accrued; and thus
Before the Caivan’s roseate lotus foot I bent my worthless head
His own,- I’VE REACHED HIM WHO BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S HOME OF JOY ! || 36 ||
10)
Her form He shares who by His side grows as a tender bough;-
To Him I with right mind my sacred ministries perform;-
This here, abolishes whate’er results this state can yield;
I’VE REACHED HIM WHO BEARS RULE IN TILLAI’S HOME OF HEAVENLY JOY ! || 40 ||