1) When shall I reach the Inaccessible?
The gleaming golden Hill, the flawless Pearl, the Shrine of tender love
Who made me, last of man, His own, in speechless service glad! He Whom
Dark Mal and Brahma baffled yet approach not,- gave Himself, rare Balm!
When shall I dwell in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 4 ||
2) My soul cries out for Thy rest.
Thy servant I endure not, O my king, upon this earth in mire
Of fivefold sense! In thought adoring Civan as my Lord,
With mind that melts, like sands where waters spring, with cries of jubilee,
When shall I praise, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 8 ||
3) When shall I join the happy saints?
While lofty Mal and Ayan fear’d, a hill of fire Who rose, He loveless me
Made His! Ambrosia rare! Amid His saints, whose souls gush out with love,
To hearts’ content, my praise outpouring, wreath’d with fragrant flowers,
When shall I lie, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 12 ||
4) His blissful presence.
With Ayan of the Lotus, Mal, and all the rest,- with the Immortals’s King,
Speak praises to Him name! The Light surpassing speech and words’ intent!
The Nelli’s Fruit; Milk, Honey, Balm with sweetness fill’d;- Ambrosia pure.
When shall I clasp, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 16 ||
5) Hidden from gods, to me revealed.
To see the foot and crown, that gleam with light, Ayan and Mal, down deep,
Up high, they dug, they flew; but could not see His form! While all this earth
Stood round, my service claimed, made me His own, and bade me come! His love
When shall I praise, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 20 ||
6) When shall I recover the old rapture?
In love He came, and rapture gave in olden days, to me His slave!
And then He left me on this wide vast earth to wander ‘wildered!
With floods of gushing tears, and frame with transport thrilled, in joy and love,
When shall I stand, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 24 ||
7) When shall I know Him?
Hard to others’ thought, thou’rt fire, water, wind, earth, ether; Him,
Sole One to whom none can compare; in joy beholding, praising loud,
While tears in torrents flow, adoring hand out-stretched, fragrant flower-wreaths
When shall I bring, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 28 ||
8) The heavenly re-union.
In bliss dissol’d, soul melted utterly, with every gesture meet:
Laughter and tears, homage of hand and lip,- with every mystic dance,-
To see with joyous thrill, that Sacred Form, like ruddy evening sky,
When shall I pass, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 32 ||
9) Parvathi praised as one with Civan.
Sire and Mother of the seven worlds old; Who me, a dog, mad’st Thine;
Thee only Balm for woes of life; Thee wisdom’s honey-dripping Gem,
For ever praising,- night and day. Thy beauteous foot with flow’ry wreaths
When shall I deck, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 36 ||
10) His eternity.
Thou guard’st, creat’st, destroy’st; ‘midst all that fill the spacious heaven
The ELDER Thou, and First, Who knows no eld; Brahman, Who mad’st me Thine;
Thou Infinite! For ever singing, bowing low, Thy foot’s fair flower
When shall I clasp, in MYSTIC UNION JOINED WITH HIM, MY FLAWLESS GEM? || 40 ||