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RAPTURE OF LIFE IN CIVAN 1) His praises. Partner of Umai’s loveliness! Destroyer of the ‘deeds’ That to this frame cling fast! Thou Guardian of the Bull! Who dwell’st In Perun-turrai’s sacred shrine by well-skilled bards extolled! When shall I joy, O when exulting sing, henceforth, I too? || 4 || 2) His condescending love. […]
It would be hard to find a more touching expression of absolute mystic self-renunciation than these verses contain. —– 1) Useless suffering If cruel pain oppress from ‘deeds of old,’ guard Thou Who ownest me! If I, a man of ‘cruel deeds’ Suffer, from this my woe doth any gain accrue? O light of Umai’s […]
Tillai.- In the legends of the Sage it appears that he did not visit Tillai till he had seen the other shrines of Caiva worship, and had become renowned both as a devotee and as a poet. It almost appears as if there existed some rivalry between the great temple of the Pandiyan land in […]
THE SIGHT OF THE ‘GURU.’ —– This is one of the places which the Sage is said to have visited before seeing Cithambaram. It would appear that here he had some peculiar manifestation of the god, who had revealed himself to him in Perun-turrai. It is open to conjecture that the Guru, whom he regarded […]
The T.V.U.P states that this was one of the earliest of the Sage’s poems, and that it was sung at Tiru-perun-turrai. It certainly bears the impress of youth, and in many respects is inferior to some of his later poems. It is said to have for its subject the purification of the soul from the […]
1) Longing for release. Transcendent One, extending through both earth and heaven, THOU SEE’ST TO NONE BUT THEE I CLING!- O Civa-puram’s King! In glorious beauty bright, Civan, in holy Perun-turrai’s shrine, Who dwell’st! To whom make I my plaint, whom blame, if Thou Who mad’st me Thine deny Thy grace? THOU SEE’ST NO JOY […]
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, […]
1) With melting mind I said not, ‘He is gold,’ ‘His is a ruby’s light;’ I languish’d pondering charms of damsels young. Boon indescribable, Mercies beyond compare, to me were given; He of the flowery foot, THE FATHER, MADE ME HIS, AND JOINED ME TO HIS SAINTS: SUCH WONDER HAVE WE SEEN! || 4 || […]
‘THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SACRED ENJOYMENT.’ 1) Show me Thy Face. With changing wiles the senses five bewilder me: their course Thou dost close up, Ambrosial Fount! Come, Light Suprene, that ever springing fill’st my soul! and give me grace to see Thee as Thou art. Essential Sweetness pure! O mighty Civa-Peruman, Who dwell’st in Perun-turrai’s […]
THE FREEDOM OF THE UPLIFTED SOUL. 1) Hail! Being, Source to me of all life’s joys! ‘Tis dawn; upon Thy flower-like feet twin wreaths of blooms we lay, And worship, ‘neath the beauteous smile of grace benign that from Thy sacred face beams on us. Civa-Lord, Who dwell’st in Perun-turrai girt with cool rice-fields, where […]
