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,…
Tag: thiruvachakam translated by G U Pope
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
1) I praise none but Thee. O Thou Whose way Ayan, from flow’ry lotus sprung, knows not, nor Mal ! Partner of her whose swelling bosom wears…
[‘ABSTRACTION FROM OBJECTIVE THOUGHT.’] 1) My iron mind full oftern didst Thou draw, and melt my frame; Thy feet to me didst show, as though the sweet…
1) Heretics. Not the sleek snake in anthill coil’d I dread; nor feigned truth of men of lies,- As I, in sooth, feel fear at night of…
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…
