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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 […]
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 […]
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) 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 […]
This is one of the most characteristic of the Sage’s lyrics, and would seem to belong to a later period than that when the ‘cry of the forsaken’ (VI) was composed. It is in singular contrast to that lyric. He had meanwhile visited many shrines, and had passed through much struggle; but when he reached […]
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 those who have not learnt the Lofty-One To know; who near the Foot of the Brow-Ey’d,- our Lord, crown’d with the braided-lock,- Yet think there’s other God. When […]
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. […]
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 […]
