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This purports to have been composed immediately after his return to Perun-turrai, when he was hoping for speedy consummation, but felt impatient. 1) How shall I endure this state of imperfection? What shall I do while twofold deeds’ fierce flame burns still out,- Nor doth the body melt,- nor falsehood fall to dust ? 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 […]
The following decad was composed at Tiru-perun-turrai, and is probably one of the first sung by our bard. It is in some respects quite unique among his compositions, and certainly has not the flowing case and rapture of some of his subsequent verses; but perhaps it reveals more of himself than any other. It was […]
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 […]
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 the Gongu flower ! Whose form White ash displays ! Owner of blest Arur, begrit with lofty wall ! Saving Thy flower-like feet, nought else will I Thy […]
[‘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 cane’s pleasantness; Thou of the braided lock, where waters wander wave on wave! The jackals all Thou mad’st great horses; thus didst show Thy grace. || 4 || […]
[THE GROWTH OF RAPTURE] —– The Lyric of the Sacred Pandi.- Note IV should be studied as introductory to this very dramatic poem, which is in every way a remarkable composition; yet I should hardly venture to affirm that Manikka-Vacagar was its author. In order to understand it, it is necessary to call to mind […]
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 […]
1) Alternations of feeling. Mingling with Thy true saints, that day in speechless joy I stood; Next day, with dawning daylight trouble came, and there abode. My soul grows old. Master! to seek the gleam of fadeless bliss Wand’ring I went. In grace to me, Thy slave, let loye abound! || 4 || 2) Impatience. […]
