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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…