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This hymn was composed after he had settled down in Tillai, his active life finished, and was waiting for the great release. He surveys, as he was so fond of doing, the whole course along which his Master had guided him; acknowledges how often he had fallen through an undisciplined and unpurified mind; and records […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is our Sage’s wonderful ‘psalm of the up-going,’ He commemorates his first visit to Tillai, and thence mystically sets forth the soul’s pilgrimage through the world of sense to union with Civan on the silver mountain. 1) The setting-forth on the journey Our King with head flow’r-wreath’d, BHUYANGAN-LORD, by mercy’s swelling flood that all […]
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) 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 || […]
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 […]
