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[‘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 || […]
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 ‘deeds of old,’ guard Thou Who ownest me! If I, a man of ‘cruel deeds’ Suffer, from this my woe doth any gain accrue? O light of Umai’s […]
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 […]
THE SIGHT OF THE ‘GURU.’ —– This is one of the places which the Sage is said to have visited before seeing Cithambaram. It would appear that here he had some peculiar manifestation of the god, who had revealed himself to him in Perun-turrai. It is open to conjecture that the Guru, whom he regarded […]
The T.V.U.P states that this was one of the earliest of the Sage’s poems, and that it was sung at Tiru-perun-turrai. It certainly bears the impress of youth, and in many respects is inferior to some of his later poems. It is said to have for its subject the purification of the soul from the […]
1) With melting mind I said not, ‘He is gold,’ ‘His is a ruby’s light;’ I languish’d pondering charms of damsels young. Boon indescribable, Mercies beyond compare, to me were given; He of the flowery foot, THE FATHER, MADE ME HIS, AND JOINED ME TO HIS SAINTS: SUCH WONDER HAVE WE SEEN! || 4 || […]
It seems probable that this song was founded upon the Buddhist formula which required the devotee to utter nine times the word saranam, three times to Buddha, three times to the law or doctrine, and three times to the congregation (=church, or order). This entire abandonment of self on the part of the disciple was […]
(THE INFINITY OF BLISS IN CIVAN) 1) Sever’d from Thee I cannot live. I, false, am sever’d from the flowr’y feet that, entering here, made my soul melt, distilling nectar sweet. Yet I, poor wretch, die not as yet; but, in a waking dream, the inner purpose of my soul I’ve lost. O Teacher,- King, […]
THE FREEDOM OF THE UPLIFTED SOUL. 1) Hail! Being, Source to me of all life’s joys! ‘Tis dawn; upon Thy flower-like feet twin wreaths of blooms we lay, And worship, ‘neath the beauteous smile of grace benign that from Thy sacred face beams on us. Civa-Lord, Who dwell’st in Perun-turrai girt with cool rice-fields, where […]
