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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
18th Century

About Thayumanavar

Timeline (1706 - 1744)

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English version by
Himalayan Academy

Original Language
Tamil

All visible life that is clothed in body vesture (from Bliss that is Perfect Full)

Themes
  Birth, Rebirth
  Bliss
  Death
  Light
  Womb

 

All visible life that is clothed in body vesture
All that crawl, walk, fly and have their being
All, all that nature in propagative urge created
Will perish.

The elements mighty will die away one after another.
What will remain is: the vast Empty Space,
Unsupported, unrelieved Void,
Theupasanta that is peace beyond understanding
The jnana of Veda-Vedanta,
The mighty Light that leaves not.

Of them that receive it
Are the souls blessed with Grace.
Great indeed are they;
Born they will never after be;
Nor dead be;
But in silentness steeped remain.

And this Thou came in compassion to tell me.
Is this not a sign that I am ripe for it?
Oh! Thou who filleth all visible space
In unbroken continuity!
Thou, the Bliss that is Perfect Full

 

 

 

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