Golden hued

Cosmic entity

Ponnar Purinditta Porchadai Yennap
Pinnar Piranga Irundavan Per Nandi
Yennal Thozhappadum Yem Irai Matravan
Thannal Thozhappadu varillai Thane
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He has got flowing matted locks of hair as if made of gold. His name is Nandi. (Tirumoolar refers often to Lord Shiva as Nandi.) He is worshipped by me always but there are none that the supreme lord worships. Individual minds worships the whole - consciousness, or Shiva but the consciousness, pervading everything and everyone - has none to worship.

Matted Locks

Like mother like child

Theeyinum Veyyan Punalinum Thanniyan

Aayinum Isan Arularivar Illai

Seyinum Nallan Aniyannal Anbarkku

Thayinum Nallan Tazhsadaiyane

Shiva - Consciousness of the person who has flowing matted locks of hair, is ancient. He is hotter than fire and cooler than water. He is the essence of both. But yet none know the grace of the Lord. He is more benevolent than an innocent child and beloved to the one with a good

heart. His love is more than that of a mother. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Pic: Shiva in the form of a Teacher - Dakshinamoorthy).

Matchless

Shiva the Supreme Consciousness

Sivanodokkum Deivam Thedinum Illai

Avanodoppar Ingu Yaavarum Illai

Bhuvanang Kadandhandru Ponnoli Minnund

Davanach Chadai Mudi Tamarai Yane

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There is no deity that can match Shiva. There is no person who is comparable to him. He is beyond the world, shining in a golden splendour, this lotus like person with fiery and shining matted locks.

Tirumandiram is a subtle text on Yoga. The Shiva referred here is the Supreme Consciousness, a name known to Tirumoolar. The Shiva referred here is the Christ of the Christians, the Alla of the Muslims and the truth of the scientists. That consciousness is non-pareil. There is no deity or divine being to match its greatness. There is no human being who can be compared to him. In the beginning, before the Universe began, he existed as pure awareness, beyond the world, containing it and shining with a golden glow.

The ebullience of energy is expressed through his shiny matted locks which are the entanglings of the material world. A lotus has humble beginnings rooted in slush. It transcends the water to express as a glorious flower. Shiva or consciousness is the ultimate flowering of the Universe and its creations. The final destination and source of all beings. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Bhagavad Gita, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

Hail Hail

The Lord

Pottrisaithinnuyir Mannum Punithanai

Nattrisaikkum Nalla Mathukku Nathanai

Mettrisaikkulthan Thisaikkoru Vendanam

Kuttrudaith Thanayan Koorukindrene

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I praise the pure consciousness. The consciousness that lords over and expands in all the four directions and is the master of energy. It is untouched by the polarities of the north and the south poles. The body is a bio-magnetic energy field subject to positive and negative polarities, good and bad, sorrow and joy. Consciousness sustains the dualities and expands beyond them. Consciousness is unborn, knows no death, eternal and immortal. Anyone who holds on to consciousness, as did Markandeya, Shiva protects that person from death by giving Yama - the lord of death - a kick.

The story refers to no ancient acrobatic fight between Yama and Lord Shiva, but the fact that if the individual mind tightly holds on to the eternal consciousness, the mind also becomes the eternal and everlasting and not subject to birth and death, creation and re-creation. I worship that Consciousness, says Tirumoolar. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Picture: Earth and water, clouds and sky - Consciousness is the Master of this cosmic whole.)

(Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Bhagavad Gita, I Am That, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

One is He

Consciousness is God

Ondravan Thaane Irandavan Innarul

Nindranan Moondrinul Naangunarndan Aindu

Vendranan Aaru Virindanan Ezhumbarch

Chendranan Thanirun thanurndette

The consciousness is one. Tirumoolar refers to it as Shiva, giving him a masculine name. His grace manifests as Shakti - the many names and forms of energy that we see in the world He stands and pervades through the three forms of energy - Icha Shakti - the energy of desire, Kriya Shakti - the energy of action and Gnana Shakti - the energy of knowledge that facilitates the ways and means of converting the energy of desire into the energy of action. He also pervades through the three flows of energy - the Ida - feminine, Pingala - masculine and Sushumna - neutral. He is the experience of the four Vedas - Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharvana. The five senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch - he is a master of. He expands beyond the six chakras or vortex centres of energy - Mooladhara, Swadhishtana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddhi and Agnya and expands as the Sahasrara. He is manifested in the form of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space, Mind, Sun and the Moon.

(Picture: Above the clouds and in the world below - the one is present in all) - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Bhagavad Gita, Maha Shivaratri, Satsang in Chicago, Himalayas, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com).

The beginning

Ganesha - lead my way

Aindu Karathanai Yanai Mugathanai

Indin Ilampirai Polum Eyittranai

Nandi Maganthanai Gnana Kozhundhinai

Pundhiyil Vaithu Adi Potrugindrene

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Ganesha is the deity that governs the Muladhara Chakra situated at the tip of the spinal cord. Any work, be it material or spiritual begins with bringing to mind the consciousness of Ganesha, who is the remover of obstacles in the path of meditation.

Here Tirumandiram, a Tamil classical text on Yoga, of nearly 3,040 verses written by the Saivaite saint Tirumoolar, begins by remembering Lord Ganesha with five arms, the face of an elephant, a tusk like the crescent moon. The Master invites the disciple to surrender his intellect to the divine feet of Lord Ganesha, the elder son of Lord Shiva and the spark of consciousness.

Surrendering the mind to a superior intellect is a way of calming the mind, making it free of distortions, allowing the truth to express in all its glory. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Maha Shivaratri, Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad Gita, Vignana Bhairava Tantra, Satsang in Chicago, Himalayas, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)