Nandi is everything

The one consciousness functions through all


Ayalum Pudaiyum Em Aadiyai Nokkil
Iyalum Perundeivai Yaadum Ondrillai
Mulayum Muyalil Mudivum Matraange
Peyalum Mazhai Mugir Per Nandi Thaane


Nandi is everything. I look near and far, but there is no other God around I see that is mightier than Him. He is the effrt and the result of the effort. He is the rain and the rain bearing clouds too.


Consciousness is all pervading. It is the support for any effort we take. It is the effort and the result of the effort too. - Swahilya Shambhavi (swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

My Lord is so big....

So strong and so mighty

Thane Irunilandhangi Vinnai Nirkund

Thane Sudum Angi Gnayirunthingal

Thane Mazhaipozhi Thaiyalumai Nirkund

Thane Thadavarai Thankadalame

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He is the one who bears the earth and the sky and exists as space. He is the fire that burns, the sun and the moon. He is the maiden cloud that bursts forth as rains and he is the mountain and cool oceans too.

This reminds me of a school song. "My God is so Big, so strong and so mighty that nothing my Lord cannot do. The mountains are his, the rivers are his, the stars are his handiwork too....My God is so big! Tirumoolar goes a step deeper and says, "the mountains, rivers, sun, moon and space are the Lord himself.

Swahilya Shambhavi (swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)

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).

Immeasurable

Expansive

Munnaiyoppayulla Moovarkku Moothavan

Thannai Yoppa Yondrum Illath Thalaimagan

Thannaiyappaneil Appanumai Ulan

Ponnaiyoppagindra Bodhagathane

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He has ever been existing with no parallel. He is older than Brahma - Vishnu -Shiva - Creator - preserver - destroyer. All the three are but three different forms and tasks of the mind. The consciousness exists untouched by it and through it. He is the leader who does not have any parallel Referring to consciousness as he, she or it is just a habit of the mind and poverty of words - a part trying to explain the total, words trying to describe the paper in which it is written.

If you call him your father, he is a father to you. He shines and guides from within you, like a light that gleams like gold. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Picture: The snowy peaks of Kedarnath, Himalayas.)

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

Without him

Nothing moves

Avanai Ozhiya Amararum Illai

Avanandrich Cheyyum Arundhavam Illai

Avanandri Moovaral Aavathondrillai

Avananadri Oorpugu Marariyene

Consciousness is everything. Without Him (Consciousness) there are no divine beings. It is the essence in all divinity. Tapas is penance. It happens when we workout on a treadmill when the extra heat generated and expelled as sweat through the pores of our skin. Tapas of the mind is when through contemplation, we work out all the wasteful thoughts that cloud. No Tapasya is beyond consciousness which shines through at the end of such a penance when the impurities are washed away. Consciousness is the basis for the actions of the trinity - Brahma or creation, Vishnu - preservation and Sankara - dissolution.

Without attuning to this consciousness, I know no other way of liberating the mind which is constantly torn by the dualities and polarities of material existence, says Tirumoolar.

- Swahilya Shambhavi.

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

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)