Tirumantiram

TANTRA THREE

41 ASHTANGA YOGAM

549: Difficult to Expound is Science of Yoga

Of difficult vast to expound

Is the Science of Breath;

Closing nostril alternate

And counting time in measure appropriate

Thus did Nandi reveal at length

The eight-fold science of yoga great--

Iyama, Niyama and the rest.

550: Yoga Includes Kavacha Nyasa and Mudra

I shall reveal herein,

The ways of Iyama and Niyama,

The secret of Kavacha, Nyasa and Mudra

The paths to reach the Samadhi State;

To course Kundalini Sakti upward,

And to reach Parasakti at Cranium high.

551: Ashtanga Yoga Leads to Samadhi and to Jnana

Waver not, this way and that

Follow the way of eight-limbed Yoga

And reach Samadhi State;

They who tread that blessed path

Shall reach Jnana's peak;

No more are they in this vile flesh born.

552: Eight Limbs of Yoga

Iyama, Niyama, and Asana numberless

Pranayama wholesome and Pratyahara alike,

Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi to triumph

--These eight are the steely limbs of Yoga.

2 NIYAMAM

553: Perform Niyamas Always

"The heavens may torrents pour

In directions eight;

Yet perform the holy niyamas"

--Thus spake the Lord of matted locks, cool and coral hued

To the Sages Four, in devotion immersed.

554: Ways of Niyama

He does not kill, he does not lie, he does not steal;

Of marked virtues is he; good, meek and just;

He shares his joys, he knows no blemish

Neither drinks nor lusts

--This the man who in Niyama's ways stands.

3 NIYAMA

555: Way of Niyama

The Being First,

The Meaning-Central of Vedas all,

The Light Divine,

The Fire within that Light

He who shares Himself

Half-and-Half with His Sakti

And the Divine Justice thereof

--Them, he in Niyama's path knows.

556: Ten Virtues of Niyama

Purity, compassion, frugal food and patience

Forthrightness, truth and steadfastness

--These he ardently cherishes;

Killing, stealing and lusting, He abhors

--Thus stands with virtues ten

The one who Niyama's ways observes.

557: Further Ten Attributes of Niyama

Tapas, meditation, serenity, and holiness

Charity, vows in Saiva Way and Siddhanta learning

Sacrifice, Siva puja and thoughts pure

--With these ten, the one in Niyama perfects his Ways.

4 ASANAS

558: Prominent Asanas

Numerous are the asanas

With Padmasana to commence;

Six among them are rated high

With Svastika as faultless seventh

He who postures on these asanas seven,

Verily becomes Master, for sure.

559: Padmasana--Lotus Posture

Sit cross-legged with soles of feet upturned

Close draw the feet on thighs opposite,

Stretch then the hands afore on feet

That Padmasana is, famed far on earth.

560: Bhadrasana--Happy Posture

Place the right leg over the left

Stretch the hands over calf of leg

Sit in posture firm and erect

That indeed is Bhadrasana.

561: Kukkudasana--Cock Posture

Lift the feet on to the thighs,

Control breath and on elbows raise your body

Thus seated firm and immobile,

Thou do reach the Kukkudasana.

562: Simhasana--Lion Posture

Stretch the hands over the calf of leg,

Lift the mouth upward,

Fix thy gaze on tip of nose,

Thus do thou Simhasana posture.

563: Important Asanas are Seven

Bhadra, Gomukha, Padma and Simha,

Svastika, Veera, and Sukha

These seven are asanas eminent and ancient;

Numerous as, eight, eighty and hundred, however,

Are asanas in all reckoned.

5 PRANAYAMA

564: Master the Steed of Breath

The Jiva is the master of senses five;

He is the head of the body habitat;

There is a steed he rides to his destined goal;

The masterly one the steed carries,

The feeble one it throws away

--That steed the Prana breath is.

565: Control of Inhalation and Exhalation

A goodly one is Jiva

He has steeds two,

But he knows not how to master them

If the lordly Guru lends His Grace,

The steeds will tame become.

566: Breath Control Activates Body

Faster than bird that steed flies,

Far headier than wine the pleasure it gives;

It infuses vigour, dispells laziness

True we say this, let the wise listen.

567: Breath Control Yields Life Nectar

Let Prana merge in Mind

And together the two be stilled

Then no more shall birth and death be;

Therefore, learn to direct breath

In streams alternating left and right

And in silentness chant "Aum"

Then shall you sevile of the nectar of life.

568: Puraka Kumbhaka Resaka Alternated--Cleansing of Nadis

Purakam is to inhale by left nostril matras six and ten

Kumbhakam is to retain that breath for matras four and sixty

Resakam is to exhale thereafter for matras two and thirty

Thus alternate from left to right and right to left

With Kumbhakam in between.

569: Breath Control Makes Body Light as a Carpenter-Bee

If you control the breath within,

However old your body,

Young and crystal-hard it turns

And with the goodly Guru's benign Grace,

Well may you wing your way in heaven

As unto a carpenter-bee.

570: Breath Control Gives Supreme Strength

Wherever you be, there control breath

The body then will perish not

As you inhale, control and exhale in measure prescribed,

Well may you become a trimphant Lord

With the conch of victory,

Your achievement heralding.

571: Knowledge of Science of Breath Leads to Immortality

Inhalation, Exhalation, and Retention both ways

The Science of Breath thus consisting

They know not;

They who know the Science of Breath

Are destined to spurn the God of Death.

572Effect of Puraka, Kumbhaka Resaka

In Purakam inhale breath deep

To pervade up, down and middle

In Kumbhakam retain it around the navel center;

In Resakam it is absorbed within in due measure

They who practise the Science of Breath thus

Reach the Grace of Lord

Who consumed poison deadly.

573: Time Duration of Inhaling Retaining and Exhaling Breath

Inhaling six and ten matras by left nostril

Retaining four and sixty in the navel

Exhaling two and thirty by the right nostril,

They who control breath thus, chanting Aum

Have verily seen the Light of Truth.

574: How to Practise Pranayama

Inhale deep and steady,

That prana fills the nadis ten;

Exhale slow

That the body does not stir;

Retain prana breath

And downward move Apana breath

Thus sit erect and vanquish Death.

575: Purify Body By Breath Control

The breath within rises

And wanders as it lists;

Control that and purify within;

Then shall your limbs glow red

Your hair turn dark

And God within shall leave you never.

576: Inhale 12 Matras; Retain 4 Matras

The Prana breath

That is damsel within body-house

Runs in and out constant;

If twelve matras inhaled

Eight matras exhaled,

The four matras retained

Shall make you divine in Siva.

577: Learn to Control Breath and Master Death

The elephant that is twelve-matra breath

Is awake night and day;

The mahout (Jiva) knows not elephant;

When mahout learns to control elephant

The elephant knows not night and day;

(In eternity it exists.)

6 PRATYAHARA

578: Blessings of Mind Withdrawal

Step by step, practise mind's withdrawal

And look inward;

One by one many the good you see within;

And may you then meet the Lord,

Now and here below

Whom the ancient Vedas still searches

Everywhere.

579: Retain Breath Below Navel Region

They know not the divine art

Of fixing breath twelve matra long,

Below the navel region;

Once they learn that art

The Lord enters within, shouting in joy.

580: Where Kundalini Is

Two finger length above the anus,

Two finger length below the sex organ

Four finger length below the navel visible,

There within is Kundalini

A flaming fire lambent.

581: Breath Control for Maha Siddha Yoga

If below the nose-tip

You look twelve-finger length,

And then concentrate and meditate (on navel centre),

The mighty Siddha yoga shall yours be

And imperishable shall your body be.

582: When Light Appears

If thus meditating,

Luminescence you glimpse at the Eye-brow centre

Know you are destined for bliss unalloyed;

If at the Throat's Center

Lunar light you behold,

Then will your body,

In divine joy intoxicated be.

583: What Kundalini Yoga is

Close the Muladhara orifice below

Center your thought on Sahasrara orifice above

And on that meditate in oneness;

Fix your dagger like vision on that Void Vast;

Thus practising Yoga,

You shall vanquish Time.

584: Kundalini Yoga Destroys Birth

Two finger length above the anus

Two finger length below the sex organ,

Lies the Kundalini Fire

If you can meditate on the light

That burns there,

You shall be one with Lord,

Who all births destroys.

585: Pratyahara

By thought concentrated,

Know clearly apart

Pasa and Pati Luminescent,

Then destroy that Pasa;

Melt in your heart for Lord,

Attain and contemplate on Jnana,

And look inward toward Him;

These the precious Ways of Pratiyahara are.

586: Pranayama Helps Pratyahara

If breath that is exhaled

Is contained within

The thoughts too are contained there

And the Lord shall leave you not.

587: What Pratyhara Can Lead to

In the act of concentrated meditation

All world will be visioned;

Be rid of the despicable darkness

And seek Lord,

If your thoughts be centered firm

You shall Divine Light see

And immortal thereafter be.

7 DHARANA

588: How to Practise Dharana

Let unswerving be your thought

Bind it to Muladhara fast

Look into the Void Inside through spinal shaft

See and yet see not;

Hear and yet hear not;

Thus in meditation sit;

That the sure Way to bar death's way.

589: Lord Dances in Sahasrara

From the peaks of Cranium ranges

The heavenly waterfall

Unceasing cascades

Coursing prana through the spinal channel;

There on the stony arena (of Mount Meru within)

The Lord performs His timeless dance;

That unending Bliss Light,

I witnessed.

590: Kundalini in Reverse

She is the Damsel of the Vedas;

She belongs to the astral land of Cranium;

He is the bridal lord;

He sleeps in the land of Muladhara;

Gently rouse Him,

And make Him meet Her,

You shall then be forever young

Upon lordly Nandi I avow,

This true forever and ever.

591: Practice of Kundalini Yoga

Bind the Muladhara

Raise the Prana breath upward

Through the spinal hollow course it

And within in aptness retain,

And like a stork at stream's head

Sit calm

In singleness of thought;

Well may you live forever and ever.

592: Practice Breath Control in Proper Time-Measure

When Pranayama is in proper time-measure practised

Breath retention will appropriate with Prana stand;

He who trains breath that is Prana,

With him shall Time and Life inseparate remain.

593: Practise Breath Control in Silentness

A bull there is,

In the thoughts of those

Who silentness observe;

They who open their mouth wide

Drive it away wind-ward;

But they who are in silentness wrapped

Drive it to the Lunar Peak;

There with its horns it knocks;

And if the Gates of the Cave do not open,

It turns tail in fear.

594: Longevity Gained by Breath Control

If breath that is forked in and out,

Is on mind directed and centered,

Well may you sleep

In the spacious bed chamber

Of the Body Cave

That has doors two and windows seven.

And long, long may you live there too.

595: Mind Control Through Breath Control

If of the ten Vayus that fill the body

Five by exhalation leave,

What avails you fool!

What though you wake and pray?

They who control breath in measure ordained,

Will sure imprison mind-monkey

Within the body-fortress.

596: Make the Body Immortal

All those who came afore

Have met their final end;

What guarantee is there of any other fate,

For those who come after?

What then there to speak of the millions

And their life to be?

What delusion this!

Will the sandy bank ever hold firm?

597: Dharana is Involution

To contain body's harassing senses five

In elements five,

To contain elements five

In organs cognitive internal,

To contain cognitive organs internal

Into its Primal Reals,

To contain Primal Reals

In the Being Uncreated

That, verily, is Dharana

In stages practised.

8 DHYANA

598: Dhyana is of Two Kinds

The ten--

The five elements and the five senses

Being contained, one by the other,

The internal organ Buddhi

In turn contains the senses;

Thus is Dhyana born;

The Para Dhyana first

That is on Sakti centered,

And Siva Dhyana next

That is by Guru blessed,

These two the Ways of Dhyana Yoga.

599: In Dhyana the Divine Light Appears

Through eye, tongue, nose and ear

And the organ Intellect

There is an Ancient One that pervades as Nada,

Inside the palatal cavity

He shows the Cosmic Light;

He gave the fleshly body,

That we redeemed be.

600: In Dhyana Can Be Seen the Jnana Form of Siva

In the undistracted gaze

Appears the Light

Gaze and gaze to heart's content

And mingle one with it;

The Heavenly Stream will then surge

To the spaces infinite of Void Vast;

Then may the Uncreated Being witnessed be.

601: Alas! They Perform not Dhyana

Even for once they meditate not

On the mystery of Jiva within body;

Even for once they meditate not

On Siva within Jiva;

Even for once they meditate not

On Divine Jnana within Siva;

Even once they meditate not

On the Lotus within the Lunar Sphere.

602: Dhyana Brightens All Lamps Within

Light the Lamp of Mind

And dispel the Darkness of Egoity;

Extinguish the Fire of Wrath

And brighten all lamps within

Thenceforth alike,

The Mind's Lamp is an undying Lamp indeed.

603: Look Within in Dhyana

Well may they practise Yoga eight-thousand year

Still they see not Lord,

Sweet as ambrosia

And dear unto apple of eye;

But if within you seek Him enlightened

He within you is,

Even unto reflection in the mirror.

604: Fruits of Dhyana

If your eyes twain are

On nasal point fixed,

No sorrows befall you;

Perishes not your body;

Agitation none shall you have;

Feelings none;

Seekings none;

None that is "I";

You and Siva one become.

605: Dhyana Leads to Cessation of Birth

Fixing the gaze on nasal point

Retaining the roaming breath within

They who can thus still the nadis,

Will sure reach the Goal

No fear of birth to be for them.

606: Varied Sound Experiences in Dhyana

Bell, sea, elephant, flute, cloud

Bee, dragon-fly, conch, drum, and lute

The subtle sounds of these ten are heard

For them alone

Who have stilled their mind in God.

607: Other Sound Experiences in Dhyana

The roar of sea, the thundering of cloud,

The trumpeting of elephant, the euphony of lute,

The music of the orbs

That glow in firmament vast,

The melody of the flute; the resonance of conch,

All these

The yogi true alone hears.

608: Fruits of God-Realization

Those who realize God,

They alone get qualities godly;

They join company of immortals;

Pasa vanishes;

They become immanent in all life

They hear sounds subtlest,

That emanate

Unto fragrance out of flower.

609: Yoga Leads to Nadanta

Nada's End is Sakti divine

Nada's End is Yoga goodly

Nada's End is goal Finale

Nada's End is Lord Seated.

610: Involution Into Nada is Final Stage

As Kundalini Fire glows in Adharas six,

The Primordial Anava Darkness flees,

In tameness followed by Indriyas Five;

Who involute in Tanmatras, their substrate;

And they in turn in Nada;

Then shall you reach Feet of Lord

That is Refuge of All.

611: The Way to Ascension to Void lies through Meditation

The mystic bed-chamber is day-light eternal

No darkness invades;

There is a way

This body to fire-chamber consigned not be;

The light of this knowledge

Is by meditation prolonged;

The Chamber of Void

Knows not end of Light ever.

612: Perfect Meditation Leads to Immortality

Having abated not in the rules of vows,

The Yogi that has to meditate learned,

Coursing Kundalini through spinal column,

And passing Mandalas Three with felicity equal

He in fleshly body forever lives.

613: Meditation Leads Across the Three Spheres

There is a way of reaching the Mandalas Three.

In each is its respective God;

Be you blessed

By the God appropriate

Then each Mandala leads to the other.

614: To Transcend Mandalas is to be Exalted

In the dark chamber of the drooping heart

Are the Mandalas Three,

He who becomes one with them

And peirces Pasas

Shall know weariness none;

To transcend the three stages of heart

Is exaltation exceeding indeed.

615: Immortality Through Dhyana Yoga

Uprooting the gunas three

He who controlls breath in Muladhara

And courses it alternate

Through nadi left and right,

In time measure prescribed

Will be immortal made

By Him that is King of Beings Heavenly.

616: Deep Meditation on Centers Leads to God

Four finger-length above the tremulous Navel-Center

Is the petalled Heart-Center;

Two finger length still above is the Throat-Center;

Those who can meditate on it in sea-like depth

Sure knew Him;

Him the Lord of Body Corporal.

617: Grace Comes From Dhyana

Transcending Tattvas six and thirty unreal,

Destroying Maya's layers thick,

Transformed into Jnana Pure by Grace

Themselves that Grace inseparable Becoming

They who achieved thus

Were the goodly souls

The Way of Dhyana knew.

9 SAMADHI

618: Samadhi is the Final Goal of Ashtanga Yoga

Samadhi is end of Iyama and the rest

Samadhi is consummation of Siddhis eight

Who persevere in the path from Iyama to the end

Will alone the end Samadhi attain.

619: Vision of Light Resplendent in Samadhi

When in the Meru Peak of Sahasrara

Bindu and Nada flourish

In their union will Samadhi be;

And the Light Resplendent of Endless Jnana

Will then visioned be!

620: In Samadhi Mano-Laya is Reached

Where there is mind absorption,

There life's breath is;

Where there is mind absorption none,

There life none is;

They who, in rapture, sit in mind absorption

Are verily fixed in Yoga of absorption.

621: Mystic Vision in Samadhi

They who sit in Samadhi of Pure Consciousness

Vision the Mystic Woods and the Blooming Pond;

They roam in the royal expanse of Void Vast

And there at the foot of Fertile Mountain Meru,

They bridled their Horse of Breath to a stop.

622: In Samadhi They Vision the Void

On top of Spinal Column in the Center

Is built a habitation unique;

Three the compartments it has

Four the doors;

Within these they sit (in Samadhi);

When through the door on top

They vision the Void

No more the word Death, aye, not even in dream.

623: Vision Lord's Dance in Samadhi

Five the Mystic Regions,

Eight the Mountain Ranges,

Six the Adhara tribes that hold them;

With thought centered on Him

They well see Him there stand;

Partaking of the Grace of His Dancing Feet

They shall immortal be.

624: Samadhi Leads to Siva

Within the locked body

Is trapped the life-breath;

Course it to the Land

That no desire knows;

They who fix their gaze on Goal True

Will reach the Mango Fruit

That in the garden there hangs.

625: Ambrosia in Samadhi Leads to God

There is a way to vision the Lord,

The Celestial Beings churned

But with the mountain dark,

And partook of ambrosia;

But they climbed not

The heights of the Mystic Mountain

And partook not of ambrosia there flows,

For, they possess not

The unwavering mind

That soars in Samadhi high.

626: In Samadhi Oneness in God is Attained

He is our Own

He is the Primal One

He taught the Vedas Four

He is the light that glows within the purest gold

They adored Him in love

They approached Him all desires devoid

And climbed the Mystic Tree High;

Their breath halted in Samadhi

They with Him became One.

627: Vision of Mystic Moon in Samadhi

Beyond the Muladhara

Of triple angle shaped

Where Time and Space mingle,

Aloft that Center,

Opposite the forehead

Hangs the Crescent Moon,

Of myriad shape and peerless beauty.

628: Union With Siva in Samadhi

Bereft of distracting thoughts

Ascending the way of Kundalini

Seeking the Creator that created all,

Him that is Light Beauteous,

Reaching the Mystic Moon in union

He becomes one with the Being Uncreated

--That, in sooth, is Samadhi's tranquility.

629: Tranquility in Samadhi

Samadhi attained, Siva is attained;

Sakti too will be caught in its fold;

Distracting passions will be dispelled;

In equanimity perfect,

Like unto a balance

Will be the mind

All this, for those who in Samadhi sleep.

630: Samadhi Leads to Worship by Gods

He stood as the Peerless Pillar of Light;

When Jiva in Samadhi merges in Him,

Brahma that creates

And Vishnu of the ocean-hue,

Both stand adoring him.

631: Samadhi Transcends Siddhis

To those who are in Samadhi

Many the Yogas that come of themselves

And the Siddhis eight that come unsought;

But, Samadhi none is for those who walk with God

Samadhi none is for those who become one in God.

10 FRUITS OF EIGHT-LIMBED YOGA

632: Lord's Devotees Reach Abode of Gods

They who seek Lord

Of the matted locks bedecked with flowers

Will sure reach Abode of Gods;

"What this devotee of mine seeks,

That I grant"

Thus blesses the Lord

That mounts the Bull

And dances to His Lady's delight.

633: Devotees Reach World of Siva (Siva Loka)

Hold fast unto His Feet,

Adore them with love,

Sing His praise

Study His Sacred lore

Constant think of Him

You shall reach the World of Siva,

Received in full regalia

By the sacred Rishi concourse.

634: Devotees Will Be Elevated

Infinite is Lord's Grace

He elevates His devotee unto Indra,

The Lord of Celestials;

And he shall be received,

In pomp and honour

Drums beating and pipes playing,

All glory and bliss upon him raining.

635: Devotee Welcomed by Celestials

When devotee reaches the World of Siva

He shall be received by Celestial throngs,

"Hail! Here comes our Golden Lord"

Thus shall they welcome;

And he in raptuous pleasures shall revel.

636: The Devotee Hailed as Siva Himself

When he reaches the World of Siva

The Celestials,

Who in directions eight stood

Ask, "Who is he;"

And Hara says: "He is Me;"

And the noble Devas forgather and hail him

As well as they met Siva Himself.

637: Even Celestials Have to Follow the Path of Devotees

Seeking the goodly path

They turn away Death's path;

They walk the path of Truth

They seek the path of Liberation;

Of limitless bounty they are;

Well may the Celestials

In directions eight roam

They perforce have to come

To this earth's way of devotees,

And they Him seek.

638: Devotee's Way is the Seeking of Gods

His (devotee's) is the World of Seeking--

Of Vishnu who sleeps on ocean

Of Brahma who creates worlds twice seven

Of Rudra who brings dissolution of life all,

Of Devas who revel in bubbling nectar.

639: In Samadhi Jiva Unites in Uncaused Being

Transcending Jiva's caused experience limitations

Himself the Causal Tattvas Becoming,

Extinguishing the Causal sources themselves,

Thus do tapasvins unite in the Being Uncaused

That, in truth is Samadhi supreme.

11 THE EIGHT GREAT SIDDHIS

640: Perform Siddhis in Meekness

Pray and seek Lord in directions eight

Adore Lord with constancy in directions eight

Attain Eight Siddhis Great in directions eight

And in meekness perform in directions eight.

641: Nothing Impossible Then

Lord is the Prized Being of Celestials,

I sought His Feet in devotion

All my blemish vanished

And I visioned the Mystic Void

Nothing impossible for me now;

He blessed me with Eight Great Siddhis

And ended my birth to be.

642: Sambhavi and Kechari Mudras for Siddhis

By Muladhara Way,

With Grace of Guru

Vision Sakti,

Seated fragrant and lovely;

Practise Sambhavi and Kechari mudras

You shall attain Siddhis Eight,

That to mighty Siva's goal leads.

643: Power of Transmigration

The Elements, Kalas, Time and Maya

Escape unentangled in them,

That is but Wisdom;

And embrace fast the Truth of Lord

That Uncreated and Unending One;

Then can you transmigrate

Into mortal coils of beings other.

644: Karma Yoga Practices are Inferior to Eight Siddhis

Karma yoga is several, several in number;

Twenty thousand eight hundred kinds they count;

And all they can give is but physical work,

Inferior are they to the Eight Siddhis Great.

645: Twelve Years for Eight Siddhis

On the Moon's nadi to the left (Idakala)

The breath of Prana measures units twelve;

Of this, exhale four;

If the eight saved is within retained,

And that for twelve years continuous practised,

Then shall Siddhis Eight ever abide.

646*36Subtle Sounds Signifying Siddhis

Abounding in wealth of men around,

You but pave the way for birth again;

Nor can Siddhi be attained

By art, learning, genius and wisdom subtle;

At the end of diverse melodies heard in Yoga

For twelve years long

Does it take Siddhi for fullness to attain.

647: Siddhis in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Years

In the seventh year of his practice

The Yogi becomes fleet of foot like wind;

His footfall touches not the ground

He divines the thoughts of other beings;

In the eighth year he becomes eternal young,

For ever bereft of graying hair and wrinkled muscles

In the ninth, he transmigrates into other coils mortal.

648: Siddhis in the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Years

In the tenth year the yogi can expand and contract into space

In the eleventh he can assume form he meditates on;

In the twelfth all eight siddhis complete he masters;

He then gains the powers to roam the worlds

Seven above and seven below

And take one cosmic form spanning space all.

649: The Eight Siddhis Enumerated

Himself the atom, himself the cosmos

Himself light, himself heavy

Himself invisible air,

Himself migrating into mortal bodies other,

Himself possessing prowess of the Truthful One

Himself immanent in all

--These eight are the Siddhis Great.

650: Anima Siddhi to Mukti

The Yogi assumes atom-size,

Into lives of several beings enters,

And then returns to his form original;

Either way is he least affected;

From that stage reached in Anima Siddhi,

He rises further

Into Nada chanting Aum,

And thus toward Mukti hastens.

651: A Year for Anima

Days are counted by astral Nazhigai sixty

And year by days three hundred and sixty;

Do meditate incessant through time thus reckoned,

And pierce the Chakras upward from Muladhara;

At the Navel-Center arises the power of Anima.

652: On the Way to Siva Mukti

They are Siva Muktas

Who turned their thoughts to Siva

Who became Siva-suffused,

Who attained Mukti

By silentness that leads to it;

They abandoned the senses five

In search of Divine Purity

Their thoughts centered on Dance Cosmic.

653: How the Vayus Stand for Yogis

Nine the Vayus in body equal are,

Dananjaya, the tenth superior is,

When the nine in their channels accord

Life and body well accord, too.

654: Importance of Dhananjaya

Dananjaya pervades other the nine Vayus

Within the body it permeates

Nadis two hundred and twenty four

If Dhananjaya does function not thus,

This body will swell and burst.

655: Diseases Appear When Dhananjaya Does not Function

Boils, itches and leprosy

Anaemia, and like diseases

That swellings show

Paralysis, hunchback, arthritis

And diseases of eye that bulging show

All appear

When Dananjaya in disorder functions.

656: Importance of Kurma Vayu for Eye

When Dananjaya malfunctions

The eye gets diseases like cataract and glaucoma

But Kurma is goodly to the eye;

If Kurma permeates not the eye,

It receives light none.

657: The Three Gods Animate Three Nadis

Through the Nadis that pulsate

In the ear, eye and heart

Animates the one spark of Light Divine

That is God;

The Gods, Rudra, Vishnu, and Brahma

Respective there seated art.

658: Mukti Vision in Center of Nine Nadis

Within the fleshly body

That has gates nine,

There is a Center

Where the Nadis nine meet;

For them who can contain the Nadis nine

Not nine their vision, but several, several.

659: Practice of Kundalini Yoga

Kindle Kundalini Fire

That burns lamnent in Muladhara

Send it up through Sushumna

The spinal column Central,

Course into it Prana breath

That runs through Nadis Sun and Moon,

That the way to reach

The seven mystic worlds in Cranium

To them we bade this

That are wise to learn.

660: Conquest of Bindu Through Nadi

O! Jiva! you seek woman in lust

And Lo! like a fawn are you caught in net;

And you know how to make

Central Nadi the Way Great,

The seed (Bindu) you kept for sale,

May your own be to consume.

661: Raise Nada and Vision Lord Through Nadi

They who raise Nada within the Nadi

In a flash behold the Being One;

There they bibed the mystica nectar

Vanquishing besieging foes all.

662: Reaching Purna Sakti

Up on the stalk of the Mystic Lotus bud

The Nine Virgins sweet as nectar

Joined the Lady (Kundalini)

One by one they climbed the floors

They reached the victorious top

And there into Perfection transformed.

663: Poorna Sakti as the Supreme Cause Expands

Sakti that is Poorna (Perfection)

Filled Herself into Chambers Three times Seven;

The Nine lovely Virgins became a hundred and five

And as the Cause of Vishnu, Brahma

And the rest of the Gods Five

She expanded pervasive.

664: Poorna Sakti Involutes in Nada

The Damsel thus blossomed and expanded;

But if She chooses to hide Herself within,

The elements five and all that expanded out of Her

Will involute in the reverberant primal sound, Nada.

665: Merge in Poorna Sakti

The breath in nadis to Left and Right

When in alternation made to course,

And passes beyond the Adhara barrier Six,

There amidst the Cool Flame

Is seated Sakti of the Lightning Form,

In Her merged you be.

666: Lord Dances in Jiva

Senses controlled,

Thought in oneness centered

If you sit in realization thus,

Prana breath that comes

Circling again and again

Will in Jiva gently merge;

Within that Jiva the Dancer dances

And I stand seeking Him there.

667: Through Nada Yoga I Reached to Sakti

I coursed the breath upward through Sushumna

And to the accompaniment of Nada's sound (Aum)

I sought;

And lo! there the Damsel was

And I had Her

And seized and bound the enemies shielding Her;

And thus I possessed the Jewelled Lamp of Undying Flame

The Lamp that is of salvation's Treasure House.

668: The Eight Siddhis Enumerated

To become tiny as the atom within atom (Anima)

To become big in unshakeable proportions (Mahima)

To become light as vapour in levitation (Lahima)

To enter into other bodies in transmigration (Prapt)

To be in all things, omni-pervasive (Prakamya)

To be lord of all creation in omnipotence (Isavatam)

To be everywhere in omnipresence (Vasitvam)

--These eight are the Siddhis Great.

669: Beyond the Eight Siddhis in the Moon's Nectar

By eight-limbed yoga are Siddhis eight attained

When breath is in accord controlled;

But when Kundalini fire is through the Central Nadi coursed up,

And the Sun's mandala passed

Beyond that is the Moon's

Whence flow the ambrosia that may swilled be.

670: Siddhis Lead to Mukti Only by Sakti's Grace

By eight-limbed yoga way

Not only will Siddhis eight be

And the Goal behind the Siddhis too;

With effortless ease will they all be

If but Tripura Sakti Her Grace grants.

671: Beyond Siddhis is True Goal

They are Siddhas

Who together with Siddhis eight

Attain the Divine;

They reach Para Loka

And within them vision the Dear Lord

Then they reach Him true,

Going beyond the boundaries eight.

672: Siddhis Lead to Kamiya Loka

They who can alternate the course of breath Left and Right,

And send it upward through Spinal Cavity unerring to Mount Meru at top

To them, Kamiya Loka will of itself come;

The world that is reached by Anima and the rest of Siddhis Eight.

673: Anima

Having succeeded in shooting Kundalini to Meru through

The Spinal Cavity

If he perseveres for a year,

He will attain Anima Siddhi;

Lighter than flimsiest cotton wool will he be

Yet invincible will he be.

674: Laghima

If after visioning Thani Nayaki (Adi Sakti)

And the Tattvas that go with Her,

For five years the yogi perseveres steadfast

He attains the Siddhi that is Laghima;

The power to penetrate anywhere at will.

675: Vision in Laghima

When the yogi attains Laghima Siddhi,

He will glow with divine light;

With that glow suffusing milk white radiance

He will vision the heavenly glow

That is Truth.

676: Mahima

A year after attaining Laghima

When Tattvas take their refuge in Sakti of Form Tender,

Will Mahima Siddhi be;

As plain as his palm

It shall be for the yogi to see.

677: Time Transcended in Mahima

Having seen breath transformed into light

No more does Time move; it stops;

While the Past merged into space

Of the Future He becomes the Lord.

678: Finite Attainments Through Mahima Siddhi

Through him all Jnana grows

Through him all world flourishes

Through him all things prosper

Himself in the Grace of Lord stands.

679: Prapti in a Year After Visioning Sakti

He who thus stood in Mahima

Visions the Lady of Tattvas (Tattva Nayaki)

And the Celestial Bhutas,

If the yogi thus perseveres continuous for a year

Then he attains Prapti divine.

680: Time Stops in Prapti

Having visioned the dazzling Light of Sakti,

The Siddha perceives the Cosmos vast

That unto a flower unfolds,

The past merged into Space

And the future Time for ever stops.

681: Experiences in Prapti

No going; No coming;

No death; No aging

No delay in seeing Light of Breath (Nada)

Nothing desired in particular,

Thus it is with Siddhas

Who attained this Siddhi.

682: Prakamya a Year After Prapti

When Prapti is attained

Parasakti resides palpably within;

And all Tattvas flee

When he is for a year thus,

He attains the power to transmigrate into alien bodies.

683: Salvation Easy After Prakamya

They know not how the Being within

Becomes the Light Radiant;

That Light is already within in Muladhara;

With it they can see the Light of Nada above;

Them who thus seek

The Light Above leads to Liberation effortless.

684: Isatva a Year After Prakamya

A year rolls by after the Siddha attains Prakamya

And he perseveres in his adoration

Then he visions Sada Siva Sakti and Her hosts of Bhutas

And attains Isatva.

685: In Isatva Yogi Becomes Moon

At that stage,

The Siddha becomes the rays of the moon

He becomes the moon's kalas in his merge

He himself the moon becomes.

686: Powers Isatva Confers

He acquires the power to create

He acquires the power to preserve

He shall himself be Lord of destruction

He and Isa inextricably one become.

687: After One Year of Isatva Yogi Attains Power to Perceive God in Vasitva

If within the cool kala of the moon

The Siddha contains the elements five

In a year shall he attain

The power rare to perceive the True One.

688: Vasitva Confers Immenence

That power rare to perceive the True One

Is the divine Siddhi that is Vasitva

In beings all that come within his reach

He immanent becomes like God Himself.

689: In Vasitva the Yogi Visions Chit-Sakti

In the days the Siddha stands thus in Vasitva

Radiant as the Sun,

If he attains the rare vision of te True Being,

Golden becomes his body

Dead his sense organs,

And he visions the goodly Sakti

That lke a Tender Vine appears.

690: Kamarutatva (Kamavasayitha)

After attaining Vasitva Siddhi

The Siddha perserveres in the knowledge of Sakti,

And of Siva who Her body shares;

And then a year thereafter

He attains the powers to visit worlds all,

That hang from the golden stalk of the Cosmic Flower;

Sitting inert like a flag of stone

Attains Siddhi Kamarutattva (Kamavasayitva).

691: What Kamarutatva Leads to

Having attained Kamaru Siddhi

You will receive the power to pervade

As unto the flower's fragrance in Space all

Divine Fragrance yours shall be;

Transformed unto Maya Sakti,

You shall be the Lord of Light we adore.

692: Visions in Kamarutatva

Having visioned the Divine Light

He abides in it as in mother's home;

The myriad worlds having visited,

He sees the Supreme light of Siva

Who has His home amidst ghosts and ghouls.

693: When the Eight Siddhis are Attained

He who has mastered the Siddhis eight high.

Will be the Lord of globe entire,

Gleaming shall be his garland of victory

And His breath shall turn to peerless light.

694: Sakti Pervades Prana After Siddhis are Attained

The Way Prana mingles in Jiva

Is through Sakti of the Tender Vine

Prana pervades the five hundred then the ten.

And then the three nadis

And Sakti pervades Prana entire.

695: Nectar Flows When Breath Pervades Body

Inside the head ambrosia flows like a river

In nadi channels a thousand three hundred and five in number

The adharas are the Way to the thousand petalled Sahasrara;

The twin breaths Idakala and Pingala shows the Way.

696: From Ajna Where Sadasiva Nayaki is, Prana Ascends to Sahasrara of Thousand Petalled Lotus

Above the twin-petalled Center

Is the Seat of Sadasiva Sakti;

As breath in double ascends further

There is the Sahasrara of thousand petalled lotus;

And on it are the Letters Fifty and One

That in time became the Letters Five.

697: Description of Sadasiva Nayaki

Five are Her awe-inspiring faces;

Ten Her weapons deadly;

Without the five-lettered mantra

No ascension is,

From the twin petalled Center to the thousand petalled;

The Five Letters in time the One Letter become (Aum).

698: How to Reach Tattva Nayaki

She is the One Being;

She is the Tattva Nayaki (Lady of the Tattvas)

When breath ascends united through Spinal Cavity

Then will that one breath reach the thousand petalled Sahasrara;

Think of Her,

A thousand year shalt thou live.

699: Prana Merges in Kalaicoursed upwards through Sushumna

Reaches the Kalai Nayaki in Sahasrara;

And there it merges with the letters Fifty and One

And then with the Letters Five

That the final end of Prana art.

700: Prana Reaches Tani Nayaki and Remains Exalted

The life breath that rose with the Tani Nayaki

Filled the nadis five hundred and thirty nine

(Before it upward coursed)

And remained in Sakti, total absorbed.

701: Prana Merges in the Five-Letters

When the precious prana reached Siva

It pervaded the nadis two hundred and thirty three

And in the Letters Five

Where Prana finally merges.

702: How Prana Pervaded the Nadis

The Prana that reaches Sakti

Emanating from the four petalled Muladhara

Where Kundalini fire is,

How Prana Pervaded the Nadis

The Prana that reaches Sakti

Emanating fro

703: Samadhi When Prana Reaches the Ninth Center

When Prana course through adharas six

Then will nectar be;

Then Prana reaches the Seventh Center of the Sun

And further onward proceeds to the Eighth Center of the Moon

In the Ninth Center Prana attains Samadhi.

704: In Samadhi Yogi Visions Light Divine

The Moon and the Sun are in the Uncreated Being

The Yogi that visions the Moon at the mystic junction of Nadis three

Is in Light merged;

He, attains Samadhi,

That had its beginning at the Navel Center.

705: Conduct of Aspirant For Yoga Samadhi

To give up thoughts of women

To think no more of kith and kin

To be meek in learning

To abound in jnana

To be sparing of speech

To listen to deeds of Siddhi

To sit unruffled

--These the ways of the aspirant of yoga samadhi.

706: Prowess of Those Who Attain Samadhi

He vanquishes death and age,

He enters into other bodies at will,

He confers paradise to the dead

He assumes form divine of Gods

He becomes learned in the twenty-one branches of Sivagamic lore

He who has mastered the Science of Breath.

707: Seek Lord Within

Vain is it seeking Lord

Wearing away sole of their feet

In pilgrimage to corners four

Of the seagirt world;

Only those who seek Him in love intense

Shall know the City of Lord.

708: Gods in Successive Adharas and Niradharas

Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra

Maheswara, Sadasiva,

Bindu, Nada, Sakti,

Para Bindu and Para Nada

In that ascending order

They all seek

Feet of Para-Para Beyond.

709: Unalloyed Bliss Beyond the Adhara Yoga

Worshipping the appropriate God at Centers

Ascend above;

There the cranial region is

Where Sakti and Siva reside

Shedding Sixteen Kalas of Mystic Moon;

Ascend yet beyond

There lies the region of Effulgent-Light;

Yet above it is bliss

Defying speech and thought.

710: Lord Himself Appears Before Yogis

They who practise yoga

Through Nadis breath in one flowing Moon and Sun

Become Beings Celestial;

To them who perform it unceasing true

The Lord Himself reveals.

711: Immortality for Yogis Who Have Reached the Ultima Thule

They who control breath

Will pervade all everywhere, unseen;

They who pierce the Mystic Lotus

Sending breath up through spinal column

And taste of its fragrant nectar

Will never death know.

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712: Yoga Leads to Divine Nectar

The Lord of the Fore-head-eye

That showed the path of Love Divine;

Seek Him in love intense;

The Ganga in cranium will in grace flow;

And in love exceeding, He your saviour will be.

713: Anchor Thoughts Firm on Lord

Anchor your thoughts firm on the Lord

Impregnable then you shall be;

Impregnable shall be your cognition organs four;

Impregnable shall be Kalas six and ten of the Moon within;

Impregnable shall be the Prana that is of life breath.

714: Way to Steady Kalas

Straight through Sushumna

The Prana stood unwavering

As a steady flame

And unto a still stone;

They who know

How the Lord stood commingled with Kalas

Know the Way True;

Even those in despair

Will espouse that Way.

715: Steady Prana Breath, Sankara Appears

When life breath is coursed up

Through the single channel Sushumna,

The Lord of Bhuta hordes,

Sankara of matted locks

Appears before you

Mounted on the Sacred Bull.

716: Sadhaka's State in Samadhi

They know not the time that passes in Samadhi

They look forward to the Big Time ahead,

Thus they direct the breath

Through the single channel Sushumna

To the void in cranium

There he stands, all conflicts resolved,

He truly is the Sadhaka.

717: Perform Yoga Penance and Reach Lord

Thus toward that goodly state

Practise yogic penance;

If you succeed in coursing breath

Into the lotus in cranium,

You shall gain the Lord

That remains hidden in Vedas.

718: Stages of Prana's Ascending Course

The breath has stages three

As Prana it courses upward

In single stream through spinal nadi;

And then spreads into cranial space

For the lotus there to blossom

And finally merges into the Divine Flame there.

719: Kundalini Yoga Turns the Body into Temple of Siva

The Kundalini Sakti that thus arose

Made her way aloft through the fleshly coil

And yet within me remained;

And She who created the worlds of Devas

Churned the mystic ambrosia within;

Drinking deep of it

This body became Siva's temple.

720: Know the Mystery of Prana Merging in Nada

The breath that glows within

None knows how it merges

When you know how it merges

Then can you reach the region

Where Nandi holds His sway.

721: Treasure Guru's Guidance for Yoga

As through breath you pierce the adharas

You shall vision clear;

Prana leaving the Kundalini Sakti

On its upward journey through Sushumna;

That you gain through the Guru guiding;

Take that as treasure precious gained.

722: Immortality Through Samadhi Yoga

The breath that arose twelve matras long,

If you control and absorb within,

Well may you live a thousand years on land and sea;

The body perishes not;

True this is,

Upon Lord Nandi I declare.

723: Experiences of Yogi When Prana Ascends

When Prana and Sakti their departure take

One from the other,

The yogi knows it this way;

Seven sounds he hears

Five colors he sees

Three odors he smells,

Two tastes he knows

Thus has the Lord of Light

The symptoms indicated.

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724: Importance of Preserving Body

If the body pershes, so does Prana

Nor will the Light of Truth be reached;

I learned the way of preserving my body

And so doing, my Prana too.

725: Why I Preserve Body

Time was when I despised the body;

But then I saw the God within

And the body, I realised, is the Lord's temple

And so I began preserving it

With care infinite.

726: Purification of Internal Organs of Body

Churn the intestines in Suddhi practice

Your bowels become clean;

Then control the breath in the heart's region

And make it pervade the nadis entire;

They who can do this

Will gain a body

That no fire can burn.

727: Effect of Practising Yoga at Dawn, Noon and Dusk

As body wax-like suppleness attains,

Practicing yoga in dusk

The phlegm leaves;

At noon leaves the wind that is treacherous;

At dawn practised, the bile leaves;

Thus all poison from body expelled

And you shall know no greying, nor wrinkling.

728: Yoga Leads to Imperishable Body

Three the coils of serpent Kundalini

Ten the Vayus that agitate the body;

Twelve finger-length the Prana breath;

When the two bags of spiration

Are tight controlled,

And you sit in meditation unwavering

The body perishes not ever.

729: How to Live for 166 Years

Breathe by the Right Nadi a hundred and sixty six matra

Breathe by the Left a hundred and sixty six matra

And then reverse the rhythm

If you do it in alternation thus

You shall live long

A hundred and sixty six years.

730: Divine Music in Yoga Practice

In the body-temple where Sakti is seated

If you practise transference of breath from right to left and vice versa,

You can hear the mystic sounds from Forehead Center

And Lord Siva will Himself reveal

Dancing to rhythmic music;

This we declare true

In the name of Sadasiva.

731: In Yoga Practice Soham is Chanted

In the Bindu that is pure by far

Shines the sound "Ha"

In the Nada that abides

Lives the sound "Sa"

Together they become the mantra "Soham"

The yogi who silent chants it while breathing

Sure attains the Holy Way.

732: Course Prana and Apana Through Meditation

Rouse the Prana that resides in the Navel Center

By meditating and chanting Siva mantra;

Retain that breath in the Ajna frontal

Then rouse the apana breath by meditation;

That way you Siva become.

733: Center Thy Thoughts on Muladhara

Two finger length above the anus

Where faecal matter leaves not;

And below the male organ

Is the Linga in Muladhara;

Meditate on that Center;

There resides the Lord of the six adharas;

This my upadesa, rare revealed;

Do take it and vision the Lord.

734: Eternal Youth Through Yoga

They who effect the mystic union

With the azure-hued Sakti within

Will shed greying and wrinkling

And regain youth for all to see;

This I say is true, by Nandi the Great.

735: Continence Leads to God-hood

If the seminal seed thickens by sexual absention

It shall never be destroyed;

If the body is lightened by austere discipline

Long shall the life be;

If food is eaten sparingly

Many the good that flow;

You may verily become

The Lord of Dark-Hued throat.

736: Yoga Gives Comeliness of Body

If Kundalini that is in Muladhara

Is sent upward often to reach the space in cranium,

Comely your body becomes;

A desire-object for damsels bedecked with flowers

Around which bees swarm humming.

737: Imperishable Life in Yogic Vision

The Lord, of yore, spurned the mighty God of Death

Who ever harasses life;

The Lord rides the Chariot of Fire within;

If you vision His Holy Feet,

Decked with triumphal anklet

You shall for ever live

In the canopied terrace above.

738: Yogi Vibrates With Youthfulness

The Fire I saw in Kundalini radiates Kala four

The Prana I kindled and coursed through Centers seven

Pervades the body entire;

With divine life that suffuses the fleshly body as ambrosia;

I grow unto a tender fawn.

739: Meditate on Appropriate Mantra to Attain Kaya Siddhi

If you in ardor pursue

The search for power to acquire Kaya Siddhi,

You shall flourish far and wide

Like a seed of paddy planted

In a million, million fields;

Do you therefore meditate single-minded

On the mantra that conquers Fate.

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740: Ascension of Jiva from Moon's Sphere

Seeking the Mountain Ranges Five (Siva Tattvas)

Here am I in the Moon's Sphere;

Leaving this I reach the Region of the Great Void of Twelve

That lies in the Sphere of Pati Supreme;

And from thence I pass on to the Farthest Beyond

--These I seek to search here.

741: Life Wasted Away in Pursuit of Worldly Knowledge

Knowledge that comes of senses five,

Knowledge that comes of discrimination that is sixth

Knowledge that comes of judgement that is seventh

Knowledge that comes by learning that is eighth,

Knowledge that comes from experience that is ninth

Knowledge that comes from attachment that is tenth

--Thus does knowledge that comes in diverse ways,

But erode life span in succession;

Knowing this not, they perisge

Knowledge that comes of senses five,

Knowledge that comes of discrimination that is sixth

Knowledge that comes of judgement that is seventh

Knowledge that comes by learning that is eighth,

Knowledge that comes from experience that is ninth

Knowledge that comes from attachment that is tenth

--Thus does knowledge that comes in diverse ways,

But erode life span in succession;

Knowing this not, they perish away.

742: Critical Years of Life

Many are the stages when death assails man;

From twenty five to twenty eight;

From thirty to thirty three

From sixty to sixty two

From hundred and beyond

These are the critical ages in man's life span;

When death may visit him.

743: Days Appropriate for Commencing Yoga

The birth day, The first, second, third and the eight day following it

Any one of these is day appropriate for commencing yoga;

Find the day suitable most,

And easy shall be your entry

Into the Mystic House within.

744: Yoga Explained

You who enter the land of yoga practice!

Know that it consists in this

The measure of breath inhaled is twelve angula

Having measured accordingly

Exhale eight matra consciously

The four matras retained

Are in the six adharas to suffuse

And thus breathing examine the Tattvas twenty and five.

745: God is Beyond Adharas and Tattvas

Beyond the Muladhara of the four pointed Center is He;

Beyond the barriers of Tattvas twenty and four is He;

Beyond the twenty and five Tattvas is His Guna

Beyond the six adharas that rise like the spreading banyan tree is He,

Who ever does know Him!

746: The Days it Takes the Yogi to Traverse Adharas and Mandalas

The days that take to pierce the Centers nine are this:

Twentieth day adharas six;

Twenty-fifth day Seventh Center of Fire Mandala

Twenty-sixth day the Eighth Center of Solar Mandala

Twenty-seventh day the Ninth Center of Lunar Mandala

--These the days for yogi's Prana to reach Centers nine.

747: Vision of the Three Mandalas

On the twenty-eighth day

You gain the vision of Mandalas Three, each apart

On the thirty-third day

You gain their collective vision;

Do Center your thoughts further

And vision the tattvas twenty and four

That to Earth and the rest of elements in order belong.

748: Practise Yoga in Time and Order Stated

Thus if in succession and stages

The yogi aspires not

Impossible it be for him to become God;

Much less to near Him;

No other secret the Vedas hold

Trumpet this not;

But in meekness accomplish it.

749: Kindle Kundalini Lamp Within

They who know not this Way to the goal

And try other Ways

Are but fools;

They search with blazing torch

While within them is the hand-lamp

They who can kindle the Kundlini Fire within

Will abide ever in this fleeting world.

750: Journey Through Six Adharas in Two Stages

Unto the girth of the little finger

Is the spinal cord, taut like the string of bow;

There the adharas are

Traversing the first three

Do you reach the Heart's Center.

And, be in constancy fixed;

When you journey further onward

To the three Centers that end with Forehead

You shall firm be

As unto a picture painted.

751: Importance of Spinal Cord in Yoga

Know thou the Consciousness that is Perfection;

The sinners know not its goodness;

This body no doubt is evil Karma's product;

Yet it holds the stalk (Spinal Cord) of the sacred Lotus

That blossoms in the Mystic Regions Three within.

The Lord, of yore, spurned the mighty God of Death

Who ever harasses life;

The Lord rides the Chariot of Fire within;

If you vision His Holy Feet,

Decked with triumphal anklet

You shall for ever live

In the canopied terrace above.

752: Collective Vision of Mandalas End Karma

The Yogi who through the spinal column

Ascends the adharas above

Sees the Mandalas Three together, rapture bound;

Those who say that vision

Saw the end of Karmas;

Those who saw that not;

But die to be born again.

753: Missing the Vision, the Body Perishes

Do you know how this body perishes?

Hear this:

A pretty damsel the man has for wife;

And like the sun his prosperity spreads;

And all bow to him in respect;

A body that waxed in a life like thus

Became a prey for prowling dogs to consume.

754: Those Who Vision Can Become the Dancing Lord

They who knock about

Reach not the Refuge of Blossom Feet;

Containing not the Kundalini fire within

Their body a pray to fire becomes;

They who know the Way

And seek His Victorious Feet

See the Heavenly Dancer

Through their spinal hollow.

755: Seek the Dancing Lord as Goal and Become One With Him

They who sought the Dancer as their goal

Gained many things goodly;

And so stood in the path of the holy scriptures;

Seeking Him within and experiencing His presence

In eagerness they sit

And one with Siva become.

6Seek the Dancing Lord and Become One With Him

They who sought the Dancer as their goal

Gained many things goodly;

And so stood in the path of the holy scriptures;

Seeking Him within and experiencing His presence

In eagerness they sit

And one with Siva become.

756: God Vision at the End of 33 Days of Yoga

Countless are the gains that flow

From single-minded meditation;

Hear yet;

And thus if for Three and thirty days

You well and deep meditate

The Dancer on top of the Mountain of Gold

Will appear,

And You one with Him become.

757: Vision of the Hundred Petalled Lotus of Sahasrara

Knowing the secret of reaching the Dancer,

They meditate on the tenth Center

They see the directions eight in rapturous vision

They glimpse the Lord seated on Lotus,

And attain radiance a hundred fold.

1758: Eternal Life Through Yoga

They who thus attained radiance a hundred fold

Will live a thousand years in body robust;

And they who saw a thousand years thus

May well live a million, trillion years.

759: Thus They Live Through Timeless Aeons

Well may they thus live for aeons and aeons,

And they tire not in their devotion;

And thus see the mind's end

And within see Him as Entity Inseparate;

And as one with Siva they live filled in divinity

And so see countless ages of Life Exalted.

760: Worldly Thoughts do not Lead to Sakti

Some seek to exalt themselves

Pursuing ways worldly;

Some seek the fruits of enjoyment

Knowing not what they do;

Some strive after action

With no thought of goal whatsoever;

But none of them will see

The Sakti of lovely eyes.

761: Worldly Wealth is Perishable

They who see Her not

Wasted away their lives;

They who seek not

Spent away in artful talks;

The riches and possessions of those who see not

Vanished away unseen and untraced.

762: Treasure Within is Imperishable

They who do not see the Treasure that surpasses all,

But seek the treasures that perish,

If within their melting heart they seek inside

They will see the Treasure that dies not.

763: Seek Siva-State

He is the One with the Fore-head eye

He is Birthless

He is Nandi within, Know this;

He in solitariness pervades spaces all

He stands as Siva, the goal unwavering

That state you shall attain

If you but seek.

764: Fruits of Seeking

They who seek

Know death none; evil none;

They who seek

Will become lords of earth;

They who seek

But know this true;

And well may it be told

To those that aspire.

7653*6Seek Lord Through Aum

These the things worthy of telling:

Ahara or the sound "A" that is Siva

Uhara or the sound "U" that is Sakti

Let these in your thought abide

And Mahara or the sound"m"

Let them through thy Spinal Cavity rise upward;

The six adharas will then be reached

And you shall gain the Lord.

766: Know Lord Within and Become One With Him

None know where the Lord resides;

To them who seek Him

He resides eternal within;

When you see the Lord

He and you one become.

767: Way to Become One With Siva

They know not how He and you one become;

This the Way how He and you one become:

Hearken!

He stands in your hearing and sight

He stands in the Mystic Circle within you.

768: Vision the Lord in the Seven Adharas

You know not how to reach His abode;

Transfixing your thoughts within you in the yogic way

The seven circles inside will open

And you shall see the abode of Lord

Sweet as sugar-lump.

769: Vision of Gods in Adharas

TYu may see Him as Brahma and Vishnu

You may see Him as Rudra blue-throat and Mahesa,

You may see Him as Sakti and Sadasiva

You may see Him within you immanent (in Adharas).

15 MEASUREMENT OF LIFE SPAN

770: Breath--Astrology

Put your hand on forehead

And look,

If you see the breath rhythm unchanged

Well and good;

If you see it enlarged,

Death awaits in six months;

If you see it doubled,

In a month shalt life depart.

771: Transcend Nada and Realize God

Nada and God are one in Consciousness

Only they who transcended Nada

Will on God centre;

God appears in the heart

Of them who Nada transcend

This the truth I realized

And so merged in Nada.

772: Course Breath Upward and See Light of Jnana

The breath that is in vain spent

If turned upward to flow

Will give the good that of fixity of mind comes;

The Jnana that comes from cranial spaces will beam;

And the yogi becomes Lord of earth.

773: Importance of Nadi Suddhi for Longevitiy

None there the Jiva who practices Nadi Suddhi,

Breathing from left to right and right to left;

He who does it visions Sakti;

The senses five his way come;

To a hundred years, he sure lives.

774: Exhalation Measure for Ages 80 and 60

If Prana flows outward

To matra six in length,

Eighty the age you live up to;

If seven, sixty;

These two know clearly.

775: Exhalation for Ages 50 and 33

If to eight matras Prana runs out

Through nostril left

Fifty the age; know you;

If nine, leaving three matras inside,

Thirty and three but the age.

776: Exhalation for Ages 28 and 25

If in matra ten, it flows out in nostril left

Twenty and eight the life here below;

If fifteen,

Then for twenty and five years only do you see him.

777: Kumbhaka of Ten Matras Leads to Concentration

Breathing inward in measure twelve

The ten may you retain inside

And direct into oneness upward;

Thus may you practise

The entire day of thirty naligas!

778: Effect of Ten-Matra Kumbhaka for Three Days

If for two days continuous,

The ten matra of Prana is inside retained,

It will no obstacle from apana encounter;

If for three days this is maintained glowing

Then may you be certain

The ascension through Centers Six come soon.

779: Vision of the First Three Adharas in the Fourth and Fifth Day

If thus the practice is for days four continued,

The four petalled Muladhara will visioned be;

If further continued,

On the fifth day,

The Second and Third adharas visioned art.

780: Collective Vision of Five Adharas on the Fifteenth Day

When ten days thus pass

Two more adharas (Fourth and Fifth)

May visioned together be;

On the fifteenth day,

Shall be the collective vision

On the five together.

781: Visions of the 20th, 25th and 26th Days

On the twentieth day

The Sixth Adhara (Ajna) will visioned be;

On the twenty-fifth day

The Three Mandalas (Sun, Moon and Fire) will visioned be;

On the twenty-sixth day

The Two, Siva and Sakti, will visioned be.

782: Visions of 27th and 28th Day

On the twenty-seventh day

May well be revealed the One Being Supreme

That collectively rises in centers all;

On the twenty-eighth day

May revealed be

The ten centers together

In vision Collective rare.

783: On the 29th Day and 30th Day

If the journey upwards resumes

Ten the days that apana stands as impediment;

If the journey takes thirty days

Seven the days that take the apana to leave.

784: On the 31st Day and 32nd Day

On the thirty-first day of the journey upward,

Three the days that still delay the union

On thirty-second day that Prana takes to reach,

Two the days that are still in the way.

785: Jiva's Union in God on 33rd Day

Thus when Prana reaches the cranial heights

In a month and three days;

From within the fountain of nectar

Nandi bellows aloud;

If in the space within He reveals Himself,

You shall truly be one in Lord.

786: Greatness of Kundalini Yoga

None knows Kundalini that spans high

None knows the science of breath control

They who know it not perish away

I knew the truth that none know.

787: God as Knowledge

The Lord is the Knowledge

He stood as knowledge of elements five--air and the rest;

He stood as knowledge pervading world all and life

Inseparate from them;

If sought within,

That knowledge will in pervasive richness glow.

788: Sakti Grants Grace

That God who is knowledge--All thus

Grants this world that is unreal;

For the goodly ones of high praise

He grants the vision of His Dancing Hall;

The Sakti that grants all this

Is the fragrant flower-bedecked Grace

That is the Consort of Lord.

16 BREATH RHYTHM IN DAYS OF THE WEEK

790: Days of the Week and the Course of Breath

Through Left and Right Nadis

On Fridays, Mondays and Wednesdays

Prana dominates in the nadi that is to left;

On Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays

It courses high in the right;

On Thursdays

Prana flows in the left

In the waxing moon's fortnight;

And in the right in the waning moon's fortnight.

791: Breath Rhythm For Glowing Health

If on Fridays, Mondays and Wednesdays

Breathing dominates in nostril left,

The body will no harm know

And it will in health glow;

Thus did Lord Nandi tell us,

In manner delectable.

792: Yogi Corrects the Breath Rhythm

Contra,

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays

Breath flows high on the nostril right;

The Yogi who knows this is God indeed;

If this rhythm in the days stated

Does obtain not,

Let the Yogi force it into nostril right by skill subtle;

Then shall he know nothing but joy.

793: Changing Rhythm on Sundays and Mondays

in Alternate Fortnights

If on a Sunday in a fortnight

The breath runs high on the right nostril,

In the fortnight next it runs high on the left;

If on a Monday in a fortnight

The breath runs high on the left nostril

In the fortnight next it runs low on the right;

Thus do they alternate from fortnight to fortnight

If this rhythm thus obtains,

Prana its strength derives;

Know well this

And according regulate breathing.

794: How to Regulate When Breath Rhythm Changes Course

The breath that rises in the Nadi Right

While its course into the Left changed

May a sudden jolt know

And in fear trembling flow;

Then leave the practice and rest a while;

If on the Right itself it flows

Faster than in rhythm appropriate

Then know the speed and suitable regulate.

795: Yogi Who Regulates Breath Will See Finite Light

The Prana runs helter-skelter

To Right and to Left;

If Yogi gathers it proper

And regulates to reach Kundalini,

He shall stand before the Finite Light;

Thus He said, Nandi Holy.

796: Choose Appropriate Time for Piercing Adharas

The Lord that you search

Is on the Flower Above seated;

Sixteen the Ways of breath control;

The Breath coursing upward in strength

With mind in concentration united,

Pierce the adharas;

The days apt for thus reaching the Centers

And the hour apropriate, know you well.

417 HOSTILE WEEK DAYS

797: Directional Dangers in Days of the Week

On different days of week

The Soola lies in directions different

On Mondays and Saturdays it is in east;

On Tuesdays and Wednesdays in north

On Sundays and Fridays in west.

798: Dangers None if Breath Runs High in Right Nostril

On Thursdays menacing trident is in direction south;

Little effect Soola has

If breath to Left flows low,

No harm befalls if Right dominates;

Much good may actually swell.

18 KECARI YOGA,

799: How to Practise it

Control the spiration

And see that breath is wasted not;

Bind it tight,

Dam the source of Kundalini at Muladhara,

Lock the chimney up in the mouth;

Bolt the cavity above with thy tongue's tip

And sit erect in yoga Samadhi

No more shall be death for you.

800: Technique of Kecari Yoga

On the square plank of Muladhara,

Where Jiva the washerman performs the cleansing act,

Erect bunds that the sluices leak not (apana);

And then let in the heavenly stream for the lake to fill;

Thus sit looking skyward

Be thou rid of impurity, all.

801: Immortality in Yoga Way

Alternating breath's course from left to right and vice versa,

They who can force breath through spinal Sushumna

Shall know tiring none;

They can abolish sleep for ever

And attain God-awareness;

They die not;

Immortal they shall be.

802: Nectar in Kecari Mudra

If skillfully rubbed by the tongue's tip

The mystic nectar will begin to ooze;

When it comes, with care manage it

That you may swim in Moon's Region mystic;

And that which flowed and roared

May preserved be.

803: Vision of Gods in Kecari Mudra

Fan tongue's tip upward in palate centre;

There abides Jiva and Siva;

The Gods Three, and Devas three and thirty crores

Will there appear;

No death shall there be;

A million, billion years this fleshly body will be.

804: Transform Fleshly Stream Into Heavenly Stream

From the lofty peaks of the cranium

Flows the stream that is of the flesh;

It is a heavenly stream;

They know not how to make it so;

They who know that art

Will swill the divine nectar

And be forever, doubt free.

805: Kecari Mudra Leads to Youthfulness

If you can send the breath twain

Into the mouth's upper cavity

You shall then know death none;

And the gates of nectar will open be;

Greying and wrinkling will disappear

For all to see;

Young will the Yogi be

True this, I say, in the name of Nandi Holy.

806: Leakage of Restrained Breath Leads to Evil Consequences

With Nandi to guide

If we upward ascend

We shall meet Lord;

We shall then hold sway over world all;

They who let the restrained breath out

Through the Sun Nadi

And yet meditating sit

Art verily to Evil Fate decreed.

807: Perfect Practice of Kecari Leads to Immortality

They who sat bewildered

Overwhelmed by Karma Evil,

Let them perform the Karma of Tongue

(That Kecari Yoga prescribes);

Then no more is there room for death;

They who seek proliferating Karma

And render life useless,

Will remain unto sugarcane

Of its juicy sweetness pressed away.

808: Erect Posture for Kecari Mudra

The Yogis who thus divine sweetness experienced

If in a bud-like formation

Send tongue upward

Their spinal chord erect as a stiff rod

Then will trickle nectar from within

And body becomes sweet as sugarcane.

809: Chant Sivayanama as You Swill Nectar

Upward twirl

Tongue's interior

Through which saliva flows

And drink of nectar welling up

And remain chanting "Sivaya Nama;"

The waters that breath brings

Streams as unto Ganga flow;

Learn this Way

To the flow of the Heavenly nectar.

810: A Cave Temple Within

Knowing way appropriate

Those who worshipped thus within

Will receive shower of Grace

That is Jnana ripe;

If they but know how to bolt the door within

And check the flowing stream,

Well then may they become

Abiding cave temples within.

811: God's Attributes

He who takes His abode within that temple

Is kindlier than mother for world entire

Good is He, even when harsh,

He is within them too,

Whom He deals harsh;

For those of evil deeds,

He is deadlier than fire itself.

812: God's Abodes

He is seated at the Forehead Center

Of those who perform yoga with Kundalini Fire;

He is in the Golden City

Of those who reach the Flower of cranial spaces;

He is in the imagination

Of those who sing of Him;

He is in the intelligence

Of those who perform deeds rare.

813: He Sat Supreme

He sat like the Moon

Beaming Kalas Sixteen;

In His Mansion that is body,

Art Kala worlds two hundred and twenty four;

And within that Divine Mansion shedding rays,

He sat Supreme in accord within.

814: In Praise of Sakti7There sat Sakti

Kalas enveloping Her too;

There She sat, the Virgin in the midst;

There She sat, the Divine Fawn,

Her Visage shedding rays soft;

There She sat,

Herself too streaming ambrosia down.

815: Guard Nectar From Flowing Out

Within the Golden Regions of Cranium

The sparkling nectar flows in cascades silvery;

There it was inside,

In the astral sphere above;

They who can guard it from flowing out,

Will become eternal young;

That its blessing, for sure, for sure.

816: With Sakti Stood Siva

If Sakti that is unto a tender Vine of Goodness

Resides within in fragrant delight;

Then Lord that is a treasure-house of Tattva Jnana

Also stood in amity within.

817: Prana Reaches Moon's Region

Prana within if made to rise,

Through Sushumna cavity

To blossoming Lotus at cranial heights,

Then opened Moon's Mystic Region;

And there may you for long live.

818: Practise Uddiyana Bandha

As Prana stand in Mystic Moon's Region

Practise Uddiyana Bandha,

And dam the course of downward Apana;

Then in dazzling brightness of sun

The Lord with Kundala in his ear lobe

Stands transfixed in their awareness,

His dance having ceased to a stop.

819: When to do Uddiyana Bandha

The exhaling breath will inside retained be;

The retained breath will from escape prevented be;

In due time,

From the Moon's Region starts ambrosial flow;

When it ceases,

Undo the Uddiyana Bandha.

820*36Open a Wicket Gate Within and See Light

Within the body-bag

If you but open a wicket gate,

The Light will shine inside;

If breath that is controlled spurts there upwards

Then will this dark body

As a temple lamp lustrous bejewelled be.

821: Inexplicable Experiences of Kecari Yoga

Course Prana upward

And retain breath through Kumbhaka

In the mystic regions of Fire and Sun

Around navel and throat;

And there be fixed in thought

What stood there, how possible to say?

822: Distant Vision of Five-Element Combination

Well may described be air in the body

Well may described be earth and water

Well may described be all these elements five;

But when all these together combine,

Well may then be

The power of Vision in cranium distant.

823: Nature of Distant Divine Vision

That Distant Vision I shall here describe:

Having attained Grace of Sakti of collyruim eyes

If thought is centered on the Divine Light that is Lord

Then may you vision worlds all

As in day-light bright.

824*36Reach Nada Through Kundalini

Twelve finger measure below the navel

The light bright as day (Kundalini)

Thus say Vedas;

If with that Light

The Nada Lamp above is lighted

You become the Master

Of Mansion that rises within you.

19 PARIYANGA YOGA

825: Pleasures of Sex Union Will Abide
If Breath Control is Properly Practiced

Anointing her body with unguents diverse

Bedecking her tresses with flowers fragrant

Do you enjoy the damsel in passion's union;

If you but know how to shoot

Prana breath through the Spinal Cavity

Your enjoyment never ceases.

826: If Breath is Controlled Delicious Enjoyment
For Partners in Sex Union Results

When they seek enjoyment

The breath stands still;

The full breasted damsel and the goodly man

Stand in union exalted;

As liquid silver and gold

Their passion's emissions

In rapture commingles.

827: Duration of Enjoyment Lengthens
If Breath is Controlled

In the copulatory yoga that is practised

By the hero and the heroine

Upward they drive the coach of breath

That has its wheels in regions right and left;

There they collect the waters of the heaven

And never the organs tiring know.

828: Restraint of Semen Flow Through Breath Control

This the meaning of that union;

When in the sex act semen flows

The yogi lets it not;

But checks it

And attains within;

And a Master he then becomes.

829: Effect of Restraint of Semen Flow

He becomes master of Jnana all

He becomes master of enjoyment all

He becomes master of himself

He becomes master of senses five.

830: Sex Union Through the Pariyanga Lasts Five Ghatikas and is Bliss

This is Pariyanga Yoga

That lasts five ghatikas;

Beyond in the sixth

The damsel sleeps in the arms of lover

In union blissful

That fills the heart

And passes description.

831: Successful Practitioners Alone Can Resort to Pariyanga Yoga

Unless it be,

He had in success practised

The Pariyanga yoga

Of five ghatika length

No yogi shall

A woman embrace.

832: Lord Siva Practised Pariyanga Yoga

Who may you ask,

Is He that achieved this audacious Yoga;

The lord is He that wears heavenly Ganga on His matted lock;

For ghatika* five

He embraced Sakti of speech ambrosial sweetness

Thinking and thinking not of the act performed.

*070a time span of 24 minutes or nazhi kai

833: The Age of the Couple for Pariyanga Yoga

For practise of this yoga,

Twenty the age apt for damsel

And thirty for lover;

Then does high rapture ensue;

The five senses of woman desert her,

Her mind exhausted becomes,

When she climax reaches;

But no weariness the man knows

Neither does his silvery emission flow.

834: Only Those Who Have Practised Kecari Can Resort to Pariyanga

Lest the silvery liquid into the golden flow,

The artful goldsmith (practitioner) covered it up with yogic breath

The sparks (Kundalini) that flew travelled up by the way of Spinal tube

There above,

He contained them with tongue's tip (Kecari).

835: Pariyanga Yogi is Exalted

The Yogi who is in ecstatic joy

Unexcited performs this yoga with woman

Becomes radiant like the sun,

An acknowledged master in directions ten,

And of Ganas of groups eighteen.

836: Pariyanga Yogi Practiced With Kecari Yoga Also

Espousing Wisdom that is denoted by Budha*, (Mercury)

Who stands middle of sun and saturn

The youthful Yogi who embraced the damsel

Knew joy infinite;

Lest the male silvery liquid flow not

Ahead of female golden one

He had his red mouth buried in the Mystic Moon.

(Note: This Budha spelling is the author's dub on Buddha)

837: Pariyanga Yoga is Yogic Wisdom That Retains the Semen

They who perfect wisdom

And embrace woman in wisdom's beauty

Will know grief none,

Though by woman's side he be;

The liquid silver remains unspent

And flows not into the vaginal bag of woman.

838: Freedom From Sexual Union is Attained by Pariyanga Yoga

This body that melts like wax over fire

(By sexual union)

Will no more indulge in it,

When wisdom dawns;

To those who have attained Wisdom of Void

The liquid silver no exit knows.

839: Vision of Void in Pariyanga Yoga

When You know the Void

And the light in that Void

Your mind shall be strong as a chistle of bronze;

After having tasted of the nectar

I saw the Void

With goodly Nandi guiding;

Beyond, I knew not.

840: Pariyanga Yoga was Expounded by Sadasiva to Sakti

Who are those that rank high above?

Mal, Brahma and Nandi (Rudra) art they;

In the Fourth is that Sadasiva,

Who to the slender-waisted Sakti

This expounded.

841: Immortality for Those Who Unite in Sivasakti in Cranium

If you can get to Sakti and Siva

Inside the Golden Circle within (Cranium)

And then join them in union,

You may live on earth

A million, trillion years.

842: Yogis Offered Themselves Entire to God

Inhaling, exhaling and retaining the breath inhaled

--None knows its technique of control

And those of skill who know it

Offered themselves to Lord entire.

843: Yoga Dispels Worldly Longings

Knowing the way of self-oblation,

If they get into the Mystic Circle

Of Siva and Sakti,

They reach the True Way;

And dark their hair turns

In youthfulness eternal,

And the One Sakti will inward abide;

In due accord

Dispelling worldly longings all.

844: Lotus Cranial

There is a lotus

That neither land nor water knows;

No stalk, no root, the lotus blossomed yet!

City there was none; yet Light there is one!

Neither above nor below is a flower, none had heard of.

20 AMURI DHARANA

845: Effect of Urine Therapy in Yoga

The urinary liquid within the body

Is unto a picot of small well;

Dipped into sea vast

If that is fed once a day

In way appropriate,

Life will know distress none;

Well may you seek it.

846: Goodly Effects of Amuri Dharana

If this divine water clear is inside taken

The body glows in a year;

No harm befalls it;

Prana control will realised be;

The mind will center in Letter "A" (Pranava)

And will uplifted be

And the body into gold will turned be.

847: Consume 100--Pepper Measure (drops) a Day

Drink of this divine-water

A hundred pepper measure

No medicine beyond this, know men;

But rub it clear on crest of head

Your greying vanishes away

And fresh black hair shoots forth.

848: Only the Ignorant Dissuade the Practice

The water on the banks of body

Is unto a mirage on the sea

Away, Away, from it--thus they say

The men who know not truth;

They who can drink the midstream

Rid of foam and wave

That arises first and last,

Will immortal be;

And all greying and wrinkling disappears.

849: Effect of Mixing Ingredients

Oh! damsel of flowing tresses and slender forehead!

Hear you a miracle this!

In this Water hidden in the body

Mix pepper, amla, turmeric, and neem

Soft will your body be;

And dark thine hair on head.

850: Greatness of Amuri Dharana

He the Nandi called it: the Hero's recipe, Heaven's exlixir, and Sakti's potion

Some know it as the Medicament Primus

It is specific that is of radiant light

Hard to describe to world at large.

21 CHANDRA YOGA

851: When Breath Turns Subtle

When Prana ascends to Moon's Kala

It turns subtle (Sukshma)

The two breaths through Ida and Pingala run gross;

They rise and fall unto the kalas that wax and wane;

Pure is that Sukshma (Subtle)

Gross is that runs in the body.

852: Yogi Experiences Kalas of Moon, Sun and Fire

Sixteen the Kalas of Moon

Twelve of the Sun

And Ten of the Fire

The Yogi experiences them all

In the upward journey of Prana through Sushumna

And all that becomes his mystic knowledge.

853: Kalas of Fire Merge into Sun, Which in Turn Merge into Those of Moon

The twelve Kalas of Sun

Absorb Kalas ten of Fire

Together are they absorbed

In Sixteen Kalas of Moon;

Those who have thus learnee to merge

In Moon's Kala

Verily become Masters of Earth,

All Kalas entire filled.

854: Kalas of Sun, Moon and Fire Enumerated

Twelve the Kalas of Sun

Sixteen the Kalas of Moon

Ten the Kalas of Fire

Thus are the Kalas in number,

Know you well and true.

855: The Disparate Kalas Merge into One

Ten the Kalas of Fire

Twelve of the scorching Sun

Sixteen that emanate from Moon;

All these Kalas which alike are not,

Into oneness merge.

856: Kalas Enumerated in Total, Including Those of Jiva and Tattva

Ten, twelve and sixteen

Are Kalas that appear in Agni, Sun and Moon;

And Four art Kalas of the Star (Jiva)

The fettering Tattvas six and ninety too

Are Kalas to count.

857: Rouse All Kalas and Reach God

All Kalas from the Left and Right Nadis

Pass through the Central Nadi;

Kindle the Kundalini Fire in Muladhara;

They reach the Cranium at top,

To pay homage at Feet of the Goodly One.

858: Nine Kalas of Nava Chakra

Two each of Kalas,

Fire, Star, Moon and Sun,

And Kala of Parai

Who is unto a Star

Together are the nine beams of Parai

In the Nava Cakra this World below.

*070 Jiva

859: Constituents of Pranava

Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space

Sun, Moon, Agni and Star

These nine constitute Pranava

The Way that is Great.

860: Transformation into Star of Stars

When moon wanes, the stars twinkle bright

When moon waxes, they do not

Unto stars (innumerable) are Jivas of universe,

Unto Star of Stars is the Divine Manifestness.

861: Mystery of Fifteen Kalas of Moon

In the waxing fortnight Kalas shoot and expand

In the waning fortnight they shrink and small become;

They who can know the mystery of Kalas Fifteen

May well reach the Feet of Lord

Of glory indescribable.

862: Chandra Yoga Described

Rouse Kalas of Fire,

Merge them in Sun,

Merge all in Moon,

Merge Jiva Star

Of senses and sense organs rid,

That verily is Chandra yoga.

863: Know Sixteen Kalas Within Body

They know not the Kalas sixteen within the body

They seek not to reach them

The despicable men!

When Death his trap lays

Then there they fall,

Forever bewildered.

864: In Chandra Yoga Jiva-Star Merges in Siva

When Fire-Kalas pass through Moon's Nadi

The Sun receives them;

Kalas of Fire and Sun together merge in Moon's Kala;

When Kundalini Fire unites in Siva

The Kalas of the Star merge;

And the Jiva who resides in Star,

Becomes life all.

865: Chandra Yoga in Kundalini Yoga

Twelve the female Kalas (of Sun)

Sixteen the male Kalas (of Moon)

Seize them both sitting unmoved,

And consign them to the Kundalini Fire,

In that yoga wells up the ecstasy beyond recount.

866: Practice Nadi Suddhi

Course breath running in Sun's Nadi in the right

To the Moon's Nadi in the left,

And vice versa,

If you can do this erring not

You may live a thousand years

This body well preserved be.

867: The Aspirant Hears Nada Sound in the Ninth Center

In that Ninth Center,

Your heart shall resound

To the triumphant beatings of Sound Divine;

There Lord that is Supreme of Celestials all,

Is in exaltation high,

There you shall stand as Starry Light;

And the Sun shall blow the conch

To announce your arrival.

868: Beyond Nada Sphere is Lord

The Sun and Moon but measure Time;

Into him who has great become,

Rains the nectar of Grace;

When he travels beyond the spheres

And knocks,

There he meets Lord

In His very Abode.

869: Knowledge of Aum Takes to Lord's Presence

The Light of Aum that rises in the navel-lotus

Is Mantra Finite;

None know this;

When they know that mantra secret,

Then is the Son that is Jiva

In the presence of Father that is God.

870: Greatness of Kundalini Yoga

It profits not to tell,

They listen not to advice,

They are deaf-mutes;

If you but learn how to merge,

The Primal Kundalini with the Being Finite

The Holy One will before you appear.

871: Merging Moon's Kalas in Kundalini

The Kundalini serpent consumes Kalas of Moon

The Fire consumes Kalas of Sun, too

If you can resolve the conflict of Serpent and Moon

Merging the Kalas of Moon in Kundalini

The Lord will leave you not, ever ever.

872: Kundalini Devours and Throws Out Moon

The Kundalini that moved up

Devours Moon

Sleep not until it throws it out;

When the Moon comes out

Then may you take your sleep;

Your mind shall then luminous as full moon be

Then the Mystic Moon inside

Will shed its dazzling Kalas full.

873: Time for Sleeping and Eating When Moon is Devoured by Kundalini

Sleep not until the Moon comes out;

Eat not until Moon rises;

Sleep not until Moon moves;

Sleep the Yogi may

When but the Moon moves.

874: By Chandra Yoga Death is Conquered

The Yogis who thus practise incessant

Conquer Death;

They will live in this world aeons beyond;

They are worthy of our obeisance,

They who, this Moon's Yoga in success practises.

8753*6The Yogi Sees Vision of Past, Present and Future

They traverse Spheres of Sun and Moon

And see vision of Past, Present and Future earth;

And in that Full Moon day the nectar ripens;

Until the Moon drops back from Kundalini,

Time stands to a stop.

876: Moon Drops Out With 12 Kalas From Kundalini's Mouth

The waxing Kalas six of Sun

The waning Kalas six of Moon

Woke to life to twelve angula running

And then the Moon droped out

Who knows this!

877: He Conquers Bindu

If Yogi thus achieves this goal

In the day of Full Moon

The Yogi's semen flows not where it lists;

Devoid of passions, it firm collects in Muladhara;

Chanting Aum in heart's silentness,

He remains Pure, Awareness filled.

878: The Emitted Moon has 16 Kalas Ultimately

To the Six waxing Kalas of the fiery Sun

Will be the Four Kalas of Fire

To these ten Kalas goodly

Will be the Six Kalas of Moon

Thus are they Kalas Sixteen

In the Full Moon emitted.

879: Sun's Kala in Sex Union

In the mingling of male semen and woman's fluid

Emits Sun's Kala,

If Sun's Kala is low, semen ejects quick;

When mind and body balanced stand

Never will they let semen flow.

880: Effects of Chandra Yoga

If with mind centered they course their breath,

In direction of Nada sound

That from Siva's Conch emanates,

The five senses that run blind

Will their restraint meet;

And the interminable bliss of delectable Nectar

Leaves them not ever.

881: Greatness of Chandra Yoga

On the banks of River

Where waters of Nectar flow

Course the Five Pranas

Through central Sushumna,

They who thus remain,

Death do not have;

Good their Kalas arr;

Time-bound they are not.

882: Alternating Breath to Samadhi End

Opening the springs where Nectar wells up

They walk toward the Lotus Feet cool as water;

Sitting in undisturbed Samadhi;

Coursing through the Spinal channel

They alter the breathing right and left.

883: Benefits of Yoga

If breaths of Moon (Ida) and Sun (Pingala)

Course their way through Spinal channel unhindered,

Thine body imperishable shall be;

And abiding joys well up here below,

This the Way of Yoga True.

TANTRA THREE ENDS