Avaiyar's Vinayagar Agaval

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Dear friends,

Avaiyar seems to have been a great mystic. I chanced

upon an English translation of her famous work being read by people to ward off

miseries; but it contains the essence of yoga taught by Tirumular.

yours in Bhaghavan

Sankarraman

Avaiyar's Vinayagar Agaval The anklets

on the red lotus feet

of the cool baby elephant

sing many songs.

The golden waist chain

and fine skirts

resting upon his rainbow waist

beautifully shining.

His weighty tusk!

His elephant face

& the auspicious orange mark

is easy to perceive.

Five hands,

goad & noose,

his body of deep blue

has made my breast its home.

 

His hanging mouth,

four sets of shoulders,

three eyes,

and three musk trails...

His two ears,

with golden hair shining,

and three threads intertwined

upon his glowing breast...

He is the true knowledge:

Turiya, the Sleepless Sleep,

goes beyond

the word's meaning.

Wonder

has stood personified

as the Wish-fulfilling Tree!

As the Bull Elephant!

He who rides the mouse

sniffs out the three fruits.

I begged him,

"Take me now...

as your servant!"

He appeared as a mother

and showered his grace upon me.

Cleaved from me

the confusion that...

"Once born, I shant die."

Thus the pristine

and primal letters five

shall unite with me.

Shall came and enter my heart.

Assuming the Guru's guise

and keeping a sacred foot

upon this Earth,

he establishes life's meaning.

He joyously bestowed the grace

of the Path of No-Suffering.

Wielding his tusk as a weapon,

he weeds out

the cruel fruits of action.

My ears devour his teaching

without ever being filled.

He reveals the insatiable

Clarity of Wisdom.

The means to master the five senses.

He has sweetly graced me

with joyous compassion.

 

He proclaimed

that single thought

which shrinks

the delusionary power of the senses.

Putting an end

to this birth

and the next,

he has removed darkness,

and graced me with all

the four stages of mukti (enlightenment).

He cuts off the delusion

of the three impurities.

 

With one mantra

he showed how

the Nine Openings

and the Five Sense Doors

can be shut...

This is the Ankusha (elephant-goad)

of the six chakras:

Without stopping...

Standing firmly...

Let idle chatter be discarded.

He announced the letter

of the Idylla & Pingala

and showed that the end

of the Circle's Edge

is in the skull.

The snake hangs

on the pillar

that is the junction

of the three realms.

He helped me realize

it's tongue.

In the Kundalini

one joins the silence...

It breaks open...

and the mantra that rises up

comes out

because of his teaching.

The rising flame,

breaking out

of Muladhara,

is caused to rise

by the wind.

Born of the single thought

which he has taught.

He related...

The state of drinking Amrita,

The movements of the Sun,

& the character of

The One Who Favors the Lily (the Moon).

He revealed

the 8+8 facets

of Vishudha Chakra

along with all the qualities

of my bodies wheels.

He sweetly graced me

with the ability to contemplate

the six faces gross

and the four faces subtle.

He enabled me to perceive

the subtle body,

and gain the darshan

of the Eight States.

He has revealed

within my mind

the Skull's Gate,

and given the sweet grace

of being established in mukti.

 

He made me know myself.

He showered me with grace.

He pulled out past karma...

by its root.

Without a single word or thought

my mind is one with him.

 

He has concentrated my mind,

clarified my intellect,

and said,

"Light & Darkness

share a common place."

 

He presses me down

into the grace giving ecstasy.

In my ear

he renders limitless bliss.

He has weeded out all difficulty

and shown the path of grace.

He has revealed Sada Shiva

within the sound.

He has revealed the Shiva Lingam

within the mind.

And he has revealed that...

The smaller than the smallest,

The larger that the largest,

stands within…

like ripe sugarcane.

He made me understand

the role of the ash

smeared on the brows

of the devotees merged in truth,

with whom

he made me

one.

He made both heart & mind

achieve the state of knowing

the precious meaning

of the Five Letters.

Having given to me

the True Nature of All Existence...

I am ruled

by the wise Vinayagar...

at whose feet

I take refuge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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