SIVA – BHOGA – SARAM THE ESSENCE OF BLISSFUL EXPERIENCE

* SIVA – BHOGA – SARAM THE ESSENCE OF BLISSFUL EXPERIENCE *

“How didst Thou enter me, Sire, that sportest in bounties
So that the flood of joy doth overflow the banks and rise
Consuming my heart, consuming my body 
And that the roguish impurity hath become a falsehood.

Whatever I do, whatever I say
Whatever I remain thinking, Mahadev!
If I but realize, by Thy Grace, all that action to be Thine.
I do not perceive mine.
Where hath the maya-mala hidden
Where hath the maya-made world perished
Where is the purusha that resideth in the body?
Lo ! the flood of truth, intelligence and joy
Hath in profusion entered everywhere.

I have become the form of joy, by Thy grace
Akash also hath stood as form of joy
But even akash is not the form of joy.
Like the earth that hath lost its smell.
The Akash is merely an inner form of Thine.

Abiding though I was, under the feet of the Lord,
Weary I had grown, seeking His very feet everywhere,
Before I saw His holy feet, His pretty, ineffable feet,
His golden feet like lotus red.

Jnanaprakas in Arur of sacred standing,
My Father, the Highest, gave me a sword of wisdom
Who dare do anything to me who feareth not
Dark Death, Brahma or Vishnu even in my dreams?
In the perfect void, in the utter expanse of great joy,
In the hovel the mischievous thieves can’t find
He placed me having driven the pasam,
Jnanaprakas that moveth all universe.

He showed it in my heart assuredly
The manner of my existence as intelligence
Ever united with Sivam without severance
He of Arur, that danceth in the Hall, Jnanaprakas.

The Lord, the Chief of Kamalai of the South
That granteth wisdom to all living things
He with golden feet like lotus red
Hath, this day united me with truth
And placed me securely
With all differences gone,
With the thought, that we are one or two, also gone.

The Lord whom the stone-hearted Vishnu and Brahma have not seen,
Of whom even the hard-hearted cannot say,
‘Lo, He is wanting in this’- He hath come before thee
To tell thee of all the good things thou hast desired.
My good heart, what else dost thou want?
Where are the friends, where the things of pleasure and pain,
Where are the wicked, the actions where are they,
Where is the communion with the good,
The day thou hast desired Siva’s joy that diminisheth not
The day thou hast stood as that?

All the things that come with speech or mind or body
They shall cease to be with speech or mind or body.
Lose thy speech and mind and body. Perceive the state
Wherein perceiver, perception and the perceived are lost.

We enjoy Sivabhoga, we live in perfection everywhere
We are not of the world. We live without end.
We bow down to the golden feet
Of the great tapasvins who have realized Sivam.
Who then are our equal?”