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Tamil Verses and part English translation

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A- Bhagavan Padam

B- Bhagavan's Promises and Declarations

C- Padam, The Self

D- The Self

E- Consciousness

F- Other Synonyms for the Self

G- The Guru and the Jnani

H- The Jnani

I- Nature of the Mind

J- Suttarivu

K- Individual Identity

L- The Avasthas

M- Liberation and Silence

N- Self-Enquiry

O- Surrender, Love and Devotion

P- Advice on Sadhana

Q- Grace, Effort and Maturity

R- Creation

S- Seer and Seen

T- The Reality of the World Appearance

U- Iswara and Destiny

V- Religion & Religious Knowledge

W- Death and Suffering

X- Right Attitude,Right Behaviour

Y- Padam's Grace towards Muruganar

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The bondage free state in which the feet (the Self) and the head (the ego) merge and become one is the Padam of Guru Ramana, which shines at the summit of the vedas. (Refrain) When Muruganar composed Padamalai, he had the idea of composing a work that would be chanted by devotees who would sing it in order to increase their 'remembrance of the divine feet of the Lord'. This verse is the refrain he composed, intending it to be chanted after each verse.

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17 201 Y Padam, the expanse [of consciousness] that is impossible

to see not only by those who have not experienced it but

also by those who have, became very close to me,

becoming my own existence.

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20 86 C Padam is that which removes the power of speech from

those who, seeing [it], say nothing. Padam is that

extremely wondrous illumination which those who speak

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21 116 C Padam cannot be gained except through the method of

dana [offering]. Other than through mauna, Padam is

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26 131 Y Through the divine light of the Self, distilled

consciousness, Padam put a final end to my vile maya, the

three gunas.

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28 113 Y Padam, the truth, drowned me, a vile one, in the Heart,

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32 84 C Padam burns and consumes the ‘yesterday, today and

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38 96 C The crowd of siddhis bow to the eminent Padam, but

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gracious Padam flourished, casting its radiance all around.

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56 39 P Padam graciously bestows the majesty of truth by

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misery of controlling the breath through hatha yoga.

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71 5 A Appearing outwardly with a comely form and as the Self

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75 3 A Padam, the supreme flame, assuming the form of the

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knowledge, Padam comes forward and shines, making

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78 90 Y Padam infused my mind with love so that a marriage took

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92 39 C Padam, the supporting screen, is the true light that

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99 172 Y Like the golden sun rising over the ocean in the early

morning, Padam is the bright radiance [of jnana], the

golden lustre that rises up within my body.

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106 141 Y Golden Padam established permanently within my Heart

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about birth, disease, old age and death.

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around as a wicked one and made me shine as a perfect

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121 63 Y Padam subdued me, making it impossible for me to do

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123 30 A Padam, concentrated consciousness, is an adept at the

great conjuring trick of delivering one from primal

ignorance, the birthplace of the triputis.The triputis are the

trinities such as knower, knowing and known, and seer,

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127 206 Y Padam, the real, existing and shining as my own source,

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145 14 A The extremely ingenuous Padam clearly tells the truth as it

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149 1 B Padam tells and reveals: ‘Instead of knowing with certainty by

enquiry that I myself am present as your “I”, why do you

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152 75 D The state of union, samadhi, is your real swarupa; the

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153 120 C Padam is much too far away to be seen by dark-minded

deceitful people who roam around posing as jnanis.

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ways of the world, making me ashamed of the foolishness

that made me think I had withdrawn from it.

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as the juice of the ripe fruit of jnana, the supreme state of

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established me in the Heart so that I do not lose my mind

to prosperity or poverty.

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darkness, is indeed a great wonder!’

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166 38 C Padam, the surging brilliance of the real, is the centre for the

spinning of the seven worlds, which revolve like a millstone [around

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disease through all the many births, relinquish it.

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which is your own country. Shun residence in a foreign

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172 3 P Only the aspiration towards the fair firmament of supreme

consciousness, which has no final goal other than mauna,

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175 15 A Padam abounds with the excellent skill of elucidating

reality without being verbose, compressing it more and

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consciousness within my Heart.

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199 7 Y Making my tongue a channel for hymns of grace, Padam

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200 5 Y Padam empowered me to sing as worship songs of grace

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sweetness, making me exclaim, ‘What more could I desire

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205 106 C That which should be earnestly sought after by the jiva that

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ignorance is destroyed, is auspicious Padam,

consciousness, the supreme.

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218 16 A Padam distils and dispenses countless deep and subtle

teachings on truth to those with minds lacking in wisdom.

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219 3 D Only knowledge of the Self possesses the excellence of

true knowledge. All other kinds of knowledge are

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223 67 D Ah! Ah! Your greatness will indeed be beyond measure if

you have comprehended the truth of your own deathless

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227 17 L What problem is there for you to remain established in the

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228 118 D Thinking of the Self is to abide as that tranquil consciousness.

Padam, the true swarupa can neither be remembered nor

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place all your duties upon me.’

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the beneficial Siva-jnana, there is no other sword to cut off

the powerful bond of samsara.’

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Remaining within, I will protect you, [ensuring] that no

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darkness and show you the light. This is my responsibility.

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supreme silence in the Heart, this is [true] learning.

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if you were firmly driving in a nail, destroy and annihilate it

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consciousness, the supreme power, it is impossible to

transcend the conceptualising power of the mind.

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onto my tongue and stood there, making words of grace

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desire becoming its ruin.

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256 64 Y Even the actions I perform, believing them to be my own,

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260 95 X A humble attitude of mind will give you redemption,

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humility, you will drown in the pitch blackness of Hell.

(This Padamalai verse is a rendering of Tirukkural, verse

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262 21 B Splendorous Padam declares: ‘Meditating on me with no

sense of difference [between us] is accepting my grace

and offering yourself to me. This in itself is enough.’

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264 133 Y Padam [whose nature is] wholeness, overpowered my

consciousness, restraining and destroying it, so that the

delusion based on distinctions was destroyed.

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267 40 C Whilst being the unique support that sustains the whole

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268 103 Y Luminous Padam, the Self, free of all dependency, fills my

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272 64 C Padam, the state of Brahman transcending the mind, is such

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being here and now and sleep in the Heart.’

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274 15 L Remaining still [summa iruttal] is the state of truth, also

known as the pure state [suddha]. Realise this eminent

experience by keen enquiry.

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275 94 D Only attention directed towards the Self, a seeking without

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276 15 N Padam declares: ‘To enquire and know oneself properly,

nothing except the consciousness ‘I am’ is necessary.’

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277 39 N One should enquire within oneself, ‘Who am I?’ What is

the use of asking others?

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278 12 E Only when the truth that shines as mere consciousness is

attained as your swarupa will duality cease.

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288 115 C Since Padam, as the storehouse of compassion, dispels

the anxieties [of those who have surrendered to it], no

other sadhana except surrender to it [exists for dispelling

them].

289

ம ம ம .

289 69 A Padam possesses in abundance the powerful vigour of

undividedmauna such that even wild animals will not

rouse themselves in anger and attack him.

290

ம

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290 62 A Removing the weariness of some amongst his devotees with

playful, softly spoken words, Padam is filled with a child-like

delight.

291

ம ம

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291 45 A With the key of jnana, Padam opens the treasure-chest,

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which is abundant forgetfulness, inside which is reality.

292

ம

ம ம ம .

293

ம

.

294

ம ண

ம .

294 125 C As soon as the chit-jada knot, the deluding connection, is

undone, Padam shines as the one reality [eka-swarupa]

everywhere. The chit-jada knot is the connection between

consciousness (chit) and the insentient (jada) body. When

the ‘I am this body’ idea vanishes, only Padamremains.

295

ம

ம .

295 40 N If one carefully determines the most auspicious day to perform

[self-enquiry,] the one good action, there is no other day like

today.

296

ண ம .

296 41 N If one performs [that self-enquiry] whenever the

opportunity arises, without the least lapse of attention,

one’s life will become solid and fortified.

297

.

297 21 X Since charya [devotion and detachment] alone sustains

sadhana, observe and cherish it in an appropriate way,

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without ever slackening.

298

ம ம .

298 108 K If you perform all activities, relying primarily on grace, the

delusion, the ego, will be completely destroyed.

299

ம

ம .

299 114 D Remembering the Self, one’s real nature, without faltering

even slightly, is the eminent victory of true jnana.

300

ர

ர .

300 6 N Those who leave the path of self-enquiry, the way of

liberation, and wander off along the myriad forest tracks,

will encounter only confusion.

301

ம ம

.

301 33 N Leaving aside the Vedas and the Agamas, enquire with

focused attention into your real nature, pure

consciousness.

302

ம ம ம ம ம ரண

ம ம .

302 34 N Out of all the [teachings of] the Vedas and Agamas, only

merging with the Self possesses the majesty that deserves

to be attained.

303

ம ர

41

ம .

304

ர ர ம

ம .

304 19 N Your truth should be experienced by enquiring, holding

onto the one true path, the path of vichara.

305

ம ர ம

ம ம ண .

305 39 D Reality has no name and no form. Amongst all that is

subtle, that light is the most subtle.

306

ம ம ண

.

307

ம ம ம

ம ம .

308

ர ம ம ம

ர ம ம .

308 129 D Cherish as Brahma-samadhi the blissful state of the Self,

the perfect contentment.

309

ண ம

ம ம .

309 9 S The seer’s greatness far exceeds the greatness of the

‘self-evident’ objects that are seen.

310

ம ம .

310 30 D The triumphant revelation of the truth of oneself is eternally

constant and never decays.

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311

ண ம

ண ம ண .

311 42 D If one was not the form of reality, the light of

consciousness, the experience of knowing objects would

not be possible.

312

ண ம

ம .

312 25 D How wonderful that the experience of the Self, which is so

obvious, becomes illusory!

313

ம ண

ம ண ம .

313 26 I If one enquires into the matter, it will be known that

remembering, forgetting, and so on, all belong to the mind.

They do not exist in the Self.

314

ம ம

.

314 39 J Why do you regard yourself as the form of the mind,

perceive all the differences and get frightened?

315

ம

ம .

315 27 I Knowing and not knowing are only for the mind that

experiences the non-Self. They do not belong to the Self.

316

ம ம

.

317

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317 6 E No other consciousness exists to know or make known the

Self, the pure consciousness.

318

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318 80 Y Padam, who will transmute venom into pure ambrosia,

established my mind as the vast heaven of its grace.

319

ம ம

ம ம .

320

ம

ம .

321

ணர

ர .

321 4 N Those who do not realise their real nature by careful

enquiry cannot gain bliss, the prasad of the mind.

322

ண

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323

ர .

324

ம

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325

ம ம

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326

ர ர ம ம

ம ம .

327

ம

ம .

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327 18 K Wherever the mind may roam, forgetting its own nature, its

final destination is only the Self.

328

ம ர

ம ம ண .

329

ம மண ம

.

329 12 A By his spoken word, which is a ringing bell with mauna

[silence] as its clapper, Guru Padam drives home the

teachings of jnana.

330

ம ம

ம ம .

331

.

332

ம

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332 28 D Only Self-nature is worthy of being embraced; there is no

union with any other nature.

333

ர ம ரம .

333 150 Y Driving away the black cloud of ignorance, Padam

rejoices, dwelling delightedly within my Heart.

334

.

334 84 Y Through its glance, golden Padam dammed up in my

Heart the ocean of Siva-ananda – that which cannot be

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dammed up.

335

ம ம .

335 80 D The glory of Self-realisation is not experienced except in the

hearts of those who are very zealous about sinking into the

Self.

336

ம ம

ரம .

336 4 P Grace will not combine with a bat-like mentality. Stick with

intensity to one [path].

337

ம

ம ம .

337 18 N If it is peace you seek, abide in jnanasamadhi by enquiring

only into the ‘I’.

338

ண ம ம

ம .

338 63 E Only Atma-swarupa, pure consciousness, is the genuine

support for the jiva. Everything that is conceived by the

mind is a false reflection.

339

ம

.

339 17 T It is fitting that you should first attain knowledge of your

real nature. Only then, if everything [sarvam] still exists,

you may attend to and cherish it.

340

46

ம ம .

340 60 X Do not analyse the objective world saying ‘This is good,

this is bad,’ but seek the reality of the one Self that abides

within your own Heart.

341

ம ம ம

.

341 10 T All that appears is merely a manifestation of Atma-

swarupa. To gain this firm conviction, know the nature of

the Self well.

342

ம ம

ண .

342 36 X Since Iswara abides as your own Self, it is impossible to

deceive him, no matter what you do.

343

ர

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343 9 X Do not get caught up in the pride that causes you to

practise deception in your heart. Shine by living an open

life.

344

ர ண *

ர .

344 25 N Do not imagine that there are two ‘I’s and suffer and

lament as a consequence. By consolidating yourself in the

Self, know and enjoy the ‘I’ as one.

345

ம ர

.

345 24 P Abide, bathing constantly in the cascading waters of

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unsurpassed bliss, beyond all differentiation.

346

ர .

346 10 G It is not ordained that noble disciples who have obtained

the grace of the Guru, and who are therefore rejoicing in

the Heart, shall feel fear and despair.

347

ம ண ம ம ம

ண .

347 31 B ‘You should offer up to me the bright ruby of your mind.

That is the gift that will bring me delight.’

348

ண

ம .

348 32 B ‘The sweet love I have for such a mind I do not have for

anything else.’ Padam desires this.

349

ம

ம .

350

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351

ம ண ம ம

ர ர .

351 63 X Only those who have learned to conduct themselves with a

deep respect for the sensibilities of others can be said to

have learned civilised behaviour.

352

ர

ர .

352 24 O Only those who do not become a devoted slave [of God or

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the Guru] will become enslaved by the ego-ghost, desire,

and be tormented by the world.

353

மம

ம ம .

354

* ம

ம .

354 40 H Living in the world with the worthless ego destroyed is like

witnessing a battle of rutting elephants from the vantage

point of a mountain peak.

355

ம ர

.

355 101 Y Having completely destroyed the embattled existence of

the wicked ego-mind, Padam fondles and caresses my

Heart.

356

ர

ம ம .

356 30 N In the shortcut of swarupavichara no fear or confusion

arises because of the non-dual nature of the Self.

357

ம

ம ம .

357 54 P If the six illusory enemies, beginning with desire, that

mingle in your heart are totally destroyed, the extremely

clear light of jnana will shine.

358

ம ம

.

358 89 P Destroy the worldly vasanas. Sow the vasana of chidakasa

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[the expanse of consciousness] in your Heart.

359

ம

ம .

360

ர ம

ரம ம .

360 13 B In order that your needless anxieties cease, make sure

that all your burdens are placed on me through the

courageous act of depending totally on grace.

361

ம

ம .

361 48 Y Padam reformed my understanding [making me realise]

that the nature of bondage and liberation depends on the

nature of one’s outlook.

362

ம

.

362 75 Y Just as its bounty lent radiance to my tongue, Padam,

grace, filled my Heart to overflowing with the boon of

realisation.

363

ம .

364

ர

ண .

364 61 D It is impossible to think of swarupa-rasa [the savour of

reality], the enjoyment of which goes beyond concepts and

transcends them, and to declare that its nature is such and

such.

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365

.

366

ம

ம .

366 29 B Enter with love the temple that is your own Heart and

experience the bliss of being absorbed in my swarupa,

becoming one with it.

367

ம

ம .

367 5 B To meditate on my swarupa[true nature], which possesses

the light that is the source of life, all that is needed is your

one-pointedness of mind.

368

ம .

368 6 B Whether you retire to the forest or remain in the midst of

everyday life, attain my swarupa in the home that is the

Heart.

369

ம ம ம ரம

.

370

ம

ம ம .

371

ர ர ம

ர ம ண ம .

371 12 B For the cruel disease of burning samsara to end, the

prescribed diet is to entrust all your burdens to me.

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372

ண

.

372 120 K Why do you become mentally agitated, blindly believing

there are things you have to do [kartavya]?

373

ம ம ர

ம .

374

ம

.

375

ம ம ம ர

.

375 42 A The ego rises and expands with the sole purpose of

conquering [while] Padam proceeds with his sole duty of

slaying it.

376

ம

ம .

377

ம

ம ர .

377 199 Y Wherever I flee, attempting to live apart from swarupa,

Padam pursues me, refusing to let me go.

378

ர

ம ம .

379

.

379 121 Y Radiant Padam destroyed my ego, demolishing it over and

over again. It wore it down and down, smaller and smaller,

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to the size of an atom, until it became one with itself.

380

ம

ம .

381

ம .

382

ம

ம ம .

382 21 Y I was like an empty vessel, acting boisterously and playing

the fool, until Padam filled me full, bringing peace and

contentment to my heart.

383

ம ர ம

ம .

384

ம

ம .

384 167 Y Padam made it possible for us to know the deeply subtle

experience of the Self, which is to remain still.

385

.

386

ம

ம .

386 18 Y I was a boor, acting in a perverse manner, but Padam

showed me forbearance, forgiving me my faults a

hundredfold.

387

.

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388

ர ம

ர .

389

ர

ர ம ரம .

389 9 A To loving devotees, Padam has a pleasant smile that

resembles a water lily, but to deceitful people it is terrible

and dreadful.

390

.

391

ம ர .

392

ர ம ர ர

ம .

393

ம

ம .

393 198 Y Padam, the glorious light, brought me to that state of deep

peace, known as samadhi, making it unite with me and

blaze forth as my own nature.

394

ம

.

394 9 T [Work] ceaselessly to establish your mind in the Self, the

supreme space and, perceiving the external world as a

mere appearance, conduct yourself accordingly.

394 202 Y There is no likeness of anything upon this earth to

describe the harmony that reigns between Padam and

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myself.

395

ம .

395 85 X Ascend to the summit of the mountain of indifference

[udaseena], which shines without desire or aversion, and

remain established there.

396

ம

.

396 70 P Do not cherish the five sense perceptions, which are

illusory, but know your own consciousness that shines,

pervading them all equally.

397

ம

ம மர .

397 7 S The triputis and their source, pure consciousness, can,

under no circumstances, appear simultaneously. Like the

wood and the elephant in a wooden elephant, when one

appears, the other will disappear.

398

ம

.

398 5 U Although those who do not know consciousness find fault

with things that happen in the world, all events that occur

do so in accordance with a unique divine ordinance.

399

ம

.

399 6 U The truth of that unique ordinance – which conducts all

affairs while remaining neutral, without a trace of partiality

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– cannot be known by jivas who are caught up inside

creation.

400

.

400 74 X Before attempting to enquire into and know the way to

reform the world, subjugate and destroy your insurgent

mind.

401

ம

.

401 67 M To experience peace by eliminating desire and aversion

from the Heart is to attain the exalted state of divine

dispassion.

402

ம

ம ம .

403

ம ர .

403 46 O It is only in the field of jnana experience that the joy of the

Self, which is love, can take root and grow.

404

ம ம ம .

404 10 F That bliss that grows in the field of mauna is not attained

and experienced in any other field.

405

ம ர

ர .

405 49 H In the hearts of muktas who delight in the sweet savour of

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mauna, none of the tastes of food and drink will find a

hold.The phrase ‘tastes of food and drink’ in Tamil implies

perceptions of all the other senses as well.

406

ர

ம .

406 58 M Why pine for another enjoyment, losing that peace,

wherein one is united with the transcendent ambrosia?

407

ம ர

.

407 127 C To those who have truly achieved the goal of firmly

establishing their hearts within the Self, Padam will bring

such bliss, it will be as if they had obtained their every

desire.

408

ம ம ரம ண .

409

ம ம ம

.

409 50 Y Keeping me from the way of falsehood, Padam set me

upon the straight path of the Heart, the path upon which

the truth flourishes.

410

ம ம

ம .

411

ண

ம ண ம ம .

412

ம ம

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ம .

412 196 Y Radiant Padam shines out within me as the Self –

formless, subtle, and eternally free from defilement.

413

ம

.

413 25 Y Having destroyed the deluding ignorance of me, a heretic,

gracious Padam, the light of supreme bliss, held me under

his sway as his favourite.

414

ம

ண .

414 19 S Seeing all that is seen as the creation of the mind, be free

from its confusion, and shine as consciousness alone.

415

ம

ர ம ம .

416

ம ம .

416 36 A Padam, the peaceful refuge, possesses the great renown

that all that happens occurs only through the power of his

presence.

417

ம

.

417 2 R All ideas about creation and so forth are merely imaginary

creations of the mind, which roams around enquiring into

them, like a straying bull.

418

ம ம ம

.

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418 91 F Regarding the state of mauna as supreme, become firmly

established in the life of Siva-jnana.

419

ம

.

419 14 X Protect yourself from the mental agitation that stems from

being caught up in the net of praise and fame, which only

deceives you.

420

ரம

ரம ம .

420 88 D The reason why the state of Brahman has become

different from you is nothing other than your deceitful

forgetfulness of the Self.

421

ர .

421 43 F An unruffled mind established in the Heart is the fence that

protects the field of liberation.

422

ம

ம ண .

422 15 F You should know that the supreme state of liberation

exists only in a mind that has attained the state of

mauna,and nowhere else.

423

ர ம

ர ர .

423 55 P If you drive out and eliminate the demons of desire and so

on, what then becomes one with you is the treasure house

of liberation.

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424

.

424 10 N Why do you now rise as ‘I’ and languish, losing the bliss of

the Self that is experienced in the sleep state?

425

ம ம .

425 13 N To remain naturally merged in the Heart, without rising as

‘I’, is the proper dharma.

426

ம

.

427

ம ம

.

427 160 Y Padam routed with his lion’s roar the rutting elephant of my

dream, abolishing my confusion.

428

ண ண

.

429

ர ர ர ம ர

ர .

430

ம

.

431

.

431 9 Y Padam made me illustrious as the Lord of Poetic Wealth,

which shines through the grace of God.

432

ம

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.

433

ம

ம .

434

ம ம ம ம

ண ம .

434 12 F The feeling of remaining young forever is attained in

nothing else other than mauna, the blossoming of truth.

435

ம ர ம

ர ம .

435 16 K If the jiva is not filled with clarity, which is the prasad of the

mind, what can other kinds of prasad do?

436

ம ம

ம ர ம .

436 68 M It is harmful to desire something other than peace, and to

pay attention to it in such a way that it becomes firmly

imprinted upon the mind.

437

ம

.

437 69 M Whatever you may happen to lose, firmly hold onto peace,

which is bliss, and cherish it now itself.

438

ம ம ம

ம ர .

438 70 M Those who have gained peace have gained all else along

with it. But those who have lost that peace, have lost

everything.

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439

ம

ம .

439 102 D If you desire the experience of jnana nishta, subdue, root

out and destroy the ego-mind to the best of your ability.

440

ம ம .

440 30 K Neither in this world nor anywhere else does there exist for

you a malevolent enemy like the ego.

441

ம .

441 54 K Until you subjugate, root out and destroy that enemy, all

manner of blame and sin will accrue to you.

442

ம ம

* ம .

442 56 K Just as the source of all virtue is the real ‘I’, the source of

the accumulation of sins is the false and deceitful ‘I’.

443

ம ம ம

.

443 22 P Give up disputation; give up the distinction ‘I’ and ‘this’ that

arises from delusion and become gloriously whole.

444

ர ம

.

444 75 X Without first filling your own heart [with Self-knowledge],

what aid can you give, and to whom?

445

ம

62

ர ர .

445 16 O Those around us who say that withdrawing inwardly,

turning towards God, is selfishness are strangers to

consciousness.

446

ம ம

ம .

446 76 X Those who do not have the power to redeem themselves

cannot render genuine service to the beings of the world.

447

ம ம ண

ம .

447 17 O If it is said that self-surrender, the nature of which is deeply

imbued with a great nobility, is selfishness, then that which

is speaking is the corrupting ego-mind.

448

ம

ம ம ம .

448 18 O ‘Whatever is the will of the divine, let it happen.’ The best

attitude of mind is the one that earnestly desires this.

449

ம ம ரம

ம ம ம .

449 19 O It is this attitude that will sever the bond of the rising ego,

the impurity, and bestow the state of supreme bliss.

450

ம

.

450 30 B I myself will command and control a mind that has died by

the sacrifice of the ego.

451

ம

63

ம ம ம .

452

ம .

452 65 M Do not suffer through chasing after the world and its ways,

but attain peace by running along the straight path to the

Heart.

453

ம ர

ம .

453 21 F Only peace, shining without the impediment of

differentiation that is associated with the ego, is limitless

jnana.

454

ம

ம .

454 23 F Once absorption in the state of true realisation, in which no

thoughts arise, becomes your natural state, peace will well

up and firmly take hold of you.

455

ர ம ம

ர ம ம .

455 55 I The mind that has died in the experience of Sivam, which

is true jnana, supreme consciousness, will of itself shine

as the supreme being.

456

ம

ம .

456 6 I You can only experience joy if you first put an end to the

mischief of the mind that rushes about continuously,

grasping then letting go of one thing after another.

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457

ம ம

ம ம .

457 43 J The impressions of the five senses that adhere to you are

a monumental edifice created by the frenzied mind merely

to ensure its own prosperous existence.

458

ம ண ம

ம ணம .

458 50 I So long as you do not kill the harmful and illusory

association, the prostituting mind, there will be neither bliss

nor good conduct.

459

ம

.

459 12 N Prevent and stop the ‘I’-thought from arising and attaching

itself to any upadhi [false identification].

460

ம

ம .

460 32 E Abide bodiless as the space-like limitless consciousness.

461

ம

ர .

462

ம ம .

462 108 X By attaining perfection in the way of abiding without any

attachments, the mind and the intellect will obtain great

eminence.

463

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463 186 Y Saying: ‘May you learn that which cannot be learnt,’

golden Padam spoke without speaking, illuminating my

Heart.

464

ம ம

.

464 115 Y Like fire that consumes all else but itself, Padam entered

my Heart, spreading its sweetness, the delightful ambrosia

of its grace.

465

ம ம .

465 90 D If you tightly grasp with your mind, without any

forgetfulness, the Self that is Padam, you will attain the

reality that shines at the summit of the Vedas.‘The summit

of the Vedas’ refers to the Upanishads and to the direct

experience of the Self that they expound.

466

.

466 21 A Through his glance, Padam graciously establishes in the

hearts of devotees the blessing of a divine life in the realm

of Sivam.

467

ம ர

ம .

468

.

468 64 A With his sweet smile, which graciously bestows the grace

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of his teachings, shining Padam dispels the deep sorrow

wherein [we] languish in fear and torment in the pain of our

ignorance.

469

ம

ம .

469 43 A Effulgent Padam totally subdues the awareness of that

which is other [than itself], making it powerless, and

bestows the consciousness of reality, the natural state of

consciousness.

470

ம

ம .

470 31 A Padam completely destroys the powerful mental

imagination [dehatma buddhi] that grows up to formthe

obstacle to steadfast abidance in the real.

471

ம

ம .

471 170 Y The sovereign grace of Padam completed my sadhana

with the words ‘Be still’. What a wonder is this!

472

ர

.

473

ண ரம

.

473 115 D With your consciousness hold fast to and never abandon

the substratum, your own real nature, the supreme that

can neither be held nor relinquished.

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474

ர ர

.

475

ம .

475 14 M The ego alone is bondage, and one’s own swarupa, free of

the contagion of the ego, is liberation.

476

ம ம

ம ம .

476 34 F Truejnana, which bestows the bliss of the Self, will reveal

itself in a Heart that, having conquered the ego, remains

utterly still.

477

.

477 92 Y Padam ensnared me in the bright radiance of

consciousness’ wondrous power of enlightenment, that

skilled mistress of grace.

478

ர ம

ர மண .

479

ரம

ண ம .

480

ர ம

ர .

481

ம

.

482

ம

.

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482 81 Y As I wandered, I know not where, fair Padam, supreme

bliss, brought me here to his feet through his sweet grace

and brought me salvation.

483

ர ர

ம ம ம .

484

ம

ண .

485

ம ம ம

ம ம .

486

ர ம

ம .

486 48 X Padam admonishes, saying: ‘It is a serious error for the

good mind to have a keen interest in fictional stories about

the world, which are merely mental creations.’

487

ரம

ம .

487 65 X Padam decrees: ‘Whatever work you undertake, you

should do it with your attention fixed one-pointedly upon it.’

488

ம ண

ர ம .

489

.

490

ண ர

ம .

490 122 Y In order that I should not pine away, thinking myself to be

a sinner, grace-bestowing Padam fashioned [my] ‘I’ as the

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supreme.

491

ம ம

.

492

ம ம

.

492 47 C Padamperforms unreal activities with such great skill that

they appear to be real.

493

ர ர ரம ம

ம .

494

ம ண ம ம

ம ம .

494 99 C So long as the seer does not see his real nature, the

effulgent Padam ensnares him in concepts, in the power

of delusion.

495

ர

ம ம ம .

496

ம

.

496 33 C Effulgent Padam is like a dense darkness [to those who]

through delusion, become like the owl, blind during the day.

497

ண ம

ண .

498

ம

ம .

498 28 T If you enquire and realise, then the entire world will be the

nature of Sivam. [Apart from that] where has samsara

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spread?

499

ம

.

500

ம ர

ம ம .

501

ம

.

501 28 V Bear in mind that the benefit of scholarship is prompting

the mind to turn about, enabling it to be captivated by the

light of the Self.

502

ண ம

ர ர .

502 16 J Until [objectified] consciousness subsides, having become

a prey to the light of the Self, the misery of birth will never

cease.

503

ம

ம .

503 21 N Letting go of external objects, turn your back on them, and

realise through keen enquiry the effulgent truth that shines

in the Heart.

504

ணர

ம ம ம .

504 53 I Only if you enquire and realise the Self in the Heart will the

bond, the mind that is the obsession for the false, be

destroyed.

505

ர

71

ம .

505 22 E Until the thoughts agitating the mind cease, it is impossible

to encounter the immaculate state of consciousness, the

supreme.

506

ர ம

ணம ர ர .

506 119 Y Padam, the sun of supreme jnana, presided over me with

such delight that in its presence the waxing and waning

moon-mind, the perceiving ego, drew back in shame.

507

ண .

508

ர

ம .

508 40 E The splendour of being-consciousness – which is easy to

know and which deserves to be known – is shining as pure

being.

509

.

510

ம ம

ம ம .

510 35 O Preventing the accumulation of dark tamas, Padam

engenders bright sattva in the hearts of those whose

righteous tongues sing the names of God.

511

ம

ம .

511 18 X Lustrous Padam frequently speaks of the benefits of

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virtuous behaviour [achara], advising devotees not to

forsake traditional rules of conduct, but to cherish and

observe them.

512

ரம ண

ரம .

512 44 C Padam remains within as the imperishable, unmoving axle

that spins this world like a wheel.

513

ம ம

ம ம .

513 27 D The state of the Self alone has the noble distinction of

being the state of sublime reality. Distinct from this, all the

other states that are experienced as different from oneself

are alien to truth.

514

ண

.

514 33 D If a state is being experienced as something new, because

that state is not one’s own, it will definitely go away.

515

ண ர

ம ண .

515 122 K A mind that has dissolved in the state of God, and ceased

to exist, will not be aware of any activity that needs to be

performed,

516

ரம

ம ரண .

516 123 K because, when the ego, which has the idea that it is the

performer of actions, has been completely destroyed, the

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idea that something needs to be accomplished ends.

517

ம ம ரம .

517 69 E To a muni [a sage], all the multifarious scenes that appear

before him will shine merely as the ever-present pure

consciousness.

518

ர ம

ர ம .

518 16 N Taking the underlying consciousness [‘I am’] as the one

unique refuge for your attention, live your life.

519

ம ம ம

ம ண .

519 26 S The muni who has merged with liberation, in which the

infinite eye is one’s own nature, is the supremely blissful

one who never knows any despondency.

520

.

520 90 P Expelling the accumulation of evil [vasanas] from your

Heart, garner in copious quantities the wealth of God

[which is grace].

521

ம ண ம

ம .

521 22 B If you worship me by meditating well on the excellence of

my true nature, the greatness of your own true nature will

well up in your Heart.

522

74

.

522 23 B Knowing that what abides in your Heart is the Self, my true

and real nature, you should search for it there. Only this

can be regarded as meditating on me with devotion.

523

.

523 27 B Seeking my true nature in your Heart, discovering it and

rejoicing in it by bathing in the bliss of my jnana swarupa –

this is union.

524

ம

.

524 28 B Only bhaktisadhana performed continuously with love will

facilitate easily, in a gradual way, this union.

525

ம ண .

525 2 B To become established as the Self within the Heart is to

experience my real nature, which is pure bliss.

526

ம

ண .

526 15 Y Golden Guru Padam, deciding that everything I uttered

was a delight-bestowing garland, adorned himself [with it].

527

ரம

ம ம .

528

ம

.

528 51 A Through his compassionate nature, Padam functions as

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though he were closely associated with everything, whilst

in reality remaining without any association whatsoever.

529

*

.

530

ரம

ம .

530 126 Y Padam is the sacred hall of the Self that, as the eternal

supreme reality, performs the dance of ‘I-I’ within my

Heart.

531

ர

ம .

531 125 Y Whilst causing others to dance the dance of ‘I and mine’,

within my own Heart the dancer Padam performs the

dance of ‘I am that I am’.

532

ர ம

ர .

533

ம ம

.

534

ர

ரம ம .

535

ம ம

.

535 109 X Attachments originating in the ego, which display

themselves as ‘love’, will deceive and ruin you, pushing

your heart into the deepest abyss.

536

ம

76

.

536 110 X Examine your heart so that you do not get destroyed by

getting trapped in the net of attachments which, originating

in the ego, only deceive.

537

ம ம ம

ம ம ம .

537 6 V Only as long as the mind survives will there be religion.

When the mind attains silence, religion will also cease.

538

ண மர ம

ம .

538 7 V In the peaceful state the mind will reach the Heart – the

harmonising light of the path of being – and reality will

shine forth.

539

ம ம

.

539 8 V Feeling anger and hatred in the mind on account of a blind

fanaticism towards one’s own religion is a cruel and

ignoble deed.

540

ம ம ம

.

540 9 V On seeing this treachery, both Iswara and true devotees

feel ashamed and deem it no better than the act of an

ignorant harlot.

541

ம ர

ம ர .

541 94 X Padam declares with conviction: ‘Only if the mind attains

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bliss through contentment will it attain tranquillity.’

542

ம

ரணம .

542 62 P A mind that is greatly agitated by the winds of desire will

find peace for a while through thinking about God.

543

ம

ம .

543 6 F Mauna will manifest itself when the clarity of Self-

knowledge, which overflows with the exalted direct

experience, causes the triputis to depart.

544

ம

ம .

545

ம

ம .

545 54 F That which exists devoid of the ego-consciousness, the

beginningless delusion, is the true state of God.

546

ம

.

546 21 W The great mountain of anxieties is an unreal accumulation

of fictions bundled together by the imagining mind.

547

ம ம .

547 136 D If the mind, which rarely subsides, actually does subside,

bliss will multiply many million-fold.

548

ம ர .

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548 7 M If bondage and liberation are creations of the mind, all the

experiences and states manifested through suttarivu are

likewise concepts.

549

ம

.

550

ம

.

550 71 A When his devotees sometimes get angry with each other,

Padam does not even utter the words ‘What is all the

fuss?’

551

ம

ம .

551 87 C The Vedas and Agamas, despite elaborating in greater

and greater detail, are eventually compelled by Padam to

lament, ‘This [Padam] is beyond us’.

552

ம .

552 31 E Without allowing the thinking mind to become scattered,

concentrate it inwardly and merge with the wondrous light

of consciousness.

553

ம ண .

553 18 L In order to make the mind, which whirls like a top, be still,

become the one who sleeps in the Heart, and realise the

truth.

554

79

.

554 19 L Subside and merge in the Heart in such a way that you are

asleep to the world and awake to the Self.

555

ம

.

555 130 D Leaving the hot sun of samsaric misery, remain steadfastly

in the shade of the tree of jnana, the blissful real nature of

the Self.

556

.

556 120 D Always practise holding tightly to the Heart, which is full of

perfect peace, without abandoning it through desire or

inattention.

557

ம

ம ம .

557 35 T As only that which is shines as the Heart in the Heart, the

deceitful mind- maya is just a concept.

558

.

558 22 V It is the nature of the ignorant to feel proud and superior by

mastering scriptural knowledge that consists of pretentious

verbiage.

559

ம ர * ண

ம .

559 111 X The proper way to attain the blissful supreme is to weed

out the thoughts of the mind that cling to wife, children and

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wealth.

560

.

560 74 K The chit-jada ego, which is neither sat [real] nor asat

[unreal], remains in your Heart like an enemy

masquerading as a friend.

561

ர

.

561 44 A Padam is the wind that joyfully enables a wisp of straw,

adrift on the ocean, to reach the shore and gain salvation.

562

ம .

562 3 F The eminent and powerful state of mauna can be reached

in the Heart only by attaining the Self-state, the unmoving

axis.

563

ர ர ண

ர .

563 37 W Why do you become distressed and suffer to no purpose

over things that are not worthy of your concern? Let go of

the mind’s anxieties.

564

ர ம

.

564 22 W Nothing that is worth grieving over ever happens to you.

Examine your real nature.

565

.

81

565 14 R Why do you suffer, taking the reflection to be real?

Investigate your mind and become peaceful.

566

ம ர

ர .

566 13 L Know the pure state [suddha], your own real nature, by

keenly observing the interval between two thoughts.

567

ர ம ம

ம .

567 14 L This pure state [suddha] of being-consciousness, the one

Self that shines as the underlying source [of the avasthas],

abides whole and undivided.

568

ம

.

568 43 E That consciousness [chit], which is one’s own being [sat],

is that bliss [ananda] within the Heart, without beginning

and end.

569

*

.

569 119 D By holding on tightly to the motionless Self, taking it as

one’s support, the mind will become free of agitation.

570

ர .

570 200 Y Non-dual Padam is such that in no way whatsoever do I

exist apart from it, nor it apart from me.

571

.

82

571 35 D When the ego dies and ceases to exist in the

manifestation of grace that is the non-dual experience –

this is the attainment of one’s true nature.

572

ம ம ர

ரம .

573

ரம ம .

574

ம

ண ம ம .

574 18 J Not reflecting upon one’s true nature, the reality behind the

objective knowledge that causes the non-Self to shine, is

[spiritual] poverty.

575

ர ம

ம ண .

575 12 J One’s real nature, which exists and shines beyond duality

within the Heart, will not be revealed to the eye of the

bewildered mind.

576

ர

ம .

576 56 C Since even those who say that [God] does not exist do not

[say] that they do not exist, Padam abides, acceptable to

everyone.

577

ம

ம .

577 66 M The peace experienced by many simple devotees in their

hearts is the divine wealth that possesses great distinction.

83

578

ர

ர ம .

578 24 Y Not shunning me, Padam, the sugar-sweet experience of

jnana, entered my Heart, sinner that I was.

579

ம

ம .

579 66 K ‘Kill me. If you do not, I will kill you now.’ Challenging in

this way, the ego will rise.

580

ர ர ர

ம .

580 67 K Kill the cruel ego that rules tyrannically before it kills you.

581

.

581 68 K Unless you annihilate it completely, in such a way that it

ceases to exist, you will not be able, in however small a

measure, to experience the bliss of peace.

582

ம

.

582 54 I True life will only be attained if you destroy the degraded

mind, which shamelessly dotes upon the fleshy body, by

not showing any affection towards it.

583

ம

.

583 69 K While it is alive, the ego is death; the death of the ego is

life. This riddle is indeed difficult to understand.

84

584

ம

.

584 60 Y Padam destroyed my sense of doership so that, through

the peace of jnana, a life free from evil flourished within the

Heart.

585

ம

ம .

585 43 C The splendid, effulgent Padam is the source not only for

things seen [idam] but also for the alse ‘I’ that is

indispensable for the idam.

586

ம

.

586 56 Y ‘What is the problem for you? Just be!’ Speaking in this

way Padam ensured that there is not even a single activity

for me.

587

.

587 61 Y The golden Padam shines in my Heart in such a way that

neither my deeds, their consequences nor any thought

about them exist for me.

588

ம ர

.

588 86 Y The light of mauna illumined my face as golden Padam

dispensed the grace of jnana through his radiant gaze.

589

ம

.

85

590

ண .

591

ம ம

ம .

591 155 Y Through the true enquiry ‘What is my swarupa?’ Padam

shines, abiding in the Heart as the immutable pole star.

592

ண ம

ம .

593

ம .

594

.

594 66 D Jnana-swarupa, one’s real nature, which is entitled to your

love, never suffers, gets bewildered or decays.

595

ம ம

ண .

595 31 W Know that suffering is only in the bewildered vision of the

jiva that has been grabbed by the stupidity of becoming

attached to the false ego.

596

ர

ம .

596 61 F Padam, consciousness, says: ‘The mistake of getting

bewildered about one’s nature as the Self is the reason for

complaining about God or oneself, and for self-pity.’

597

ம

ம .

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597 36 W For all the many distressful diseases the peerless

medicine is definitely the certainty of the real nature of the

Self.

598

ண

.

598 35 B Why do you pointlessly find fault with me, saying that I no

longer look at you?

599

ண .

599 36 B If you would only fix your gaze upon me, you would know

that, established in the Heart, my gaze is ever fixed upon

you.

600

ம

.

600 37 B Looking at you from within the Self, I never leave you. How

can this fact be known to your externalised vision?

601

ம

ம .

601 30 T The power of mayais a false, shadow-like power, which is

not inherent in the nature of the Self.

602

.

602 31 T All the activities, subdivided into creation [sustenance,

destruction, veiling and grace], exist only as attributes of

that [maya].

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603

ண

.

603 32 T This powerful phenomenon [maya], this indescribably

potent illusion, has absolutely no connection with myself,

none whatsoever.

604

ம ம

.

604 33 T It is the ego mind that declares it to be real and connects it

with me.

605

ம

ம ம .

605 34 T Even the ego mind that declares in this way is trapped

within that harmful maya. Realise the truth of this definitive

conclusion in the mind-free state.

606

ம ண

மம ம ர .

606 24 X The Self-abidance that flourishes when one realises one’s

true nature is the supreme dharma of sat-achara.

607

ம ர

ம ம ம ம .

607 104 D You should know that absorption in the supreme state,

which is the goal worthy of attainment by you, is simply to

become one with the Self.

608

ர ம

ம .

88

608 11 R Padam, the Self, speaks the truth in the following way:

‘The union of jiva with Brahman is just the removal of the

reflected consciousness [chidabhasa].’

609

ர ம

ம .

609 17 D The ultimate state of supreme liberation is one’s own real

nature. It is always attained. Knowing this, be still.

610

ரம .

610 6 M Thoughts such as bondage and liberation, which are

essentially non-existent, appear in the state of

pramada[forgetfulness of the Self].

611

ம ர ம ம

ம .

611 11 W Your close association with that negligent inattention

[pramada] is the death that haunts you, striking fear into

the heart.

612

ரம

மர .

612 12 W If, after great struggles, you uproot and cast aside that

pramada, you will attain immortal life.

613

ம ம ம

.

614

மர .

89

614 88 K Taking the body to be ‘I’ – an erroneous superimposition

that is like calling mother-of-pearl ‘silver’ – is the confusion

of the spinning mind.

615

ம ம

.

615 89 K The same confusion of the mind takes the perceptions of

the five senses to be real. This results in an agitation of the

mind that struggles with desires for them.

616

ம

ம .

616 28 X Know that there are never any circumstances and never

any cause for you to get bewildered and frightened in your

heart.

617

ம .

617 49 D In your true swarupa you alone exist without any second

entity.

618

ம

ர ர .

618 32 W If the harmful ego rises, an endless chain of miseries will

manifest for a long, long time.

619

ர ர

ம ம .

620

ர ம ம

ரம .

90

620 44 N Only vichara removes the desires for the numerous

enjoyments of the senses by revealing them to be

insubstantial.

621

ர ம .

621 45 N Only beneficial vichara will confer upon you, as your own

form, the limitless expanse of supreme bliss.

622

ர ர ம

ர .

622 35 N That trustworthy vichara exists neither in book learning nor

in learning from others but only in one’s own sense of ‘I’

[aham].

623

ம ம ண ம

ம ரம .

623 5 O To be absorbed, through surrender of the self, in the non-

dual state of mauna, is the supreme truth.

624

ம ம ர

ம ம ம .

625

ண .

625 16 G The true meaning of namaskaram is the ego bowing its

head and getting destroyed at the feet of the Guru.

626

ம .

626 17 G When the ego is totally destroyed at the feet of the Guru, it

will then shine as the unsurpassed sea of mauna[silence].

91

627

ம ண

ம .

627 91 X A mind overflowing with joy through having the feeling

‘enough’ is a divine and magnificent treasure-trove. This

treasure is only attained by [nishkamya] punya.

628

ம

.

628 4 L Because it appears and disappears just as dreams do, the

waking state that appears to be solid and full of differences

is also imaginary.

629

ம ண ம

.

629 121 D Do not get spoiled by thinking about the non-Self with your

mind. Hold tightly to yourself and attain peace.

630

ம ர ம

ம .

630 20 F The kaivalya [oneness] that the distinguished ones

experience and exult in as the bliss of the supreme state is

peace alone.

631

ம

.

631 42 E Remain still, now itself, and in your experience of

consciousness of being, which is swarupa, merge with

peace.

632

.

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632 47 F To attain the life of true bliss, which is your very nature,

firmly establish yourself in the Heart and abide immovably

there.

633

ம

ம .

633 16 F The concept-free experience of the vast emptiness of

mauna will rise, putting an end to the delusion of the ego,

the deceiving fixation.

634

ம ர

ம ம ர .

634 69 F Only the resplendent abode [parandama], whose nature is

consciousness of being and which surges as bhuma [the

immanent reality], is the non-dual Self, the Supreme.

635

ம

ம ம .

635 55 D No concepts, which are just the appearance of differences,

will attach to the peerless, pure, non-dual swarupa, which

is self-shining.

636

ம

ம ம .

636 16 E If you abide as consciousness by knowing consciousness,

the profound delusion caused by the frenzied obsession

with sense objects will come to an end.

637

* ம

ம .

637 28 P You should know that the primal origin of peace is within

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oneself, and not in the non-Self.

638

.

638 29 P Unless thoughts about non-Self objects cease, the peace

of one’s own authentic Self-nature will not be realised in

the Heart.

639

ம

ம .

639 19 H The actions of a jnani need not conform to any plans or

schemes formulated by other people.

640

ம .

640 22 N The answer to the question ‘Who am I?’ is only the silent

jnana that shines as ‘I-I’ in the Heart.

641

ர ம

.

641 23 N Regard it [the question ‘Who am I?’] as the axe that

cleanly severs the doubts that beset you now, and are that

bound to do so in the future.

642

ம

ம ம .

642 24 N That which shines as ‘I-I’ in the Heart, mauna, the real

nature of true jnana, is itself liberation.

643

ம

.

643 47 N When, through enquiry, one attains clear experience of

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reality as a result of obtaining truejnana, there is nothing

further to be attained.

644

ரம .

645

ம

ம .

646

ம ம ண ம

ம .

646 3 O Since to renounce the ego is to offer up one’s self in

surrender, cast out the debased ego-mind that proclaims

itself to be ‘I’.

647

ம

.

647 77 Y Firmly convincing me in the Heart, ‘This is the state of

being,’ grace-Padam brought me under the sway of his

feet and made me his very own.

648

ம

.

648 29 V The benefit of learning is simply to become established

within the Heart, in the concept-free state of reality, which

is your own nature.

649

ம

.

649 127 D Why do you vainly lament, crying ‘Where can the state of

true bliss be found?’ You yourself have happiness as your

own true nature, and its location is the Heart.

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650

ம

ம .

650 25 F ‘The Heart’ and ‘Atma-swarupa’ are not different from each

other. The difference is only in the words used.

651

ம

ம .

651 26 F It is the conviction of sages who possess clear knowledge

of reality that the Atma-swarupa exists as the Heart within

the Heart.

652

ம ரம

ம .

653

ம

ம .

653 29 D As a comparison to the Self, which shines as both the

dwelling-place and that which dwells within it, the space of

the physical universe is poor indeed.

654

ர ம ம ம

ர ம ம .

655

ம .

655 16 P The silence [of not speaking] is the medicine that can

change the habit of speaking pointlessly like a mad

person.

656

ம ம ம

.

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656 15 P The first and most important lesson that has to be learned

by sadhakas is silence.

657

ம

.

657 38 X To an evil heart that is full of deceitfulness, the profound

peace that is free from agitation is far, far away.

658

ம .

658 91 P Through the momemtum gained by the practice of bhakti

yoga, which is lovingIswara, attain the destruction of

vasanas in your Heart.

659

ம ம ண .

659 14 O Bliss comes to you by sweet grace, through the self-

surrender you perform lovingly in the heart.

660

ண

.

661

.

662

.

662 2 G Do not imprison the true form of the Guru within a cage but

seek inwardly and realise it to be the formless,

omnipresent expanse of consciousness.

663

ம

மர ம .

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663 3 G Only the divine grace that wells up in abundance in the

form of the Guru can very easily put a stop to the dizzying

whirl of the infatuated mind.

664

ம ர ம

.

664 22 G No one has the ability to describe the power of the grace

of the Guru abiding in mauna.

665

.

665 6 G Since the divine form, the form of the Guru assumed by

Iswara, is actually a physical embodiment of grace, that

form is worthy of being worshipped.

666

ம ண

ணர ம .

666 1 G The true form of the Guru can be known only if one

realises, through the grace of the Guru, one’s own real

form.

667

ம ம

.

667 188 Y Splendorous Padam caused my target [the Self] to blaze forth in

mauna, which is the peace granted by the power of his being.

668

ம

ம .

668 19 G The excellent teaching that the primal Guru Dakshinamurti

gave to the great ascetics was mauna, his own unique

method.

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669

ர

ர .

669 20 G That silent speech untied the chit-jada knot [the connection

between the insentient body and consciousness] of the

disciples and destroyed their minds that ramified with

differentiating thoughts.

670

ண

ம .

670 21 G If the doubts that could not be dispelled by the many oral

instructions were dispelled by that mauna, what power that

mauna has!

671

ர

ர .

672

ம ர

.

673

ர

ர .

674

ண

ண ண .

674 56 A Though he appears to see things in front of him, Padam is

that extremely pure expanse, the eye [of jnana] that sees

no object whatsoever before it.

675

ம ம ம

ர ம .

675 7 A Padam confounds the ignorant by showing himself as a

human being while actually existing as the form of the

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space [of consciousness], the fullness of the supreme

reality [para-vastu].

676

ம ம ம

ம .

676 108 D Unsurpassed and perpetually abiding good fortune exists

only in the deep peace wherein one remains as the Self,

and in no other state of being whatsoever.

677

ம ர ம .

677 28 J The supreme truth remains as the source not only for the

objects seen but also for the seer and the seeing.

678

ர ம

ர .

678 29 J From the perspective of union with the Supreme, which is

the state of pure being, the triputis have reality. However,

seen apart from it, they are false.

679

ர ம ர

.

679 45 E To remain in the state in which consciousness of the

supreme reality is not lost even during activities is sahaja.

680

ர .

680 46 E Unless the ego, the identification with the body, dies, it will

be impossible for anyone to realise that natural and

abiding state of absorption within the Heart.

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681

.

681 47 E Until that state [of sahaja] merges in the Heart, there is no

liberation for the jiva, irrespective of what other state it may

experience.

682

ம .

682 88 X Those who have seen in their heart that God is their refuge

will not swerve from the state of impartiality.

683

.

683 30 O How does a god benefit by worship directed to him? The

benefit is only for the worshipper.

684

.

684 57 F The unattainable state of God comes to be attained when

there is the experience of Self-abidance.

685

ம ம

ம .

685 37 H Only in a sage who has vanquished the dishonourable delusion

known as ‘I’ will all the actions that are performed become yoga.

686

ம .

686 17 E Out of all the sadhanas that are worth performing, knowing

consciousness is the only excellent and definitive one.

687

ர ர

101

ர .

687 18 E The child Murugan, concealing nothing, taught this state of

pure being to Lord Siva, revealing it as the inner meaning

of Om.

688

ம

.

688 58 K Padamquestions: ‘What sin will the ego – the thief who

habituates one to the erroneous belief that one is the body

– not commit?’

689

ம

ம .

689 68 D The source of all faults and mistakes is not realising one’s

true nature. It is a most egregious mistake. This is the first

thing you should know.

690

ம ம ர ம

ம .

690 81 K Taking the body to be ‘I’ is the error that murders

Brahman, that which is merged with you as Atma-swarupa.

691

ம ர

ம ரண .

691 82 K Know the deceitful ego, a consummate impersonator, as a

villainous murderer whose profession is death.

692

ண ம

மம .

692 8 K The state of existing as a jiva, which makes its living by

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changing its form endlessly, is one of extreme shame.

693

ம ம ண

ம .

693 9 K Now that you have seen and become aware of this

wonder, which is an injustice, from now on at least, it will

be proper to embrace the life of truth.

694

ம

ம .

694 23 M Unless ignorance, the delusion, is completely destroyed by

jnana, it is certain that there will be no liberation.

695

ம ம .

695 11 G The disciple who completely surrenders himself to the

Guru will attain the life of true jnana, the auspicious life.

696

ம

ம .

696 12 G If, like the goddess Uma, you offer only a half of yourself to

the Guru, that will not be sufficient for attaining jnana.

697

ம ம

ம .

697 13 G The immaculate true jnana will only shine if you renounce

the ego, the sense of individuality, leaving no remnant

behind.

698

ரண ம ம ண

ம .

698 14 G Know that the surrender of the ego is in no way

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commensurate with the immortal state of perfection that

one then attains.

699

ர .

699 15 G Attaining the Self by sacrificing the ego is like a business

transaction in which one receives the true, ancient, primal

essence in return for the reflection, the ego.

700

ண ம

ர ம .

700 135 D Rid yourself of pramada and live forever, attaining the

jnana- bliss of the one Self, a bliss whose nature can

never be described.

701

ம ர

.

701 43 K What benefit have you gained by associating with an ego,

which is just a thought that attaches itself to you?

702

ம ம ம .

702 1 I The intrinsic purity of your own Self-nature was corrupted

on account of your worthless mind.

703

ம ம ம

ம ம .

703 19 X This disgraceful aberration known as ‘the mind’ will not

depart simply by observing achamana and agamarshana.

704

ர

104

ம .

704 51 I Only when the mind dies through discriminating enquiry,

will it come to shine by itself as ‘Sivoham [I am Siva]’.

705

ம

.

705 52 I There are no effective means other than vicharato chase

out the ego from within you and kill it.

706

ம ண .

706 20 N Stop thinking and know by careful investigation only the

reality that is within your Heart as your own nature.

707

ம

.

707 2 D He who is struggling with a complete absence of

knowledge about himself, what will he know, and even if

he knows something, what use will it serve?

708

ம ம ம

.

708 91 D Is it not because one forgets the truth of the Self, which

always abides changelessly, that one gets involved in

endless disputations?

709

ம

.

709 83 X It is wise to shun those ego-crazed people who have not

learned to attain peace by placing their attention upon

consciousness alone.

105

710

ண ர ம

.

710 68 X Live your life without getting agitated, performing only

those worldly activities that are unavoidable.

711

ம

ம .

711 69 X Surrender your mind to the Lord and play your part in the

drama of worldly life with great skill, without getting caught

up in the world.

712

ம

ம .

712 38 W Those adepts who have perfected their sadhana will not

become dejected and perturbed when they are beset by

trials and tribulations.

713

ண

ர .

713 7 H Because they have had their mental delusions removed

and, as a result, have woken up from the sleep of

samsara, you should honourjnanis as beings who are

worthy of being worshipped.

714

ம

.

714 24 H It is proper to learn the truth only from those jnanis. If it is

learned from anyone else, it will be known incorrectly.

715

.

106

715 90 K Establish yourself in the complete perfection of your own

real nature. Do not limit yourself to the [body] upadhi.

716

ம ம ம

.

716 33 I A mature mind that has managed to establish itself firmly

in the extremely subtle state of pure being will not get

enmeshed in the tangle of the world.

717

.

717 23 S Seeing with the eye of the Self, the true seer, scorch and

destroy the one who pays attention to objectified concepts.

718

ம .

718 33 K Like an onion, the ego-appearance is an unreal thing that

consists of a combination [of many tattvas]. When

enquired into, it will be found to have no swarupa. (When

every layer of an onion has been peeled away, there is no

onion left. Swarupa here means ‘ever-present and

inseparable nature’.)

719

ம

.

720

ர ம

ர .

720 42 N Even if you are about to lose your life, you should remain

eternally vigilant, never losing your mental grip on that one

thing, self-enquiry.

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721

ம

.

721 90 F Do not get drowned in the evil infatuation for the world but

attain that glorious treasure which is the lofty Siva-jnana.

722

ர ம

ர ம .

722 31 X With the help of divine grace, destroy your fear, end your

suffering and attain the state of bliss.

723

ம .

723 75 A Padam is an outstanding testimony [to the fact that] those

who have put their trust in God alone have never been

known to have been forsaken.

724

ம

.

724 49 E Reversing the outgoing nature of the mind, merge it with

its source, and by so doing, attain the natural state of bliss.

725

ம ண

.

725 79 K Unlike a blossoming lotus that closes [during the night], the

Heart-lotus, which has blossomed after the untying of the

ignoble knot, will never close again.

726

ர ம

ம .

727

ர

ம .

108

727 43 N Practise vichara ceaselessly while you are awake and

destroy the forgetfulness of mind that leads one to the laya

of sleep. (Laya is a state in which the mind is temporarily

in suspension, such as in trance or sleep.)

728

ம ம

.

728 86 X Realising that there is no state apart from you, maintain an

attitude of indifference in your heart towards everything

that appears different from you.

729

ம ம

.

729 20 S The jiva that sleeps without sleeping, with its attention on

its real nature, will automatically shine as an eye that is

very different from the fleshy eye.

730

ர ம ம

ம ம ம .

731

ண

ர .

732

ர ண ரம

ரம .

732 6 A Many are the devotees upon this earth, thousands upon

thousands, whom Padam brings under his sway, sweetly

granting them his grace.

733

ம ம

ம .

109

734

ம

.

735

ம ம ர ம ம

ர ம ர ம .

736

ம

ம .

736 18 D Your job is to enquire into and know the Self that is in an

‘already prepared’ state. There is no reason for you to

make an effort to prepare anything from scratch.

737

ண

.

738

ம

ம .

738 17 A The extremely wonderful Padam made public the supreme

truth of the Vedas, which is normally declared only to

trustworthy persons.

739

ம ம ம .

740

ம

ம .

740 77 D Do not let your mind dwell on anything other than your

swarupa, for apart from this, there is no other truth.

741

ம ம

ம , .

741 36 N Though my tongue has become weary from repeating

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instructions over and over again, those whose minds are

bewildered have still not abandoned their questioning.

742

ண ம

ம ண ம ர .

742 37 N However much instruction the Guru gives, the true support

for spiritual aspirants is the enquiry they perform into the

nature of their own Self.

743

ம .

743 109 K The proper course for a sadhaka is to practise sadhana at

all times until the sense of being the doer ceases.

744

ம ம ணம

.

744 110 K ‘Only the cessation of the sense of being the doer is self-

surrender.’ Padamemphatically declares this, imprinting it

upon the mind.

745

.

745 111 K At the very moment that the sense of being the doer ceases

one will be redeemed, becoming one who has done all that

needs to be done. After this there is no more effort.

746

ம

ர ர .

747

ம ர ம ண

ம .

748

111

ம ம .

748 39 M Mauna – which is not only the means to liberation but also

that which abides as the very nature of liberation itself –

has a matchless magnificence.

749

ம ண

ம .

749 40 M If you adhere to that path of mauna, the means to

liberation, there will be no suffering of any kind.

750

ம ம ண

.

750 43 M The loving, lustrous smile of that divine Lady Mauna, the

lady of liberation, will dispel the darkness of bondage.

751

ர

.

751 72 M That deep peace is endowed with a presence that can

transform an arid desert into an ocean of ambrosia.

752

ம ம

.

752 44 M Whatever labours you have to undergo, cherish as pure

gold your worship of that blissful Lady’s lustrous feet.

753

ண ண

ம .

753 45 M Through her propitious grace-bestowing glance, the

delusions of wealth, property and family ties will cease to

be.

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754

ண ம ர

ம ம .

754 46 M To joyfully worship that ever-youthful maiden is the most

fitting of all dharmas.

755

ம ம

மண ண .

755 93 Y Here on this earth the auspicious Padam united that Lady

[Shanti] with me as my fortunate destiny, binding me to her

in a blissful marriage.

756

ர

ம .

757

ம

ம .

757 189 Y Padam declared that my offering mysel f to the mauna, the

profound peace conferred [by Padam], is itself the

recompense.

758

ர ம ம ம ம ம

ர ம ம .

758 47 M Cherish as the most loftybrahmacharya this householder’s

life of living blissfully in union with the Lady Mauna.

759

ம

ண .

760

ம

.

761

ம ண

113

ம .

761 73 M Enjoy the supreme, felicitous bliss of peace, the beautiful

divine lady, by remaining still.

762

ம ம

ம ண .

762 48 M In the presence of that divine Lady Mauna do not raise

your head as ‘I’.

763

ர ம

.

763 49 M If you raise your head even a little as ‘I’, that lady will not

display to you even the smallest fraction of her face.

764

ர .

764 50 M If you naturally remain in submission to her authority, she

will unite you with the realisation of the state of Siva.

765

ம ம ம

.

765 51 M Harmoniously and with delight live forever in your Heart,

embracing that tender Lady.

766

ம ம

.

766 52 M Let your life, in which you live in the state of blissful

oneness, beguiled by her charms, stand as a delightful

example to others.

767

ர .

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767 53 M With you yourself as she, and she herself as you,

becoming one, merge together within the Heart.

768

ம ம ம ம

ம ம .

768 54 M This householder’s dharma, which is nothing but bliss, is

the good dharma. Abide as Sivam, true love.

769

ர .

769 74 M May you who have married Shanti, the beautifully jewel-

bedecked daughter begotten by me, flourish in the

supreme enjoyment.

770

ம ர

ம ண .

770 75 M To attain bliss, unite with her, the queen among women, in

the Heart, [regarding her] as your dearest companion.

771

ம

ம ம .

771 16 L It is the void-like sleep that shines as one’s nature, abiding

in the Heart devoid of the delusion ‘I’.

772

.

772 25 L It is the sleep of deep peace, existing as one’s nature, that

is extolled by the unknowing as turiyatita.

773

ர

ர .

773 11 X Even if someone praises you, to delight in it with relish is

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wrong. Only someone who is totally useless speaks in

praise of himself.

774

ம ம

.

774 7 T Separate from the real nature of the Self, the non-dual

reality, what dualistic scenes can appear, and how?

775

ம

ம ம .

776

ம

.

776 1 Q It is impossible for anyone to get established in the

experience of reality, being-consciousness, except through

the power of grace, the Mother [chit-para-sakti].

777

ர ம ம ம

.

777 17 V Saivam is the excellence of the pure, supreme light of

mauna. Saktam, though, belongs to the category of

creation, [preservation, destruction] and so on, which are

associated with the mind.

778

ம

.

778 18 V Saktam, which flourishes in the manifestation of [maya]

sakti, will come to an end in the grandeur of liberation, the

pure Sivam.

779

ம ம

.

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779 8 F A mind that has experienced the light of mauna will not

readily accept the conceptual drama, consisting of the

triputis, that appears in the other light [chidabhasa].

780

ம ம .

780 54 H That state in which peace abounds through the full

attainment of Self-knowledge is a most exalted condition,

the highest of the high.

781

ம ம

ம .

781 59 H The experience of the Self in which arises an exhilarating

indifference that says: ‘To me, what does it matter where

the sun rises?’ is truly a wonder.

782

ம

ம ர .

782 5 W In that state where you [the ego] die, the life of the Self, which

is beyond all description, will become manifest in your Heart.

783

.

784

ர ம

.

784 39 H When the ego that made one forget the Self has been

destroyed, one rises resurrected as the Atma-swarupa.

That life of the Self is imperishable.

785

ம ம ம .

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785 47 H That boundless existence attained by the great sages who

know it as final liberation is the most fitting and excellent

state.

786

ம

.

787

ர ம

.

787 25 J If the objectifying consciousness is brought under the spell

of the Self, all that was formerly known [objectively] will

become one with the jiva.

788

ம

.

788 14 E ‘I have not known any God apart from consciousness.’

[You will also know this] if you subside in the Heart where

it resides.

789

ம ம

.

790

ண ம

.

790 49 X It is proper for sadhakas to keep under control the

addiction for intercourse with the opposite sex, which is the

cause of much shame.

791

ம

.

791 41 X To abstain from the disgusting habit of eating flesh is the

first rule observed by those whose conduct is impeccable.

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792

ம ர ண

ம ம ம .

792 42 X That flesh food itself will destroy those true devotees who

have entered the path of grace, diverting them onto the

path of delusion.

793

ர

.

793 43 X For those who have undertaken the task of abolishing the

dominion of the ego, which is rooted in the fleshy body,

fattening flesh by eating flesh is improper.

794

ண

ண .

794 16 I Do not associate with the mind that rises like the goddess

who smites men with love. Destroy it by abiding in the Self.

795

ம ண

ம ர ம .

795 17 I Should you succumb to its spell and embrace it, alas, it will

destroy your life by drowning you in the intoxication of pride.

796

ம

ண .

796 18 I That demoness, the mind, is extremely adept at amorously

caressing you with false pretences.

797

.

797 19 I Heed this warning! From now on, stay away from that

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utterly sinful woman, without even mentioning her name.

798

ர

ம ண ம .

798 20 I That woman, the mind, is a great demoness whose

embrace brings death to all.

799

ம ர

ம ம ம .

799 21 I She somehow deceives everyone and brings them under

her spell. She is an extremely cunning woman, a thief who

practises deception.

800

ம

.

800 22 I This murderess, this beautiful and seductive woman, is a

despicable sinner who has totally ruined the lives of many

a sadhaka.

801

ம ண

.

801 23 I She is an evil, low-born woman who hates and torments

your lawfully wedded wife, peace.

802

ண ம .

802 96 D If anything disturbs your inward focus, whatever it may be,

reject it without a second thought.

803

ண ம

ண ம .

804

ம

120

.

805

ம

ம .

805 1 D The Self is not something that is either known or not

known. The Self is knowledge [jnana] itself.

806

ம

.

807

ண

ம .

807 15 J Pray tell, how can the real nature of the Self reveal itself

and shine to the suttarivu?

808

ம ம ம

ண ம ண .

808 17 J Unless you thoroughly burn up the objectifying tendency of

the mind, destroying it utterly, you will not attain one iota of

Self-knowledge.

809

ர

ம ம ம .

809 76 M Enjoying in your heart the bliss of Lady Shanti’s tight

embrace, completely forget all else.

810

ம ம

ம .

810 77 M What the jnanis honour and praise as endless supreme

bliss is nothing other than the bliss of that beautiful

woman, Shanti.

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811

ண

ம .

811 78 M She is beautifully calm, has an extremely comely form, is

worthy of reverence, and is boundlessly captivating.

812

ண ரம

ண ண .

812 79 M Offer yourself as dakshinato her. Embrace her. Unite with

that lady who is an unsurpassed ocean of magnificent and

noble qualities.

813

.

813 80 M If you have the good fortune to marry that Fair One

[Shanti], your life will be enriched. It will be as though you

have discovered buried treasure.

814

ம

.

814 81 M Siddhas will greatly revere and honour her, keeping their

attention firmly fixed on her feet, just waiting to be of

service to her.

815

ர

ம .

815 82 M Whosoever becomes the target of her glance of grace will

experience an immeasurable bliss.

816

ம

ம .

816 83 M If she becomes your queen, under her reign you will attain

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unmatched glory.

817

ம ரணம ம ர ம

ம .

817 84 M She is a tender young lady whose form is the absolute and

utterly perfect, distilled bliss of Brahman.

818

ண

ம ர ர .

818 85 M Those who are living in the presence of that blissful Lady

Shanti will not even deign to look at the blissful realms of

the gods.

819

ரண ம

ர .

819 86 M For those who have come into possession of the

distinguished way of living in union with that Lady Shanti, a

life of living with [other] beautifully decorated women will

appear abhorrent.

820

ர ம

ர .

820 63 M In order to attain immutable peace, your obsessive

indulgence in worldly activities should be abandoned.

821

ம ண

ம .

821 5 N For your true state to merge in your Heart as your own

nature, you must enquire and know that true state. This is

the only way.

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822

ரம ம ர

.

823

ம ரம

ம .

824

ர ம

ர ண .

824 31 P Though you may come to know in great detail the false

principles of the non-Self [anatmatattvas], it will all be

wasted effort.

825

ம ம

.

825 11 E That which deserves to be known and attained is

consciousness, the Self. Apart from this, there is no other

blessing that deserves to be attained in this birth.

826

ம

ம .

826 26 L The truth of oneself, which shines as the nearest of the

near, is itself the atita [the transcendental state] that is

beyond the uttermost beyond.

827

ம .

828

ம ம

.

829

ர

ர ர ம .

829 38 N You who are wandering around, enquiring, ‘What is the

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nature of the history of other people?’ not enquiring who

you are is a mistake.

830

.

830 26 G You who set your heart on thriving and flourishing as a

teacher [of others]! First become an enquirer, and enquire

into your own self.

831

ம

.

831 41 O The mantra ‘SivayaNama’ on which you meditate will

reveal itself within your heart to be your father and mother.

832

ம ம ம

ம .

833

ண .

833 38 F Those things that leave you, let them leave. Instead, know

that which abides permanently in the Heart and live in

consciousness.

834

ம ர

ண .

834 20 M That which abides [in the Heart] is liberation, the true and

unlimited supreme bliss. Only through that being-

consciousness will you attain redemption.

835

ரம

.

125

835 39 K There is nothing as insubstantial as the ego-ghost that

remains firmly established, refusing to leave.

836

ர

ண .

836 40 K It is impossible to imagine the suffering experienced by

this world through the sovereignty exercised by that ego

ghost.

837

ர ம

ம .

837 41 K Only through the application of the vibhuti of jnanavichara

will the ghost be exorcised.

838

ண

.

838 42 K Not only will it be exorcised, it will get beheaded and

destroyed before your very eyes.

839

ர

ம ம .

839 36 M In the ecstasy of devotion one may sing and one may

dance, but it is mauna that is useful for liberation.

840

ம ம

.

841

ம

.

841 53 F The state of abiding as God is becoming clear and abiding

in the Heart; it is a state to which no activity of any kind

adheres.

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842

ம ம

ம .

842 11 D In the godly state of jnana, the pure state, there are neither

external indications [such as horripilation or shaking] nor

ecstasy.

843

ம ர ம

ம ம .

843 38 E In one’s real nature, being-consciousness, which is the

light that outshines all other lights, concepts of name and

form never exist.

844

ம

ம ம .

844 15 R The mind-moon, the creator of names and forms, will itself

set and be extinguished as a concept in front of the sun of

consciousness that is one’s real nature.

845

.

845 52 J Destruction is only for time and space. There is absolutely

no movement for the Self, the supreme reality.

846

ம

ம .

846 57 M If one knows reality by uniting with it, a powerful and firm

peace will abound.

847

ண ம

ம ம .

848

127

ம .

849

ம

ம .

849 107 K Deeds [karma] are not your enemy, only the sense of

doership [kartrutva] is. Therefore, live your life, having

completely renounced that enemy.

850

மர ம .

850 13 P The many different sadhanas are harmonised when the

sadhaka first comes to know and discover the truth of his

real nature.

851

ர .

851 13 D Through sadhana [spiritual practice] one can attain things

that are other than oneself. But with what sadhana can the

Selfbe attained, and who is to attain it?

852

ம

.

852 74 D Why have you not yet known the swarupa that by nature

shines always realised and which is incontrovertible?

853

ம ம ம ம

.

853 112 X Removing and destroying the long-standing attachment

that is born out of the obsession for the non-Self is said to

be realising the Atma-swarupa.

128

854

ம ம

ம ர .

855

ம .

856

ம .

857

ர

ர ம .

857 32 A Golden Padam transformed [his] mother into the avatar of

chit-para-sakti, the bestower of Sivam.

858

ணர

ர .

859

ம ம ம

.

860

ம

.

860 49 P The divine Padam says: ‘Desiring something, [imagining it]

to be wonderful, is the conduct of the ignorant ego-ghost.’

861

ம

ண ம .

862

ம

.

862 56 X In your behaviour keep in mind that it is proper conduct to

treat oneself and others in an identical way.

863

ம ண

129

.

863 77 P The greatness of chitta suddhi [purity of mind] is that it is

the mother of all virtuous conduct. Realising this, examine

your mind every day.

864

ம ர ம

ம .

865

ர ம ம

ர ம .

866

ம

ர .

867

ர

ம .

867 129 C Padam, bliss, transforms those who are immersed in the

bliss of Padam into being blissful Padam alone.

868

ம

.

868 19 P Unless the mind abides as a mere witness to everything,

and conducts itself in this way, what can all the other

[practices] do for a sadhaka?

869

ம ண

ம .

870

ம

ம ம .

870 24 C Beauteous Padam, which is true knowledge, the exalted

tapas ofmauna, will destroy empirical knowledge, which is

multifarious.

130

871

.

871 21 T All forms are only forms of sakti. There is no form for the

Lord, Sivam.

872

ம

ம .

872 5 Q Self-realisation, which appears very difficult, will be

attained very easily through the power of grace.

873

ம

ண .

873 22 T The eight forms [astamurtam] are all forms of sakti. For

Sivam, Atma-swarupa, there is no form, not even a

trace.The eight forms are the five elements, the sun, the

moon and the individual soul.

874

ர ம

ர .

874 71 F Only the subtle space of consciousness, existing in the

Heart, is the form of Siva. Everything else, described by

words, is a concept.

875

ர .

875 63 D In that swarupa one can only abide as That. There is no

scope for thinking in this state.

876

ம

ம .

877

131

ம ம .

877 42 M To attain liberation, the door to which is mauna, the ego

that rises as a separate ‘I’ should be completely destroyed.

878

.

878 55 K As long as that ego exists, innumerable obstacles will arise

in succession, like winged white ants streaming out of an

ant hill.

879

ர ர ம

.

879 75 K That chid-jada ego known as ‘I’ is the founding ancestor of

the lineage of the mind.

880

ரம ர

ரம ண .

881

ர ம

ம .

882

ம .

883

ம ம

ம ர .

884

ர ர

ர ர .

884 51 P Evil desire, a pit that can never be filled, is what plunges

your life into a poverty that can never be overcome.

885

ம ம ம ம

132

.

885 36 T Maya vada [the doctrine of illusion] means regarding the non-

existent maya as real. It does not mean calling maya ‘illusory’.

886

ண

ம .

886 6 T Regarding mirage-water as water that is in a pond full of

blossoming lotuses, and then attempting to get water from

it, is foolish ignorance.

887

ம ம ம

ம ம .

887 68 C Effulgent Padamkills and annihilates the mind-illusion that

causes bewilderment by making the reflection appear to

be real.

888

.

888 8 P Do not falter, even for a moment, believing that you face

insurmountable obstacles [on the path], but remain vigilant

in the unfailing and guaranteed method you have adopted

– that of not forgetting the Self.

889

ம ம ர ண

.

889 2 P Instead of practising sadhana superficially, follow it

intensively in such a way that your mind is totally

immersed in it.

890

.

133

890 41 W Subside in the Heart, the seat of the soul where the bliss

of swarupa surges, so that you are not afflicted by misery.

891

ம

.

892

ண

.

892 14 N Sulking, pretending you are an independent being, and

saying ‘I’, is empty, futile and captious.

893

ம ம ம ம ம ர .

893 73 K The life of individualised existence, which is a combination

of the two opposing entities [chit and jada], is just a

manifestation of the mind [manomaya].

894

ரம

ம .

894 4 M Except in one’s imagination [bhavana], there is no

attainment of liberation from bondage in the ultimate state

of supreme truth.

895

ம .

895 5 M The jivas’ habit of wandering and struggling on many paths

and attaining liberation arises from the delusion of

bondage.

896

ர ர .

134

896 21 D Remaining always as the Self and realising it is like the

pilgrimage to Pandharpur that is performed while staying

in Pandharpur itself.

897

ர

ம .

897 6 R Sankalpa [thought] creates the world. The peace attained

on the destruction of sankalpas is the [permanent]

destruction of the world.

898

ம

ம ர ம ம .

898 14 S It is the stupidity of the deluded ego to be fixated on that

which looks at that which moves.

899

.

899 22 X Observe the disciplines of external conduct [achara],

knowing in your heart their real object by properly

reflecting on their inner meaning.

900

ம .

900 12 D Only when the nature of reality is clearly known will false

understanding perish, along with the delusion it brings with it.

901

ரம

.

901 1 X Directing the mind towards siddhis [supernatural powers]

is a stumbling block that inhibits progress towards the

supreme state of liberation.

135

902

.

903

ண

ம .

904

ர

ர ம .

904 11 O It is God who manages and protects the many worlds. The

imagining of jivas, who are just a multitude of reflections,

that they are bearing the burden of the world is a farce.

905

.

905 30 V As long as the holy feet do not touch and come to rest

squarely upon the head [of the jiva] what benefit can

scholarship give?

906

.

906 11 Q The loss of ‘I’ can never be fully and perfectly

accomplished by sadhana alone, the effort of the jiva.

907

ம ணம

ரணம .

908

ம

ண .

908 37 D That which projects the images [in waking and dream],

which are the concepts of the false mind, is reality, the

light of blissful consciousness.

136

909

.

909 52 A The extremely wonderful Padam acts as though he too is

under the control of the actions of sakti that were initiated

by him.

910

ம ம

ம ம .

911

ர

.

911 21 P How can liking and disliking be inherent in the non-dual

reality in which it is impossible either to reject or accept.

912

ர மர

.

912 36 J The feelings arising from pairs of opposites [such as joy

and misery], which result from the confusion of the

distorted mind, cannot exist in the non-dual jnana.

913

ம

ம ம .

913 13 M What is always natural to everyone is liberation, which is

bliss. Bondage is delusion of mind, a false sensation.

914

ம

ம .

914 25 B The compassionate heart that flows from me to you will

never fail except when you cease to have remembrance of

‘me’, who command and conduct everything.

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915

ம ண .

915 26 B You can know and experience my grace, which is my

nature, if you remember me with no forgetfulness in your

heart.

916

ண

ம ரம .

916 3 B Know me as the true essence of jnana that shines

uninterruptedly in your Heart. Destroy the objectifying

awareness of the ego-mind that arrogantly cavorts as ‘I’.

917

ம ரம

ம ம .

917 59 D Swarupa, which shines as consciousness, the supreme, is

the substratum for everything that is present everywhere.

918

ம .

918 36 D All objects appear and flourish in the Self only. Is there

anything, therefore, that has the power to act

independently of that Self?

919

ரம

ரம ண .

919 14 H To remain in association with Atma-swarupa,

consciousness, the supreme, is satsang. It is not proper to

stay away from the Self, the supreme being.

920

ண ண ம

ண ம .

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920 15 H Only when you leave the Self, the cool shade, do all

miseries approach and scorch you, tormenting your mind.

921

ம

.

921 10 U The steadfast jnani will completely consume, without any

fear, the prarabdha that began with the present body.

922

ம

.

922 11 U In the blissful experience of jnana, the Self, those

prarabdha experiences will not cling to the ‘I’.

923

ர ம

ம ரம .

923 31 D All changes are only for the non-Self. For one’s own

nature, the Self, the supreme, there is never any change.

924

ம .

924 38 P The attainment of hatha yoga is a defective

accomplishment since it can be lost. But for the one who

has attained jnana, the perfect accomplishment, there is

never any loss.

925

.

925 84 D The compassionate Padam declares: ‘There is no other

mistake like pramada that ruins your bliss.’

926

ண

139

ம ண .

927

ம

ர .

927 54 X Wherever you may go and search, it is rare to come

across people who have the honesty to see their own

mistakes.

928

ம ம ம

ம .

928 55 X The reason for refusing to accept one’s own defects is the

identification with the false ego, the reflection.

929

.

929 65 K The moment you uproot and overthrow the mischievous

ego, lordship over the world of liberation will flood your

heart.

930

ம

ம .

930 64 F Realise that the scenes that expand before you in the form

of the world are just a concept of the mind. Otherwise, see

the world as the form of God.

931

ம

.

931 65 F If everything that appears is a form of the vast God, how

can attraction and aversion be appropriate?

932

ம

140

ர ம .

932 26 D That Self which is intimately united with all beings is the

unerring, pure, supreme reality.

933

ண

.

934

ம

ர .

934 9 N Pursue in the Heart the enquiry ‘Who is this “I” that is the

source for the manifestation of the ego and all the rest?’

935

ம .

935 28 I Do not grieve, taking yourself to be the mind, but merge

with the inner peace through the attainment of knowing

yourself to be the reality.

936

ம ம

ம .

936 60 M Knowing that inner peace with which you have merged to

be your own real nature, abide as that peace and, with

determination, drown in it.

937

ம

ண .

937 59 M If you abide in the Heart, realising your true state, your

peace will never cease.

938

ம

ண .

938 4 A Padam is Dakshinamurti, conferring the final emancipation

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of mukti, whose nature is pure consciousness.

939

ம ம ம

ம ம .

939 44 H Living as the Self is the essence of all dharmas. All other

dharmas merge there.

940

ம ம

ம .

941

ம ம .

941 165 Y Padam, absolute oneness, presided over me, putting an

end to my forgetfulness of swarupa, making this my final

birth.

942

ம

ம .

942 163 Y Padam made me realise that the arising births are only

dreams that became associated [with me] through the

delusive power of the mind.

943

.

943 39 E Swarupashines as being-consciousness, that which is

perfect fullness. The mind becoming like that swarupa and

uniting with it is yoga [union].

944

மம

ம ம .

944 79 A Padam, the mountain of supreme bliss that abides and

shines, brings joy to the hearts of those who, having

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completely given up all desires, worship him.

945

ம ம

ம .

945 78 C Padam, the pure light of infinitely subtle being-

consciousness, swarupa, rises to humble the mischief of

mind and speech.

946

ர ம

.

946 33 J All the triputis sprout and dance from the sordid delusion

[moha], which is [the consequence of] ignorance, the

absence of enquiry.

947

ர

ர .

947 34 J Being insubstantial reflections, they disappear in the very

instant that the light of jnana vichara falls upon them.

948

ம ம ர

.

949

ம

ரம ம .

950

.

950 58 C In conformity with the imaginings of worshippers, Padam

parades as the various gods who are renowned as

liberators from bondage.

951

ம ம ம

.

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951 97 C Padam has invented many arts, full of illusory concepts, for

those with insignificant intellects to know and delight in.

952

ர ம

ம .

952 102 C The lustrous Padam comes to be attained as the enduring,

undecaying, supremely blissful grace only by the true

jnanis who have completely rooted out desires.

953

ண

ணம .

953 103 C Padam, pure, free of all attributes, will gloriously arise

through [divine] dispensation, something that cannot be

clearly known and gained other than by renunciation.

954

ம

ம .

954 37 C All things exist depending on Padam, but Padam has no

desire whatsoever for any of those things.

955

ர ர

ம ர ம .

955 94 C Padam torments those whose hearts harbour attachments,

but brings delight to those whose hearts possess the

generosity [of not clinging to anything].

956

ர

.

957

ர ம ர

ர மர ம .

957 4 C Padam, whose equal disposition to all is unfailingly pure, is

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the harmony underlying all contradictions.

958

.

958 29 H Follow not the path of the many, but cleave to the way of

those who are noble, great and good [jnanis].

959

ர ம ம .

960

ம

ம .

960 29 Q It is due to maturity of mind [chitta-paripaka] that what is

very difficult for the many is extremely easy for the very

few.

961

ம

.

962

ம

ம .

962 42 J This world that appears so wonderful consists merely of

names and forms. Transient as a bubble, it exists only at

the level of the five senses.

963

.

963 37 X Deceitful conduct, like the root-maggot, will undermine and

topple the great [tree of] tapas, which is the striving for

redemption.

964

.

145

964 12 V Why so many teachings? Direct your attention towards the

attainment of the Self, which is pure consciousness.

965

ண ம

ம ம .

965 78 D Only the swarupa that obliterates and makes the non-Self

non-existent is described as the emptiness, nirvana.

966

ம

.

966 34 P Unless the desire for the non-Self completely ceases, that

enduring reality will not be attained.

967

.

967 14 T Is it not because of the existence and shining of the one

known as ‘I’ that this world appears before our eyes?

968

ம

ம ண .

968 19 W The reason why one experiences misery is that one does

not first come to know the real nature of that primal entity,

the source.

969

ம .

969 25 S The nature of things seen will be according to the nature of

the one who sees.

970

ம .

970 61 E The world shines through your existence, but your being

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does not depend on the existence of the world.

971

ம

.

971 10 L You have to accept your own existence even in the state

of unconscious sleep where the scenes involving the

triputis cease to exist.

972

ம

.

972 11 L If you do not accept the fact of your existence [in sleep],

how did that knowledge come to you?

973

.

973 12 L Since sleep is that splendid, pure consciousness, devoid

of mind and intellect, that mysterious experience cannot be

enquired into by the mind and intellect.

974

ம

ம .

974 28 F Only in the silence of the Heart, where the movement of

mind and intellect ceases, will the unique light of pure

consciousness blaze forth, radiating brightly.

975

ம ம ம

ம ண .

975 104 X In times of great wealth the quality that will be the greatest

blessing is humility of heart.

976

147

.

976 105 X In poverty’s straitened circumstances, the quality that

should shine out is a loftiness of mind that confers inner

fortitude.(Bhagavan is here quoting Tirukkural, verse 963.)

977

ண

ம .

977 68 P Do not allow yourself to be buffeted by the sense

perceptions in this world, but become firmly established in

the discipline of spiritual practice [tapas], and be totally

free of misery.

978

ண ம

ம ண ம .

978 33 B Padam receives the minds of loving devotees as an

offering, swallowing them through a ruby-red light.

979

ம

ண .

979 61 M Bathe and refresh yourself in the broad waters of peace,

which dispel the cravings that are fed by the noxious

flames of intoxication with the senses.

980

ம

ம ம .

980 14 K For the jiva there is no refuge other than truth. Therefore,

enquire and know your own truth, which is extremely close

to you.

981

ர

ம .

148

981 87 X Know that sama-chitta [equanimity of mind] is when both

praise and blame appear to be identical.

982

.

982 80 X Rather than closely associating with those whose nature is

incompatible with your own, it is better to avoid their

company, without speaking badly of them.

983

ம மம .

983 22 F Joy and misery are not natural to humanity. Only peace,

the life of bliss, is natural.

984

ர ம ம ம ம

ர ம ம .

984 19 F That which is cherished by the great ones [jnanis] as the

matchless rapture of Brahman is the bliss of peace, the

limitless contentment.

985

ண

ண ம .

985 5 T Oh, why do the dull-witted and mad people of the world

wander about aimlessly, paying attention to the empty and

useless creations of the mind?

986

ம

ம .

986 45 J Why give up the marvellous experience of peace by

desiring imaginary and degraded [sense] enjoyments?

987

ர ர

149

.

987 9 U What is to come to you will automatically come. What is

not, will not come. [Therefore,] remain in your blissful

natural state.

988

ம

ம ம ம .

988 9 I Ignoble, ignorant and deluded people will get whirled

around by the droll dance of the shrunken, limited and

deceitful mind.

989

மம

ம ம .

989 142 D The pleasures experienced through the senses are only

spurious versions of bliss. Only the nature of the undivided

Atma-swarupa is true bliss.

990

ம

.

990 40 W Until you enquire into your real nature, seeing and abiding

as it, the triple miseries experienced by you will not cease.

991

ர

ம .

991 48 D That which is, is only one, not two; and even that does not

exclude you. Indeed, it is not different from you.

992

ம .

992 52 H The real is that which cannot be destroyed, and that which

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can be destroyed is not the real. One who knows this to be

the truth is a wise one.

993

ம ர

.

993 17 W The mental disturbance of feeling sad over the death of

friends and relatives is an act of ignorance.

994

ம ம ம

ம .

994 4 B When I am shining in your Heart as ‘I-I’, your own real

nature, your attempt to ‘attain’ me is indeed a great

marvel!

995

ரண

ம .

995 7 B Your search to attain me is like searching all over the

world, ceaselessly straining to find the necklace around

your own neck.

996

ண

.

996 8 B Just as you know that the necklace is there by feeling

your neck, seek the treasure of the Self, your real nature,

within the Heart, and know it.

997

ண .

997 22 D The Self, that object of supreme value, is always attained.

One ‘attains’ it by knowing it well and by getting firmly

convinced that one is That.

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998

ம ம ம ம

ம .

998 29 N Because reality is only one, true jnana-yogais the direct

path. Because there is no duality, there is no other path.

999

ண ம

ர .

999 32 N In the path of jnanavichara, which is enquiring into and

knowing reality as it actually is, impediments, which are

flaws, are non-existent.

1000

ம

ண .

1000 11 M If you enquire into the Self and come to know it, in that

vision of the Self the age-old primal illusion of bondage will

become a story long-forgotten.

1001

ம ம

ம .

1001 56 P This [vision of the Self] will only be encountered by those

who are free of the delusion of desire, and not by those

whose corrupted minds are full of desires for sense objects.

1002

ர

ம ம .

1002 26 W Why indeed does the jiva feel aggrieved and suffer by

forgetting swarupa, its real nature, which surges as the

vast expanse of supreme bliss?

1003

ர

ர .

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1004

ம ம

ரண .

1004 30 W Since you have created all your miseries through the

degraded attitude of mind [that thinks I-am-the-body], why

do you rail against God as though he were the cause of

your suffering?

1005

ம .

1005 14 J It is only because the Self shines as you, and as not

different from you, that it has become impossible for you to

attain it through your suttarivu.

1006

ம

ம .

1006 17 K If the jiva remains without the suttarivu, in that state it will

clearly see itself as the immaculate, pure swarupa, free

from limitations. (The quoted material in the second half of

the verse comes from Tirukkural, verse 1094.)

1007

ரண ர

.

1007 1 U Iswara is responsible for the five-fold activities in the same

way that the sun is responsible for the activities of the world.

1008

ம ம .

1009

ர .

1009 2 U Other than through the sakti connection, Iswara has no

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direct relationship with the world.

1010

ண ம

.

1010 8 S As the seen does not exist without the being-

consciousness of the seer, [the being-consciousness of

the seer] is the foremost and most self-evident among

everything that is self-evident.

1011

ம

.

1011 9 J If Self-consciousness is unreal [asat] and insentient [jada]

in nature, then tell me how objective knowledge [suttarivu]

exists for you?

1012

ம ம

ம .

1012 40 T To whatever extent this world is real, to that same extent

are other worlds real.

1013

ம ம

ர .

1013 41 T ‘Only this much can be said about heaven and hell without

giving rise to arguments.’ So says Padam, the Lord.

1014

ம ம ம

ம ம .

1014 83 K Only the ego, the delusion that spreads by identifying with

the insentient upadhi [the body], is bondage.

1015

154

ம .

1015 76 K That which liberates, cutting asunder the shackle of chit-

jada, is the enquiry that leads to knowledge of the truth of

one’s real nature.

1016

.

1016 3 T The world appears within your own Self, very much as the

colour blue appears in the sky.

1017

.

1017 10 R Why, like ignorant children, have a dualistic outlook

towards the world, which exists like a reflection of your

swarupa?

1018

ம ம

ம ம .

1019

ண ம

ம .

1020

ம ம

.

1020 71 K When the ego is destroyed, the truth of the Self will shine

undivided, extending to the farthest extremities of the four

quarters [of the universe].

1021

ண ம

ண ர .

1021 15 D The non-dual truth is realised in the experience of pure,

supreme consciousness. It is not attained afresh.

155

1022

ம

ம ம .

1022 12 P Your duty is only to pay attention to what is already

existing. All other sadhanas are just a great dream.

1023

ம

.

1023 47 X Accept with great joy whatever is obtained without desiring

it. Regard it as sufficient and offer it to the body.

1024

ர ம ர .

1024 51 E The many different pleasures enjoyed through the mind

are just the superficial bubbles on the sea of brahmic bliss.

1025

ர

ம ம ம .

1025 52 E To the realised sage in the supreme state of Siva-

consciousness that happiness of consciousness will

become an abundant, permanent and uninterrupted

experience.

1026

ண

ம ண ம .

1026 53 E In the state wherein the mind-limitation is completely

destroyed, the truth of the happiness of consciousness,

which is beyond the reach of deductive thought, will

become clear.

1027

ம

156

ர .

1027 137 D The bliss of jnana, the Self, that manifests in the tranquil

mindwill disappear and cease to appear in the ghora vritti

[rajasic mind].

1028

ர ம

ண .

1028 57 C Padam possesses the authority that makes the Sun,

Yama, Agni, Vayu and so on perform their duties fearfully,

in an orderly way, without transgressing.

1029

ம ண ம

.

1029 46 X Cure the disease of hunger with the medicine of food

obtained through begging and live without any desire in

your mind.

1030

ம ம ம ம

ண ம .

1030 3 U You should know that the veiling [tirodana] that makes

jivas forget [the events of past lives] is an act of supreme

compassion by Iswara towards them.

1031

ம ம ம

ர ம .

1031 4 U If these memories are not absent, jivas will not attain

malaparipaka [a mature state in which impurities are ready

for destruction], and the lives of jivas will get shattered and

ruined.

1032

ம

157

ம .

1032 1 V The doctrines of all religions contradict each other. They

wage war, collide with each other, and finally die.

1033

ம

ம ம ம .

1033 2 V On this battlefield all the religions retreat defeated when

they stand before mauna, which abides beneficently,

sustaining them all.

1034

ம ம ம

ம .

1034 3 V The rare and wonderful power of mauna is that it remains

without enmity towards any of the religions.

1035

ம ம

ம ம .

1035 5 V Abandoning vain disputation, which only deludes and

torments the mind, accept the doctrine of the mauna

religion, which always remains undisturbed.

1036

ம

ம .

1036 4 I The very nature of the degraded mind that has been

spinning endlessly since time immemorial is to distort one

thing into another.

1037

ம ம

ம மர .

1038

மம

ம .

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1038 60 A Padam, who possesses the munificence of grace, has

given the assurance that his greatest duty is that of

affording protection [to devotees].

1039

.

1039 10 Q Do not wilt and lose heart – walk with abundant faith in

divine grace.

1040

ம

ம .

1040 6 H It is impossible to describe the greatness of a jnani who,

by merely living on this earth, confers the greatest benefit

on the world.

1041

ம

ர ர .

1042

ம

.

1042 102 K If you attain perfect mastery of internal renunciation,

external renunciation will have no importance.

1043

ம

ம ம .

1043 13 C Padam is the consciousness, the Self that shines in the

Heart as the motionless magnetic mountain.

1044

ம ம

.

1044 42 C Because it bears and sustains the whole world, the

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completely perfect being-consciousness is termed Padam.

1045

.

1045 14 B If you completely surrender all your responsibilities to me, I

will accept them as mine and manage them.

1046

ம

ம .

1046 116 K So long as you have not renounced the belief ‘I am the

doer’, keep in your mind the correct perspective that your

responsibilities are yours alone.

1047

ம ம

ம .

1048

ம ர .

1048 41 H Those who are abiding in Padam, with their egos

destroyed, are true devotees, steadfast as a mountain.

1049

ம ம

ம ம .

1049 58 O Perfect devotion will only arise on seeing the Lord who

shines in the Heart as Atma-swarupa, whose form is all

bliss.

1050

ம

.

1050 5 I The defect of the mind is to connect [wrongly], making it

appear as though the nature of one thing is the nature of

another.

160

1051

ம .

1052

ம ணர

ம .

1052 11 T If the unique truth that shines within oneself is known first,

the truth of the world can then be known completely.

1053

ம

ம ம .

1053 38 T Is it not because one forgets one’s truth, the light of

consciousness, that one gets caught in the net of maya,

from which one doesn’t know how to escape?

1054

ம

* .

1054 24 V Hoping to get a revelation of jnana through scriptural

knowledge is like resolving to cross the ocean on an

insignificant blade of grass.

1055

ம ம ண

.

1055 17 N The awareness of being, ‘I am’ [sat-bodha], which shines

as the source of the intellect, is the divine grace that

enables the attainment of true jnana.

1056

ர ம

ம .

1056 4 G That which dwells within as the supreme Self is indeed that

which sports before [you] as the very visible form of the Guru.

1057

ம ம ரமண

161

ம .

1058

ரம

.

1058 26 O The offerings donated to Iswara, who has the highest

qualifications to receive such donations, will accumulate as

limitless punya.

1059

ர ண ம

ர .

1059 4 W Those who have even a trace of the feeling of ‘I’ in the

body, which becomes corpse-like in sleep, are really dead,

even though they may appear to be living.

1060

ம ம

ம ம ம ம .

1060 8 W Only those whose minds are dead truly live. Those who

have a living mind, which is a delusion, are those who are

truly dead.

1061

ம ர ரண

.

1061 15 Q Of all difficult tasks, the most difficult is to explain to those

whose minds are intoxicated [with the pleasures of the

senses] the real cause of their joy.

1062

ம

.

1062 16 Q Only after the intoxication [caused by sense pleasures]

has somewhat abated will teachings that lead to jnana be

helpful to such people.

162

1063

ம .

1063 27 Q Without maturity [desirelessness] in the mind, the abiding

experience of sahajasamadhi will not ripen.

1064

ம .

1065

ம

ம .

1065 28 Y Fool that I was, condemned by my own lack of knowledge,

Padam, whose form is grace-consciousness, expunged

my sinfulness.

1066

ம ம

ர .

1067

ர

ம ம ம ம .

1067 37 T The power of the mind, the illusion that makes minute

shadows appear as the multiple, colossal worlds is very

impressive indeed!

1068

ம ம

.

1068 27 S Both in nishta and true jnana drishti the objectification that

sees scenes as other [than oneself] is totally non-existent.

1069

ண

ம .

1069 58 F Even though you may see wonderful visions [of the gods]

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that are worthy of being adored, these visions you have

obtained are actually of little importance.

1070

ம ம .

1070 52 K A rutting elephant [the ego] will kill itself, trying to gore the

mountain it takes to be its enemy, but which is in fact its

own shadow.

1071

ரம

ம ம ர ம .

1071 7 W People who are subject to the vain intoxication of the ego’s

demented arrogance will die over and over again, a

thousand times a day.

1072

ண

.

1073

ணம

ண .

1073 44 I Only he, who has destroyed the guna-mind that wells up,

burying the swarupa, is a gunatita [one who has

transcended the three gunas].

1074

ண ம

ண .

1074 45 I The magnificent nature of the life that has transcended the

mind is not disturbed in any way whatsoever by any of the

gunas.

1075

ம .

164

1075 66 X If it is necessary to perform a particular task, then it is

fitting to do it in a proper manner.

1076

ர .

1076 62 F Those who ask ‘Where is God? He is not visible,’ should

enquire ‘Who am I? Where am I?’ and meet God there

[where the answer is found].

1077

ண

.

1077 63 F That which appears and shines, without another, in the

space of the Heart, and which is encountered there, is the

form of God.

1078

ம .

1078 78 F Non-existent to the senses, but cognisable through

consciousness, Sivamshines as the reality, as ‘I’.

1079

ம ர

ம ர .

1079 15 C Padam shines as the supreme light in the Heart when the

light of the [individual] self is merged inseparably in the

Self, the supreme, which is the source of that light.

1080

ர ம

ரணம .

1080 30 C That good and great light is Padam, the utter perfection

with which the mind that experience the non-dual Self has

coalesced.

165

1081

ம

ம .

1082

ம ம ம

.

1083

ர ர ம

ர .

1084

ம .

1085

ம

.

1085 69 P Protect your mind by all possible means so that harmful

cravings for the sense objects of the world do not cling to it.

1086

ண ம

ம ணம .

1086 81 C Padam comes swiftly bounding to see those devotees who

are genuinely struggling to see it.

1087

ர

ர ம ர .

1087 82 C Padam, the extremely intense, true and supreme grace,

takes ten steps [towards the devotee] when the devotee

takes one step [towards Padam].

1088

ம .

1088 106 X If you disregard your worldly setbacks and have no interest

in them, a joyful life will automatically be obtained in the

heart.

166

1089

ம ம

ம ம ம .

1090

ம ண

.

1091

ம .

1091 7 K Unless the activity of the senses that operate through the

consciousness of the jiva totally ceases, it will be

extremely difficult to achieve union with that divine

consciousness, which is the bliss of the Self.

1092

ம

ம ண .

1093

ம ர

ம .

1094

ம .

1094 44 J Do not let your attention dwell on the concept [that is the

world]. Stop perceiving sense objects and know that the

world is merely a dream.

1095

ம

ம ம .

1095 62 D The greatness of the flourishing swarupa is that, being

one’s own true nature, it leaves no scope for even saying

that it is easy to attain.

1096

ம

ம ம .

167

1096 2 J Though the Atma-swarupa is one’s own true nature, the

reason why it appears difficult to attain is because of the

powerful illusion wrought through suttarivu.

1097

ர ம

.

1097 13 J The struggle to know that non-dual Self through objective

knowledge mediated by the senses, with its consequent

delusion and distress, is indeed a wonder.

1098

ம

.

1098 88 P Achieving Atmanishta through sadhana is to arrive at a life that is

free from the misery caused by the scorching vasanas.

1099

ண ம

ண ம .

1099 50 F To whatever extent you dive with a one-pointed mind

within the Heart, to that extent you will experience bliss.

1100

ரம

ர ம .

1100 51 F [In so doing] the vexation of the clamorous and

exceedingly cruel ego ghost, the mind, will perish, leaving

not a trace.

1101

ம

ம .

1102

ர

.

1102 30 J The triputis appear as a reflection in the mirror of the mind

168

like a sleight-of-hand conjuring trick.

1103

ம ண ம ர

ம ம ம ண .

1103 22 A Bringing them to maturity through his gaze, Padam

enlightens them with the truth, the supreme transcendence

1104

ர ம

ர ம ம .

1105

ண ம

ம .

1106

.

1107

ம ம

ம ம .

1108

ம ம

ம ம .

1108 38 D The effulgence of the perfectly pure Self alone is real; the

vision of the impure mind is false.

1109

ம ண ம ம ம

.

1109 14 I Padam warns: ‘It is hard indeed for those who are

deluded, taking mind-consciousness to be the truth, to

discern the nature of the real.’

1110

ம

ம .

1110 13 O By offering the good mind at the auspicious feet of God,

perfect and never-diminishing bliss will be attained.

169

1111

ம ம

.

1111 10 W Those whose hearts have been penetrated by the ever-

present existence of Atma-swarupa are immortals.

1112

ம ம .

1112 76 F The state of union with Sivam, which is difficult to reach, is

shining alone as being.

1113

ம ம

ம ம .

1113 117 D Other than the thought of the Self, any other thought you

may associate with is a mere mental construct, foreign to

that Self.

1114

ம

ண ர .

1114 19 D Why are you unnecessarily languishing by closing your

eyes and thinking when the truth of oneself is shining in a

self-evident way?

1115

ம ண

ண ர ர .

1115 20 D Open your eyes! Know the light that shines through your

eyes; shine in the Heart as the greatest of all lights, which

transcends all thought.

1116

ம

ம .

170

1116 44 P Letting go of the tether of jnana swarupa, why are you

holding onto the tail, the ‘I am Siva’ concept?

1117

ரண .

1117 32 P Do not roam around, putting your attention on the non-

Self. Abide in the fullness that is your own real nature,

which is the bliss of peace.

1118

ம

.

1118 30 F When perfection exists as the nature of your Heart, why do

you lose your composure by dwelling on imperfections?

1119

ம ம .

1119 13 F Since it is thought that creates a sense of deficiency, only

thought-free mauna is fullness.

1120

ம

ம ம ம .

1120 25 O If you have the attitude that you are God’s servant, the

delusion that arises from the cruel ego will lose its

strength.

1121

ம ம

ம .

1121 128 D In a heart [aham] in which true love is overflowing, it will be

known clearly that one’s own real nature is nothing but

bliss.

171

1122

ர ர ம

ம .

1122 35 W Confusion and agitation are erroneous superimpositions

upon consciousness, within which they have no real

existence.

1123

ம

ம ரம ம .

1123 7 R The reflected consciousness [chidabhasa], the suttarivu

that is known as the mind, is an extremely wonderful but

false appearance.

1124

ம ண

ம ம ர .

1124 4 J For those who conclude that suttarivu is real and immerse

themselves in it, the Self will be violated, their

consciousness will be bewildered, and their mind will gasp

for breath.

1125

ம .

1125 221 Y Wherever I look, all that I see is Padam, the light of the

expanse of consciousness that never dims.

1126

ம

ம .

1126 55 O The amount of blissful grace that spreads out in your heart

will only be in proportion to the amount of true devotion

that flows steadily from you to God.

172

1127

ரண ம

ம மம .

1127 132 D Only the completely perfect swarupa, the pure

consciousness that is devoid of objectification, is the life of

unlimited true bliss.

1128

ரண ம

.

1128 7 J To entertain the doubt that the supreme reality, which is

devoid of all objectification, is a void, is indeed a deception

perpetrated by the false, objectifying consciousness.

1129

ம

ம .

1129 1 J Suttarivu is a fraudulent consciousness arising in the

wicked ego-mind. It is the scheming of the conceptualising

[mind].

1130

ம ண

ம .

1130 31 F The Heart is the jiva-samadhi where the soul of the true

devotee resides forever with bliss-consciousness.

1131

ம

ம .

1131 13 Q Because of the ever-present identity [ekanma-bhava]

between the two [Iswara and the jiva, or Guru and

disciple], grace and good devotion are not separate from

each other.

1132

,

173

ர ம

ர .

1132 14 Q ‘There is therefore no contradiction in saying that either

one is the cause of the other.’ Thus says the perfect

Padam, ripe in wisdom.

1133

ர

ம .

1133 57 P A heart that has been usurped by the demon of powerful

desires, which are vile attachments, is a home for miseries

that will stream forth like winged white ants from their hole.

1134

ம மரம

ம .

1134 23 H Do not follow the path of the ignorant, those who know no

better. Reach for and take as your most excellent refuge

the feet of jnanis.

1135

ம ம

.

1136

ம

.

1136 31 K Enquire within and know the source of the ego so that the

ego departs and the experience of Atma-swarupasurges.

1137

மர ம

ம ம ர .

1137 95 K Those whose tamasic minds are overspread with the

darkness of worldly bondage [pasam], and whose nature is

obsessed with ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are said to be stupid people.

174

1138

ர

.

1138 1 H Upon thorough investigation, it will be known that those

who possess the greatness of the immensely vast and

noble Self are Iswara [God] himself, for their nature is

divine.

1139

ர ம

.

1140

ர ம

ம ர ம ம .

1140 21 V Learning the jnana sastras is only an incidental cause for

travelling the path to samadhi. You should understand that

its value is limited.

1141

ண ண

ண .

1141 41 V Even if one studies and knows in minute detail the subtlest

of books, unless there is [nishkamya] punya it will be

impossible for the mind to enter the Heart.‘Punya’ here

refers to the merits that come from spiritual practices

performed without any thought of a reward.

1142

ர ர

ர ர .

1143

ம

ர .

1143 111 D Those who, instead of recognising the Self, try to know [it]

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with their minds will get choked and perplexed.

1144

ம ரம

.

1144 59 F To completely abandon the illusory creations of the ego-

mind is the true vision of God, who transcends all

concepts.

1145

ம

ம .

1145 91 K Except through the rare medicine of direct experience it is

impossible to escape from the I-am-the-body disease.

1146

ண ம

ம .

1147

ம

ரம .

1148

ம ம ம

ம .

1148 93 X The divine perspective, clarity of mind, is the proper

means for salvation.

1149

ர

.

1149 79 P The melting of the mind [towards God] and the

compassion [it exhibits towards creatures] are the means

for purifying the mind.

1150

ர ம ம

ம .

176

1150 89 X The attitude of mind that retains equanimity in the midst of

the pairs of opposites will not be engendered in anyone

who does not possess the clarity of grace.

1151

.

1151 82 F The way to attain the clarity of grace is to perform the Siva worship

of completely ignoring anything that is other [than Siva].

1152

ம .

1152 37 E When the mind attains clarity, the attainment of the bliss of

swarupa, consciousness of being, will result, and your

heart will attain fullness.

1153

ம ம

.

1153 100 X For true devotees, the only benefit worth attaining is the

blissful wealth of grace. All other kinds of wealth are of no

consequence.

1154

ம ம ம

ம .

1155

ம ண ர .

1155 69 D Investigate and realise that from the very beginning you

possess as your very own nature the swarupa you are

journeying to attain.

1156

ம

ர .

177

1157

ம

ம .

1158

ம

ம ம .

1158 37 J Once your consciousness has become clear, all

differences will disappear and everything will appear as

the nature of your own self [tanmaya].

1159

ர ம

ர ம .

1160

ம ம

ம .

1161

ம

.

1161 36 P Do not wander about seeking the non-Self, but undertake

the task of merging with your own nature, jnana.

1162

ர

ம .

1162 34 W Since you are intent on driving out suffering, you should

know that your real nature is bliss alone.

1163

ம

.

1163 110 D The deception of the mind that roams around without any

restraints is extremely wicked. Expel the conceptualising

tendencies of the mind through Self-abidance.

1164

ம மம

ம .

178

1164 56 I That exquisitely subtle mind which, in dying, has

transcended all form, will come to shine as your own Self.

1165

ம

ணர .

1165 41 E For those who have the strength to enquire diligently and

know the real nature of the mind, it will shine as the pure

being-consciousness.

1166

ர ண

ர ர .

1166 82 X Get rid of the foolish excitement, the wild, turbulent frenzy

that belongs exclusively to the worthless.

1167

ம

ம ம ம .

1168

ம

ரணம .

1169

ர

ம .

1170

ம ம ம

ம .

1170 47 O In everyone true love towards oneself exists as one’s own

nature. Therefore, one’s true nature is bliss.

1171

ம

.

1171 48 O Therefore, the duty of those who desire to obtain supreme

bliss is to know, through thorough enquiry, their real

nature.

179

1172

ம

ம ண .

1172 73 P The minds of those who grieve, regarding the sense-

perceptions as real, cannot merge with the bliss of true

jnana, abounding in goodness.

1173

ம .

1173 23 E Unless the mind becomes clear by waking into

consciousness, separation from ignorance, the base

samsara, will not be possible.

1174

ம

ர .

1174 46 D Within those noble hearts that are illuminated by the real,

that most valuable thing of all, the light of liberation will

shine forth even here upon the earth.

1175

ம ண

ம ம ம .

1175 32 F The Heart that has attained through diligent application the

true awareness of the nature of reality will become a

storehouse of deep and abiding joy.

1176

.

1176 140 D Padam sternly warns: ‘So long as you are seeking

something other than yourself as the agent for gaining

bliss, there is no bliss for you.’

180

1177

ம ர .

1177 58 X To be afraid, effervescing with frenzied anger, is the very

picture of those whose base mind is filled with self-conceit.

1178

ம

.

1178 47 J The base form of consciousness always pays attention to

the five sense perceptions, seeing them as objects. The

superior consciousness attends to itself and remains

merged with itself.

1179

ம ர

.

1179 11 P How useful can those paths be that do not clearly reveal the

Self, even though they speak clearly about other things?

1180

ம ம

ம .

1180 41 D Only the light of consciousness that abides with its focus

on itself is true jnana, the reality. The suttarivu that knows

the non-Self is utter ignorance.

1181

ர ம

ர ம ம .

1181 27 K For the good jiva that has attained jnana, grace, there is

never ever any pramada[forgetfulness of the Self], the

darkness of ignorance.

1182

ம ம .

181

1183

ம ர ம

ம .

1184

ம ண

ம ண .

1185

.

1186

ம ம ம

ரம .

1186 47 P Why do you suffer, thinking ‘I, I’? If you remain still as the

Self, you will be bliss itself.

1187

ண

.

1188

ம ம

ம .

1188 7 G Siva-jnana-yoga is remaining still through the never-

diminishing grace of the Guru who bestows true jnana.

1189

ரம

ர .

1189 37 I Even the gods in the heavens cannot stir those deeply

peaceful ones who shine, having killed their minds.

1190

ம ம

ம .

1190 40 I True jnana, the experience of Sivam that rises in a dead

mind, will, extending to the very heavens, leap and

surpass [everything].

182

1191

ர ம

ம .

1191 128 C Padam exists and shines as that about which it can be

said: ‘True bliss is that in which the dualistic pair of joy and

misery has perished.’

1192

ம ர ம

.

1192 11 A Adopting the form of grace, resplendent Padam causes

true jnana to shine in a fitting manner in the hearts of

devotees.

1193

.

1193 3 N Until one enquires into and knows one’s own real nature,

the agitation experienced by the mind will not cease.

1194

.

1194 25 T If the world and Sivam are different entities, why then do

jnanis declare the world to be Siva-swarupa?

1195

ம ம

ம ம ம ம .

1196

ர .

1196 29 S As swarupa is non-dual jnana, the vision of swarupa is

merely abidance as swarupa.

1197

183

ம .

1197 1 S Every time it [the mind] sees, it is in the act of seeing that

the many scenes appear as if real to the seeing

consciousness.

1198

ம .

1198 30 S True vision is that which is known through steadfast

abidance in consciousness of being, which shines when

suttarivu is abandoned.

1199

ண

ம .

1200

ம ம ம

ம .

1200 8 T If the world is real, then it will be incorrect to claim that the

consciousness that perceives the world is a delusory one.

1201

ர

.

1201 105 D The whirling [of the mind] that arises through suttarivu [the

consciousness that divides into seer and seen] will not be

stilled other than through the continuous Self-abidance

that comes from vichara [self-enquiry].

1202

ர ம ம ம

ம .

1202 23 J Turning your face against the consciousness that binds,

merge with that pure consciousness in which there is no

bondage, and which is full of the light of truth.

184

1203

.

1203 15 X The egotistical who are ensnared by the empty desire for

fame are not different from those who have been ensnared

by harlots.

1204

.

1204 36 V The benefit of learning should be nothing less than to dwell

upon the gracious feet of the one whose form is the wealth

of pure consciousness.

1205

ம

ர .

1205 30 H In order to become exalted, study and learn the

magnificent jnana-achara in the company of sages who

are established in being, and then practise it with devotion.

1206

ர ம ம

ர ம ண .

1206 113 K That which veils your insight into the real is the attitude of

desiring fruits from actions. Therefore, you should cultivate

an understanding in which there is no expectation of

results.

1207

.

1208

ம .

1208 20 C Padam, the non-dual light of truth, abides neither knowing

185

nor being known.

1209

ம

ரம .

1210

ண ம

ண ம .

1210 35 V Everything that one has learned is total falsehood if it does

not become a means for [mind-] consciousness to subside

within the Self.

1211

ம

ம .

1211 65 E Know that the world that rises, persists and then sets is

wholly the play of chit-sakti[the power of consciousness].

1212

ர ம ம ம

.

1212 4 F Only mauna, which is the end point of jnana, is that true

vision which is the profound truth of Vedanta.

1213

ம ம

ம ம ர .

1213 34 C Padam is the true light that shines as the unique basis for

all that is seen as sentient and insentient.

1214

ண ம

.

1215

ம ம ர

ம .

1215 107 D The heroic ones should attain and remain firmly

186

established in Self-abidance in the Heart. Other than this,

what is the point of practising many sadhanas?

1216

ம ம ம

.

1216 27 N Do not perish amidst all your troubles but recognise your

target to be the truth of the Self that dwells as ‘I’ within

your Heart; cling to it and attain the bliss of consciousness.

1217

ம ம .

1217 27 M Since becoming established in the state of the Self is both

the means and the goal to be attained, remain still.

1218

ம .

1218 19 E To abide as the Self, pure consciousness, bereft of the

suttarivu – this is the meaning of ‘knowing consciousness

through consciousness’.

1219

ம ம

ம .

1219 20 E Know this statement to be the great and glorious meaning

of the unique phrase [summa iru] that tells you to be still.

1220

ம

ம ம .

1220 21 E Because in that state [of the Self] there is neither another

self to know, nor are there any rapidly arising concepts.

1221

ர

187

ம .

1221 94 K In the state wherein the ego, the I-am-the-body delusion,

has ceased, both yoga and bhoga [enjoyment], without

becoming two, merge together as one.

1222

ம .

1222 168 Y Saying, ‘Enough of dancing, now be still,’ Padam

bestowed on me the state of true jnana that exists forever

in my Heart as my own nature.

1223

ர

ர .

1224

ம

.

1224 95 C Through their desire for the eight great siddhis,Padam

orchestrates many yogis, giving them dancing lessons and

making them dance

1225

ம ம ம ம

.

1225 66 P How can the ekatma swarupa [the reality of the one Self]

shine in the Heart of those dull-minded people who are

excessively deluded?

1226

ம ம ம ம

ண .

1226 67 P Knowing that the real obstacle to [the attainment of ekatma

swarupa] is the great addiction to the objects perceived by

the five senses, get rid of that addiction.

188

1227

ர

ம .

1227 57 K The ego, which is the very personification of evil, is a great

ocean in which all sins dwell together.

1228

ரம ம ம

.

1228 20 X The splendorous condition, the state in which the vile ego

is abolished, is indeed the sum of the many and various

vedic sacrifices that confer spotless purity.

1229

ம ம ம .

1229 32 K If you enquire within yourself and know the nature of the

powerful ego-ghost, then, like the [presumed] best man, it

will run away and disappear.

1230

ர மர

ம .

1231

ம ம ம

ம ம .

1232

ம ம .

1233

ம .

1233 33 V Even if one has huge amounts of book knowledge, it is of

no use unless the inner attachment [the ego] is destroyed.

1234

ர

189

.

1234 53 P The state of rest that shines when all desire has ceased is

the powerful experience of Vedanta.

1235

ர

.

1235 60 K Only after the ego ‘I’ has been completely destroyed will

Self-experience arise.

1236

ம ம

ர .

1237

ர

.

1237 62 E Keep this in your mind: you are the being-consciousness that

shines as the stage for the drama; you are not the actor.

1238

ம ம

ர .

1239

ம ர ம

.

1240

ம ம ம

.

1241

ர ம ர

ம ம .

1241 48 P Realise that buddhivyabara [intellectual activity] is also

chitta vyabara [mental activity]. Since it is a great obstacle,

get rid of it completely.

1242

.

190

1242 73 A Padam’smode of behaviour is such that those who come

to him realise that curtailing food intake is good for the

stomach.

1243

ர ம .

1243 112 K Those who have cast off kartrutva will feel exhilarated

within themselves, having done all that needs to be done.

1244

ம ண

.

1244 124 K Those who do not see anything as a duty that has to be done

will attain the bliss of peace that yields limitless contentment.

1245

ர

ம ம ம .

1245 14 F In order to attain the supreme state of mauna, that which is

worthy of attainment by sadhakas is the loss of

individuality.

1246

ர ம

ம ம ண .

1246 4 O This destruction of the ego, this loss of individuality – a

state in which attachment to the non-Self does not find a

foothold – is self-surrender

1247

ர ணர ம மர

ர ம ம .

1248

ம ரம

.

1248 18 C The effulgent Padam wells up within the Heart of every

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jnani as the centre that has no circumscribing

circumference.

1249

ம ம

ம .

1250

ம

.

1250 79 F If you remain without the ‘I’, the experience of becoming

Sivam, the true jnana-swarupa, will unite with you.

1251

ம ம

.

1251 80 F The great enemy for the noble and abiding experience of

Sivamis the rising of the ego known as ‘I’.

1252

ம ரம

.

1252 49 K In the certain knowledge of the Self, wherein the ego dies

completely and is resurrected, mental anguish completely

ceases.

1253

ம

ம ர .

1253 18 A Padam emphatically declares the manifold births to be a tale

of the mind that is possessed by the defect of forgetfulness.

1254

ம ம

ம ம .

1254 42 T The appearance of every one of the worlds is merely a

dream of the sordid mind, which is the storehouse of

conceptualising power [kalpana-sakti].

192

1255

ண

ம .

1255 12 M In the hearts of those who have investigated and come to

know reality as it actually is, liberation in all its clarity is

eternally attained.

1256

ம ர

ம ம .

1256 17 Q In the face of consciousness, the supreme, which exists as

the eternally attained reality, the eyes of those owlish folk

whose minds are deluded will go blind.

1257

ம ம

மம .

1257 80 P Consciousness, one’s real nature, is extremely subtle, so

subtle that it cannot be known by speech, mind or intellect.

1258

.

1258 81 P It is therefore proper and necessary that they [speech,

mind and intellect] should first be reformed through

reflecting upon the grace-consciousness of God.

1259

ம

ம ம ம .

1259 21 Q When the mind, through the quality of extreme purity,

merges in the Heart, it will attain perfection as peace.

1260

ம

ரம .

1260 22 Q If the mind that has become one-pointed, like the tip of

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darba grass, merges with the Heart, the experience of

pure being, seemingly impossible to attain, will be very

easily discovered.

1261

ம ர

.

1261 23 Q Taking a thick fat crowbar [as a needle], it is not possible

to stitch together extremely delicate silk cloth using very

fine thread.

1262

ம ண ம ம ம

ம .

1262 119 C Noble Padamgets caught by genuine and limitless

devotion, which was the religion of Sabari and Kannappa.

1263

.

1263 74 A Padam has the habit of eating in moderation, since this is

conducive to well being, making those who eat excessively

feel ashamed.

1264

ம

ம ம .

1265

ம ம

ம ம ம .

1266

ம ர ம

ம ம .

1267

ம

ம ம ம .

1268

ம ம

194

ம ம ண .

1268 64 K True realisation is the assured state which has that

steadfast strength which derives from the death of that

source of forgetfulness, the deluding ego.

1269

ம

ம ம .

1269 48 F The truth of oneself that exists and shines in the Heart as one’s

own nature becomes veiled by a mind that is full of delusion.

1270

.

1270 83 P The disturbing agitation of mind that occurs when one

attempts to get firmly established in sadhana is a normal

occurrence that is prompted by the rising of vasanas.

1271

ர

ம .

1271 84 P If at that time you hold tightly to the power of the grace of

the parasakti that has possessed you, the vasana that

agitates your mind and distresses you will be completely

destroyed.

1272

ம ர

ம ம .

1272 31 H The teachings of true jnanis who are established in the

experience [of the Self] will bestow the light of truth on

those who meditate on them [the teachings] in their heart.

1273

ம

ர ம ர .

195

1273 27 L Those who dwell in the transcendental state will surpass

even the gods and will exercise their rule over the all-

pervading, resplendent kingdom of heaven [parandama].

1274

ண ம ர

ம .

1275

ம

ம ம ண .

1275 5 D True jnana is only the removal of wrong knowledge. Only

this is useful for liberation.

1276

ம

ம .

1276 58 D The true jnana is not something that is ‘attained’. It exists

as one’s own swarupa.

1277

ம ர

ண .

1278

ம ர

.

1279

ர ர

ம .

1280

ம

ம .

1281

.

1282

ரண ம

.

1283

ம ம

196

ம .

1283 38 I The mind that has died in pure consciousness, mere

being, will surge forth, resurrecting itself as bhuma[the all-

pervasive reality].

1284

ர ம

.

1285

ண

.

1285 33 F It is impossible for a Heart that has realised itself to be the

vast expanse of consciousness to be obscured by the thick

black darkness of ignorance.

1286

ம

ம .

1286 27 F Those are truly wise who drink the flooding honey of Atma-

swarupa, which shines in the Heart as the Heart, and feel

contented.

1287

ம ம

.

1287 37 A The effulgent Padam purifies the mind with the splendour

of grace such that its defilement is removed, infusing it

with a consciousness that is the rarest ambrosia.

1288

ம ண

ம .

1289

ம ர

.

1290

ம ர ம

197

.

1290 105 K Only those who have renounced the ego-mind have truly

renounced. What have all the others, who may have given

up other things, really renounced?

1291

ர ண ண

ர .

1291 33 Y Padam shines in my Heart in such a way that I rejoice

intensely here, dwelling constantly with love on the

gracious nobility with which he has governed me.

1292

ம

ம .

1292 47 I The means for realising one’s true nature as the Self is to

kill off the base mind known as ‘I’.

1293

ம ம

.

1293 14 W The deathless state is attained only by tyaga [giving up

everything]. It is impossible to get by any kind of yoga.

1294

ம

.

1294 113 X Since the ego is everything, the unattached state is not

attained except by the cessation of the ego.

1295

ர ம .

1296

மண .

1297

ம ம ம

198

.

1298

ர ம ண

ம ம .

1299

ம

ணர ம .

1299 67 Y Padam, my own true form, taught me to investigate and

know [the truth], preventing my soul’s purity from being

defiled by the filthy body.

1300

ர

ம .

1300 111 Y The vast emptiness, golden Padam, wildly dances with

elation, full of joy, having swallowed up my soul.

1301

ர ர

ர ம ர .

1302

ண

ண .

1302 44 Y Virtuous, golden Padam intensified my surging desire so

that my mind is naturally established totally in his feet.

1303

ம ம

ம ண .

1303 177 Y Destroying and putting a final end to my delusion, Padam

is the form of true jnana that is the supreme benefit for the

soul.

1304

ம

ம ம .

199

1304 93 D Unless consciousness becomes firm and still, the powerful

birth that associates [with you] through forgetfulness will

not cease to be.

1305

ம

.

1305 59 K Since the ego stands as the accumulation of all sins, its

destruction constitutes all that is virtuous.

1306

ர

ம ம .

1307

ம ம ம

ம ம ர .

1307 24 S Those who see the seen as having the same nature as

their eye [kan-mayam] will, abiding as the nature of the

space of consciousness, shine without confusion.

1308

ம ரம

ம ம .

1308 35 J [When] all sense objects are known to be consciousness

alone and the confusion caused by the triputis has

ceased, this is jnana.

1309

ம ர

ம .

1309 80 C Effulgent Padam abounds in joy in the hearts of true

devotees such that they do not desire anything other

than the life of dwelling under the grace-bestowing feet of

the Lord.

1310

200

ம ம .

1310 98 X Worldly riches are never a matter of importance to those

true devotees who have in their hearts an abundance of

the wealth of grace.

1311

ம

ம .

1312

ம

.

1312 61 K Unless you eradicate completely the obsession with the

ego-mind, knowing it to be an extremely powerful poison,

there will be no bliss in your heart.

1313

ம

.

1313 24 B Padam advises: ‘Keeping one’s attention on the subtle

consciousness that is experienced by the extremely subtle

mind is personal service to me.’

1314

ர ர

ம ம ண .

1315

ம

ம ம ம .

1315 59 E In a mind that worships by praising the feet of the Lord,

pure consciousness, the addiction to knowing things as

separate objects will be totally destroyed.

1316

மர ண

ம .

201

1316 140 Y Padam established the truth of the Self within my Heart as

firmly as a nail driven into soft, green wood.

1317

ண

ண ம .

1317 10 S Unless the seer sees and knows himself in the Heart, it is

not possible to attain the state of possessing the perfect

space of consciousness as one’s own property.

1318

ம

ம ம ம .

1319

ம ண

ம ம .

1320

ம

ம .

1320 31 S In the state of true jnana drishti, wherein one is firmly and

continuously established in Self-abidance, everything is

always of the nature of consciousness.

1321

ம ம

.

1321 16 S If the obstacle of the ego-impurity is destroyed, the

creation [srishti] that appeared as the world will become a

mere appearance [drishti].

1322

ம ம ம

ண ம .

1323

ம

ர .

1323 8 G Grace will freely flow in a heart that, meditating upon the

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Guru as the true form of Lord Siva, becomes lost in

adoration.

1324

ர .

1325

.

1326

ண ர ம

ம .

1327

ண ம

ண ண .

1328

ர ம

ம ம ம .

1329

ம

.

1330

ம ம

ர .

1331

ம ண ம

ம .

1331 44 O Except in consciousness of truth, it is impossible for a life

possessing beauty, the manifestation of true love, to exist.

1332

ர ம ம

மண .

1333

ம ம ர

ம .

1334

ண

203

ணம .

1335

ர ம .

1336

ம ம ம ம

.

1336 71 Y Becoming the solar orb, bright Padam, the grace-bestowing

jnana-Guru, destroyed the pitch darkness of ignorance, refined

my heart and brought me under his sway.

1337

ர

.

1338

ண ம

.

1339

ம

ர மம .

1340

ம ண .

1340 26 E The reason why one regards reality as different from

oneself is that one has not known, through enquiry, the

true nature of consciousness.

1341

ண .

1341 45 X Food eaten when one feels hungry will be useful, but food

eaten before hunger has set in will cause harm to the soul.

1342

ண

ம ம .

1342 8 N That from which the ‘I’-thought, the first thought, rises is

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the Heart, the Self, consciousness of being.

1343

ம ர .

1344

ர

ர .

1344 32 S Only when the tangled knot of chid-jada has been

destroyed will jnana-drishti, abidance as the vast expanse

of consciousness, be possible.

1345

ர ம ம

ர .

1345 41 M The supreme reality that is liberation is experienced only

by perfect mauna. Indulging in thoughts drives it away.

1346

ர ம

.

1346 105 C Since the nature of being is consciousness, Padam is the

directly experienced pure enjoyment of Sivam. It is not like

the [dualistic] enjoyment of sugar.

1347

ம

ண .

1347 22 Y If I miss the benefit of the bliss of union with Padam, it is entirely my fault,

and not the fault of the upright Padam of supreme, refreshing grace.

1348

ர ம ம

ர .

1348 110 Y Like ice melting in water, Padam dissolved my beloved soul

into its own state, whose form is love, turning me into itself.

1349

ம ம

205

ம .

1350

.

1350 123 Y I realised that it was through the grace of Padam, and not

through my ego consciousness, that the ‘I’ came to know

its [true] support and was redeemed.

1351

ம ண ர

ம ரம .

1352

ம

ர ர ர .

1353

ம

ம .

1354

ம ம

ம .

1354 38 A Padam, the truth, shines in the Heart, stunning the attitude

of mind that conducts itself by faith alone.

1355

ரம

ம ர .

1355 37 V Only those who are dwelling in the land of Atma-swarupa,

which is consciousness, the supreme, are scholars. The

rest are madmen.

1356

ரம

ர ர .

1357

ர ர .

1357 12 R Those fools who seek not the light of consciousness, but

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set off on the path of the senses, believing in the other

light [the chidabhasa], will swelter.

1358

ம

ம ம .

1358 35 X An existence dominated by the cunning and deceitful mind

will eventually attack the heart like a powerful poison, and

torment it.

1359

ம

ம ம .

1359 25 X The clear, true jnana, the propitious observance, should be

more dearly cherished within the Heart than life itself.

1360

ம ம

ம .

1361

ம

.

1362

.

1362 25 P It is the desire to know something other than

consciousness that pushes one into ignorance and

delusion.

1363

ம

.

1363 6 J If you imagine that reality is different from you, then the

consciousness that thinks so is false.

1364

ண ம ம ர

207

ண .

1364 24 I Since consciousness is reality, in order to know reality why is

it necessary to associate with the movements of the mind?

1365

ண

.

1365 55 A Whoever they may be, and whatever they have set their

mind upon, Padam, through his grace, lovingly grants to

each according to his desire.

1366

ண ர

ண மண .

1367

ம ர

.

1368

ம

.

1369

ம

.

1370

ம

ம .

1370 88 Y The grace-bestowing gaze of Padam shot forth, granting

me, in the form of deep absorption, the victorious sword of

exalted swarupa-jnana.

1371

ர .

1371 41 Y Becoming my Lord by making me sink within the Heart,

Padam became the absolute measure of extreme

liberality.

208

1372

ம .

1372 53 C In the wonderful Padam, universes become atoms and

atoms become universes.

1373

ம ம ம

.

1374

.

1374 4 K For your jiva, the only true connection is with the state of

bliss. How, then, is there association with the miserable

world?

1375

ம ம

.

1375 103 K For those who have abandoned their ego-mind, what other

things besides that are left that are worthy of being

renounced?

1376

ம

.

1376 62 K For those who have attained the unique greatness of ego-

loss, which is the greatest of all good fortunes, there is no

other fortune to desire and attain.

1377

ம ம .

1377 37 F To exist and shine in the Heart, without any thoughts

holding onto you, is maunasamadhi, one’s own [true]

nature.

209

1378

ம ம

ம .

1378 29 K Drowning [the jiva] in the Heart in such a way that no

thought arises for any reason – this is the grace, the power

of the Self, who is the Lord of the jiva.

1379

ம ர

.

1380

ம ண

ம .

1381

ர ம .

1382

ரண

.

1383

ரம ம

ரம ம .

1384

ர

.

1385

ம .

1385 35 K The ego that becomes embroiled in the multitude of

moving pictures, which gets tossed about and suffers as a

result, is a worthless phantasm.

1386

ண

ணர ம .

1386 10 J It is foolishness to suffer by desiring and struggling to

know the Self in the same way that sense objects are

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known by the suttarivu.

1387

ம ர ம

ம .

1387 42 W Seeking within the Heart and knowing oneself as the

expanse of consciousness is total fulfilment, but to suffer,

imagining the contemptible body to be ‘I’, is poverty.

1388

ர

ண .

1388 42 P Instead of remaining in blissful Self-abidance, as that

which one is, why should one think ‘I am this, I am that’?

1389

ம

ம ர .

1389 59 O The Siva bhakti that accumulates in the Heart through the

observance of Siva dharma will protect the soul like

armour.

1390

.

1390 143 D The divine treasure trove that yields the ultimate benefit to

the soul exists only in the Heart. Not even a trace of it

exists [anywhere else].

1391

ம .

1391 144 D The nine treasures, beginning with sanga, are trivial when

viewed from the perspective of the treasure that is the

Self.The nine treasures are the property of Kubera, the

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god of wealth.

1392

ம

.

1392 145 D The benefit arising from that treasure trove, which is one’s

own swarupa and one’s natural state, is beyond measure.

1393

ண ம

ர .

1394

ம ம

ம ம .

1394 31 O To enquire resolutely into one’s own real nature in the

Heart is to meditate unceasingly upon the feet of the Lord.

1395

.

1395 45 F Restrain yourself in such a way that you reside steadfastly in the

Heart, the heavenly expanse of grace whose form is consciousness.

1396

.

1396 4 R The beginningless ego-consciousness, present in the

Heart, is the seed of this world.

1397

ம

ம .

1398

ர ம ர

ம ம ம .

1399

ம

.

1399 13 T Is it not through your real nature, which exists and shines,

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that the world comprising the triputis arises?

1400

ர ம

.

1401

ம

ம .

1402

ர ர ம

ர .

1402 208 Y Manifesting as the ultimate supreme within the Heart,

Padam united with me, shining its light by day and by

night.

1403

ண ம .

1403 211 Y Padam is the sahaja [state] that exists without departing

from the Heart in such a way that it is not possible for me

to separate from it.

1404

ர ர ம

.

1404 83 Y Padam in its grace ripened within me a feast of unbroken

and ever-present jnana.

1405

ம ண

ர .

1406

ம ர ம ம

ர ம .

1406 171 Y Padam immersed me, who possessed a mind deluded by

forgetfulness, in the flood of grace that is jnana.

1407

ண ம

213

ர ம .

1408

ர ம ம

ர .

1408 137 Y Padam, the light in my Heart, showed me the true vision of

the expanse of consciousness everywhere I went,

[enabling me] to praise it every day.

1409

ர ர

ண ரம .

1410

ம

.

1411

ர

ர .

1412

ம

.

1413

ம

மண .

1413 95 Y Through the boundless nature of its true grace, Padam,

the jewel of my eye, stealthily united with me in love’s

embrace.

1414

ர

.

1414 136 Y As a recompense for stealing me, the peaceful, effulgent

Padam revealed itself in the Heart.

1415

ம

.

1416

ம

214

ண ம .

1417

ண

ண ம .

1417 107 Y In my Heart, where peace flourished like the cool light of

the moon, Padam in its grace conferred upon me the

condition of thought-free bliss.

1418

ம

ம .

1418 143 Y By shining as fullness within my Heart, Padam became

formless, omnipresent effulgence.

1419

.

1419 109 Y The gracious Padam, Siva-jnana, swallowed up my ego-

consciousness in such a way that I did not know any world

other than Padam.

1420

ம

மண .

1421

ம

ம .

1422

.

1423

ம ம ம

ர ம .

1424

ரண ம .

1424 38 K Those true devotees who have come under the sway of

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grace will not get deluded, becoming possessed by the

ego-ghost.

1425

ம ம

ம .

1426

ம

ம .

1426 101 C If they who desire Atma-swarupa, being-consciousness,

abandon everything else as being false, then Padam is

directly experienced.

1427

ர

ர ர .

1427 38 H Only those enlightened ones who have completely

renounced the ‘I’ can act as benefactors, granting boons.

1428

ம ம ம

ம .

1429

.

1430

ம

.

1431

ம ண ம .

1432

ர .

1433

ர

ண ம .

1434

ண

216

ர ரம .

1435

ண

ம .

1435 222 Y Since I hold his [Bhagavan’s] Padam as my very eye,

Padam, the real, sprouts and shines by itself as the

leading light of all my sense perceptions.

1436

ம ம ம ம ண

.

1436 16 H It is fitting to remain in the company of those noble ones

who have realised the truth, forsaking the path of those

people who are deluded, degenerate and ignorant.

1437

ம

.

1437 17 H If you come into the company of the most virtuous, the

jnanis, that true relationship will bestow on you the

supreme benefit of liberation.

1438

ம ம .

1438 14 D There is nothing new to be attained. That ‘attainment’ is

merely the jnana experience, free from ignorance.

1439

ண ம

ம .

1439 17 M If you enquire into and realise Atma-swarupa, the reality,

as it actually is, it will be clearly known that liberation is

eternally attained.

217

1440

ண ம ம

ண ம .

1440 154 Y Radiant Padamdwells within my Heart so that the state of

blissful absorption in the real obtains there, free from any

trace of thought.

1441

ம .

1442

ம

.

1442 106 Y Padam, the light of peace, brought about in a fitting

manner within my Heart the blissful, unceasing state of

absorption.

1443

ம ம

.

1443 34 A Banging on the mighty, thunderous drum of mauna,

Padam possesses the liberality of abundantly bestowing

the grace of Siva-jnana.

1444

ண ண ண ம

ண .

1445

ரம

ம .

1446

ம

ம .

1446 57 O The state of absorption in the Self, where the ego is

destroyed, is alone the clear state of glorious devotion to

Lord Siva.

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1447

ம ம .

1447 12 K If the jiva parts company with the clarity of consciousness,

it will not find intimacy anywhere else.

1448

ம

ம .

1448 2 L The mind, forgetting Sivam, gets deluded, puts its attention

on the avasthas and causes great harm to itself.

1449

ம ம

ம ம .

1449 47 K The ego that deludes you through forgetfulness will

unsettle you, becoming the enemy of your stability.

1450

ம

.

1451

ம ண

ம .

1451 70 D The reason why consciousness loses clarity and rushes

towards the world is that it forsakes the Self, the reality.

1452

.

1453

ர

ர .

1453 159 Y The bottle gourd that Padam lovingly served up [for me] is

the sweet dish of the supreme bliss of liberation, not a

picture of it drawn on paper.

219

1454

ம

ண ம .

1455

ர ம

.

1455 14 P The most appropriate form of practice, the best sadhana

that you can do, is enquiring into yourself and remaining

steadfastly as the Self.

1456

.

1457

.

1457 40 J Differences are only perceived by the ego. When the ego

has departed, there is nothing that is seen as ‘other’.

1458

ம ம ம ர

ம .

1458 35 I The delusion-filled mind has caused samsara to merge

with you. It will cease when that mind is completely

destroyed.

1459

ம

ம ம .

1459 70 K The ego that has subsided and died in the Heart will attain

the greatness of the Self and surge like a vast ocean.

1460

ம .

1460 3 K The jiva that has been parted from the ego will shine as

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the superlative space of consciousness, transcending the

furthest extremities of the universe.

1461

ம ண மரண ம .

1461 3 W The ego that binds one to the false, perishable body is

indeed the death that makes one a prey to Yama.

1462

ம

ம .

1462 64 D The certainty of one’s unceasing true swarupa is the

imperishable essence, the ambrosia that bestows

immortality.

1463

ண

ம .

1464

ம

ம ம .

1465

ம

.

1466

ண ர ம

ண .

1466 78 X Association with those demonic people whose minds are dishonest

and whose morals are debased deserves to be totally shunned.

1467

ர ம

.

1467 79 X The fundamental cause of all miseries is friendship with

dishonourable, deluded and depraved people.

1468

ம

221

ம .

1469

ம ர

ண ம .

1469 87 K The I-am-the-body mistake arises when objectification

causes one to see sordid sense objects before first seeing

one’s real nature.

1470

ம ம

ம .

1471

ண

ர .

1472

.

1472 31 I Do not use your mind to enquire in the heart about

anything other than your own real nature.

1473

ர ம ம ம ண .

1473 44 K To the ego-mind of ignoble people, the Atma-swarupa that

is consciousness, the supreme, is very, very far away.

1474

மர

.

1474 22 J Confusion, the whirling of the mind that is suttarivu, will not

cease except by internal renunciation.

1475

.

1475 112 D Unless you clearly know your real nature by remaining

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firmly established in Self-abidance, you will get enmeshed

in creation and become bewildered.

1476

ம

ம .

1477

ம

ர .

1478

ம ம ம

ம .

1479

ம

ம .

1479 219 Y Padam in its grace granted within my Heart, even here in

this birth, the purity of a life lived in the state of Sivam.

1480

ர

.

1480 29 E Consciousness will become replete when the knower

enquires within and knows himself.

1481

ம

ம ரண .

1482

ம

ம ர ம .

1482 46 F Unless the mind is firmly established in the Heart, reality

will become veiled by the falsehood that is the mind.

1483

ம ம

.

1484

ம ம ர

223

ம ம ம ர .

1485

ம

மர .

1485 25 A Upon those who, dwelling upon death, resort to him in

fear, Padam will bestow the immortal life that flourishes,

transcending the death that is the delusion of the ego.

1486

ம

ம .

1487

ம

ர ம .

1488

.

1488 26 C Padam, the truth, shines in the Heart by its own light, with

no other light whatsoever existing apart from it.

1489

ம ம

ண .

1490

ம

ம ர .

1491

ர

ரம .

1492

ம ம ம

ம ம .

1492 27 X Since nothing exists outside the Self, which is one’s own

nature, what foolishness it is to be frightened!

1493

ம ர ம

224

ம .

1494

ண ம ம

ர .

1495

ம ண

ண ர .

1495 46 H The great ones who stand triumphant in this world are

those who have fully realised in their hearts the One,

which is of the form of consciousness.

1496

ம ம

.

1497

ம ர

ம .

1498

ர ர

ம ர ம .

1499

ம ம

ம .

1500

ம ண

ர .

1500 61 A Padam gets caught in the net of love spread out by

devotees, and ensnares them in turn in his grace.

1501

ம

ர .

1502

ம

ம .

1502 7 C Padam is the extremely commonplace swarupa that exists

225

as one’s own nature. It is wrong even to say that it is easy

to attain.

1503

ண ம

ம .

1503 10 M Separation and union exist only through the ignorance of

the jiva. They do not exist in the nature of the real, which

is jnana only

1504

ம ம ர

ம .

1505

ம

.

1505 70 A Padam nods his head, indicating ‘Good, good’, to

devotees who repeatedly approach, offering all kinds of

information.

1506

ம ம

ண .

1507

ம

ர .

1508

ம ம ம ர

ம .

1508 28 A Padam, the Heart abiding motionless as peace, attracts

everyone to himself like a magnet.

1509

ர ம

.

1509 29 A Padam unites with grace devotees who have taken shelter

226

under him in such a way that they also become like

Padam, gaining in abundance his magnetic property.

1510

ம ம

மம .

1511

ம

ம .

1511 32 M To remain still, without thinking about that which is other

than the Self, is to offer the mind to the Self.

1512

ரண ம .

1512 56 F If the mind is purified and fixed in the state of God, the life

of the jiva will attain total perfection.

1513

ண மம

ர .

1513 133 D Only the consciousness that sinks into the Heart is the

means for storing up the flood of true bliss.

1514

.

1515

ம

.

1515 134 D There will never be any dearth of bliss if you merge

lovingly with the Self and become mind-free.

1516

ம ம

ம .

1516 62 O Only the experience of the Self, uninterrupted by any

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forgetfulness, is true devotion. This, indeed, is behaving in

a chaste way in one’s relationship with the Lord of the jiva,

the Self.

1517

ம ம ண

ம .

1518

ம ம ம ம

ம ண ம ம .

1519

ம

.

1520

ம ம ம

ம .

1521

ம ம ம

ம .

1522

ம ரம ர

ம ம ம .

1522 96 Y Through its true love, which dwells in my Heart, the soft

and tender red lotus blossom, Padam, speaks softly to my

soul with no hint of harshness.

1523

ம ம

.

1524

ம ம ம

ம .

1525

ர ம

ம ர ம .

1525 191 Y Padam completely destroyed my life of religious

observances by uniting me [with itself], enabling me to

228

attain mauna, the sat-achara.

1526

ம

ம .

1527

ம ண

.

1527 195 Y Clarifying [my] consciousness and making it still, Padam

enabled me to realise the undivided Atma-swarupa.

1528

ண ர ம

ண .

1528 6 P If you regard Brahman, your own real nature, as

something different from you, it will feel shy, separate from

you and slip away.

1529

ம ம .

1529 2 C Padam, the very form of the real, stands united with, and

undifferentiated from, the multitude of living beings,

whether they realise it or not.

1530

ம ம ண

ம ர .

1530 24 F Peace in the Heart is the sign of true jnana; agitation in the

mind is the sign of the false and delusory life.

1531

ம

ம ம ம .

1531 2 I It is the mind that deceives you and imprisons you within

the body, deluding and tormenting you.

1532

ம ம

229

.

1533

ம ம

ம .

1534

ண ம

மர ம .

1534 30 E If you enquire into consciousness and know it as it really

is, then, for that truth-conscious- ness, there will never

ever be any delusion.

1535

ம

.

1535 25 V The truth of the one who reads books is not in the books

themselves. It is in the experience of [that] vedantic

knowledge.

1536

ம ம

.

1536 83 F For a mind that wanders around, without getting firmly

rooted in consciousness, it is impossible to know the pure

Sivam, the fullness of being.

1537

ம ம

.

1538

ம ம ர

.

1538 51 K Other than getting ruined, what else can the ego

accomplish when it loses the light of consciousness by

getting enmeshed in the net of worldly life?

230

1539

ம

.

1539 12 Q Without the shining light of grace, what can the

insignificant jivas do to escape from the net of delusion

and gain clarity?

1540

ர .

1540 123 D Hold onto the path of holding onto the one who has no

attachments. By holding onto this path of holding on, you rid

yourself of [those attachments] that hold you to the world.

1541

ம ர .

1541 124 D By holding tightly to the one who has no attachments, your

attachment to the non-Self will go away. When that

[attachment to the non-Self] has gone, holding on tightly

to the one who has no attachments will also cease, and all

attachments will come to an end.

1542

ர ம ம

.

1543

ரண

ம ம .

1544

ம

ம .

1544 55 C Padam is God to those who are caught in concepts, but to

the true jnani, who is without falsity and who has

separated from all concepts, it is his own Self.

231

1545

ர ம

ர ம ம .

1546

ம ம ம

ம .

1547

ம ம

.

1547 11 F Those who have seen the light of mauna are without any

attachment to the world, which is an infatuating snare that

rises from kartrutva.

1548

ரம

ரம .

1548 74 P The reason for desiring the insipid objects perceived by

the five senses is non-discrimination [aviveka], which is an

absence of enquiry into one’s real nature.

1549

ம

ம .

1549 35 F Unless one reaches the Heart and remains established

there, it is impossible to destroy agitation of the mind and

attain peace.

1550

.

1551

ம ம

.

1551 1 P In order that your mind should become firm, observe with

full attention your duty, which is the practice of sadhana.

1552

ம ம ம

232

ம ண .

1553

ம

.

1553 190 Y Padam played upon me the trick of its abundance, making

me expire in the embrace of mauna, the divine first cause.

1554

ர .

1554 19 Y [Even] as I wallowed in imaginary appearances, Padam

immersed me in the clarity of its supreme space of

consciousness.

1555

ர

ம .

1556

.

1557

ம

ம ம .

1558

ம

ம .

1559

ம ம .

1560

ம ம ம

ரம .

1561

ர ம .

1561 97 Y Pursuing me since time immemorial and becoming my

233

Lord, Padam, grace, the supreme consciousness, the true

state of love, abides within my Heart.

1562

ம ம ண

ம .

1563

ண

.

1563 224 Y The effulgent, peaceful Padam surges as the vast sea of

bliss in such a way that there is no room for foreign

thoughts in my Heart.

1564

ண ரணம .

1565

மண ம ம ம

ண .

1566

ர

ரம .

1567

ரம .

1568

.

1568 166 Y Padam is that fiery third eye that dried up with his

scorching heat the desolate ocean of the long succession

of births, which is so hard to cross over.

1569

ம ர ம

.

1569 72 P The highest and most heroic act of valour is to burn to

ashes [in the fire of jnana] the evil enemy that takes the

234

form of sense perceptions.

1570

ம ம

ம .

1571

ம ம

ம .

1571 34 V The excellence of the subtle intellect is only its ability to

enter the Heart – that which possesses great nobility – not

its ability to research and understand anything.

1572

ம

ம .

1572 52 X Even a trace of the tendency to hoard is an enemy of

perfect renunciation, the fullness of the Heart.

1573

ம

ம .

1573 23 L Turiya, which is beyond the reach of suttarivu, will merge

in a Heart in which the antics of the mischievous mind

have completely ceased.

1574

ம ம ர

.

1574 19 J The experience of the bliss of blemishless, true jnanasamadhi

will abide in a heart in which the suttarivu has perished.

1575

ம .

1575 76 D Whatever leaves you, let it leave; whatever comes to you,

let it come. [Irrespective of what happens] remain merged

in your auspicious swarupa.

235

1576

ம

ம .

1576 71 D Except for abidance as Atma-swarupa, the enduring state,

all other states are defective because they are associated

with the mind.

1577

? ம

ண ம .

1578

ரம

ம .

1579

ம

ம ம ம .

1580

ர ம

ம ம ர ம .

1581

ரண ம ம ண

.

1581 60 F Forgetting the perfect and truly joyful state of abiding as

God and getting caught in the mouth of the crocodile, the

false and useless ego – this is indeed pitiable.

1582

ம

ம ம ம ர .

1582 54 J Those who do not realise the present firmly in their heart,

which is the truth, will be lost in the other [times, past and

future] through joy [and misery].

1583

ம

ம ம ம .

1584

ர ரம ம

236

ரணம .

1585

ம .

1586

ம

ம ம .

1586 4 Y Padam caused me to prattle, like ambrosia at a feast,

child-like words in the precious Tamil tongue on the

greatness of his noble and pre-eminent feet.

1587

ம .

1588

.

1589

ம

.

1589 175 Y While [for others] it remains concealed as an illusory

expanse, Padam became manifest in my Heart as the

expanse of jnana.

1590

ம ரம ம ம

ர ம .

1591

.

1591 31 Y As I flew in dread to him for protection, Padam, the fear-

free refuge, merged with my Heart and rejoiced, uttering

words of comfort.

1592

ம

237

ம .

1593

ம ம

ம ம .

1593 16 X If in your mind there arises a desire for fame, which is

worthless and more harmful than a harlot, that mind will

become an irredeemable slave to it.

1594

ம ம ம

ம .

1594 17 X You should know that a desire for fame runs contrary to

the great glory exhibited by my true devotees. Keep away

from people [who have that desire], or leave their

company.

1595

ம .

1596

.

1597

ர ர

ம ம .

1598

ம ,

.

1599

ண ம ர

ண .

1600

ம

ம ர ம .

1600 116 D Only those supreme devotees who firmly stick to the

remembrance of the Self as the foremost sadhana are

238

great tapasvins.

1601

.

1601 109 D The occurrence of the true experience of Self-abidance will

not manifest in all its glory unless the ego is totally

destroyed.

1602

ம ம ண

.

1602 65 C In a Heart in which the mind is dead the lustrous Padam

excels as the transcendent, on-dual mauna.

1603

ம

.

1603 59 A Padam declares that the following is true for everyone:

other than the life of [abiding as] the Self, free of

forgetfulness, there is no other worthy attainment.

1604

ம

ர .

1604 24 W When enduring true bliss exists and fills the heart to the

brim, it is an error of the ego to feel distress.

1605

ர ண ம

.

1605 59 C Padam is the great pillar that manifested by itself as the

lofty and noble flame of grace in the form of Annamalai.

1606

ண

.

239

1606 80 K The feeling of living in the body and the world is what

destroys the life of firm swarupa, the being-consciousness.

1607

ம ம

.

1607 51 Y Padam made me realise in my Heart that all paths, other than

the path of jnana [vichara], are defective paths of the mind.

1608

ம .

1608 122 D To shine as consciousness without thoughts is the jnana

samadhi of holding tightly to swarupa.

1609

ம ர

.

1610

ம ம .

1611

ர ம

ரம .

1612

ரம

.

1613

ம ம ம

ம ம .

1614

ம .

1614 61 O If the obstacle of dehatmabuddhi [I-am-the-body idea]

ceases completely, eka-bhakti [devotion to the one reality]

will come into existence in your Heart as your own nature.

1615

ம

240

ம .

1616

ம ம

ம ம .

1617

ம

ண ம .

1617 1 F True realisation is to cherish with one’s understanding,

without any obstruction, the first cause of all that is, that

mauna which is liberation.

1618

ம ம ம

ம .

1618 18 H If you have the society of true devotees who are

established in the Self and who are therefore abiding

forever in sorrow-free bliss, you yourself will reach the

state of bliss.

1619

ர

.

1619 15 B When bearing the entire burden remains my responsibility,

why do you have any worries?

1620

ம ர

ம .

1621

ம

.

1621 28 Q Unless one has an extremely pure sattvic mind, it will be

impossible to have darshan in the Heart of the reality that

is jnana.

1622

ண

241

ண .

1623

ர ம

ர ம .

1624

ண

ண ம .

1625

ண

ம ண .

1626

ம

ம ம .

1627

ம ம

ம .

1628

ம ண

ம .

1629

ம ர

.

1630

ம ம

ர .

1630 3 I Those who are ensnared by the countless and endlessly

diverse appearances of the mind have been caught in the

net of bondage.

1631

ம

ம .

1631 15 I How can one apprehend one’s real nature that shines,

transcending all concepts, with a mind that has spread out

and expanded itself with concepts?

1632

ம ம

242

.

1633

ம .

1634

ம ண

ர .

1635

ம ம

ம ம .

1636

ர ம .

1636 89 D The removal of pramada is the attainment of one’s own

swarupa, the exalted and changeless essence.

1637

ம ண ம

ம .

1638

ம .

1638 57 E Only the pure being-consciousness is the true God who is

worthy of being worshipped by the vast assembly of jivas.

1639

ம

ண .

1639 27 P Rather than gaining peace by regarding consciousness as

reality, why do you fret over things that are foreign [to

consciousness], as if they are that reality?

1640

ம

ம .

1640 169 Y Padam drew me into the shade of his beautiful and

243

glorious feet, the experience of the Self that shines when

one keeps still.

1641

ம ர

ம ம ர ம .

1642

ர ம ம

.

1643

ம ம ம

ம .

1643 11 I As mind itself is a defective entity, so long as the mind survives

it will be impossible to gain the fullness of perfect contentment.

1644

ம ண

ம .

1644 34 I When mind exists holding onto the reality alone, which is

consciousness, one’s own nature, this constitutes true life.

1645

ம ம ம

.

1646

ம

ம .

1646 55 M The golden crown that deserves to be worn by sadhus on

their heads is only the tranquillity that is peace.

1647

ம ர ம

ம ர .

1647 56 M Through that noble virtue [peace] they will attain the

benefit of a life that possesses the greatness of supreme

bliss.

1648

ர

244

.

1649

ம ம ண

ர .

1649 51 H Those who have realised the truth will subjugate and

conquer even Yama [the god of death] through the power

of their jnana that shines as a result of their tapas.

1650

.

1650 107 C Padam manifests when the heart is churned vigorously,

with enquiry as the rope, and love as the churning rod.

1651

ண

ம .

1652

ம ண

ம ண ண .

1652 14 C The Heart is the holy sanctum sanctorum in which Padam

resides. Those with deceptive minds cannot bow down

and see it.

1653

ம ர

ம .

1653 12 Y For this humble servant’s consciousness there exists no

sensory faculty that is doing anything other than holding

onto Padam and singing his praises.

1654

ண

ம ம .

1655

ண ம ம

245

ண .

1655 44 X Be moderate in food, activities and sleep. In some way or

other set a limit to them.

1656

ர ம

ரம ர .

1656 20 B Like the children of an emperor, my devotees are heirs to

abundant rejoicing.

1657

ம .

1657 99 X To true devotees who are leading a life that abounds in the

wealth of grace, a life replete with earthly riches is

insignificant.

1658

ம

ம ம .

1658 90 X To the exalted ones who possess the wealth of grace, the

mental feeling ‘enough’ is true exhilaration, being devoid of

the thought ‘I am poor’.

1659

ரம ம

ர .

1659 114 X Noble ones should learn and practise as the supreme

yoga a life that is lived without attachments.

1660

ம ரம ண

ம .

1660 8 H Honour and cherish the jnani who lives in a walking temple

more than a god who lives in a big temple surmounted by

246

fluttering flags.

1661

ம ர ர .

1661 9 B Those who have come to my feet with love, and without

delaying, are those whose birth has been graced by God.

[Theirs is] an eminent and true life.

1662

ர

ர ம .

1662 10 B Through the thought of the feet of the Guru who has

reigned over devotees, the intense darkness of ignorance

[presentin the] hearts of devotees will perish and ultimate

liberation will be attained here and now

1663

ர

ம ம ம .

1664

ரம

ம .

1665

ம ம

.

1665 10 V Instead of condemning another’s [path], destroying your

clarity, learn one method. Observe it and cherish it in your

heart.

1666

ம

ம .

1667

ம

247

.

1667 45 K Seeing him, the ego, the degraded chandala, is

defilement. Even hearing about him is defilement. He is an

untouchable.

1668

ம ர ம

.

1668 2 N Except for true jnana-vichara[self-enquiry], there is no

other effective means of attaining the state of supreme

bliss.

1669

ம ர .

1669 38 V Even though they have acquired knowledge of other

things, what have those lowest of people really gained,

they who have not learned to enquire into and know the

state of the Self in a fitting manner?

1670

ம

ம .

1670 13 S Only darshan of the true nature of the one who sees

possesses real greatness. Other than this, whatever is

seen by the one who sees is just an illusory vision.

1671

ம

.

1671 21 J Knowledge of the reality of the knower terminates mind-

consciousness, the suttarivu that knows the non-Self.

1672

ம

ம .

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1672 65 D All else that remains apart from the real is a mental construct,

to which there is no definitive and incontestable finality.

1673

ம

ண .

1673 8 L Other than through the waking consciousness that arises

when sleep vanishes, it is not possible to destroy the

delusive dream-vision.

1674

ம ம ர

ம ம .

1675

ம ம ம

.

1676

ம ம ர

.

1676 22 H Only duplicitous people who lack discrimination lead a life

of secrecy. The lives of those who have obtained jnana will

be an open book.

1677

ம .

1678

ரண

ம ம .

1679

ம

ம .

1679 23 P Destroying the feeling that there are differences [bheda-

buddhi] is the magnificent accomplishment that is attained

through extensive sadhana.

1680

249

.

1680 25 W The whirling of the mind that spins like a top in the Heart

which, like, sleep, is free from thought, is misery.

1681

ம ம ர

ம .

1681 29 W Only those people who do not know the way to destroy the

vasanas suffer increasing misery.

1682

ம

.

1682 85 P Unless the destruction of [all] vasanas is accomplished, it

will not be possible even for Iswara to bestow the state of

liberation.

1683

ரண

ரண ம .

1683 61 X If you manifest love through your mind, speech and body

then for your beloved soul there will never be any enmity.

1684

ண ம

ம ர ம .

1684 51 J That which is perceived as time and space is nothing other

than reality, the Self that is pure consciousness.

1685

ம ம .

1685 101 K Knowing one’s real nature, the abiding truth, is merely

renouncing one’s infatuation for the triputis that veil it.

1686

ம

ம ர .

250

1686 6 L Forget and forsake the waking state, regarding it as a

dream concept that has taken shape merely as a

manifestation of the obsessive behaviour of the mind.

1687

ண

ம ம .

1688

ம

ம ம .

1689

ர ம

ம .

1690

.

1690 36 Y Padam, the supreme light of bliss, became my Lord,

sheltering me at the feet of the adepts of jnana who have

attained the Self.

1691

ம ம

.

1692

ம ம

.

1693

ம ம

ம ர ம ர .

1693 39 S Only those devotees who possess the power – the light

that flourishes, conquering the world through true seeing –

are kings.

1694

ம

ம ம மண .

1695

ம ம

251

ம .

1696

ம ம

.

1696 42 Y Padam made me worship it through the Siva-puja that

surges naturally in a mind in which vasanas have

perished.

1697

ம

ம .

1698

ம ம

ர ம .

1698 1 M In the paramarthaswarupa, which shines as reality,

delusion is not real; it is just imagined.

1699

ம ர

ர .

1700

.

1700 9 L To lose one’s chastity by desiring the waking state that has

no immutability [vyavastha] is a mistake.

1701

ம ம

ம .

1701 8 C The effulgent Padam is pure jnana, the Atma-swarupa that

is devoid of jiva-nature, the mental delusion that thinks, ‘I

am bound’.

1702

ம மம

.

1702 173 Y By establishing me in Atma-swarupa, making my mind slip

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away, Padam convinced me that jnana is the very nature

[swarupa] of the Self; it is not merely an attribute of the

Self.

1703

ம ம

ம .

1704

ர

.

1704 9 H Only by coming into contact with jnanis who are exalted by

the goodness of jnana can the world associate with

conduct that is full of the sanctity of love.

1705

ம

.

1705 12 H Let the conduct of your life be such that it harmonises with

that of jnanis whose nature manifests proper behaviour,

and who are full of the light of jnana.

1706

.

1706 9 O The hearts of those who have not united with the state of

the omnipotent Lord, which is grace, will never attain

fullness.

1707

ம ம

.

1707 97 K The ultimate reality, which is eternal, is just the being that

exists devoid of ‘I’ and ‘mine’.

1708

ம

ம ம ர .

253

1708 4 H Those great ones who have obtained as their right the

state of oneness are indispensable not only for a life of

grace but also for the life of the world.

1709

ண ம ம

ம ண ர ர ர .

1709 53 H Those who are established in consciousness, the Self,

who have uprooted the ego, the infatuation, will live as

glorious beings, born through the grace of God.

1710

ம ர

ண ம ம .

1710 1 K Jiva-nature – the ignorant ego that does not remain in the

pure, true, jnanavichara – is a non-existent entity.

1711

ரணம .

1712

ம

ம ரணம .

1713

ர

ர .

1713 19 A Manifesting as the supreme reality, Padam came to

exercise his rule over devotees in the form of the jnana-

Guru, he who possesses the grace-bestowing gaze.

1714

ம

.

1714 100 K The best kind of renunciation is remaining in the state in

which the mind holds extremely tightly to the swarupa.

1715

ண ம

254

ர ம .

1716

ம .

1716 19 M The way to liberation is knowing consciousness and

abiding there without slipping from consciousness.

1717

ர ண

ம .

1717 50 A Padam, whose true nature is absolute liberation, does not

slip from mauna even when all the karanas [the mind, the

senses and the physical organs] are in operation.

1718

ம

.

1719

ம

ம .

1719 120 Y Padam granted me salvation as I languished, having lost

my inner peace amidst the throng of false concepts that

appear in the treacherous mind of the ghost-ego.

1720

ம

ம ம .

1721

ம

ம ம .

1722

ரம

ம ம .

1722 46 A Padam lives and moves about here for the benefit of

devotees who desire the supreme truth, jnana.

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1723

ண

ம .

1724

ம

.

1724 44 D Only the light of jnana is the light of grace, the feet of the

Lord. All other lights are lights of an opposing kind.

1725

ம

ர .

1725 45 D Those who know these other lights as objects and who

believe them to be real are those who are caught up in the

entanglements of the gross physical body.

1726

ம ம

.

1727

ண ம ம ம

ண ம .

1727 17 F The direct experience of the Self, mauna, is the axis [of

everything]. This is the summit, the highest good.

1728

ம ம

.

1729

ரம

ரம ர .

1730

ர

ர ம .

1730 56 E Other than consciousness, the pure clarity in which

excellence flourishes, there is no God who is worthy of

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being worshipped.

1731

ம ம ,

ண .

1731 118 Y Padam embraced my Heart and stood saying, ‘Do not be

afraid!’, making the illusory existence of the ego-ghost, the

deceitful mind, depart.

1732

ம ம ணர

ம ர ர .

1733

ர ம

ம .

1734

ம

.

1735

ம

.

1736

ண

.

1736 72 K Why abuse God instead of killing the misery-inducing ego,

which is ignorant pride?

1737

ம

ம .

1738

ம

ம .

1739

.

1740

ம ண ர

ண .

257

1741

ம ம

ம .

1741 82 A Though Padam bestows everything, to those true

devotees who have no desire for those things, he gives

grace, the truth of oneself, Self-knowledge, as his loving

present

1742

ம

.

1743

ம

ம .

1743 48 E If you know and abide in your natural state, which is the

fullness of bliss, how will the thought of misery arise there?

1744

ம

ம ம ம .

1744 3 M In the experience of one’s own true jnanaswarupa the

ideas of bondage and liberation do not exist.

1745

ர

.

1746

மர ர

ம .

1746 161 Y Ignorant fool that I was, blinded by a mind as obdurate as

a tree-stump, yet did golden Padam grant me

enlightenment.

1747

ம ம

ம .

1747 78 P It is natural for a mind that behaves with outstanding

258

rectitude to obtain a firm and focused tranquillity.

1748

ம .

1749

.

1750

ம

.

1750 2 W The mind slipping, through bewilderment, from the truth

that is never defective – this is what roams around as the

god of death [Yama].

1751

ம ம

ம .

1751 122 C Effulgent Padam recoils within itself from accepting, even

slightly, the homage of dark, hypocritical minds that are

filled with deceit.

1752

ர

ம ரண ம ம .

1753

ம ம

ம .

1754

ம ம ர ண

ம ம ம ம .

1754 83 D If you wholeheartedly desire and realise the truth, that truth

itself will liberate you.

1755

ம ம

ம ம .

1756

ம ம

259

ம .

1757

மம

ம ம .

1758

ம

ம .

1759

.

1759 49 I Unless the force that activates thought is driven deeply

within and destroyed, it is impossible to enjoy one’s own

experience of jnana.

1760

ர

ர ம .

1761

ம ம .

1761 7 L Just as dreams cease on waking, the waking state will

fade away in true jnana.

1762

ம ம

ம ம .

1762 50 O Only true love that has taken the form of pure

consciousness is the Siva bhakti that has attained fullness,

true jnana.

1763

ம ம

ம .

1764

ர

ம .

260

1765

ம

.

1765 40 O Through grace, Padam ensures that there is never any

danger to those who remain in their heart, meditating

‘SivayaNama’.

1766

ம

ம ம .

1766 18 G Padam [Bhagavan] communicates this truth: ‘The meaning

of the word ‘nama’ [obeisance] is abiding as the Self, with

the ego destroyed.’

1767

ம

ம .

1768

ம ண ர .

1768 141 D Those who have realised the truth that flourishes in the

Heart will live eternally in the state of perfect bliss.

1769

ண ம

ம .

1770

ம .

1770 1 N Unless you enquire, within yourself, through yourself, into

yourself, it will be impossible for you to become one with

your own Self.

1771

ம

ண .

1771 65 P The enduring knowledge of reality, the experience of truth,

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is not possible for those who have gone the way of the

false and ignoble senses, having had a lover’s tiff with the

state of the Self.

1772

ண .

1772 55 E The state in which consciousness does not desire the non-

Self is worship of the Self without being separate from it.

1773

ம ம

ம ம .

1773 52 D The Self, the source of all beings, is not different from the

indivisible consciousness that does not split itself into ‘I’

and ‘this’.

1774

ம ம

மண .

1774 73 F The existing truth of oneself is the great apple of the eye

that deserves to be remembered, without forgetfulness, as

the auspicious Sivam.

1775

ண ம

.

1775 153 Y Padam dwells within my Heart so that I gain the might of

the true state of the Self, which cannot be acquired

through the mastery of arts and sciences.

1776

ம

ம .

1776 74 Y Padam led me to reflect upon and realise as the jnana-

Guru the truth of the Self, so that I, a faithful follower, did

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not fall into confusion. (The phrase ‘a faithful follower’

implies in the original someone who tries sincerely but

doesn’t succeed.)

1777

ம ம

.

1777 180 Y Rejecting arid renunciation, Padam, through the power of

true jnana, made renunciation merge with me as my own

nature.

1778

ண ர ம

ண ர ம .

1779

ம ம ர

ம .

1780

ம ம .

1781

ம ம ம

ம .

1782

ண .

1783

ம ணம *ம ம

.

1783 52 C Like a magician with his astonishing show, full of secrets,

Padam, being-consciousness, performs the wonderful five

divine functions through mere imagination.

1784

ம ம

ம ரண .

1784 41 J The clarity in which the sense of difference [bheda-buddhi]

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does not arise is the extreme perfection [paripurna] that

exists as consciousness of being.

1785

ர .

1785 33 O The worship of divine forms will completely destroy the

ego, the I-am-the-body conceit.

1786

.

1787

ரம

ம .

1788

ர ண

ர ர ம .

1789

ண .

1789 37 Y Enthroned within the Heart of this guileless person, as

upon a lion-throne, Padam exercises his rule over the

entire, vast world.

1790

ர ம

ர ம .

1790 35 Y Even though Padam, the Supreme, is the mother and

father of all beings, he abides with me as my very own

Lord in the Heart.

1791

ர ம ம

.

1792

ம .

264

1793

ம ம

.

1794

ர ர .

1794 23 Y Instead of scorning me, profligate that I was, with a

gesture of contempt, Padam took pity on me, bestowing

grace in abundance.

1795

ம

ர ர .

1795 82 D Devotion to the Self, the best of desires, yields the true

jnana sight in which all names and forms are names and

forms of the Self.

1796

ர ம ர

ரம ரணம .

1797

ம

ம ம .

1798

ம ம .

1798 92 F In the extreme tranquillity of mind that rises from abidance

in Siva-jnana it is impossible for the infatuation for the evil,

worldly life to approach.

1799

ம

மர ம .

1799 36 K The droll dance of the ego-ghost, whose form is the body,

the dirty vessel of filth, will ruin the immortal life.

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1800

ம

ம .

1801

.

1801 33 X Save yourself by eschewing the modern ‘civilised’ life,

whose nature is to practise deception, which is just like

smearing ambrosia over the top of poison.

1802

ம ம

ம .

1802 34 X The soul that has consumed this poison, this life of

deception, will experience misery and distress in the mind,

and will perish.

1803

ம

ம ம .

1804

ம ம

ம .

1804 24 E If you have forgotten the pure consciousness that shines

as your swarupa, whatever else you do, how will it profit

you?

1805

ண ர .

1805 25 E Those who have not learned to exercise sovereignty over

consciousness through the power of grace will be thrown

into confusion by forms and attributes.

1806

ம ண

ம ர ர ம .

266

1807

ம

ம ம ம .

1808

ண ம

ண .

1809

ம

.

1810

ரண ம .

1810 1 C That which is known as Padam is never limited. It is

complete perfection, the form of pure consciousness.

1811

ண

ர .

1811 37 P Those in whose hearts the light of Padam has penetrated

will not see the non-Self, the cause of misery.

1812

ர ம ம

ர .

1813

ம ம ர ம

ரண ம .

1813 20 P The reason for the mind’s perplexity is the belief that the

seductive and addictive pairs of opposites are real.

1814

ண

.

1815

ம .

1815 32 H The eight great siddhis will reach the presence of and will

sport before those whose hearts are naturally established

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in Self-abidance.

1816

ர ண ர

ர .

1816 33 H Those who rejoice, having subsided in Sivam, will not pay

even the slightest attention to these [siddhis] that only

cause sorrow.

1817

ம ண

ர ம ர .

1817 18 F Those who have sunk deeply into the ocean of mauna and

drowned will live on the summit of the supreme mountain,

the expanse of consciousness.

1818

ம ர

ர .

1819

ம

ம .

1820

ர

.

1821

ம .

1821 30 X Instead of enjoying bliss, established in the state of the

Self, why this desire in you for the world, which frightens

the mind?

1822

ர

ர .

1823

மர

ர ம ர .

268

1823 13 W Those who[se egos] have died have reached the state of

immortality. Those ignorant ones with inflated egos are

truly dead.

1824

ம

ம ம .

1824 40 Y Effulgent Padam, bounteous in his grace, placed me under

the rule of his feet so that mauna remained firmly

established as [my own] nature in my Heart.

1825

ம ம

ம .

1826

ம

ண ம .

1826 2 E The nature of the Self is consciousness alone. Like gold

jewellery [fashioned from gold], objective knowledge is an

imaginary appearance within the Self.

1827

மர

.

1827 29 C Lustrous Padam, Siva-jnana, shines in such a way that the

yoga siddhi that is associated with the whirling confusion

of the mind is revealed as false and ceases to be.

1828

ர ம

ம .

1829

ம

ம .

1829 13 R The jiva that regards its reflected form as itself will forsake

its true form, Padam, and become bewildered.

269

1830

ம ம .

1830 2 Q Other than through grace, the Mother, no one can attain

reality, the experience of Sivam, which is truth.

1831

ம ம

ம ம .

1831 7 F If the triputis that have risen from mauna subside in

mauna, then bliss will arise.

1832

ம ம ம ம .

1832 125 D The deeper one subsides within the Heart, the greater will

be the rising of the nature of the flood of supreme bliss.

1833

ர

ம ம .

1833 37 M To subside in the state of liberation, Siva swarupa,

transcending the surface of the mind, is mauna.

1834

.

1834 49 F Immerse yourself in the Heart and dwell there, so that you

remain beyond reproach, untroubled by the crashing

waves of the mind.

1835

ரம ம

ர ம .

1835 36 O By mentally holding tightly to the names and forms of the

Supreme One, destroy your lowly concepts about names

and forms. (The phrase ‘lowly concepts’ in this verse refers

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to names and forms in general, and not the names and

forms of God.)

1836

.

1836 37 O These things [names and forms] exist only in the sight of

the jiva. They have no real existence in the Lord, the form

of pure consciousness.

1837

ம

ம .

1837 102 X Only when possessions and possessor become one and

the same will peace abide.

1838

ம

ம .

1838 103 X As long as one’s possessions or the possessor of them

remain different [from each other], it is impossible for the

mind to become still.

1839

ம ம

.

1839 5 G The form of the jnana-Guru that bestows an abundance of

grace is Sivam, who abides within oneself as pure

consciousness.

1840

ம ர

ண ம .

1840 33 A Padam possesses such great depth, it is not possible for

others to fathom and know the contents mingled in his

Heart.

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1841

.

1842

ம

.

1842 106 D If one abides clinging to the Self, then, through that state

of peace, all other attachments will fall away, and only

your natural state, liberation, will remain.

1843

ம ம ம .

1843 130 Y Through the Self, the perfection that transcends even

thought, Padam, the truth, shone forth, refuting my mind,

the base defect.

1844

ம

ம .

1844 9 P It is harmful to regard as important the ecstatic

experiences of a mind that has not clearly known reality

through the sakti of Siva.

1845

ம .

1845 66 E Know that the [categories of] sentience and insentience,

which are distinguished by the mind, are merely the

natural play of pure being-consciousness.

1846

ம ம

ர ம .

1846 19 V For all the myriad religious scriptures, the essential truth is

only the supreme reality of consciousness.

272

1847

ம ம ம

ர .

1847 72 D Those who think of other forms, forgetting their real form

that remains merged with them as jnana swarupa, are

strangers [to jnana].

1848

ம

ம ம ம .

1849

ம .

1849 51 X Jealousy will distress the hearts of those who have kept

company with it, dispelling their inner peace.

1850

ம .

1851

ர ண

ம .

1851 18 S Through firmness in the practice of renunciation become

indifferent to the world, realising it to be ureal, and set it

aside.

1852

ம ம

ம ம .

1852 99 D If, with a mind that possesses renunciation, you turn

inward, union with the Heart will arise very easily and

naturally.

1853

ம ம

ண .

1853 27 O The qualification for those performing service [to attain]

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divine grace is the complete destruction of the mischief of

the deluding five senses.

1854

.

1855

ர

ம ம .

1856

ம

ர .

1857

ம

ம மரண ம .

1857 9 W The upside-down life in which the perishable, useless and

false body has become the swarupa is indeed death.

1858

ம

.

1859

ம ம ம

.

1859 75 C Only grace-bestowing Padam, which is full of the light of

true jnana, the beautiful light, will chase away the

darkness of the false life of the world.

1860

.

1860 38 Y Deeply ignorant as I was, auspicious Padam ruled over

me, focusing my mind, flooding me with light so that I

could enter the Heart.

1861

ண .

274

1862

ர

ர ம .

1863

மண .

1864

ம ர .

1864 68 Y In order that I rejoice in intimacy with it, Padam, the sun of

true jnana, shone in my Heart, destroying identification

with the body through right action.

1865

ண ம

ண .

1866

ர ம

ம .

1866 76 A Remaining in the Heart, Padam smiles at the ignorance of

those who think they are deceiving him by being clever.

1867

ர .

1867 8 U ‘Whatever is due to be experienced will not fail to come

whether one desires it or not.’ Padam says this repeatedly.

1868

ம ம ம

ம ம .

1869

ரம

ம ம ம .

1870

ர ம

.

1871

ர ர

275

.

1871 3 S Know through discriminating enquiry that of these two, the

world and the supreme, only one abides within the Heart,

and embrace [that one].

1872

ர ம

ர ம ம .

1872 4 S The two do not stay together in the Heart, for one is

incompatible with the other. Attempting to keep them

together is a result of delusion.

1873

ம

ம ம .

1873 5 S Since the one veils the other, one of them is an

appearance imagined within the other.

1874

ர .

1874 123 C Leaving Padam, the sweet, luscious fruit, the ignorant will

go off in all directions, pining for the [bitter] fruit of the nux

vomica tree.

1875

.

1876

ம

ம .

1877

ர ம ம

ர .

1878

ம ண ம ம

ண .

276

1878 27 G Only he who has eradicated the disease of delusion within

his own nature can be a jnana doctor who cures the

disease of delusion in others.

1879

ம ண ம

.

1879 28 G Before you embark on treating the disease of others, first

completely destroy your own disease, and only then start

your practice.

1880

ர

ம ர .

1880 25 G Those ignorant people with their proud minds will be

greatly hurt by their half-baked understanding.

1881

ண ம

ண ம .

1881 29 G Indeed, how can he who does not know how to diagnose

and dispel his own disease dispel the cruel disease of

others?

1882

ண ம

ண .

1882 56 O To gain the accomplishment of true realisation of the Self,

which is the goal to be sought, the appropriate means is

devotion to Lord Siva.

1883

ம ண

ம ம .

1884

ம ம ர

ம ம .

277

1885

ர

ர .

1886

ம ண

ர ம .

1887

ர ம ம

ர .

1888

ம ம

ம ம .

1888 22 M The experience of pure consciousness, one’s own

swarupa, is the bliss of liberation. The misery of bondage

is total ignorance.

1889

ம

ம ர .

1889 81 D Those who greatly desire the Self, the state of mere being

that transcends all concepts, will not desire anything else.

1890

ண ண

ம ண ர .

1891

ண

ண .

1891 65 Y Padam gave me this knowledge: ‘The tormenting bondage

is only body-consciousness. It is not the body form itself.’

1892

ம ம

.

1892 67 E The imperfect body and the world arise in consciousness

as consciousness, remain in consciousness, [and subside

in consciousness].

278

1893

ம .

1893 9 E Everything that is known through the mind and the senses,

rather than by the light of consciousness, is asat [unreal].

1894

ம

.

1894 1 T Since the world ceases to appear when the body is

absent, the world is not other than the body.

1895

ண ம

ம ண ம ம .

1895 2 T Regarding the world that is seen as different from the mind

that sees it, and attributing an abundance of being to it, is

illusion.

1896

.

1897

ம .

1898

ம

ம ம .

1899

ம ர

.

1899 157 Y Padam, grace, dwells in the makeshift shrine of my Heart

as if it were a rich and permanent temple.

1900 ர ம

ர .

1901 ண ம

279

ம .

1902 ர

ம .

1903 ம

ம .

1904 ர ம ம

ரம .

1905 ரம ம ர

ம .

1906 ம

ர ம .

1907 ம ம

.

1908 ண

.

1909 ம

.

1910 ம ர

.

1910 36 S The benefit of complete and perfect jnana-experience is

merely the cessation of the duality that perceives ‘I’ and

‘this’.

1911 ம

ம .

1911 35 E Unless the mind gets firmly established in being, it is impossible for

the powerful and ignoble conceit, ‘I’, to be obliterated.

280

1912 ர

ரம ண .

1913 ம

ம .

1913 21 L Destroying the waking state [and transforming it into] the

‘distinguished sleep’ [the state of waking-sleep] is

subduing and destroying the sleep of delusion.

1914 ர ம

.

1915 ம

ம .

1915 67 X It is wisdom to abandon all activities other than those that

are indispensable, being caused by nature.

1916 ம ம

ம .

1917 ம

ர .

1917 53 A Padam speaks words as if they were mere play, but the

more and more we listen to them, the heart, without being

satiated, longs for more.

1918 ம ம

ம ண .

1918 179 Y Padam gave me the knowledge that, except for the victory

of jnana, all other victories are flawed victories arising from

dishonourable delusion.

1919 ர

281

ம .

1919 42 F Only the Heart deserves to be conquered and possessed,

for it gives sovereignty over a country whose produce is

indescribable supreme bliss.

1920 ம

ம .

1921 ம ம ம

ம ர .

1921 28 C The light of Padam is the supreme light, the truth that

reveals all other lights as illusory, and causes them to

disappear.

1922 ர

ம .

1923

ண

.

1923 20 A Through his divine glance Padam liberally bestows on his

devotees the treasure of grace, the realisation of the

nature of Sivam.

1924

ம ர .

1924 35 M Knowing That is only abiding as That. Therefore, shine,

remaining still without objectifying.

1925

ம

ம ம .

1926

ம ம

ண .

282

1927

ம

ம ம .

1927 15 K Only when the life of the jiva blossoms into Sivam will it be

possible for it to attain the true love that knows no misery.

1928

ம

ம .

1929

ம ம

ம ம .

1930

ம

ம ம .

1930 51 D In true jnana there truly never arises the slightest

opposition to any other thing.

1931

ர ம ண

ம ம .

1931 46 P The true consciousness of the unique supreme will not

become fixed and constant merely by thinking about it, but

only when the degraded delusion ‘I’ ceases.

1932

ர ம ம

.

1932 23 V The rare benefit that accrues from the jnana sastras will

only come to the jiva that possesses a longing to know the

truth. Not for others.

1933

ம

ர ம .

1934

ம

ம ர .

283

1935

ம ம ம ண

ம .

1936

ம

ம .

1937

ம ர ம

ம ர ம .

1937 139 D Those who fall under the spell of imagination will have no

chance to obtain the bliss [of the Self], the true fruition of

desire.

1938

ம

ம .

1938 31 N How can the mind go insane or lose its powers on the path

of vichara that leads to the clarification of consciousness

and the attainment of tranquillity?

1939

ம .

1939 38 S The vision of reality is only for those in whom the

experience of sense pleasures – consisting of enjoyment

of the same experiences again and again – has become

bitter, and who can therefore give them up.

1940

ம ம

ம .

1941

ம ம

.

1941 34 M Only by merging with the truth of oneself, the one Self, will

the blissful life of peace surge abundantly in the Heart.

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1942

.

1943

ம ம

ம ம .

1944

ம .

1944 60 D Describing swarupa with words is like trying to cross the

sea, using a wisp of straw as a raft.

1945

ம

ம ம ம .

1945 35 S The vision of reality that is obtained through the revelation

of grace will completely dispel the delusion of

differentiating thoughts.

1946

ம ம .

1947

ம ர ரணம ம

ம ம .

1948

ண ர

ம .

1949

ம ம

ம ம ம .

1949 23 A Even to the celestial beings in the high heavens, the

shining, gracious glance of Padam is alone great and

abundant wealth.

1950

ம

ம ர .

285

1950 10 H Those who have obtained the good fortune, the grace of

the jnani who has destroyed infatuation, will bathe in the

sorrow-free bliss of liberation.

1951

ம .

1951 28 W The foundation for all miseries is the impure vasana, the

belief that holds the body to be ‘I’.

1952

ரண ம .

1952 71 P The deluded existence of the body and the sense organs

will not perish except through a direct experience of

Vedanta.

1953

ண

ண ரண ம .

1953 32 I If mind-consciousness subsides into the source from which

it arose, the experience of being, absolute perfection, will

unite with you here and now.

1954

ரம

ர ம ம .

1955

ம ரண

மர .

1956

ம

மண .

1957

ர

ர ம .

286

1958

ண

.

1959

ம ம

ம ம .

1960

.

1961

ம

ம ம .

1962

ம ம ம ர

.

1962 1 A Blissful Padam is that form of Siva who sports, assuming a

disguise and masking his truth.

1963

ரம

ம மண .

1964

.

1965

ம

.

1965 8 R Padam marvels: ‘How strange it is that the jiva is

bewildered by seeing its own reflection!’

1966

ரண ம

.

1966 9 R The reason for this is that it does not know its own nature

as the Self well enough to experience bliss.

1967

ண ர

ம .

287

1967 92 X If they are enquired into and known, [it will be discovered

that] the innumerable feelings and emotions are not in the

least separate from the santa-rasa [the peaceful taste] of

the Self.

1968

ம

.

1968 50 J That which exists is only the present. Past and future are

encountered when the present is disregarded. They are

opposed to the present.

1969

ரம ம

ம ம ர .

1969 3 E Only consciousness abides as the supreme. The five

senses and the perceptions of the five senses, which are

not consciousness, are false deceptions.

1970

ம ர

ர .

1970 20 O You will lose your peace and your mind will grieve if you

put your trust in anyone other than God.

1971

ர ர ண

ம ண .

1971 77 F There is not the slightest difference between Siva, his

devotees and the Puranas that describe their greatness.

1972

ண ம .

1972 22 O Even if they render vast amounts of service to God, the

service of those who have no genuine love for him in their

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hearts is of no use.

1973

ண ண

ண ம ம .

1973 23 O The benefit obtained from service [to God] will only be

proportionate to the genuine love that mingles with that

service.

1974

ர ம ண

ம ம ம .

1974 29 X Unless one realises one’s non-dual real nature, the desire

and fear that are caused by delusion will not cease.

1975

ம ம ம ண ம

.

1975 8 X Though respect and honour are esteemed in the world,

realise in your heart that they are flawed, and disregard

them.

1976

ம ம .

1976 62 M Whatever else you may gain or lose, firmly establish peace

in your mind.

1977

ர ம ம

ர ம .

1977 89 C For the mind that has secured the life of the supreme

Sivam, Padam will banish the majesty of the reign of

earthly monarchs as though it were a wisp of straw.

1978

ரம

ண .

289

1979

ம

ம .

1979 25 H Other than by hearing and knowing it from the lips of those

who have seen and known it, we know of no other ‘royal

road’ to realising jnana.

1980

ர

.

1980 28 H Therefore, approach a jnaniand, strengthened by the

knowledge that his is the fair form of the Lord himself,

conduct yourself accordingly.

1981

ர .

1982

ம ம .

1982 51 C The insurgent mind imagines that Padam, the reality, has

forsaken its real nature for the appearance of the world.

1983

.

1984

ம

ம ம .

1985

ர

.

1986

ம

.

1987

ர ம ர

ர ம .

290

1988

ம

ம .

1988 21 M The excellence of peace, which is the clarity of

consciousness, is alone the greatness of intensely blissful

liberation.

1989

ம

ண .

1989 57 X When, in the first place, your mind has ceased to be under

your control, what is the point of speaking about the

inconsistent nature of others?

1990

ம ம ர

ம ம .

1990 33 S First root out the confusion in your own mind. Then, seeing

with the eye of jnana, know everything to be the one pure

consciousness.

1991

ம .

1992

ம ம

ம .

1993

ம

.

1993 50 C It is the extremely skilful Padam that, having manifested

everything that appears, remains as the foremost,

supreme witness.

1994

ர ம

ம ம .

291

1995

ம

.

1996

ம

ம ம .

1997

ர ம

ம .

1997 31 C The hearts of true devotees that have been permeated by

the light of Padam will surge in the form of blissful

consciousness.

1998

ம .

1998 39 W In what way do lamentations benefit the jiva? The sensible

policy is to terminate the tyrannical insurgency of the mind.

1999

ரம ம

ண ர .

2000

ர .

2001

ர .

2002

ம ம

.

2003

ம

ர .

2004

ம ம

ம .

2005

ம ம ம

292

ம ம .

2006

ம

ம ம .

2006 64 X To err is human, but to forgive others’ faults with love

flourishing in the heart is distinguished and godly

behaviour.

2007

ம

.

2007 81 A Padam confers all benefits on those noble-minded people

who think that everyone should attain joy.

2008

ரம ம

ம ர .

2008 62 X Those who desire to become the recipients of God’s grace

will not think harmful thoughts about anyone else.

2009

ம

ம ர .

2010

ர .

2011

ம ரம ம .

2012

ம .

2013

ர .

2014

மண ம ம மண

மண .

293

2015

ர மம

.

2016

ம

ரம .

2017

மரம

மர .

2018

ம ர மண ர

ர .

2018 181 Y Padam gave me jnana as the distilled essence of the

sweet syrup, Tiruvachakam.

2019

.

2019 6 C Padam, one’s true nature, shines without becoming the

body as the fiery flame of jnana, the [real] import of ‘I’.

2020

ம

ம ர .

2020 48 J Those who are enjoying the excellent bliss of samadhi,

knowing their real nature, will not get deluded by what is

false and then seek objects perceived by the five senses.

2021

ம ம

.

2021 97 X What benefit do those who have lost their minds [to the

world] gain even if they obtain enormous wealth?

2022

ம ம

ம .

2023

ர ம ம

294

ர மம ம .

2024

ம

ம .

2025

ர

ண .

2026

ம

ம ர .

2027

ர ம .

2028

ர

ம ம .

2029

ம

ம .

2030

ம ம .

2031

ர ர ண ர

ம ரம ம .

2031 26 A The effulgent, silent Padam destroys forgetfulness of the

Self, the mind, which is the taproot for the succession of

afflictions.

2032

ம ம .

2033

ண

ண .

2034

ம ம ம

.

295

2034 6 Q What is termed grace is only the light of pure

consciousness that has the power to destroy completely

the delusion of ignorance.

2035

ர

ர .

2036

ம .

2037

ண ம

ண .

2038

ண

ம ம ம .

2038 18 W Those who through mental confusion perceive as real that

which is not real will suffer in their minds and be ruined.

2039

ம ம ண

ர .

2039 15 W Those who have in this world itself obtained true jnana in

their Heart, which is beyond the knowledge of the senses,

are immortals.

2040

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2040 115 K Except for those who can perform karma as yoga, for

everyone else karma will end up as moha [infatuation].

2041

ர ம ம

ர .

2042

ம ம ம .

296

2042 39 F Let the good and wise ones embrace as true tapas the

realisation of the truth in their Heart, and the steadfast

abidance as That.

2043

ம

ம .

2044

ம ம

ம .

2045

ம

ம .

2045 13 V The state of abiding as swarupa, which is the pure and

vast true consciousness, is an obligation that should be

firmly observed by all the beings in the world.

2046

ம ம

ம .

2047

ணர

.

2047 33 E To realise that you yourself are the Self, why do you

require any light other than being-consciousness, the

light of the Self?

2048

.

2049

ம ம

ம .

2050

.

2050 108 C Whoever one may be and whatever sadhana one may do,

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Padam will not shine except through the enquiry of

knowing one’s real nature in the Heart.

2051

ர ர ம

ம ம .

2052

ம

.

2053

ம

.

2054

ம

.

2055

ர ம ம

.

2056

ம ம

ண .

2056 36 F Abiding in the neutral state of equilibrium is reaching and

abiding in the Heart through firm awareness of the Self,

which is the true jnana-swarupa.

2057

ம ம

.

2058

ம ண ம

ம ம ம .

2058 13 E Knowing consciousness is not different from knowing

reality. They are one and the same because reality is not

different from consciousness.

2059

ம ம

ம .

298

2059 20 K Except in mauna, wherein delusion has been completely

cleared away, union with the Self is not possible for the

jiva.

2060

ண ண

ண .

2061

ர ம

ம ம .

2061 2 M In the paramarthaswarupa,which is the space of grace,

bondage, which thrives on ignorance, is a defect of the

mind.

2062

ம

ண ம .

2063

ம

.

2064

ம ர

ம .

2065

மர

ம ம .

2066

ண

ண .

2067

ம ர

ம ம .

2068

ம

ம .

2068 4 T What a false pretence to say that this world, an

impermanent reflection consisting of sense perceptions, is

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real!

2069

ம

ம .

2069 79 C Like removing dirt with dirt, Padam whitens the impure and

dirty maya with the sublime light of beneficial maya.

2070

ம

ம ம .

2070 12 U Nothing happens except that which is divinely ordained.

Consequently, it is pointless for people [who want the

world to be different] to experience anxiety and to be

debilitated by distress.

2071

ம

ம .

2072

ம

ம .

2072 96 X Humility will destroy the powerful and difficult-to-vanquish

enemy [the ego] and will bestow on the jiva the great

fortune [of liberation].

2073

ர ம ம

மண ம .

2074

ம ம

ம .

2074 76 P Since purity of mind is indispensable for any kind of

spiritual practice, it possesses an eminence of the highest

order.

300

2075

ம .

2076

ம

ர .

2077

ம ர ம ம

ம ம .

2077 13 K Only the unique truth of oneself can become the haven for

the jiva. Other than this, no other truth exists anywhere at

any time.

2078

ண ர

ம ம .

2079

ர ம ம ம

ர ர .

2080

ணம

ண .

2080 44 F Mind abiding in the Heart, free of thoughts, is pure bliss,

the jnana that is difficult to attain.

2081

.

2081 82 P The nature of thoughts that arise in the mind will be in

accordance with the old vasanas.

2082

.

2082 3 L That which abides everywhere and in all avasthas, that

consciousness alone is the truth.

2083

ண

301

ம ம .

2084

ம மண ம .

2085

ம .

2086

ண

.

2087

.

2088

ம ம

ரம .

2089

ம ம .

2089 32 V Mere scholarship derived from copious learning, without

putting it into practice, will harm the well bing of the jiva.

2090

.

2090 68 A Not disdaining inferior creatures, Padam, caresses them

and protects them.

2091

ர

.

2092

ம ம .

2093

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2093 49 A Because Padam, the one Self, is devoid of mind, he exists

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without any company, in solitude, even in the midst of a

great crowd.

2094

ம ம ர

.

2094 29 I Do not struggle with the mind, regarding it as something

real. If you enquire within and know what it is, it will cease

to exist.

2095

ம

ர .

2095 20 W The afflictions experienced by the beings of the world do

not exist except in the outlook of those in whom enquiry is

absent.

2096

ம ர ம

.

2096 33 P Why, abandoning the Self, the supreme truth, do you dally

with that which is alien [to it]?

2097

ம

ண .

2098

ர ம

ர ம .

2098 2 A Fair Padam, the unattainable supreme, took on the noble

vestments of the Guru to redeem this world

2099

ம

.

2100

ம ம ண

ம ம ம .

303

2101

ம

.

2101 32 D The Self that is in the beginning and is in the end exists in

the intervening time also, as that which is.

2102

.

2102 43 D The light that exists when the appearance of the world and

body has ceased exists equally even when the world and

the body appear.

2103

ரம

ரம ம .

2103 28 K In the Atma-swarupa, the supreme, pramada is always a

complete folly for the jiva.

2104

ம ண ம

ம ம ம ர .

2104 36 E Those who do not possess in their hearts being-

consciousness, the real attainment, will lose their lives

and get ruined by infatuation for the false world.

2105

ர

ம .

2105 11 N Do not ruin yourself by repeatedly rising and subsiding as

the thinking ‘I’. Attain true life by abiding as the being ‘I’.

2106

ம

ம ம .

2106 29 F Thinking is imagination. The Heart, thought-free Atma-

swarupa, is the reality, pure consciousness.

304

2107

ம .

2107 24 L Theturiya that pervades as the unique primal state when

the three avasthas of waking, sleep and dream end,

becoming false, is itself atita [the transcendental state].

2108

ம

ம ம ம .

2108 28 L The state in which firm jnana has been attained, in which

turiya has become atita, is puremauna.

2109

ம ம

.

2110

ரண

.

2110 27 W The mind, imagining a cause for the transcendent reality,

and growing weary, will be rewarded only with suffering.

2111

ம ண ர .

2111 57 H Those who are struggling hard every day to flourish in the

artificial life [of the world] have not thought about the

natural life [of jnana] that bestows true contentment.

2112

ம ம

ம மர .

2113

ர

ம .

2114

ம

ம .

305

2114 29 M Except by remaining still [summa iruttal] by what great

tapas can the Atma-swarupabe attained in the Heart?

2115

ம ரம .

2115 7 P Any effort to reach reality, thinking it to be different from

oneself, will cause the non-dual experience, wherein one

abides as reality, to go extremely far away.

2116

ம

ம ம .

2116 128 Y Grace-Padam seized my mind, like a great fiend who

would not let go its grip, and destroyed it, transforming it

into its own deathless form.

2117

ம

ம .

2117 15 V The vision of mere being, the Atma-swarupa that shines as

a result of the enquiry [‘Who am I?’], is, out of all sacrificial

offerings, the foremost and most eminent one.

2118

ரம

ரம ம .

2119

ம ண

ம

ண .

2119 82 Y Padam gave me the emotion that makes my body soften

and melt every time I think of the true, cool grace that it

bestowed on me.

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2120

ம ரம

ம .

2121

ம

ம .

2121 72 Y Coming in the form of the Guru and infusing the beautiful

light of grace, golden Padam [Bhagavan] revealed the

grandeur of divine Padam [the Self] in my Heart.

2122

ர ம

ம .

2122 41 F The benefit of true tapas, free from illusory appearances,

is a Heart that remains uninterruptedly and perpetually full

of the true life that abides as consciousness.

2123

ர ர ம

ர .

2124

ர ம ம

.

2125

ம ர ம ர

ம ரம .

2125 58 P If everything is perceived as the one consciousness alone,

there will not be even the tiniest amount of yearning in

your mind.

2126

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2126 19 Q Forgetting the lofty purpose of coming [to the Sadguru]

and developing an obsession for the non-Self is a

deception brought about by immaturity in those who are

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dull-minded.

2127

ண .

2127 111 C Padam, the perfect first cause, cannot be gained in full

measure unless the ego, the counter- feit consciousness,

is destroyed.

2128

ம .

2128 99 K If the experience of the Self merges with you, the base

delusion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ will be dead.

2129

ண ம

.

2129 23 K The experience of Atmajnana, the realisation that one is

bodiless, is the liberation of the jiva who regarded himself

as the body.

2130

ம ர

.

2130 58 E As consciousness is the real nature of Siva, only enquiry

into consciousness is the true worship of Siva.

2131

ர ம

ர ம .

2131 8 D The weeping of those who come to this world-stage, who

play their role and depart, is due to poverty, a lack of

jnana.

2132

ம ம ண

.

308

2133

ர ம ம

ர ம .

2134

ம ம ம

.

2135

ம .

2136

ம ம

ம ம .

2137

மர

ம ம .

2137 8 I The mind that dishonours consciousness [by ignoring it]

will be whirled around in a world of falsity and, as a

consequence, will become confused.

2138

.

2138 64 P A mind that runs after pleasure through the five senses,

while squashing her Lord in the Heart, is an unchaste

woman.

2139

ர

ம .

2140

ம .

2141

.

2141 23 T She [Sakti] does not exist apart from Him [Siva]; and

likewise, He does not exist apart from Her.

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2142

.

2142 24 T Padam, speaking the truth, warns: To separate Him and

Her from each other is wrong.

2143

ம

ம .

2143 29 T Only by realising that the real nature of sakti [the mind] is

Sivam, is the most eminent state of being attained.

2144

ம ர

ண .

2144 41 P Instead of merging without thought as That, why do you

repeatedly think, like a mantra, ‘I am That,’ and get

fatigued?

2145

ர ம .

2146

ம .

2147

ம ண

ம ம .

2147 10 C Padam is the form of the true Self, existing so firmly that it

can neither be lost nor gained.

2148

ம ரம

ம ம ர .

2148 48 I Know that the one direct path [vichara] that eliminates the

despicable pramada is the means to destroy the mind.

2149

310

ம .

2149 8 Y Padam, most bounteous in his grace, granted that I should

speak in praise of nothing else whatsoever, save his glory

alone.

2150

ம ம ம .

2150 10 Y Though I was unfit to speak of his glory, Padam enabled

me to praise his majesty with my own mean intellect.

2151

ம

ம ம .

2151 86 D Through forgetfulness the villainous mind will throw away

the Self, that which is, and will get agitated.

2152

ம

ம .

2153

ம

ம ம ம .

2153 90 C For those whose thoughts have been merged and

transmuted into love as they chant ‘Siva, Siva,’ Padam,

the truth, will shine so that they want for nothing more.

2154

ம

ம .

2154 67 F Mauna jnana, true knowledge of God, is only one. It is

only in the knowledge of objects that there are many

differences.

2155

ம

ம .

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2155 156 Y Padam is the felicitous state of the Self, whose form is

consciousness, that flourishes within my Heart in such a

way that there is not the minutest trace of any thought that

is foreign to it.

2156

ரம ம

ம ம ம .

2156 9 D Jnana, the supreme reality, is the truth of the four-fold

objectives – dharma, artha, kama and moksha – that are

the sanctioned goals of human beings.Here jnana is the

true dharma, the true artha, the true kama and the true

moksha.

2157

ம ர

ம .

2157 83 C Padam, the attainment of true jnana, has become worthy

of being desired even by those who are accomplished

yogis because of the greatness of its capacity [to grant]

salvation.

2158

ர

.

2159

ம ர ர

ம ர ம .

2160

ர ம

ண .

2160 34 D Going and coming only exist in the mind. They do not exist

in the Self, consciousness of being.

312

2161

ம ம ம ம

.

2161 34 S ‘The vision of reality’, ‘knowledge of reality’, ‘becoming

reality’ – all these denote unflagging abidance as Atma-

swarupa, the reality.

2162

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2163

ண ம

ண ர .

2163 56 H A brahmin is one who has a heart that possesses the true

jnana experience and cool compassion in his mind.

2164

ர

ம .

2165

ம

மர ர .

2166

ம ம ம ம

ர .

2167

ம

ம .

2168

ம ம ம

.

2168 5 L The confusing waking and dream states do not appear

except when one gets immersed in the stupor of

ignorance.

2169

ம ம

ம .

313

2170

.

2170 203 Y Just like Sakti delighting in Siva, Padam caused my mind

to immerse itself in being-consciousness.

2171

ம ம ம ம ரம

ம .

2172

ர ர

ர ம ர .

2173

ம

.

2174

ம .

2175

ம ர ம

ம ம .

2175 205 Y Padam is mauna, the beingness of Siva that unites with

my Heart’s inner character through its own sweet nature,

like milk mixed with honey.

2176

ம ம

ம .

2176 60 O The one-short-of-ten types of devotion are graduated

steps for the experience of the non-dual reality.

2177

மண ம

ம ம ம .

2177 20 Q Regarding the marriage ceremony itself as the true state of

married, conjugal bliss is an erroneous notion that [just

shows] immaturity.

314

2178

ம ம

ம ம ரணம .

2179

ம

ண ம ரம .

2179 132 Y Padam, the truth, the supreme, shines in my life as

spotlessly pure consciousness such that worldly bondage,

the condition of being a jiva,is annihilated.

2180 ண ர ண

ண .

2180 8 A When he is seen [properly], Padam remains merged as

the impartial sun of benevolent grace, but people of the

world needlessly slander him as being hard-hearted.

2181

ம ர

ர ம .

2181 45 C Padam is the Self Supreme, the perfect truth. Activity is

possible only at the conceptual level.

2182

ண ம

.

2183

ர ம

ம ம .

2184

ம

ம ம ம .

2184 16 M Even the desire for liberation is the work of delusion.

Therefore, remain still [summa iru].

2185

ர

ம .

315

2186

ம

ம .

2186 12 C Padam’s abode is the Heart that shines, pervading the

whole world with its light.

2187

ம ம .

2188

ம

.

2189

ம

.

2189 59 X To go looking for imperfections is the fault of the twisted

mind since one’s real nature flourishes as the fullness of

consciousness.

2190

ண ம ம .

2190 7 E Only consciousness is the life of the Self. The life

associated with forms and attributes, which are defective,

is the play of delusion.

2191

ம

ம ம .

2192

ர ம

ண .

2193

ம ரம

ம .

2194

ம

ண .

316

2194 9 Q Only the bestowal of tranquillity of mind is God’s grace, not

the fulfilment of what one desires.

2195

ம

ர ம .

2196

ம ர ம

.

2197

ர

ம ம .

2198

ர

ம .

2199

ர ர

ம ர ம ம ர .

2200

ண

.

2201

ர

.

2201 13 H Attachment to the mischievous and harmful ego is bad

association [dussanga]. Satsang, which destroys that

attachment, is abiding as the Self, the ‘I am’.

2202

ண .

2202 15 O Possessing a being-consciousness that acts without any

desire or opinion of its own is rejoicing in the divine will.

2203

ம ம

.

2204

ம

317

ம .

2205

.

2205 8 M The origin of the concepts of bondage and liberation is in

the ego, the deception that is the cause of the pairs of

opposites.

2206

ம

ண ம .

2207

ம ம

ம ர ம .

2208

ம ம ம .

2209

ம

ம ண ம .

2210

ர .

2210 94 Y Padam, the supreme reality, the wealth of grace, attracted

and kept me at his side so that I am benevolently

redeemed in this birth.

2211

ம ர

.

2211 34 K As long as the ego exists, how can one see, with a

ramifying mind, the truth of oneself?

2212

ர ம

ர .

318

2212 50 D The reality that is non-dual and which is one’s own nature

is not compatible with the objectifying consciousness that

has become two.

2213

ம ம

.

2213 40 P For those who are attempting to know their real nature, the

pure consciousness, through the grace of Bhagavan, the

method of pranayama [breath control] is a deluding

attachment.

2214

ம .

2214 8 Q Firmly attaining the meditative experience [of the Self] in

the mind, with nothing obstructing it, is the life of grace.

2215

ம

ம .

2215 220 Y Padam established my mind in the tapas of true jnana,

wherein the mind disports itself within Sivam.

2216

ம

.

2216 98 Y Padam shines within my Heart, making it melt at the true

love of its coming as the grace-bestowing Guru.

2217

ம .

2217 66 A Padam has the righteousness of not interfering even

slightly in divinely ordained events, which themselves do

not deviate from righteousness.

319

2218

ம ம ம

ண ர .

2219

ம

.

2219 34 H Before the self-effulgent attainment of Siva jnana, all other

siddhis will slip away, being defective.

2220

ம

.

2220 107 X Reversals of fortune in outer life come only to turn one

within towards the Self.

2221

ம ர ம ம

ம .

2221 25 M Supreme liberation will shine as Atma-swarupa if one

remains still.

2222

ம ம

ம .

2223

ர

ர .

2224

ம

ம .

2225

.

2225 40 X By indulging in improper conduct the jiva will swelter and

suffer in the burgeoning fire of sordid sense objects.

2226

ர ர ம

ர .

320

2226 68 F Only he who dwells in the resplendent residence

[parandama] as God [paradevata] is a paradesi..

2227

ம ம ண

ம .

2227 87 Y Through his grace-filled glance, golden, bewitching Padam

destroyed my infatuation with the ego-mind, scooping me

up and consuming me with relish.

2228

ம ம

ம .

2228 32 X The modern ‘civilised’ behaviour of covering a deceitful

heart with sweet and seductive words is very fine, very fine

indeed!

2229

ம

ர ர .

2229 23 G Some wicked people conceal deceit in their heart through

their dress and their external conduct and pose as great

jnanis.

2230

ம

ம ண .

2230 43 P The truth of one’s real nature – which remains alone in the

Heart without being known by the intellect – cannot be

realised by keenness of intellect alone.

2231

ம

.

2231 25 Q Those fickle-minded people who have not done any

sadhana before cannot gain a clear understanding from

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instructions alone.

2232

ர ம

.

2233

ம

ம ம .

2233 12 X Self-praise, an enemy posing as a friend, will delude one

and push one into a dark pit from which it will be difficult to

escape.

2234

ம ம

ம ம .

2234 13 X An even more disgraceful fault than feeling pride by

speaking in praise of oneself is gossiping about the minor

defects of others.

2235

ம ண

ம .

2235 14 V All the various sadhanas of the many religions bow to the

jnana-samadhi, abidance in Atma-swarupa, saying, ‘You

are our refuge’.

2236

ம ம ம ம

ம மர .

2237

.

2238

.

2238 16 D From time immemorial you have been existing only as

That which you are struggling hard to know.

322

2239

ண ண ண ண ண

ண ண .

2239 11 J It is not possible to see the eye with the eye. [In the same

way] it is not possible to see the Self with suttarivu.

2240

ம

ம .

2240 33 M Being still is the experience of swarupajnana. Whatever is

perceived by the senses is a false, illusory appearance.

2241

ர ம

ர ர .

2242

ம ர ம

.

2242 18 Q For those people whose minds are withered and deluded,

the attainment of a total absence of sankalpas [thoughts

or intentions] is impossible.

2243

ர ம

.

2243 3 R Theories of creation have been mentioned in the sastras

only for those who, forgetting themselves, get bewildered

by seeing creation.

2244

ர

.

2244 1 R Because of the differences in the nature of those who

perceive creation, many differences have accumulated in

the theories of creation that have been given in the

sastras.

323

2245

ம மம

.

2245 21 H Only knowledge of reality is identical in all jnanis. All other

things will be of many different natures.

2246

ர ண

ம .

2247

.

2248

ம .

2248 63 P Only consciousness is the perfect reality. All senses and

their perceptions, which are not consciousness, are the

ignoble imperfections of the false mind.

2249

ம ம .

2249 11 K Until the jiva knows that its own essential nature is

matchless bliss, it will, like the musk deer, be confused.

2250

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2250 16 V Swadharma [one’s own duty] is abidance in the pure Self

only. All other [perceived] duties are worthless.

2251

ம ம ம ம

ர .

2252

ம

.

2253

324

ம .

2253 16 B Why do you still retain this attachment to the mental

concepts of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ when, on that day, you had

offered up all those things to me, avowing them to be

mine?

2254

ம

ம .

2254 79 D Through a longing for the swarupa that waxes more and

more as abundant bliss, infatuation for the false world will

slip away.

2255

ம ம

.

2255 59 P The proliferation of desires in life results from the spread of

worldly attachments, which is in turn the devastating

consequence of forgetting one’s true nature.

2256

ம .

2256 131 D The true bliss of tranquillity does not exist in any state

except in the state of the Self, which forever exists and

shines as the very form of bliss.

2257

ண ம ம

ண ம ரண ம .

2257 23 C Padam, the perfect treasure of true jnana, is the truth that

cannot be known by the false manliness, the ego that

arrogantly cavorts about.

325

2258

.

2258 48 C The extremely wonderful Padam performs all activities just

like the mind does, without swerving from its nature as

consciousness.

2259

ம

ண .

2259 51 O Until one knows consciousness, it is not possible for

anyone to know the nature of devotion, the relationship

with true love.

2260

ம ம

ம ண .

2260 50 E In a heart that has not attained tranquillity of

consciousness, the experience of the Self, the ambrosia

of consciousness, cannot exist.

2261

ண ம ம

ண .

2261 30 M It will be impossible to merge with the feet of Lord

Sonachala [Arunachala], unless one remains still, with the

mind consumed and annihilated.

2262

ண .

2262 74 F The extremely pure clarity of Siva-experience exists in the

thought-free consciousness that is present in the Heart.

2263

ம

.

326

2263 39 O Perform japa in your heart with true love until it becomes

ajapa.

2264

ணம

ணம .

2264 85 K The delusive life of [living in] the body and the world is the

product of the ‘I’ sense that cherishes the body, which is

just a corpse.

2265

ம

ம ரம .

2266

ம

.

2266 6 W That which makes the deathless Self appear as something

that dies is the ego that regards the perishable body as ‘I’.

2267

ண

ம ம ம .

2267 22 L In the glorious state wherein the mind has died, even deep

sleep will become God-consciousness.

2268

ம

ம ம .

2268 119 K The notion of duties that need to be done [kartavya] will

not cease as long as the sense of doership [kartrutva]

exists in the heart.

2269

ம

ம ம .

2270

ம

ம ர .

327

2270 116 Y Padam, [despite] remaining as the swarupa, the bliss of

supreme liberation, hungrily consumed true devotees as if

he were the powerful Yama.

2271

ண ர

ண ம ர .

2271 117 Y When Padam adopted and swallowed my dear soul, it was

as if a great, ambrosial spring of water, which gives

satisfaction when drunk, itself became thirsty.

2272

ம

.

2272 9 F It is the mind that is diminished when there is a feeling of

deficiency. In the fullness of mauna, there is only

consciousness, but no thoughts.

2273

ர ம

ர ம ர .

2273 55 H Only those who, as enquirers, have realised their true

nature shining within their hearts, are brahmins,

possessors of jnana.

2274

ம .

2274 5 R Manifestation of ancient vasanas is creation. Destruction

of vasanas is the end of creation.

2275

ம

ம .

2276

ர

ர .

328

2277

ம

ண ரம .

2277 57 Y ‘When I have taken on your responsibilities, what is lacking

for you?’ Speaking in this way, Padam embraces me in the

Heart in eternal rejoicing.

2278

ம ண .

2279

ர

ம ம .

2279 16 Y Padam, grace, delighted even in the insane babbling of a

madman such as I, as though it were an exposition of the

essence of the wisdom of Vedanta.

2280

ர ம ர

ம ம ம .

2280 46 N Through jnanavichara, diving within enquiring ‘Who am I?’,

the delusion of attachment and the I-am-the-body idea will

be destroyed.

2281

ம ம

ம ர ரம .

2282

ர ம ர ம

ர ம .

2282 60 E The world has as its unmatched and tightly held support

the consciousness, the supreme, which shines without

needing to hold on to any support.

2283

ம ண ம

ம .

329

2283 15 T This false world vision will exist only until one enquires

within and realises the reality as it is.

2284

ம

ம .

2285

ம ம ம

.

2286

ம ம ம

.

2287

ம ம

ம ம ம ம .

2287 8 J It is because of the infatuation with objective knowledge

that the splendour of the boundless Self appears to be a

void.

2288

ண

ம .

2289

ம

ம .

2290

ண ம

ண .

2290 75 P In a mind in which divine consciousness holds sway, the

feeling of infatuation for the sordid enjoyments of the

senses, which arises in the false, will cease to be.

2291

ம ண .

2291 60 H In this world appearance that shines as many differences,

what the true jnani relishes is the light of consciousness.

330

2292

ம

.

2292 84 X In relationships with the world, any attitude other than

indifference [udaseena] will only lead to suffering.

2293

ம ம

.

2294

ம

ம ம .

2294 10 D Jnana, the Self with which one should merge, is the

complete cessation of the addiction of the mind towards

the non-Self.

2295

ம ம

ம .

2295 36 H Describing through [his] siddhis the realised state of a

jnani, which surges, transcending the mind, is a delusion

of the mind.

2296

ம

ம ம ர ம .

2296 2 X Excepting jnana siddhi, all the many other siddhis are

merely concepts of the mind.

2297

ம ம ண

ம .

2297 93 K The disappearance of the I-am-the-body notion, the wrong

understanding that causes infatuation, is the experience of

the Atma-swarupa.

331

2298

ம .

2298 104 K Renunciation, glorious and immaculate, is the total

extirpation of the impure ego mind.

2299

.

2299 57 D None of the defects arising through upadhis inhere in the

lofty purity of that consciousness which is the Self.

2300

ண ம ர

.

2300 34 E Rather than remaining still, as being-consciousness, why

do you sprout forth as ‘I’ and suffer miserably?

2301

ம .

2301 86 P The felicitous state of immovable peace that never falters

will be attainable only to those who have destroyed the

ancient multitude of vasanas, putting an end to all

attachment.

2302

ம ண ம

ம .

2302 97 D Though one may gain any amount of greatness in worldly

life, there is no peace except through turning towards the

Self [ahamukham].

2303

ம ம ர ம ர .

2303 30 P Those deluded ones who do not forsake that which is alien

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[to the Self] and who do not cleave to their own

consciousness’ form will become frenzied and be lost.

2304

ம ண ம .

2304 98 D What is termed ‘being turned towards the Self’

[ahamukham] is the state in which the mind, abandoning

sense objects, which are alien [to the Self], shines as

pure, unalloyed consciousness.

2305

ம ம ம

ம ர .

2306

ர

.

2307

ண ம .

2307 20 H Though a jnani may sometimes behave like a madman in

the world, he will always be remembering his real nature,

consciousness.

2308

ர

.

2308 34 Y Hearing my call ‘Save me!’, Padam, saying ‘What’s the

problem?’ took pity on me and came down and governed

me with relish, becoming my father who gave me birth in

jnana.

2309

ம

ர .

2310

மர ண

333

ம .

2311

ம ம

.

2311 71 C By virtue of the greatness of Atma-swarupa, which

transcends the mind, Padam shines without any kind of

do’s and don’ts.

2312

ம ர ண ம ம

ம ர ண ம .

2312 73 C Religious observances are entirely concerned with the

mind alone. The ever-silent Padam is always free from

such religious practices.

2313

ம ம ம

ம ம ம .

2313 70 C The gracious Padam, the great silence, swallows the mind,

conquering all the religions that exist as a consequence of

mind.

2314

ண ம ண

ண .

2314 49 O Consciousness alone is the experience of true love.

Sensory experiences, which are not consciousness, are

only a spurious semblance of that love.

2315

ம

.

2315 52 F That which has the right to be loved is one’s Atma-

swarupa, the supremely blissful entity that is the state of

God.

334

2316

ம .

2316 53 O Because the Selfhas bliss as its nature, love towards the

Self exists in the jiva as its very nature.

2317

ம ர

ம .

2317 34 O Unless the hard mind softens, melts and dissolves, what

benefit will chanting [of devotional texts] bestow on the

jiva?

2318

ம ம

ம .

2318 92 D The agitation of the mind that is associated with pramada

will be destroyed by the mental attitude that regards all

actions as being those of Siva.

2319

ம ம .

2320

ம ம

.

2321

ம .

2321 72 A Dwelling for long aeons upon this earth, Padam bestows

on individual souls the longing for true jnana, which

establishes them in the state of liberation.

2322

ம ம

ர .

2323

ண ம ர

335

ர .

2323 112 Y Padam, the state of the Self, remained as a bright

effulgence, consuming my soul in its fire, so that the

giddying infatuation, objective consciousness, was

destroyed.

2324

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2325

ம ர

ம ம .

2326

ம ம

ம .

2327

ம ம ம

.

2328

ம ம .

2328 28 M The wonderful meaning of the one supreme word [summa

iru] is to know and rest in the Atma-swarupa through the

enquiry ‘Who am I?’

2329

ம ம

ம ரம ம .

2329 36 I Upon the destruction of the mind, the appearance of the

world that adheres to you in the state of harmful delusion

will stand illustrious as pure consciousness.

2330

ரம

ர .

2330 45 H Associating with the world in a harmonious way,

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householders will conduct themselves from the secure

viewpoint of their own Self-nature.

2331

ம ர

ர ம ம ம .

2331 6 S Through that true effulgent light, which is the knowledge of

the Self, the world will be entirely eclipsed, becoming pure

consciousness.

2332

ம

ண ம .

2332 70 F To call him ‘The Three-Eyed One who bears the three

radiant entities [sun, moon and fire]’, is insulting to Sivam,

whose nature is pure consciousness.

2333

ம ம

ம .

2333 21 S In Sivam, the eye that is fully open as pure consciousness,

a second kind of eyesight cannot exist.

2334

ண ம .

2334 22 S If the eye is the eye of the light of truth, then, to see that

eye, another eye will not be necessary.

2335

.

2335 46 I Unless the mind is destroyed, it is not possible to attain the

fortune of clarity, the life of living in God’s grace.

2336

ம ம

ம ம .

337

2337

ம

ர .

2337 42 H In the natural life in which both inner and outer have

become harmonious, worldly life and godly life will become

one.

2338

ம

ம .

2338 93 F Only the life in which inner and outer are harmonised will

dam up and store the clear light of Siva-jnana.

2339

ண ம ர

ண ம ம .

2339 87 F The flood of supreme Sivam will flow into and merge with a

submissive mind, putting out the fire of mental anguish.

2340

ம ண

ண ண .

2341

ம ம

ம ம .

2341 52 P A heart in which the kamyabuddhi [a mind that desires

particular results] has departed and which possesses the

auspicious and excellent nishkamyabuddhi [a mind that

lacks desires for results] will be the home of bliss.

2342

ர ம .

2342 48 K A life in which the ego-ghost, which possesses desire and

attachment, dances is a desolate hell of corruption and

ruin.

338

2343

ர

ம ம .

2344

ண

ம .

2345

ம

.

2345 213 Y Padam is in harmony with my every word, my every deed,

with every thought I think.

2346

ரண ம

.

2346 8 O Since surrender to God, which bestows eminence on the

jiva, is something that ought to be done, one should not

waste time by neglecting to do it.

2347

ண

.

2348

ம

ம ர ர ம .

2349

ர .

2350

ர ர ம

ர ர .

2351

.

2352

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2352 10 P The foremost of all sadhanas is silence of the mind; this is

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what true devotees should practise.

2353

ம ம .

2354

ம

ம .

2355

ர ம

ம ர .

2356

மண

ம .

2357

ர

ம ம ர .

2358

ம ம

ம ம .

2359

ம ம ர

ம .

2359 40 V What can be accomplished by intellectual mastery, which

overcomes opponents through clever arguments, humbling

them and preventing them from opening their mouths?

2360

ம ம ம ம

ம .

2360 61 P By destroying the concepts of the mind, the desires that

accumulate in worldly life – a life that is unnatural and born

out of delusion – will be destroyed.

2361

ம

ம ம .

2361 26 J So long as you are confused, regarding yourself as the

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knower, you are not [experiencing] the truth of the [real]

nature of the knower.

2362

ம

ம .

2363

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2363 182 Y Padam gave me this true knowledge: ‘In the splendour of

true jnana all the glory of scientific knowledge becomes

ignorance.’

2364 ம

ம ண .

2364 210 Y Padam bestowed on me the true realisation that the

reality, which from time immemorial had appeared to be

different from me, had always been one with me.

2365

ம

ர .

2365 77 A It is the dancer Padam who, naturally established in the

contemplative state of realisation wherein the Self is firmly

embraced, performs all worldly activities well.

2366

ண

ம ம ம .

2366 75 F The realisation of the Self, pure consciousness of being, is

the state of Sivahood, free from the mind-impurity.

2367

ம

.

2368

ர ம

341

ம .

2368 48 N Seeking knowledge of the Self through the enquiry ‘Who

am I?’ is the perfect medicinal herb for all ailments.

2369

ம .

2369 49 N The medicinal herb, vichara, will attack and destroy all the

different diseases [that stem from] the original disease

[ego].

2370

ம

ம ரணம .

2371

ம

.

2372

ம .

2373

ம

ம ம .

2374

ம

ம ம ம .

2374 45 P Declaring that everything is the Self is only the repetition of

the deluded view of the ego that perceives everything.

2375

ம

ம .

2375 5 J That objective awareness which adheres to you, appearing

to be distinct from consciousness, Atma-swarupa, is a

deception.

342

2376

ரம .

2377

ம ம

ர ண ம .

2377 109 C Padam, the nature of mauna, can only be experienced in

the pure tranquillity where there is neither remembering

nor forgetting, and not by the rising, objectifying

consciousness.

2378

ம

ம ம .

2378 21 O It is joyful to move around, feeling happily surrendered to

whatever the grace of the Lord prompts us to do.

2379

ண

ம .

2380

ர

ண .

2381

ம ம

.

2382

ம ம

.

2382 16 W People lamenting and crying over the deaths of others is

merely a reflection crying over the disappearance of a

reflection.

2383

ம

.

2383 54 O Unless one loves the Self as one’s own swarupa, it is

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impossible to abide as one really is in the Heart.

2384

ம ம ண ம

ம .

2384 5 K None of the adherents of the [different] faiths can explain

how the delusion of association with the mind has arisen

for the jiva.

2385

ம ம

.

2385 50 P Those ignorant people who are itching with the desire for

this illusory life are whirling in the life of the cremation

ground.

2386

.

2387

ம .

2387 95 D Stop seeking the path that leads you to the forest,

abandoning your home. A better course of action is to

reverse [the] direction [of your search], turning your

attention inwards.

2388

ம

ம ம .

2388 73 D The life of those deluded ones who doubt even their own

swarupa is completely illusory.

2389

ரணம ம

மரண மர .

2389 2 O To attain the flourishing immortal life in which death is no

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more, there is no means other than surrender.

2390

ம ர

ம ம .

2391

ம ரம ம

ம .

2392

.

2392 4 Q The ego can only be destroyed by the power of grace, not

by the dark, perverted knowledge [suttarivu].

2393

ம

.

2394

ம ம

ம .

2394 35 P What can the mind, which knows only the non-Self, do to

know the nature of the Atma-swarupa?

2395

ம

ம ர ம .

2395 20 V The true love of the Vedas, the mother who declares your

real nature to be ‘You are That’, is the bridge for you [to

cross samsara].

2396

ர

ம .

2396 80 A Abiding Padam bears on his head, as though it is his fate,

the burden present in the hearts of those who have

sought refuge in him.

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2397

மண ம ண

மண ர .

2398

ம .

2398 49 J For those who are enjoying in their Heart the bliss of

swarupa, which is free from anxiety, there is nothing

enjoyable in the objects perceived by the five senses.

2399

ம ம ம

.

2399 26 M Through his gentle smile, radiant Padam joyfully declares:

‘Why this distress? Be happy by just remaining still.’

2400

ண ம

ண ம ம .

2400 3 X That which is termed omniscience is associated with

delusion because in reality no kind of objectified knowing

exists.

2401

ம

ம .

2401 26 Q Except for those who have completed everything and who

have a mind that is free from desires, remaining still

[summa iruttal] is not easy.

2402

ம ம

ண ர .

2402 11 H They are meritorious ones who have obtained association

with jnanis, who enjoy bliss by remaining still as pure

consciousness in the Heart.

346

2403

ண

ம .

2403 121 C Padam, whose nature is transcendental peace, comes

only within the grasp of a conscious- ness that has melted,

but it will subtly evade a mind that indulges in disputation.

2404

ம ம .

2405

ம

.

2405 9 M It is because the mind, the vain ego, is habituated to the

thought of bondage that enthusiastic efforts to attain

liberation arise.

2406

ம ம ம

ம ர ம ர .

2407

ர ம

.

2408

ர ம ர

ம ண .

2408 24 G If one takes those who are fake jnanis to be genuine jnanis

and suffers, this is merely the work of one’s deluding

prarabdha.(‘Deluding prarabdha’ in this context means

immaturity.)

2409

ம

.

2409 129 Y Padam shattered and threw away my mind so that it

became the vast expanse, with not even the slightest

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scope for darkness.

2410

ம ம

ம ம மண .

2411

ர ம

ம .

2411 185 Y In no time at all, Padam revealed within me the secrets of

the Vedas, whose lofty goal is grace, impossible to know

[with the mind].

2412

ர ம

ர ம ர .

2412 6 D Padam says: ‘To call the truth of the Self, which is natural

to everyone, a mystery is a great joke.

2413

ம

ம ம .

2413 4 D Knowledge and ignorance can only pertain to objects, the

non-Self. They are not appropriate to the Self, whose form

is pure consciousness.

2414

ம

ரம .

2415

ண ண

ம ண ம .

2415 117 K The sense of responsibility, a false feeling, does not exist

in the true state of realisation of the Self.

2416

ண ம

.

2416 118 K When this ego-based sense of responsibility is destroyed,

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the bliss of the Self will surge and overflow.

2417

ம .

2418

ம ண ம

ம ம .

2418 138 D In those ignoble and ignorant people who wander in the

ways of the illusory mind, the feeling of true bliss does not

exist in any degree whatsoever.

2419

ம ம

ர .

2414 10 I Those who revel in drinking the milk of the mind [indulging

in fancies] will not have the wisdom to drink the milk of

grace-bestowing Nandini. (Nandini is a celestial cow, a

divine being. In this analogy she signifies the Self.)

2420

ம

ம .

2421

ர ம

.

2422

ம

ம .

2423

ம

ம ம .

2424

ரம

ரம ம .

2425

ண

ர .

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2425 100 D Attaining unceasing abidance is the merging of

consciousness with the indestructible supreme.

2426

ம ண

ம ம .

2426 24 K For the jiva who has realised the truth, that truth itself will

help in uniting it with liberation.

2427

ம ம .

2428

ம

.

2428 142 Y Padam, the Self, remains established within my Heart, as

clear as a glorious mountain standing against the open

sky.

2429

ம

.

2429 5 H If the mere existence of the maunajnanis who have

swallowed the mind is service to God, what else is there

[for them] to do?

2430

ம ண

ம .

2430 108 Y In order that I should not pine, thinking of bliss, the golden

Padam caused bliss to blaze forth as my own nature.

2431

ம ம .

2431 54 D In the intellect of one who has clearly known himself to be

consciousness there is no other thing to associate with.

350

2432

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2432 38 M Mauna, which shines alone as consciousness of being,

possesses the glory of being the highest and most potent

tapas.

2433

ர

.

2433 13 Y To make clear everything that I write in a babbling way,

Padam graciously and thoroughly corrects [me].

2434

ண

ம .

2434 30 Q Those very few who realise the Self through daivagathi

and get redeemed have minds that are fully mature.

2435

ம .

2435 184 Y The moment that the darkness of the false disappeared,

radiant Padam shone forth within my intellect [buddhi] as

my true form.

2436

ம

ம ம .

2436 31 M By shining motionlessly, which is meditation on the Self, all

manner of excellent benefits accrue.

2437

ம ம .

2437 24 D What is that one thing that nobody has the power to reject

or accept? That one thing is the Atma-swarupa, Padam.

351

2438

ம

.

2438 162 Y Padam conferred upon [me] the realisation: ‘You are that

which remains when all else has been rejected as “not

this, not this”.’

2439

ர ம ண ண ர ம

ர ம .

2439 47 A Padam will bear upon his own head the accumulated

burdens of those who have performed the great offering

[of giving up the mind].

2440

ர ம

ர .

2441

ம ர

ம ம .

2442

ம ம ம

.

2442 32 O Only the annihilation of mind that results from the

destruction of vasanas is proper, unceasing worship of

Siva-Padam.

2443

ம ம

.

2443 28 S Injnana drishti there is only jnana swarupa. Since there is

nothing other than this to be seen, this is Padam, the

expanse [of consciousness].

2444

ம ண

.

352

2445

ம

ர .

2446

ர

ர .

2446 63 A Padam possesses the wondrous, extraordinary power of

bringing delight to his devotees through his gentle,

laughing smile.

2447

ம

ம ம .

2447 62 C In the Self, Padam, whose nature is the true jnana that

[merely] exists and shines, association with the mind, the

intellect and all the rest is totally absent.

2448

ம

ம .

2448 63 C Though Padam exists merged with the mind, not even the

name ‘mind’ is present in it.

2449

ம ம

ம ம .

2449 6 O That which constitutes offering [oneself] up to the Self is

living the life that shines, free of the false delusive mind,

known as ‘I’.

2450

ம .

2451

ம ம .

2451 100 C Padam is the expanse of grace, the truth, the excellence of

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ajata that is realised in the hearts of those who are

eminent in sahajanishta, one’s own true

experience.Ajatameans ‘non-creation’. It is a philosophical

or experiential standpoint that declares or knows that

neither the physical world nor the jivasin it have ever been

created. When one is established in one’s true state, one

knows the truth of ajataby direct experience. Such a one

is sahajanishta, one who is established in the natural state

of the Self.

2452

ரம ம ம

ரம ர .

2452 92 C Padam torments the jivathrough pramada, which makes it

forget its real and excellent nature and pay attention to

that which is alien [to the Self].(Pramadais a term that will

appear many times in Padamalai. It denotes forgetfulness

or inattentiveness, and more specifically, forgetfulness of

the Self. Bhagavan taught that we are all aware of the Self

all the time, but we somehow lose this knowledge by

permanently keeping our attention on the activities of the

mind, the body and the world.

2453

ம ம .

2453 72 X Not doing the things that should be done, and doing the

things that should not be done – these are errors that arise

simultaneously in the state of great delusion.

2454

ம

354

.

2455

ம .

2456

ம

.

2457

ம ம

.

2457 34 M To rest, remaining still as consciousness, is union

[sayujya], the abundance of peace.

2458

ம ம

.

2459

ம ர

ம .

2459 84 K That which should be clearly known is the Self, mere

consciousness. That which should be destroyed is

attachment to the body.

2460

ம ம

ம .

2461

ம .

2462

ம .

2463

ம ண

.

2463 17 S Effulgent Padam says: ‘The conquest of the world is

merely the complete destruction of the world vision that

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results from consciousness of reality in the Heart.’

2464

ர ர

ண .

2464 151 Y Extinguishing the flames of desire and aversion, along with

the other evil dispositions that constitute samsara, Padam,

with its refreshing coolness, dwells within my Heart.

2465

ண ம

ம .

2465 89 Y Having abolished the defect of the poison-like delusive ego

by looking at me with his jnana-bestowing eye, Padam

resides within my Heart.

2466

ம

ம ர .

2467

ம ம

ம .

2467 92 P Truly, vasanas are association [sanga]. You should

therefore know that their extinction is the total

abandonment of all association.

2468

ர ம

ம .

2468 93 P Establish yourself in the Self so that the vasanas, the

impurities, are rooted out and destroyed. That is the true

course of action.

2469

ர

.

356

2470

ரம ர

ரம ம .

2470 43 H Because of the majestic outlook of Brahman, karma

[action, activity] is not different from Brahman.

2471

ம ம

.

2471 16 C Effulgent Padam dwells within the Heart in such a way that

for its devotees the deluding agitation that rises for those

with minds is entirely absent.

2472

ர ண

ண .

2472 3 J That which exists is only the one consciousness. The

many conceptualised varieties of objectified

consciousness are only an imaginary notion in that which

is.

2473

ம

ம ம .

2473 35 C Padam is the wondrous illumination of the real that shines

within the faculties, such as the mind and the intellect,

lending them its light.

2474

ம

.

2475

ம .

2476

ம

.

357

2477

ர .

2478

ம ம .

2478 1 W In a mind in which pramada has departed, birth and death

will become mere words.

2479

ண

ம .

2479 20 J If we enquire into the means for the destruction of

bondage, it is [through] the perfect wisdom in which the

objectifying tendency of the mind is totally destroyed.

2480

ம

ம ம .

2481

ம

.

2481 42 O The mind that does japa, ‘Siva, Siva,’ will later

automatically lose itself in ajapa.

2482

ண

ம .

2483

ர ண ம

ம ம .

2484

ம

ர ம .

2484 27 E The mind will only become firm if it dives within and

subsides into the Self through the practice of

[investigating] consciousness.

358

2485

ம

ர ம .

2486

ம ம

ம ர .

2487

ம

.

2487 7 I It is through the mask [of the mind], adhering in the form of

infatuation, that the blissful enjoyment of salvation, the

Self, has become hidden from view.

2488

ணர

ண ம .

2489

ம .

2489 212 Y Padam is the clarity of truth that shines within my Heart as

the perfection of praiseworthy union.

2490

ம ம ம

ம .

2491

ம

ம .

2492

ம ம

ர .

2493

ம ண ண ம ண

ண ர ம .

2493 4 X Only knowledge of reality is omniscience. If omniscience is

different from knowledge of reality, it will become

defective, false knowledge.

359

2494

ம ம ம ண

ம ம ர ம .

2494 5 X Since, in reality, nothing apart from consciousness exists,

omniscience is ignorance because its nature involves

differences.

2495

ம

ர .

2496

ம ம

.

2497

ண ர

ம ம .

2497 87 P Pramada [not keeping one’s attention on the Self], whose

association with one is detected in the culminating phase

of sadhana, is the mind’s original, deluding vasana.

2498

ம ம ண

ம .

2499

.

2500

ம

ம .

2501

ம

ம .

2502

ம

ம ம .

2503

ண ம

ண ம .

360

2503 36 C Padam is the mind-transcending light of the Heart in which

the manifold religions merge harmoniously, with their

discordant verbiage ended.

2504

ம ண

.

2505

ண .

2506

ம ம

.

2507

ம .

2507 17 Y I realise now that my disrespectful vilification of Padam,

the grace-form that never leaves [me], was ignorance.

2508

ம

.

2509

ம ம ர

ம .

2509 41 A The effulgent Padam casts out the delusion of ‘I’ and

‘mine’ from the hearts of those true devotees who remain

still in his presence.

2510

ம ம

ம ர ம .

2510 41 C Since the entire world appearance is founded in due order

upon it, jnanis praise the effulgent Padam, the truth, as

Padam [the feet, the ultimate support].

361

2511

ர

.

2512

ம ம .

2513

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2513 1 Y Due to the perfect oneness of its nature, Padam, Atma-

swarupa abiding in the Heart, does not desire words of

praise.

2514

ர ம

ர ம .

2514 2 Y I am afraid that if I say words of praise about Padam, this

will create a sense of difference [between us], making my

praise turn into blasphemy.

2515

.

2515 55 F The state of God should be attained by seeking within

oneself with a one-pointed mind.

2516

ர ம

ரம ம .

2517

.

2518

.

2519

ம

.

362

2520

ர

ம ம .

2521

ர ம ம

.

2522

ம ரண

ம ண .

2523

ர ம ர

ரம ம .

2524

ம மர ம

.

2525

.

2526

ம ண

ம .

2526 37 K Binding one thing tightly to another is the profession of the

ignoble ghost, the mind, the deceiving association.

2527

ம ண

.

2528

ம .

2529

ம ம

ம .

2530

ர ம

மண .

2531

ம .

363

2532

ம ம

ம ர .

2532 31 J Those who do not see the world as their own Self and

become its support will get caught up and drown in the

triputis, which adhere to them through ignoble delusion.

2533

ம ம

ம ம .

2533 13 I Truejnana is completely incompatible with attachment to

the world, which arises from delinquent delusion, the mind-

defect.

2534

ண ம

ம ர ம .

2535

ம ண

.

2535 7 D Effulgent Padam poses the question: ‘Who is the blind one

who does not perceive the Self that exists as unerring

wisdom?’

2536

ரண

ரண .

2537

ம

ம .

2538

.

2539

ர ம .

2539 38 J The distinctions, sentient [chetana] and insentient

364

[achetana], are negated in the perspective of the

resplendent consciousness of the Self.

2540

.

2541

ம ம

ம ர .

2541 6 K Know that the jiva suffers like a fool because of its close

association with that buffoon, the mind.

2542

ர ரம .

2543

ண

.

2544

ம

ம ம .

2544 106 K The ignoble infatuation kartrutva that associates with you

is the confused attitude of mind that regards the

instruments [of action and cognition] as ‘you’.

2545

.

2546

ம .

2547

ர ண

ர ர .

2548

ம ம

.

2548 71 M Lustrous Padam revels in union with the auspicious lady

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who is praised all the time by jnanis as Shanti.

2549

ம ர ண

ம .

2550

ம ம .

2551

ம ண

ம .

2551 49 C The extremely wonderful Padam has fashioned the entire

world from the clay of shining consciousness, the Self.

2552

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2552 104 C Only in the hearts of those who have offered themselves

up as a sacrifice does Padam, the reality, merge and

shine perpetually as the spotless temple.

2553

ம ர ம

ம ர .

2554

ர ம .

2555

ம ண ம

ம .

2555 71 X However good an action may be, if performing it spoils and

destroys your equanimity of mind, what is the benefit of it?

2556

.

2556 94 P Like cotton in a fire, everything [meaning all vasanas] in

the hearts of those in whom the divine grace, the fire of

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jnana, has been kindled will be completely and

simultaneously destroyed.

2557

ம

ண .

2558

ம

ண .

2559

ம ம

.

2560

ண

ண ம .

2561

.

2562

.

2563

ம ம

.

2564

.

2564 32 J Only in the false stupor, the darkness of ignorance, can

the separated fragments of the triputi- scene occur.

2565

ம

ர மம .

2566

ம

ர .

2567

ம ண ம

ம .

367

2568

ர ம

ண .

2568 6 X Omniscience pertaining to the triputi-differences [can exist]

only until [one] realises correctly one’s real nature,

consciousness, the supreme.

2569

ண ர ர

ம ண .

2570

ம .

2570 18 M The true mukti that banishes the tormenting triple miseries

[tapatraya] is abandoning everything, not attaining

something.

2571

ம .

2571 85 F It is a calamity to waste one’s life pointlessly instead of

having the mind rejoice in Sivam.

2572

ரம ம ம

ம ம .

2572 47 Y I realised clearly that in everything that is not the supreme

reality, immutability does not exist, not even in the slightest

degree.

2573

ம ம

ர ம .

2573 39 X Those fools involved in deceitful worldly life will beg others

when overwhelmed by problems, but when others beg

from them, they will behave arrogantly.

368

2574

ம .

2574 144 Y Padam offered dancing and singing to others, but it

targeted me only for merging in the Heart.

2575

ம .

2575 26 X Padam shines in the Heart, saying, ‘In Atma-swarupa what

remains either to desire or be afraid of?’

2576

ம .

2577

ம ண

ம .

2577 43 I He who has not seen and embraced the infinite expanse of

maunawill be snared by the threefold gunasand suffer in

the degraded world.

2578

.

2579

ம ண ம

.

2579 42 I He who has renounced the fraudulent mind has renounced

the three gunas. He has emerged [into true vision] after

completely ripping up the cataract of delusion.

2580

ம ம ர

ம ர .

2580 24 M The cessation of the feeling of bondage, which arises from

the I-am-the-body delusion, is sovereignty over [the world

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of] liberation, the freedom of the Self, pure consciousness,

the supreme.

2581

ர ர

ண ம .

2581 43 O The state in which the heart is firmly established in Sivam

will arise when the heart dwells unceasingly upon the

panchakshari.

2582

ர ம ம .

2582 54 C Having manifested in the world the ridiculous dance of all

the five divine operations, Padam shines secretly as the

sacred hall of chitrambalam.

2583

ர ம ம

ம .

2584

ம ம

ம ண .

2585

ம ம ம

.

2585 134 Y Through its majesty that confers the Self in the form of

grace, Padam, the overflowing clear expanse, succeeded

in unsheathing my Heart.

2586

ம ம

ம .

2586 146 Y Padam bestows within my Heart the fullness of truth,

abolishing the poverty of thought that results from deceitful

illusion.

370

2587

ம

ம .

2587 11 S Until the seer sees, knows and becomes one with the truth

of his real nature, he [the seer] cannot attain peace of

mind.

2588

ம

ம .

2588 12 S The seer, by seeing the truth of his real nature, will get

released from the profitless bondage of attachment, which

arises from the dense darkness [of ignorance].

2589

ம ண

ம ண .

2589 24 J The cavorting mind, suttarivu, will not die except by

consciousness of the truth of the real nature of the thinker.

2590

ம ம

ம .

2590 79 Y Gentle, golden Padam, victorious in his grace, cured the

deadly wound of the mind, so that I am no longer

tormented by thoughts of ‘tomorrow’.

2591

ம

.

2591 73 X The way to reform the world is to reform oneself in such a

way that reality shines in the Heart.

2592

ம

ர ம .

371

2593

ர

ம .

2593 13 A Like an incorporeal voice emanating from the heavenly

sphere, Padam utters in ringing tones words of surpassing

Siva-jnana.

2594

ர மம .

2595

ம

ம .

2596

ம

ம .

2597

ம

ம .

2598

ம ம

ம .

2598 2 H Because Iswara shines as their own swarupa, love for

Iswara has become natural for true jnanis.

2599

.

2600

ண

ண .

2601

.

2602

ண ம ண

ண ம .

2603

ம ர

372

ம .

2604

ர

.

2604 214 Y Padam, Sivam, shines as endless space within my Heart,

as my very existence, beyond the reach of objective

knowledge.

2605

ம

ம ம .

2606

.

2607

ர ரம ம

.

2608

ர

ம ர ம .

2609

.

2609 3 H Any offering to a Siva-jnani, who shines having attained

liberation, is an offering to Siva.

2610

ம

ண .

2611

ம

.

2612

ம ரணம

ம ம .

2612 217 Y Golden Padam bestowed upon me, as an endowment

within my Heart, the blissful heaven of Sivam, which is

373

both absolute emptiness and absolute fullness.

2613

ம .

2614

.

2614 54 A Whoever they may be and whatever sadhana they may

practise, Padam will lovingly bless that sadhana with his

grace.

2615

ம

ம ம .

2616

ண

ம .

2617

ம

ம .

2617 23 W For those who are distressed, the distressing mind that

associates with them is indeed a self-created evil.

2618

ம ம

ம .

2618 68 E As it is consciousness that appears as everything, those

who have known the truth of consciousness have known

the truth of everything.

2619

ம .

2620

ர

ர .

2621

ண

374

ம ம ம ரம .

2622

ம ம

ம மரணம .

2623

ம .

2624

ம

ம ம .

2624 98 C The effulgent Padambecomes veiled in the same way that

fire becomes veiled by the smoke that billows out from it

and envelops it.

2625

ர

ம .

2625 85 D Ignorance only exists in the vision of others. To the

splendorous light, the nature of the Self, the obstacle of

pramada never exists.

2626

ம ம .

2626 178 Y Performing yoga-sadhana for my sake, Padam helped me

[to attain] the benefit of true jnana.

2627

ம

ண ர ம .

2628

ம ம .

2628 11 C Though Padam exists, pervading each and every [object]

within and without, none of [them] ever exists in it.

2629

ர

375

ர .

2629 25 I Those who possess a mind that roams about in the false

concept [the world] will not know the consciousness, the

supreme, and even if they do know it, they will be perplexed

[by it].

2630

ர ம

ம .

2631

ம ர

ம .

2631 215 Y Indivisible, all-pervasive Sivam itself entered my Heart,

that refuge that could not be entered, shining as Padam,

the truth.

2632

ண ம

ம ம .

2632 5 F In the state of mauna one merely abides as ‘I-I’. Apart from

this, there is neither thinking nor knowing.

2633

ம ம

.

2633 101 D The state of steadfast abidance is alone the true state. It is

not to think repeatedly of something or other and become

fatigued.

2634

ம

.

2634 46 Y My existence craves for nought save the pure expanse of

the Self in which everything exists and shines as Sivam.

376

2635

ம

ம .

2635 5 P All meditation practices are the means that enable the

attainment of the strength of mind that is necessary or

Atmanishta.

2636

ம ம .

2637

ம

ம ம .

2637 2 K If the delusion of the jiva, the false I-am-the-body idea, is

destroyed, the nature of the jiva will be the form of true bliss,

Sivam.

2638

ம

ம ம ம .

2639

ம ர ம .

2639 25 K Only he in whom the ‘I’ is dead will know the union of the

jiva with the supreme, which is the full, non-dual

[experience].

2640

ம

ர .

2641

ரண

ம .

2642

ர

ண .

377

2643

ர .

2644

ம ம

.

2645

ம ம

ம ம ம .

2646

ம

.

2647

ம

.

2648

ம ம

ம ம .

2648 27 A Padam is firmly established in the state of mauna, the

power of the Self, before which all other powers fade

away.

2649

.

2649 21 K The spiritual practice adopted by the jivabecomes

complete upon the destruction of the ego at its source.

2650

.

2650 27 H The books speak of the characteristics of jnanis in order

that you should cherish these [characteristics]

appropriately in your heart and gain salvation.

2651

ம ர

ர .

378

2651 15 E Only those who have known consciousness have known

the truth. Those who have known things other than

consciousness are, whatever else they might have known,

ignorant.

2652

ம ண

ம ண .

2652 35 A Radiant Padam reveals with certitude the clear truth of

jnana even in the hearts of the most stupid blockheads

who amount to less than a lump of clay.

2653

ம .

2654

ம ர ம .

2654 85 C Padam is the eternally non-dual expanse of the supreme

truth that reveals as false even the ‘now’ in which this

dualistic scene appears.

2655

ம ம

ம .

2656

ம .

2656 44 E The Lord and the Lady, along with Kandan, merged

together are respectively the obstruction -free sat, chit and

ananda.

2657

ம

.

379

2658

ம ர

ம ம .

2659

ம

.

2659 50 K If even a trace of the ego, ‘I’, exists, the experience of the

Self will be obstructed.

2660

ண

ம ம .

2660 19 K The main obligation of the jiva is to absorb into the Self

that objective consciousness [suttarivu] that knows the

non-Self, so that ignorance is destroyed.

2661

.

2662

ம

ம .

2663

ர ர

ம ம .

2663 40 D This world that is seen in many ways is all the light of

swarupa.

2664

ம

ரம .

2664 19 T The series of illusory, mental images that appear in

consciousness through erroneous superimposition does

not exist in Sivam.

2665

ம

.

380

2666

ம ண

ண .

2667

ர ம .

2668

ம ரம ர ம

ம ம .

2669

ம ண ம

ணம .

2669 72 F The one who has realised the truth as his own real nature

is assuredly of the form of Sivam.

2670

ம ம ண ம

ம ம .

2671

ம ம ம

.

2672

ண

.

2673 ம ண

ம

ம ம ம .

2674

ம

.

2674 124 Y Through the majesty of the Self in which ‘I’ exists as ‘He’,

Padam shines out so that there is never any place for ‘I’

and ‘mine’.

2675

ம ம ர

ம .

381

2676

ம .

2677

ர ம

ர ண .

2677 46 C Padam confounds the eye of those who lack true

understanding of reality by appearing to be in rapid motion,

whilst [in fact] it steadfastly abides without moving at all.

2678

ம ர ம

ம ம .

2679

ம

ம ம .

2680

ம

.

2681

ம

ரம .

2681 74 C Padam, the grace-consciousness that is the supreme, is

such that no one can realise the greatness of grace

except through grace itself.

2682

ம

.

2683

ம

ம ர ர .

2684

ம

ம ர .

2684 40 A Because the two [jiva and Iswara or Guru and disciple]

really exist as one, Padam bestows the grace to annihilate

382

the [sense of] separateness as mere imagination.

2685

ம

ம .

2686

ரம ம ண ண

ரம .

2686 17 C Padam, the Heart, the expansive abode, possesses such

great strength that the six baneful enemies cannot [even]

approach.The six enemies are lust, anger, greed,

delusion, intoxication and envy.

2687

ர

.

2688

ம ம

ம .

2689

ம ம ம

ண ம .

2690

.

2691

ம

ம ரம .

2691 149 Y Padam is the beauteous supreme, the one Self that shines

within my Heart, having destroyed my infatuation for the

world.

2692

ண ம

ண ம ர .

2693

ம .

383

2693 112 C If one awakes from the whirling dream of ignorance, only

the effulgent Padamremains as the pure expanse of

consciousness.

2694

ம .

2694 193 Y With nothing above it Padam is itself the highest of the

high. It is my swarupa, the unique Heart for me.

2695

ம ம ம

ரம .

2695 24 A Padam, the supreme, possesses the power of Self-

knowledge that consumes all visions in his fire,

transmuting them into his own form.

2696

ர

ர ம .

2696 58 A Because his true nature is non-dual consciousness,

fullness, there is no room in Padam to slander anyone.

2697

ண ம ம

.

2698

ண ம

.

2698 66 Y Padam, whose swarupa is intense jnana, destroyed my

body consciousness, ensuring the elimination of all my

karma.

2699 ர ம

ர ம ம .

384

2700 ம

ம ம ண .

2701 ம

ர ரம .

2701 110 C Padam, the highest of the high, can only be gained

through a profound yearning in which one loses oneself,

and not by mere imagination.

2702 ம

ர ம .

2702 59 Y Even as I suffered through the delusion of regarding

myself as the actor, true Padam caused me to shine as the

enduring stage.

2703

.

2703 6 Y Bestowing upon me an understanding suffused with his

grace, Padam caused me to sing his immaculate praises,

making this my pastime.

2704 ம

.

2704 69 Y If form truly exists for the Lord, I took that form to be the

form of the Guru, making it the focus of my attention.

2705 ம ம

ம .

2705 27 Y Padam is the lodestone of grace that drew to itself and

stole away the evil mind of this ignorant sinner who lacked

even one good quality.

385

2706 ம

ண .

2707 ண

ம .

2707 209 Y Padam is a great, good fortune to me because, though it is

hard to embrace, I merged with it well, moving intimately

[with it] through love.

2708 ம ம ம

.

2709 ம

ம .

2709 53 X It is foolish to harbour a deep hatred for the non-Self,

which is perceived in consciousness through confusion.

2710 ம

ம .

2711 ம

.

2712

ம ம .

2713

.

2713 48 H For those who conduct themselves in such a way that they

do not deviate from the noble path [the path of sat], every

state is equally and pleasingly acceptable.

2714

.

386

2714 23 X Unless one is a jnani whose consciousness has become

calm and clear, it is not possible to enquire and know the

underlying subtle principles of dharma [the true meanings

of practices].

2715

.

2715 218 Y Like a father, Padam, grace, revealed and gave to me in

the Heart a gift, that rich hoard of hidden treasure which is

Sivam, perfect contentment of mind.

2716 ம

ம ண .

2716 223 Y Padam opened my Heart in such a way that the exalted

essence that could not be seen anywhere came to be

seen everywhere.

2717

ம ம

ர .

2718

ம .

2719

ம

ண ண .

2719 76 Y Lacking in love [for it] as I was, Padam afforded me its

refreshing grace, accepting all my deeds as its service.

2720

ம .

2720 99 Y Through his love, golden Padam, the bewitching Sivam,

zealously exercised his goodly rule over me so that I was

387

not in the least overwhelmed and terrified continuously by

one thought after another.

2721

ம .

2721 77 X The non-existent maya can deceive the good sense [of a

sadhaka] by showing itself as compassion to other beings.

2722

ம ம .

2722 39 T The power of maya is that it causes the jiva to do over and

over again that which it has already done.

2723

ர ணர ம .

2724

.

2725

ம ம

ம ம .

2726

ம ம

ம ர ர .

2727

ம .

2727 9 C Padam, the real, exists and shines as the ever-present

void without arising from anything and without giving rise

to anything.

2728

ர ம

ரம ம .

2729

388

ர .

2730

ம

ர ம .

2731

ர

ம ம ர .

2732

ண

.

2733

.

2733 54 Y Padam walks sweetly within me such that its divine will

flourishes well within my Heart.

2734

ம .

2735

ம

ர ர .

2735 67 C Padam destroys the perversity of samsara that gives rise

to the discord in which remembering is birth and forgetting

is death.

2736

ம ர ம

.

2737

ம

.

2738

.

2738 10 X To take pride in boasting about oneself is the mark of an

empty and insignificant person, a mere husk.

389

2739

ண

ண .

2739 26 H Humility and self-restraint are the marks of those

transformed and radiant beings who embody the quality of

virtue.

2740

ம ம

.

2741

ம ம

ம .

2742

ர ம .

2742 22 K Like the moth [in the flame], a jiva on which the shining

light of swarupa has fallen will be annihilated, becoming

the supreme.

2743

ம

ண .

2744

ர ம

ம .

2745

ம

ம ம ண .

2746

ம

ம .

2746 164 Y Attaining in full measure in the Heart the wealth of Sivam,

the Self, so that nought else remains, I exult in Padam.

2747

ம ர

ம .

390

2748

ர ம

ர ம ர .

2749

ரணம

ர ம .

2750

ம

ண .

2751

ர

.

2751 24 Q Whatever it is, nothing can be attained without the

necessary fitness for it.

2752

.

2753

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2754

ம

ம ம .

2754 105 Y Padam, the truth, enduringly shines its inner light, making

peace well up within me so that I do not suffer ruin and die,

bewildered by a life lived through the treacherous mind.

2755

ம .

2755 158 Y Appropriating the title deed to my Heart, effulgent Padam

resides there, keeping me from falling under the power of

the vasanas, the enemies.

2756

ர

ம ம .

391

2756 32 C Padam, the effulgent light of perfect silence, strikes,

shattering the foolish argument that [the nature of]

consciousness is twofold.

2757

ர ம

ம ம ம .

2758

ண

.

2758 118 C In a mind that holds exclusively onto Padam, the Self,

without leaving it, not a single desire will thereafter be

born.

2759

ர ம

ம ம .

2760

ர

.

2761

ம ம

ம .

2761 92 K Unless the belief ‘I am the body’ is completely destroyed,

true knowledge of the one Self is not possible.

2762

.

2763

ம

.

2763 19 C Remaining in the Heart, Padam causes the minds of each

and every one to act in accordance with his vasanas.

2764

ண ம

.

392

2765

ர ம

ரம ம .

2766

ர .

2766 1 O Offer yourself up unconditionally to the power that is your

own source [adharasakti].

2767

ம

ர .

2767 86 F Those who do not sacrifice themselves in Sivam will be

drowned in samsara and will suffer intensely.

2768

ம ர

ம ர ம ர .

2769

ம

ம .

2770

ம ம

ம .

2771

ம

.

2771 114 Y Swallowing me up in its vast expanse, Padam, the Heart,

remains shining as the light that is filled with the truth of

the pure Self.

2772

.

2773

ண

ம ம .

393

2774

ம ம

ரம ம ர .

2774 72 C Padam is the supreme reality, the ultimate truth that

makes dharma, artha and kama appear as mere

reflections.

2775

ம

ண .

2775 28 O If the sordid attitude of mind that habituates you to the I-

am-the-doer idea is completely destroyed, all of your

actions will be service to God.

2776

ம .

2777

ம ம

ம .

2777 104 Y Through the feeling ‘enough’, golden Padam bestowed

upon me in my Heart the prosperity of utterly peaceful

bliss.

2778

.

2779

ண

ர ம .

2779 49 Y Through the feeling of fullness brought about by grace

gushing in my Heart, I, his devotee, rejoiced in Padam

without any pining for other things.

2780

ரண ம .

394

2780 101 X The heart can only attain fullness through the wealth that

is grace, never through material wealth.

2781

ம

.

2782

ம ம

ண .

2782 28 E Padam speaks mockingly: ‘The intelligence of a supremely

intelligent one who has not enquired and known the

nature of consciousness is great indeed!’

2783

ம

.

2783 39 V He who sees an object as separate from consciousness

cannot be a pandit who has known consciousness.

2784

ரம ம ம

ம .

2785

ம .

2785 100 Y Taking my Heart as a temple, Padam carefully nurtures

me so that I no longer struggle helplessly like a motherless

child.

2786

ம

ண ண .

2787

ரம ண

ண .

2788

ம

ர .

395

2789

ம ம .

2789 127 Y Having risen up as the pure expanse [of consciousness],

yea, the exalted destroyer of all my actions’ fruit, Padam,

the truth that exists and shines, became the destroyer also

of my very self.

2790

ம

ம .

2791

ம ம .

2791 20 T If it is true that, though she [sakti] has given birth to the

many worlds, she is still a virgin, the truth of the world

must be extremely marvellous.

2792

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2793

ம ம ண

ம ம ண .

2794

ம .

2795

ம

ம .

2795 70 Y Divine Padam took birth and came before me as the

jnana-Guru Padam so that all my suffering died completely

and disappeared.

2796

ரம

ம .

396

2797

ம ரம

ம .

2798

ரம

.

2799

ம ம ம

ம .

2800

ம .

2800 43 Y Padam, through the power of swarupa, the pure being-

consciousness, totally eradicated the powerful mischief of

Kama from my Heart.

2801

ம

ம ரம .

2802

ம ரணம .

2803

ண ம

ண .

2803 4 E All the objects perceived through the senses that adhere to

you have nothing other than consciousness as their

material cause.

2804

ண

ண ம .

2804 16 T Until everything attains subsidence in consciousness, the

various scenes one associates with will [appear to] be real.

2805

.

397

2805 152 Y The welling up of the Self, Padam, whose nature is all

pervading, exists within the place of my Heart.

2806

ர ம

ர மம ம ர ம .

2807

ண ர

ண .

2808

ம ம .

2809

ம

ம ம .

2810

ம

ம ம .

2810 216 Y Padam caused my true nature to flourish as the golden

form of Sivam, the Self, grace-consciousness, driving

away my wretched defilement.

2811

.

2812

.

2813

ண .

2813 57 A Even Padam [Bhagavan] cannot describe in words

Padam, the pure expanse [of consciousness] that can

only be recognised through the vision brought about by

grace.

398

2814

ண

ம .

2814 52 O Only the abandonment of the sense of separation

[vibhakti] can be termed as rejoicing in the true love that

rises in pure Sivam.

2815

ம

ரம .

2816

ர ண ம ண

.

2816 197 Y Padam redeemed me in my swarupa so that I did not roam

around like a herd of deer that wanders in the forest,

mistaking a mirage for water.

2817

ர .

2818

ர ம

ம .

2818 78 Y Padam granted me his own true nature such that for

myself, as his devotee, no other state of being remained

except that of grace, the supreme.

2819

ம ம ம ம

ரம .

2820

ம

ம .

2821

ம

ம .

2821 56 D Except from the viewpoint of upadhis [limiting adjuncts],

399

truly, no division ever arises in the Self, whose nature is

consciousness.

2822

.

2823

ம

.

2824

ம ம ம ம

ம ம .

2825

ம ர

ம ம .

2825 135 Y Manifesting fully within my Heart, transcending

comparisons, Padam, the Self, shines as joyful splendour,

without clinging to anything.

2826

ம .

2826 192 Y Padam bestowed on me true life by showing to me, as

conspicuously as a mountain, swarupa, that subtle

essence which no book can convey.

2827

ம

ம .

2828

ம ம

ம .

2829

ண

ம ம .

2830

ம .

400

2830 46 K Unless one knows oneself as the witness, ignorance,

which takes the form of the ego, will not be removed.

2831

ம ம ர

ம ம .

2832

ம

ம .

2833

ம ம

ம .

2833 35 H Even if many wonderful siddhis reach them, in the hearts

of true jnanis there is no infatuation for them.

2834

ம

ம .

2834 21 C True Padam, the expanse of consciousness, abides,

shining out as pure consciousness, beyond both

knowledge and ignorance.

2835

ம ண ம

ம ரம .

2836

ர

ம .

2837

ம ம ம

.

2838

ம ம .

2838 4 V The many different religions are appropriate to the maturity

of each individual, and all of them are acceptable to reality.

401

2839

ண

ண ம ண .

2840

ம ம ர ண

ம .

2841

ர ம

.

2841 204 Y Padam established my Heart in the life of union with Siva

so that the affliction caused by the disease of birth [and

death] disappeared.

2842

ம ம

ம ம .

2843

ம

.

2844

ம .

2845

ம

ம .

2846

ர

ம ண .

2847

ம

ம .

2848

.

2848 40 F The supreme benefit of possessing consciousness is

rejoicing in the Heart, experiencing union with the Self.

402

2849

ம ம .

2849 5 C Padam, remaining solitary, is the shining of truth, the

possessor of the victory that has nothing standing in

opposition to it.

2850

ம .

2851

ம .

2852

.

2853

ம

ர .

2854

ம ர ண

ம ம ம .

2855

ம

ம .

2856

.

2856 37 S In the hyperactive vision [of the ego] Padam appears as

the many different sense objects; in jnana drishti it is the

expanse of grace.

2857

ர

.

2858

ண ம

ண ர .

403

2859

ர ம

ர ம .

2860

.

2860 27 C Only Padam, the light of consciousness, knows the true

import of aham, which shines as that light.

2861

ம ம

ம .

2862

ண ண ர

ண .

2862 124 C Being non-dual, Padam cannot be thought of; hence, so

long as one is thinking, it will not shine.

2863 ம

.

2864

ம .

2865

ம ரம ம

ர ம .

2866

ம ம ம

.

2866 10 A Having assumed a form, Padam, the unique, true jnana,

moves [amongst us] to show the way of truth to men.

2867

.

2867 38 O Worship directed towards forms [of God] also reaches the

realm of the formless Self, Padam.

404

2868

ண

ண .

2869

ம ம

ம .

2869 7 U True devotees are firmly convinced in their hearts that

everything that occurs happens only for the best.

2870

.

2871

ம ண

.

2872

ம

ர .

2873

.

2874

ம

ம ம .

2874 114 K Without exceedingly strong rectitude of mind, the

performance of obligatory duties without desiring their

fruits is impossible.

2875

.

2875 77 K There exists no path other than that of separating [the knot

that joins] spirit and body, that lowly state of existing as the

body.

2876

ம ம ம

.

405

2876 12 I A feeling of deficiency only arises because of the mind-

deficiency. In truth, no one has any kind of lack.

2877

.

2877 15 M There is no greater deception than [believing that]

liberation, which is ever present as one’s own nature, will

be attained at some later stage

2878

ம ம

.

2879

ம ம

.

2879 7 N The state of the Self is reached by going back the way one

came. Whichever other path one travels on, it has to take

you here and take refuge here.

2880

ம ம மர .

2881

ர மம .

2881 46 J The mind is Brahman when the desire for the five sense

objects, which arises through the expansion of the ind, has

left.

2882

ண

.

2883

ம

ம ம ம .

2884

ர ம

406

ம .

2885

ம ர ண

ர .

2885 53 K The upsurging ego-consciousness is the misery of

samsara, the bondage of false, mental creations.

2886

ம ம

ம ம .

2887

.

2887 54 E Worship of consciousness is getting firmly established in

consciousness, with the mind disconnecting itself from

other things.

2888

.

2888 96 K The thought ‘I’ that rises first in the Heart is the cause of

the thoughts ‘mine’ and ‘for me’.

2889

ம ர .

2890

ர

ர .

2891

ர

.

2892

ம .

2892 50 H Conducting oneself in such a way that one sees even

oneself as anyan [other, apart] is living the life of abiding in

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the Self, consciousness.

2893

ர ம

ர .

2894

ணம ம

ணம .

2894 41 I It is impossible for the attribute-free Self to abide except in

the hearts of those in whom the mind, which takes the

form of the three gunas, is dead.

2895

மம ரண ம

ம .

2896

ர ம ண ர

ர .

2896 60 C On this earth all the learned men praise the lofty red

mountain [Sona] as Padam, the light of the consciousness

of being.

2897

ர

ம ர .

2897 61 C Padam is the supernal light that manifested in the asterism

of Ardra [in the month of Margazhi] as the mountain

lingam, Lord Siva’s very form.

2898

ண

ண ம .

2899

ண

ம .

2899 85 Y Padam is the eye of grace that looked upon me in such a

way that the open expanse of that grace, which cannot be

408

contained, was confined within my very Heart.

2900

ர .

2901

ம

ம .

2901 207 Y Though Padam appears as two of us, when I enquire into

my real nature, it is the one reality [eka-swarupa].

2902

மம

ண ர .

2903

.

2903 27 T Why is another means necessary for redemption, once the

world is known as the sport of the divine?

2904

ம

ம .

2904 66 F God-vision is merely seeing everything that is perceived

and known as the play of God, and [as a consequence]

becoming calm.

2905

ர ம

ர .

2905 45 Y Padam, the enjoyment I have found, is experiencing, as

the prasad of Siva, clarity of mind.

2906

ம ர

ர மர .

2907

ம ம

ர .

409

2908

ண

ம .

2908 30 I For those who do not realise their real nature as the

unchanging supreme reality, the whirling [of their minds]

will not be stilled.

2909

ர ம ம

ர .

2910

ண ம ம

.

2911

ர .

2912

ண

ம .

2913

ண ண

ண .

2914

ர ம

ம ணம .

2915

ம .

2915 126 D The true opening ceremony is the Heart opening and the

Self, the space of supreme bliss, rising.

2916

ர ம

ம .

2916 78 K The true birth celebration is when ego dies through the

untying [of the chit-jada knot] and is born in Brahma-

swarupa.

410

2917

ம ம ம

.

2918

ம ர

.

2919

ம ர

ம .

2920

ண ம ம

ம .

2921

ர ம

.

2921 28 N The truth that becomes two on any other path [except

vichara] will shine as one if one enquires into oneself.

2922

ம ம

ண .

2923

ண

ம ம .

2924

.

2925

ம

ம .

2925 45 O Padam, declaring the majesty of jnana, states: ‘It is only

through jnana that the bliss that derives from true love will

arise.’

2926

ம

ம ம .

411

2927

ண

ம ரம .

2927 26 K Thejiva that has succeeded in annihilating its ego-ridden

mind in the Self, which is pure consciousness, will itself

become consciousness, the supreme.

2928

ம ம ம ம

ம .

2929

ம .

2929 147 Y Padam, as the open sky of grace, completely

encompassed me in the Heart and destroyed the power of

the idea of ‘I’ that flourishes in ignorance.

2930

ம

ம .

2931

ம ம ம

.

2932

ம

ம ம .

2932 3 C The special quality of reality, Padam, is that it exists

universally within all things, shining its light.

2933

ம

.

2934

ம

ம ம ர ம .

2935

மண

ம .

412

2936

ம

ம .

2937

ம

.

2938

ரண ம

ம .

2939

ம ம

ம .

2940

ம ம

.

2940 53 D The Self, the single all-pervading consciousness, is

eternally free of the twin attributes, association and non-

association.

2941

ம

ம .

2942

ம ம

ம ம .

2943

ம

.

2943 50 X Realising that desire for women leads to one’s death, the wise

ones firmly hold onto Padam to free themselves from that

desire.

2944

ம

ம ம .

2945

ம ம

ர .

413

2945 138 Y Through the light of his countenance, Padam, grace,

bewitched my mind, and through the light of the Heart,

which suffused me inwardly, subjugated my soul.

2946

ம ம ம ம

ம .

2947

ர ம ம

ம ம .

2948

ம .

2949

.

2949 29 Y Padam gave protection to my soul with the armour of

consciousness of being, which shines as Siva-sakti.

2950

ம ர ம

ம ரம ம ம .

2951

ம ம

.

2952

ம ம ர ம .

2953

ம .

2953 8 E One’s own Self, consciousness, is different from all that is

known [objectively] by consciousness.

2954

ம ம ரம

ம .

2954 194 Y Padam caused my own truth to shine out within me as the

414

pure consciousness that shines by itself merely as its own

being.

2955

ம

ண .

2956

ம ம

ம .

2957

ம ண

ர மம .

2958

ம

ம ர ம .

2958 10 E When one knows one’s real nature, consciousness, it will

be known that ignorance never existed.

2959

ம ம ண

ம ம ம .

2960

ண

.

2961

ம

ண .

2961 1 L The reason for the mind becoming enmeshed in the

avasthas is that the jiva, forsaking its own truth, Siva

consciousness, enquires into the non-Self.

2962

ம .

2963

ரம

ம .

415

2964

ம ண ம

ம ண .

2964 23 D Even ascetics and sages cannot formulate a definition of

the Self, the real, except in negative terms.

2965

ம ம

.

2966

ண ம

ம ம .

2967

ம ண ம

.

2968

ம ரம

ம ரண ம .

2969

ர ம

ம .

2970

ண

ம ம ம .

2971

.

2971 126 C One should not procrastinate in reaching Padam, the

extremely auspicious Sivam, the bliss of peace.

2972

ர

.

2973

ண ண ர

ண ம .

2973 183 Y Padam, the truth, shines within my Heart as the

awareness of consciousness, making all other types of

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knowledge depart, having become flawed.

2974

ம ர .

2975

ர ம

.

2976

ர ர

ர ம .

2977

ம .

2978

ம

ம .

2978 39 A The grace bestowed by Padam on true devotees who are

worthy of his love enables them to know and attain him

without any effort.

2979

ம

ம .

2979 66 C Though one may run and run to the ends of the earth

seeking it, Padam, one’s true Self, never comes within the

grasp of the ego mind.

2980

ம

ண ம ம .

2981

ம ம .

2982

ம

.

2982 67 A Padam demonstrates in his conduct that remaining calm

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and composed, without agitation and excitement, should

be observed [by all].

2983

ம .

2983 174 Y Padam is the bliss that has settled as the essence of jnana

within my Heart so that I have not the least desire for, nor

awareness of, other essences.

2984

ம

ம .

2984 176 Y Resplendent Padam wells up within my Heart so that it

clings to nought save the goodly life of Siva jnana.

2985

ம

.

2986

ண

ர ம .

2986 145 Y Padam, the light of supreme jnana, actively rises up within

me so that the experience of supreme bliss wells up,

embracing me in the Heart.

2987

ம ரண

ம .

2988

ம ரண

.

2988 146 D The treasure trove, one’s real nature, will be clearly

revealed when avarana [veiling] and vikshepa

[restlessness] depart.

418

2989

ம .

2990

ர .

2990 113 C Padam is the supreme reality that is obtained when

consciousness, abandoning attachment to sense objects,

settles within the Self.

2991

ம .

2992

ம ம ம

ம ம .

2992 63 K Only the destruction of the false ego, which is a corruption

of dharma, excels as the true Siva dharma.

2993

ர .

2994

ம ம

ண .

2995

ம

ம .

2995 84 F That which constitutes contemplation of Sivamis the

natural calm state of the jiva’s mind, free from thoughts of

other things.

2996

ம ர ம

ம .

2997

ம ம .

419

2998

ர ம ம

.

2998 91 C Padam, despite remaining as the unique experience of

one’s own inherent nature, gets veiled by the concepts,

the triputis

2999

ம ம

ம ம .

3000

ம ம ம ண

ம ர .

3001

ம

ம .

3002

ம

ம ண ர .

3002 81 X Those useless people who have lost their peace by getting

over-excited are harmful not only to others but also to

themselves.

3003

ம ம ரம

ம ம .

3003 39 I Only when everything shines as consciousness alone can

the mind-impurity be said to have perished.

3004

ண ண

ண .

3004 7 X If omniscience exists in objectified knowing, then it too is

limited knowledge by virtue of having a fragmented nature.

3005

ம ர ம மர ண

ர .

420

3006

ம ண

ர மம .

3006 26 T If the world is seen in the experience in which

consciousness has become Brahman, then the world too

is Brahman.

3007

ம .

3007 33 W If the jiva slips from the true state, its real nature, the Self,

a life full of misery, like the unceasing waves [of the

ocean], will associate with it.

3008

ம

ம .

3008 31 V Only the learning of akhanda-vritti [unbroken experience],

one’s truth, the substratum, is true learning.

3009

ண

ம .

3010

ம

ம .

3010 77 C If one turns one’s face steadfastly towards grace, the dark

ignorance of infatuation with the ego will be dispelled, and

true Padam will shine.

3011

.

3012

ம ம ம

ம .

421

3013

ணம

ர ண .

3013 29 O In the state in which individuality has been lost, all

thoughts are thoughts of God, and all that one does is

service to the supreme.

3014

ம .

3014 9 G The greatness of noble disciples is that they obtain clear

knowledge by trusting and believing in their heart that the

Guru’s form is the embodiment of grace.

3015

ம ர ம ம ண ம ம

ர ம .

3015 65 A Padam bestows only the thought of itself [the Self] as the

excellent sat-achara, and not religious observances.

3016

ம

ம ம ம ர .

3017

ம .

3018

ம ம

ம ரம .

3019

ம

ம ம .

3020

ர ம ம .

3020 1 E Since everything is included in consciousness,

consciousness is the ultimate, supreme truth

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[paramartha].

3021

ம

ம .

3021 22 C Padam, pure consciousness, demands that everything that

has been learned as knowledge has to be completely

forgotten as ignorance.

3022

ரணம

.

3022 88 C The divine Padam is that in which those who have known

mental anxiety to be the cause of sorrow have found bliss

by the cessation of anxiety.

3023

ர ண ர

ர .

3023 58 H For the jnani who has become firm by his renunciation,

everything is only good, and nothing is repugnant.

3024

.

3025

ம

ம .

3026

ம ம

.

3027

ம ம .

3028

ம ர

ம ம ம .

423

3029

ம ம ரம

ம ண .

3029 121 K The bondage called ‘duty’ will cease, [being known] as a

delusion caused by the ego, when the firm knowledge of

reality is attained.

3030

ம ம

ம .

3031

ர ம

ர ம ம .

3032

ம ம ம ம

ம ம .

3033

ம ம ம ம

ம ம .

3034

ம ம .

3035

ம

.

3035 93 C Padam is the Self, the pure consciousness, the infinite

expanse that ignorant folks get frightened of and mentally

recoil from, thinking it to be a void.

3036

ம .

3036 5 E Ignorance is an erroneous superimposition. The infinite,

blissful consciousness is alone the one existing reality.

3037

ம ம ம

ரணம .

424

3038

ம ம

ம .

3039

ம

ர மம .

3039 87 D In the state in which one has known the truth without any

pramada, all names and forms are Brahman.

3040

ம

.

3040 39 Y As surely as Padam first entangled me in worldly

existence, just as surely did he later restrain me through

his grace and become my Lord, putting an end to my

wretchedness.

3041

ர

ம .

3042

ரம .

3042 58 Y Padam is the consciousness, the supreme, in which I have

no responsibilities to think about since every responsibility

is his alone.

3043

ர

ண .

3044

ம ம ம

ம .

3045

ர ர ர ம

ர .

425

3046

ர ர

ர .

3047

ர ண

ர .

3048

ம ம

.

3048 53 Y My Lord, golden Padam, guides me well with the attitude

of mind that all is God’s doing.

3049

ம

.

3049 26 Y Padam accepted me into his service, totally converting me

from the evil-doer that I was into a servant who sang his

praises.

3050

ம

ணம .

3050 102 Y Golden Padam shines brightly with the fair hue of red coral

so that the fullness of bliss wells up, and I rejoice in the

Heart.

3051

ரம ம .

3052

ம .

3053

ர ண ர

ர .

3054

426

ம .

3055

ம ர ர

ம ம ம .

3056

ம ர

ம ம .

3057

ம

ம .

3058

ம ம ம

ம .

3059

ம

.

3059 225 Y Padam bestows grace upon those who recite, praise and

adorn him with this Padamalai, uniting them permanently

with the Atma-swarupa that forever remains one with them

in their hearts.