One Word Many Meanings

Each Classical Tamil word has many possible meanings

Because in incantation languages like Classical Tamil, each word has many possible meanings to it, with mind humbly invoking Lord Siva's Grace, we just have to look into the classical Tamil dictionary for the meaning of each word in a Tirumantiram verse that yields a coherent and wholesome meaning.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Tirumantiram 133 - Tantra 1 - Omniscience of Siva

பெருமை சிறுமை அறிந்து-எம் பிரான்போல்
அருமை எளிமை அறிந்து அறிவார்-ஆர்
ஒருமையுள் ஆமைபோல் உள்-ஐந்து அடக்கி
இருமையும் கேட்டு இருந்தார் புரை-அற்றே.  133.

Literal Translation
1  Capacity deficiency (having-)known-my Lord-akin
2  Difficulty ease (having-)known-Knowing-One who (is there ?)
3  Oneness-within tortoise-akin abiding-five(senses) (having-)merged
4  Dual-(modes)-even (having-)inquired(-into)-abided blemish (having-)ceased
                                                                              (-coursed and counted thus). 
Lucid Translation
2  Who is there like my Lord (Siva), the Knowing-One,
    who knows the difficulty and ease (of anything for anyone),
1  having known their capacity and deficiency ?

He (Siva) abided (in the Siva Yogi),
3  having (coursed and) merged, like a tortoise, the abiding/enduring 5 senses into the Oneness,
4  having inquired into the dual modes (of awareness), and
    having ended the blemish (of the body-consciousness).

Clarification:
Body-consciousness ends only,
1  after inquiring into the pairs of opposites (like inner and outer, good and bad, etc.), and
2  after merging the 5 senses into the One Self




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