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.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Tantra 1 - Tirumantiram 143 - Body is only for releasing oneself from good and bad and regaining our simple unshaken spirituality

யாக்கை நிலையாமை - Bondage non-persistence

மண்-ஒன்று கண்டு-ஈர் இருவகைப் பாத்திரம்
திண்-என்று இருந்தது தீ-வினை சேர்ந்தது
விண்ணின்று நீர்-வீழின் மீண்டும்-மண் ஆனாற் போல்
எண் இன்றி மாந்தர் இருக்கின்றவாறே.  143.


Literal Translation
1  Atom-One Thread-Ball-Pulled-(out) 2-Type (water-)Paths
2  Unshaken-thus abided Knowing-2 adjoined
3  Sky-from water-falls-if again-soil became-like
4  Mind-atomicity-without folks abiding way(!)

Lucid Translation
1  A thread-ball made of one atom (of ego or body-consciousness)
    is pulled out into (the) 2 types of (water-)paths 
    (of Ida and Pingala spiritual currents).
2  Abided unshaken thus, and knowledge of 2 (the pairs of opposites, good and evil
    adjoined (and lost its unshaken firmness thus).
3  Like water, if (it) falls from the sky, became soil again,
4  folks abided without mental atomicity this way *

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