Sivavakkiyar

What are temples, tell me!And what are sacred tanks?O you poor slaves who worshipin temples and tanks!Temples are in the mind.Tanks are in the mind.There is no Becoming,There is not Unbecoming,None, none whatever!

Silence, unmoved and permanent,Silence, unmoved and brilliant,Silence, broad and immense like the Ganga,Silence, unmoved and increasing,Silence, white and shining like the Moon,Silence, the Essence of Siva.

In sacred ashes and in Holy WritsAnd muttering of prayersYou will not find the Lord!Melt with the Heart Insideand proclaim the Truth.Then you will join the Light-Life without servitude.

Say: He is far, far, farAway!But the Supreme ItIs spread everywhereon Earth and in Heavens.O you poor dumb ones,runningstunned and sufferingthrough towns and fields and forestsin Search!He is right therewithin you!Stand stilland feel Him,feel!

In the Beyond of the Beyond,Transcending Blackness, Redness, and Whiteness,Immoveable.Try to understand:He is not big, He is not small.He is Infinite Distance,Immovable,Transcending evenSupreme Quiessence.

Where is the high-caste woman?Are there numbers inscribed on the skin and flesh?Is the pariah woman’s delight different from that of a the high-caste woman?Analyse the pariah woman and the high-caste woman in you.Verse/46Drawn milk doesn’t return to the breast.Churned butter doesn’t return to the butter-milk.The broken conch’s sound and the beings don’t re-enter the…

the beetle’s saliva is on the flower,the cows milk itself is mixed with the saliva of the calf!why should there be so much fuss over it?36Milk does not return to the udder, nor butter to the butter-milk;Nor the life within the sea-shell, if it breaks, to its body;The blown flower, the fallen fruit, do not…

In the Beyond of Beyond,Transcending Blackness, Redness, and Whiteness.Immovable.Try not to understand:He is not big, He is not small.He is Infinite Distance,Immovable,Transcending evenSupreme Quiescence.