tiruvAcagam or The Sacred Utterances of the Tamil Poet, Saint and ...
tiruvAcagam or The Sacred Utterances of the Tamil Poet, Saint and ...
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And gleaming smile, <strong>and</strong> black bright eye ! Hail ! Rider on <strong>the</strong> mighty Bull<br />
Here <strong>the</strong>se earthly joys I bear not, Embiran,I all renounce ! (260)<br />
LXVI. Prostration.<br />
I have myself renounced, even I; Hail, hail, Embiran !<br />
I have not done <strong>The</strong>e wrong ! Hail ! Foot to which I service owe !<br />
Hail ! Faults to f<strong>or</strong>give is duty <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great !<br />
O cause this earthly life to cease ! Hail, L<strong>or</strong>d <strong>of</strong> heaven ! (264)<br />
LXVII. Ad<strong>or</strong>ation.<br />
Hail, L<strong>or</strong>d ! Hail ! Thou King <strong>of</strong> heavenly saints !<br />
Partner <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Queen's graceful f<strong>or</strong>m, Hail ! Wearer <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sacred ash !<br />
Hail ! W<strong>or</strong>thy Prince ! Hail ! Thou <strong>of</strong> Tillai's sacred court !<br />
Hail! ! King <strong>of</strong> heaven ! My only Ruler, Hail ! (268)<br />
LXVIII. Take me<br />
Hail !, only Deity ! lncomparable Fa<strong>the</strong>r, Hail !<br />
Hail ! Guru <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> heavenly ones ! Hail ! ! Tender Branch !<br />
Hail, bid me come, receive me ! grant Thy Foot to gain;<br />
And thus remove my lonely friendless woe ! (272)<br />
LXIX.<br />
Hail, to those who love with perfect love, Giver <strong>of</strong> love surpassing <strong>the</strong>irs !<br />
Hail ! Greatness that <strong>of</strong>t my falsehood pardon'd, granted grace, <strong>and</strong> made me Thine !<br />
Hail ! Prince, Who drank <strong>the</strong> outpoured poison,-to <strong>the</strong> heavenly ones ambrosia gave !<br />
Hail ! Thy perfect Foot on me, a wretch, in grace bestow ! (276)<br />
LXX. <strong>The</strong> Universal L<strong>or</strong>d.<br />
Hail ! Thou Who art earth, water, fire, wind, e<strong>the</strong>r too !<br />
Hail ! Thou, all life's phenomena,-Thyself invisible !<br />
Hail, all living beings' End,-Thyself without an end !<br />
Thyself reaching through all, by senses five unreached ! (280)<br />
DECAD VIII.<br />
MYSTIC UNION.<br />
LXXI. Sinking in rapture.<br />
Sire, as IN UNION strict, Thou mad'st me Thine; on me didst look, didst draw me near;<br />
And when it seemed I ne'er could be with <strong>The</strong>e made one,-when naught <strong>of</strong> Thine was mine,-<br />
And naught <strong>of</strong> mine was Thine,-me to Thy Feet Thy love<br />
In mystic union joined, L<strong>or</strong>d <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> heavenly l<strong>and</strong> !-'Tis height <strong>of</strong> BLESSEDNESS. (284)<br />
LXXII. All bliss in God.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> BLESSEDNESS I seek; -not Indra's choice delights, n<strong>or</strong> those <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r gods;<br />
Thou Only-One, I live not save with Thy Feet twain ! Our L<strong>or</strong>d,my breast is Riven,<br />
With trembling seized; my h<strong>and</strong>s in ad<strong>or</strong>ation join;<br />
And from my eyes a ceaseless stream pours down, as <strong>of</strong> a river, O MY SAGE !(288)
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