SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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UNMAI VILAKKAM.
26. Hear now how the 36 Tattvas cannot be conscious of
themselves.
The six kinds of taste cannot perceive themselves.
So also the Tattvas do not know themselves.
27. As a person has to taste these six kinds of taste and
then perceive them, so you are the intelligent person who
uniting with these Tattvas perceives each and all of them.
28.
of thine undirninished grace, hast thou shown
me my nature. Explain to me Thy own Imperishable Form."
the Sun enables the eye to see, so will we enlighten you
and your intelligence."
29. Know more. The senses cannot understand without
the soul, and cannot understand the soul. So also do we
enlighten you without your being able to perceive us.
"As
30. the Vowel letter A is to the rest of the letters,
so do we stand as the Life of all life. When we are not present
in any soul, then will there be no light. So the good Agamas
declare."
31. O Meykancja Natha, graciously expound so that I may
understand the nature of the Sacred Dance with the sound of
the five letters seen by the sages.
32.
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O my son, hear ;
The Supreme Intelligence dances in
the soul formed of the letter ya, with a Form composed of the
five letters Si, va, ya, na, ma, for the purpose of removing
sins.
33. Hear now how the Dance is
performed! In His feet is
na; in his Navel is ma in His
; shoulders is Si; in his face is
va ;
in his Head is ya*
34. \ The Hand holding out protection is
ya the
; hand
holding the fire is na the foot ;
holding down muyalaka is ma.
* NOTE. These letters have to be contemplated in those parts.
| NOTE. This is another form of contemplating the Panchakshara.