[Pillaiyar painting at the Hilton Hotel, Colombo]
Auvaiyar's Vinayagar Agaval
The anklets
on the red lotus feet
of the cool baby elephant
sing many songs.
The golden waist chain
and fine skirts
resting upon his rainbow waist
beautifully shining.
His weighty tusk!
His elephant face
& the auspicious orange mark
is easy to perceive.
Five hands,
goad & noose,
his body of deep blue
has made my breast its home.
His hanging mouth,
four sets of shoulders,
three eyes,
and three musk trails...
His two ears,
with golden hair shining,
and three threads intertwined
upon his glowing breast...
He is the true knowledge:
Turiya, the Sleepless Sleep,
goes beyond
the word's meaning.
Wonder
has stood personified
as the Wish-fulfilling Tree!
As the Bull Elephant!
He who rides the mouse
sniffs out the three fruits.
I begged him,
"Take me now...
as your servant!"
He appeared as a mother
and showered his grace upon me.
Cleaved from me
the confusion that...
"Once born, I shant die."
Thus the pristine
and primal letters five
shall unite with me.
Shall came and enter my heart.
Assuming the Guru's guise
and keeping a sacred foot
upon this Earth,
he establishes life's meaning.
He joyously bestowed the grace
of the Path of No-Suffering.
Wielding his tusk as a weapon,
he weeds out
the cruel fruits of action.
My ears devour his teaching
without ever being filled.
He reveals the insatiable
Clarity of Wisdom.
The means to master the five senses.
He has sweetly graced me
with joyous compassion.
He proclaimed
that single thought
which shrinks
the delusionary power of the senses.
Putting an end
to this birth
and the next,
he has removed darkness,
and graced me with all
the four stages of mukti (enlightenment).
He cuts off the delusion
of the three impurities.
With one mantra
he showed how
the Nine Openings
and the Five Sense Doors
can be shut...
This is the Ankusha (elephant-goad)
of the six chakras:
Without stopping...
Standing firmly...
Let idle chatter be discarded.
He announced the letter
of the Idylla & Pingala
and showed that the end
of the Circle's Edge
is in the skull.
The snake hangs
on the pillar
that is the junction
of the three realms.
He helped me realize
it's tongue.
In the Kundalini
one joins the silence...
It breaks open...
and the mantra that rises up
comes out
because of his teaching.
The rising flame,
breaking out
of Muladhara,
is caused to rise
by the wind.
Born of the single thought
which he has taught.
He related...
The state of drinking Amrita,
The movements of the Sun,
& the character of
The One Who Favors the Lily (the Moon).
He revealed
the 8+8 facets
of Vishudha Chakra
along with all the qualities
of my bodies wheels.
He sweetly graced me
with the ability to contemplate
the six faces gross
and the four faces subtle.
He enabled me to perceive
the subtle body,
and gain the darshan
of the Eight States.
He has revealed
within my mind
the Skull's Gate,
and given the sweet grace
of being established in mukti.
He made me know myself.
He showered me with grace.
He pulled out past karma...
by its root.
Without a single word or thought
my mind is one with him.
He has concentrated my mind,
clarified my intellect,
and said,
"Light & Darkness
share a common place."
He presses me down
into the grace giving ecstasy.
In my ear
he renders limitless bliss.
He has weeded out all difficulty
and shown the path of grace.
He has revealed Sada Shiva
within the sound.
He has revealed the Shiva Lingam
within the mind.
And he has revealed that...
The smaller than the smallest,
The larger that the largest,
stands within…
like ripe sugarcane.
He made me understand
the role of the ash
smeared on the brows
of the devotees merged in truth,
with whom
he made me
one.
He made both heart & mind
achieve the state of knowing
the precious meaning
of the Five Letters.
Having given to me
the True Nature of All Existence...
I am ruled
by the wise Vinayagar...
at whose feet
I take refuge.
[Courtesy: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/vinayaga.html]
