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#Thirupugal lyrics in english free#
Please feel free to leave your comments on the translated verses. We will attempt to stick to the literal translation as closely as possible. Translating the words of a saint who is speaking about his inner experience is not an easy task, especially when Yogic tradition maintains that this should be treated with all the rigor due to a science.
This is an attempt to share some of the works of this siddhar in English. Sivavakkiyar is considered as one of the numerous siddhars (or Shaivite ascetics) of South India. It is generally accepted that he has been given the name Sivavakkiyar based on the poems that he has left behind.
There are no records of his name and the place where he hailed from. Sivavakkiyar was a mystic poet considered to have lived in 10th century south India. Section 1 ( Verses 1 5 ) Andal announces the intention to a perform a month long Nonbu (let’s say a divine mission ) a sustained and intense worship of the Lord Narayana manifesting in the form of Lord Krishna. * Usages like these make the term ‘Nama Shivaayam’ all the more difficult to understand, let alone translate. It is customary in anthologies of poems like this to start with a dedication to the choice deity and beg forgiveness for any errors that the author might commit. The poem rounds off with a request to ‘great ones’ and ‘little ones’ (in age) and the learned people to kindly forbear with any mistakes that a stricken person (the author referring to himself) might commit while saying. He says by worshipping the abode of all learning – the One with the Blackened face, one can summon the knowledge of a hundred arts into one’s consciousness. Its possible that he got his name from this stanza. Then he states that he is going to speak of Shiva ‘Sivavakkiyam’ (i.e.
He speaks of this mantra being uttered by 1200 celestial beings. The author says that Namashivaayam is the Beginning and the End*. Great ones, Small ones and Learned ones! please bear with the mistakes of this madman who speaks. If one worships the One with a blackened face – the abode of Education, and the knowledge of a hundred arts will come and dawn in one’s consciousness. Stigmas, sins, illusions will run afar and further still. The rare Namashivaayam is both the Beginning and End – I shall speak of Shiva, in whose honor the twelve hundred celestial beings uttered the sacred mantra.