Written 1920s and 30s by Sri Muruganar
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I have ended the confusion
of my bewildered, suffering mind.
A lowly cur,
I have merged with the gracious feet of my Master.
In the surging brilliance of his divine wisdom's splendour
the broad ocean of deadly desires has disappeared completely.
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The dark prison, which bound my tortured soul
crumbled and I became his servant,
finding joyous life in the open sky of his ambrosial grace.
The knot which locked my spirit to my physical body
was sundered by the bright sword of my Master's glance
and was no more.
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I was a learned fool.
My flawed mind knew nothing
Whose glance filled my heart with the light of awareness.
Dwelling in that gracious state of peace,
whose nature is holy silence,
so hard to gain and know,
I entered into union with the deathless state
of the knowledge of reality.
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As the deadly delusion of a body-bound ego faded,
a flower of pure light unfolded at his holy feet.
That radiance grew ever brighter with my love
until I realized the flawless knowledge of the Self,
manifesting as the unbroken awareness 'I-I' within my heart.
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He became one with my very soul,
the supreme Lord, the flawless Brahman,
the life of all that is, the jewel of the Self,
turning my soul's night to day
with the fulsome rays of true wisdom's sun.
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He became one with my very soul,
the supreme Lord, the flawless Brahman,
the life of all that is, the jewel of the Self,
turning my soul's night to day
with the fulsome rays of true wisdom's sun.
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Not stopping at that, when I further asked you, 'Please tell me how the bondage of birth and death may
be severed for me, your devotee,' you gave to us the divine work Ulladu Narpadu that clearly reveals the
means by which the bond of the false ego may be severed and reality shine as the Self.
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'Desire itself is birth, and desire's extinction is liberation,
Praise be to you who, as my Guru, came to rule my entire clan, and from whose mouth these words of
grace flowered!
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Praise be to you who declared:
to That ensues.'
Praise be to you who merged me into consciousness' expanse with these golden words:
there is no world; those co-dependent entities.
yourself the undivided reality!'
Praise be to you who stated: 'The world, the jiva and God, whilst apparently existing, are simply
thought forms, nothing more!'
'The place where ullal [thought] arises and subsides is ullam [the Heart].'
of ullam. Praise be to you!
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You declared: 'Since ulladu [reality] exists in ullam [the Heart] ulladu [reality] itself may be said to be
ullam [the Heart].' Praise be to you!
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You also declared: 'As the experience "nam ullam" ["we are"] exists [there], it can be termed ullam [the
Heart].'
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You declared: 'Ullaporul [that which exists], which gets the name 'ullam', is not a thought form.' Praise
be to you!
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You declared: 'Consciousness of reality and consciousness of the things around us do not exist apart
from that reality.' Praise be to you!
'Therefore, the place where everything exists is the Heart.' This you declared. Praise be to you!
You declared: 'Since those who have [truly] seen see nothing other than their own Self, thinking
[of something other than the Self] is inconsistent [with that state].
You declared: 'Unless one reaches the throne of the Heart, it is impossible to see the brilliant light
of reality.
You declared, 'If one dives within and reaches the place of its arising,
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Therefore, individual selves, who have no other form
the reality that is free from thought forms,
within the Heart,
Heart, free from thought forms, that is meditation on reality.
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Reworded:
What is meditation on reality?
.....in a similar manner when the individual dwells in that holy state ..which is free from thoughts...and deep into the heart...that is meditation on reality
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'Only those whose minds are extremely shaken by the fear of death are fit to undertake the path of
crossing [the ocean of samsara].
to me, my Father.
Those who cling as their supreme refuge to the feet, girt with warrior's anklets, of the Lord who is
beyond birth and death, who chastised even the god of death for the sake of his devotee [Markandeya],
will, as the fruit of that clinging, be brought under his power.
ego, will be destroyed, along with all the other attachments which depend on the ego. The seed of the ego
will not be able to sprout within them as before.
as the truth of their own Self. It is inconsistent for the thought of death to arise in those whose ego is
dead.
Thus, declaring 'That is the state of immortality,' did you graciously impart in words this ambrosial
teaching to the soul of myself, your devotee. Praise be to you!
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Maya is only the mind persisting vigorously in the form of thoughts.
understanding. Praise be to you!
You taught: 'To enquire what the mind is with the mind is the means to destroy the mind.'
You declared: 'Instead of directly realising the Self that lies within the five bodily sheaths, to search
to the very end of the many scriptures, which only give good advice, is pointless and a waste.'
Question: Is it any use reading books for those who long for release?
Bhagavan: All the texts say that in order to attain release one should render the mind
quiescent; therefore their conclusive teaching is that the mind should be rendered
quiescent; once this has been understood there is no need for endless reading.
into by discarding the five sheaths, it is futile to search for it in books. There will come a
time when one will have to forget all that one has learned.
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'Bondage is merely the thought of the pairs of opposites,' you assured me, impressing it upon my mind.
Praise be to you!
Father, you bade me, worthless as I was, to utter with a collected mind the words: 'Siva! Siva!'
Praise be to you! [Adding], 'If you examine to whom those thoughts belong, bondage will cease.' Praise
be to you!
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You declared: 'If you investigate who is he that is in bondage, it will be found that there is no one in
bondage. Thus bondage is not, and consequently, liberation also is not.' Praise be to you!
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'Realisation of the ever-present Self is the greatest attainment [siddhi],' you clearly told me. Praise be to
you!
'That is the true attainment, that is liberation and that is jnana,' you declared. Praise be to you!
This is a summary of some of the ideas that are contained in Ulladu Narpadu, verse 35. It should be
remembered that the teachings contained in Ulladu Narpadu were originally given to Muruganar,
generally in response to specific topics suggested by Muruganar himself.
To know and to be – with the mind subsided – the reality which is ever-attained, is the
[true] siddhi. All other siddhis are siddhis that are acquired in a dream; when one wakes
up from sleep, will they be real? Will they who, by abiding in the true state, are rid of the
false [state], be deluded [by siddhis]? Know and be you [the reality].
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You declared: 'As there is nothing whatsoever to cause fear [in the Self], it is foolish to get frightened.'
Praise be to you!
'Those who have known this state will subside [in the Self], and will not become embroiled in and
perplexed by this impermanent world.' Thus did you explain the state [of jivan mukti] and how it
connects with the body. Praise be to you!
Ignorant as I was, this did I clearly grasp. Praise be to you!
You declared: 'When anger arises, vent your anger upon the anger itself, for it is your enemy, and
destroy it.' Praise be to you!
'Do not associate [with others] simply because they praise you. Rather, value their abuse.' Praise be
to you!
You declared: 'Value the very ones who vilify you as though they were your dearest friends.' Praise
be to you!
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'The rights you have, others also have; the rights others do not have, you do not have either.'
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Praise be to you, Lord of the Vedas, who declared on many occasions: 'The Heart where the “I” thought
does not arise is the Self, the undivided supreme Reality', thus clearly revealing the nature of the middle
state.
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'Those who have seen their own Self do not see others; those who see others do not see their own Self.'
Thus did you fully explain the glorious state of mauna, Glorious One, you who wear a warrior's noble
anklets!
'Banish your harmful anxieties by entrusting everything to the all-powerful Lord,' you declared.
Praise be to you!
You declared: 'Those who understand the true meaning of the scriptures will describe the world of
the senses and the beings within it as real, when viewed from the standpoint of cause, and unreal, when
viewed from the standpoint of effect. There is really no contradiction here. Both these views, made by
those of mature understanding, are consistent with each other.' Praise be to you!
You declared: 'As the mind [in following either of the views] does not become externalised, but
abides as the Self, the end result is also the same.' Praise be to you!
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Demonstrating that freedom from desire is the virtuous path, you drove away all my evil desires. Praise
be to you!
At the mere thought of you, you entered my Heart, becoming nectar for my mind. Praise be to you!
You revealed that the ambrosial essence of all learning is to know the state of the Self,
substratum of all the worlds that appear as an illusion before the mass of beings,
phenomena cannot be ascertained even by the greatest minds. Praise be to you!
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Glory to the teacher who confers the true attainment of jnana by destroying the infatuation that consists
in the forgetting of the Self!
Glory to you who revealed clearly that true attainment as my own Self, the indivisible light!
Glory to you who appeared first as God, then as Guru in the middle stage, and who finally dwelt as
my Self!
Glory to you who dwelt as my own Self, the ocean of bliss that is worthy of my devotion!
Glory to you, the teacher who, in an excess of love, took pity on me, worthless as I was, and
explained to me in words the nature of the true reality, a teaching which you conveyed to the mature ones
through the lofty state of mauna!
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But did it end with this verbal teaching? No, you also bestowed your grace upon me, enabling me to
abide in that state. Praise be to you!
You dragged me into the Heart, so that I expired in the Siva-ocean of true jnana. Praise be to you!
As I lie dying in that ocean, what fitting recompense can I offer to your holy feet? Praise be to you!
May you gladly accept as that recompense the merging of my unruly mind with your ankleted feet.
Praise be to you!
May your golden feet flourish!
May your golden grace flourish!
Venkata, may your golden fame flourish!
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Awareness wherein brightly shine
These many forms of persons, places, time
All separate-seeming though in substance One:
Into that same Awareness he transmuted
This 'I' of mine. Now, nothing to be known,
My past undone, my being his,
I stand, unruffled Bliss, a rock
Untouched by any shock.
Lord Siva Venkatesa, King of kings
Came conquering
And made me his alone.
What is this 'I' that rises from within?
Only a thought that, like a bubble, floats
Up to the troubled surface of Awareness.
In sleep the sea is still, no bubble rises:
Then too you are and are aware you are.
You're not the 'I' that rises and then sets,
You are the sole Awareness in the All,
The eternal, uncreated Light of Being.
No form or feature has he of his own,
Yet form and feature to all beings gives;
Knowledge and ignorance, both to him unknown,
Each human mind from him alone derives.
He brought me into being but to think
Of him as 'you', of me and mine as 'yours';
And he has left me wordless, deedless, prone,
Helpless on death's brink.
Only the vast beatitude endure
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3-8: He it was who as I suffered in the whirl [of birth and death] forgetting the inescapable reality of the beginningless link between the head [the jiva ] and the foot [the Self], inspired in me, wretched cur that I was, the madness of devotion.
He removed the defect of the wandering ego-mind, shaped me into a comely form through the purification [of my consciousness], kindled the flame [of jnana ] for my salvation’s sake, made me perform the fire-sacrifice of jnana through the observance of devout austerities, bathed me in his blissful gaze [at the sacrifice’s end] and became my Lord and Master.
9-12: [At one time] the Lord, the sight of whom is ambrosia to the eye, and upon whom even the celestials eagerly seek to feast their gaze, was enthroned in royal estate upon Mount Kailash with his consort Uma, delighting the eyes of the assembled eighteen hosts of heaven.
13-14: ‘Go’, he said [to Nandi], ‘learn, practise and demonstrate the nature of lofty and surpassing divine love [parabhakti ], so that those who are spiritually mature may know it and reap its benefits.’
15-16: Thus did he speak, he who bears an eye upon his forehead, he whose sole intent is to bestow the bliss of his grace upon [all] jivas.
17-20: Thereupon, without leaving the divine presence, that adept of sahaja nishta, the drum-master, divine Nandi, who, knowing well that the supreme Lord was the reality of his own existence, became possessed of a devotion that transcended duality and transformed himself into the form of Manikkavacakar.
21-26: The love of that devotee, which had endured from birth to birth, suddenly and swiftly flared up like a kindled flame, and in that ecstatic state, in which he was conscious of nought save the feet [of the Lord], which guided him on the path to salvation, he considered that the supreme purpose of the hoard of virtuously accumulated treasure which the king of the land that is ennobled by the harmonious Tamiḷ tongue had given to him to procure horses was holy service of the temple wherein the Lord had manifested in the form of the Guru.
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Question: Is it any use reading books for those who long for release?
Bhagavan: All the texts say that in order to attain release one should render the mind
quiescent; therefore their conclusive teaching is that the mind should be rendered
quiescent; once this has been understood there is no need for endless reading. In order to
quieten the mind one has only to enquire within oneself what one's Self is; how could this
search be done in books? One should know one's Self with one's own eye of wisdom. The
Self is within the five sheaths; but books are outside them. Since the Self has to be enquired
into by discarding the five sheaths, it is futile to search for it in books. There will come a
time when one will have to forget all that one has learned.
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To know and to be – with the mind subsided – the reality which is ever-attained, is the
[true] siddhi. All other siddhis are siddhis that are acquired in a dream; when one wakes
up from sleep, will they be real? Will they who, by abiding in the true state, are rid of the
false [state], be deluded [by siddhis]? Know and be you [the reality].
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You declared: 'As there is nothing whatsoever to cause fear [in the Self], it is foolish to get frightened.'
Praise be to you!
'Those who have known this state will subside [in the Self], and will not become embroiled in and
perplexed by this impermanent world.' Thus did you explain the state [of jivan mukti] and how it
connects with the body. Praise be to you!
Ignorant as I was, this did I clearly grasp. Praise be to you!
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Praise be to you ...who declared on many occasions:
'The Heart where the “I” thought
does not arise is the Self,
the undivided supreme Reality', thus clearly revealing the nature of the middle
state
..........
You declared: 'Those who understand the true meaning of the scriptures will describe the world of
the senses and the beings within it as real, when viewed from the standpoint of cause, and unreal, when
viewed from the standpoint of effect. There is really no contradiction here. Both these views, made by
those of mature understanding, are consistent with each other.'
You declared: 'As the mind [in following either of the views] does not become externalised, but
abides as the Self, the end result is also the same.' Praise be to you!
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