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SUDDHA SIVA NILAI

Ramalinga's poem in which he proclaims his highest Realization and Perfection

1. “The Lord is united in my soul with His Grace and Compassion; He is united in my eyes, in my ideas and in my thoughts and will. He is the rhythm of music and words of my song”.

2. “The supreme and universal Lord gives me all the good. He is the all-achieving omnipotent Will. He has become the Universal All-existence and plays His Will of Knowledge, in delight and unity of His Being, in Podu (the world of Truth-Knowledge)”.

3. “The supreme and universal Lord of Play in Knowledge, the munificent Lord of Riches, joyfully gives me all the Truth-thoughts; so I have become a Divine Thinker. He composes and sings in me; so I have become a Composer of divine songs. He feeds me with Amrita, the ambrosia of Bliss, which clarifies the consciousness of heart and soul; so I have become the Enjoyer or Eater of Amrita”.

4. “The eternal Divine who plays in Tiru Ambalam, the beautiful divine world of Truth-Knowledge, has given me all the powers or Siddhis of Truth-Knowledge and Perfection (Karma Siddhi, Yoga Siddhi and Jnana Siddhi) and He is within me as the infinite and eternal Being. This is true. Oh men of the World! Don't you know of this? All of you may live in happiness by reaching Him”.

5. “Even as I call Him ' Father ', He responds saying ' Oh Son, here I am ' and comes instantly. Oh people of the World! Tell me who else has the infinite compassion as of my Father. May you not join with me in praising the Lord well?”.

6. “When I call Him ' Oh Father ' , He responds instantly calling me tenderly ' Oh Son ' . He is the immaculate Pure Lord of Tapas (literally, the Lord with plaited hair). He is the God of Cittrambalam (Cit Sabha, the world of all-comprehending Knowledge). He has become Himself as the universal Divine, containing or possessing me and abiding within the heart of my soul in delight”.

7. “The Lord by Himself came into my heart and united in my soul. He gives Himself to me. He has become myself. What a Supreme Compassion of my Father! Does the rain-bearing cloud possess such a compassion?”

8. “The Lord has given me the Milk (of Knowledge), the Key for opening and entering into His Heaven, the divine qualities (of His Nature) and the Knowledge and becoming of the deathless body by giving me liberally a permanent state (in His Truth of Being)”.

9. “The afflicting lower modes of action and the resulting effects of Maya, the Nature of Ignorance, have been dispelled away; Bliss of the harmonious Knowledge in its right Law has excelled in me by its manifestation. Realising the omnipotent Being who plays His Will in the all-pervading and all-comprehending World of Truth-Consciousness (Cit Ambalam), I partook of the cool and sweet Honey of Grace (peaceful and blissful Amrita of Grace) and have grown in stature of my being and nature”.

10. “The deceitful modes of action are gone away. The harsh and oppressive darkness of the powerful Maya (the subconscient and inconscient darkness) has left me off for good and afraid to come to me anymore. The inmortal Bliss has unreservedly filled my being. All the difficulties and sufferings have been utterly rooted out”.

11. “Tirodhana Shakti, the original or the first veiling Power has departed from me. Instead, the Grace-Shakti or Power of Grace has sought me in love, and reached and possessed me. In this life itself, Mahamaya (the greater Maya of Ignorance) has left me off; and my body has become golden and I have become free from death for ever”.

12. “Oh People of the vast Earth! I did Tapas. But it was the Lord of the world of Knowledge who came by Himself and possessed me and protected me from going astray. He entered into my soul, heart and flesh of body out of compassion”.

13. “I came to know that Sivam, the Infinite and Eternal, is the one supreme Truth and accordingly I realized the state of Truth-Consciousness. I got all the siddhis of the Truth (the powers of Truth-Consciousness) as a result of love and devotion and my play of movement in Tiru Ambalam, the divine world of Truth”.

14. “The supreme and universal Lord cancelled the sleep of my body but gave me instead the Bliss. He dispensed with the anxiety of my heart. He dissolved away the darkness. He gave me the Riches of prosperity and growth (evolutionary progress). I called Him ' my father who have begotten me ' . He came in a happy response”.

15. “He dispelled away the state of despondency. He gave me happiness. He gave me the aspiring will for Truth-Consciousness. He gave me all the good. He missioned me to play all my roles of play (in the manifestation of Truth and Perfection). The High-Seated Lord (Paran) asked me for sing and glorify the bliss of His beautiful Feet”.

16. “It is the Lord of Chit Ambalam who has become Myself (Jivatman) and has removed all difference between He and I. I did Tapas that could not be done by the gods of Heaven and I am enjoying Sukha (the happy felicitiy), rare to get”.

17. “I have realized here the triple indestructible body of Suddha Deha (the pure physical body), a perpetual and blissful Pranava body (Pranava Deha) and an all-pervading and ever-growing or ever-prospering Knowledge-body of the divine Conscious Force (Jnana Deha) in order to make the play of self-giving of myself everywhere”.

18. “Oh men! Know firmly that whatever words I speak are verily the Words of the supreme and universal Lord; they are not at all mine. Why should I speak at all? If the Supreme Divine (Sivam) had not entered into me and possessed my body flesh and bones, what would be my status or standing? How could I have consciousness of Knowledge and speak?”

19. “The Lord revealed me the chain of Cause and Effect that are spoken of in the respective scriptures of the Vedas and Agamas. I have seen and realized Him here in the world and enjoy the Bliss. I have happily partaken of Amrita (of Bliss) in the Realm where there is neither day nor night (the Truth World of eternal Light)”.

20. “I have discarded all the devious ways and taken to the good Path of Purity, Truth and Harmony, and joined the rank and file of Its Sangha or fellowship. The heavenly beings happily praise it as the Good Path, because it has a firm foundation”.

21. “The many systems of discipline (the religions and spiritual philosophies) are seen to become ineffective and die away. Only the Path of Truth, Purity and Harmony thrives and all the worlds come to accept the said Path, which is the way to the Grace of our Lord by abstaining from killing (or harming otherwise) the beings and creatures”.

22. “The rude and mad orgy of the distinctions of race, community, heredity, religion and philosophy and of the much-lauded Ashrama dharma (the established four social orders of life and discipline) has shattered into pieces or has come to an end; even those who vehemently or passionately voice forth the respective viewpoints of their systems have become silent”.

23. “The Lord of Cit Sabha came to me by Himself, and of His own accord entrusted me with the power to perform the five-fold universal functions and asked me to do them and thereby drive away the sorrows (of the world) that dissipate the energies. He is verily my unique Mother Supreme”. (* In this verse Ramalinga affirms that God himself gave him all the Divine Powers and therefore he has been appointed as Supreme Guru)

24. “The Supreme and Universal Lord of Cittrambalam (Cit Ambalam or Cit Sabha) whom the Vedas hail as Eka Aneka (the One-Many) has given me, in all joy of Love, the gift of a deathless body so that there may not be any occasion for the near and dear ones to gather and weep and cry (as in a case of death)”.

25. “Whatever I seek and aspire, is the seeking and aspiration of the Lord Himself; whatever I play in the world, is the play of Grace of my Father; whatever song I compose or sing is verily the song of the universal Lord in the glory of His luminous Feet. Whatever is glorious and sublime, is His own Glory and Sublimity”.

26. “Oh people of the world! Know it as the truth which I swear upon. There is only the One (Sivam), the Supreme Divine, the Omnipotent, effectuating all the Siddhis. Our wishes are fulfilled if we remember Sivam (and ourselves) as eternal, and the honey of Bliss is attained”.

27. “By the good Grace fo our Lord, I verily did Tapas. I reached or entered into the Country or Realm of Grace-Siddhi (Arul Siddhi Nadu, the Truth World of the all-effectuating Power of Grace-Shakti). I verily attained the triple indestructible body. I play or manifest here the full Power of Consciousness without any let and fall or decrease in it and without getting down (from the Truth World)”.

28. “The Lord, my Father, has given me in this world a power to know and see all the worlds and planes whatsoever and by it made me know and see them. I shall formulate a way of life and make all the beings take to it. That is the way of the brotherhood of Truth and Harmony, which is my way”.

29. “Shastras do not show or reveal like the direct vision of the eyes but only make a confusion of what they say about (the truths revealed in them get mixed up with untruth or lesser truths). I have got or possessed here on the earth the true Eyes which are verily the divine Nature of the supreme and universal Lord of Cittrambalam (Cit Ambalam or Cit Sabha) and I have the happy Knowledge of that Nature, which is verily Grace and Harmony”.

30. “Oh men! You enter into wasteful arguments on the Vedas and Agamas (the scriptures of inspired knowledge and their derived formulations of discipline and worship). But you do not know their true and final significance. Of what use they are when they do not openly or directly refer to the Truth but hide it in secret symbolism?”.

31. “One should know the nature of the Science of deathlessness of body; besides, one should know the ever non-burning gas or air and the deathless ether of space (here on the earth, and in one's physical body for its transformation) and reach the eternal state of Truth by the unique Grace”.

32. “If you consider my words as untrue you may go out; if you consider them true, join and associate with me. The supreme and universal Lord will manifest here (on the earth) and, from this day onwards make His divine play of the Siddhis of Grace by His all-effectuating omnipotent Power of Knowledge and in its undiminishing force”

33. “From now onwards our great Lord will play here (on the earth to manifest Knowledge) along with the blissful Sivakama Valli, the beloved Shakti of the Lord when at the main gate the godheads of the heaven namely Brahma, Vishnu and others have gathered around (waiting to receive and carry out the divine command)”.

34. “The supreme Lord of Knowledge-Play who is all-powerful with all the energies and powers of the Shakti, and who is the Treasure of Riches and the all-fulfilling Power of Siddhis, and who is the Eternal in Time, will play in delight her (manifest Himself) progressively and ceaselessly for many many aeons of time”.

35. “Our great Lord will revealingly manifest in play here for our good and for ever from this day onwards. This is my word of Truth. Oh people of the world! Come to me, taking it as the word of Truth. You will realize the eternal Truth and live an immortal life”.

36. “I called Him as ' grateful Father of Cit Sabha ' . He responded and came with inner delight. He took my body, my substance and my life; instead, He gave me His body, His substance and His life”. (* In this verse Ramalinga talk about the most sublime State to realize. Mukti is inferior to it)

37. “By what Power the dead can be made to resurrect here? Oh my people! This can be done by the Supreme Grace Light which is verily Cit, the Consciousness Force. I affirm this as a great Truth of Knowledge”.

38. “A great soul (a yogi of deathless perfection) who has realized the Grace of the Lord of Cit Ambalam, when approached and requested by the relatives of the dead (in this respect), will bestow his look (of grace) on the dead asking him (the dead) to resurrect and rise up. To the amazing wonder and praise of the beings of any world whatsoever, the dead will resurrect here in the good and red physical world”.

39. “Is it necessary for me to resurrect the dead into their physical bodily life of flesh and bones, here on the earth? By the Grace of the Lord of the Heaven of Knowledge, even the shawl I wear as the outer covering of my body can do it (by a contact or touch of his shawl the dead can resurrect)”.

40. “People dance in joy exclaiming it as a wonder on the earth when the dead resurrect and rise up. He who has received the Grace (or Graceful Look) of the universal Lord can play the acts of Grace. Consider him (who is the yogi of deathless perfection) as the Guru of your heart”

41. “Do not get excited into passionate movements. Do not waver. Do not seek any other thing. Do not rely on the world of falsehood. Do not despair. Seek to join here and now the Path which is the only way of mine which unifies all paths into one”.

42. “Oh people of the World! This is the true Word. Shed off all anxieties and, without falling into inertia of laziness as of sleep, take the decision in your heart to join the rank and file of the Path of Truth and Harmony, which unifies all paths. Without despair, surely take to the good Path this day itself”.

43. “This is the good day when the dead will resurrect to bodily life. Believe my words. This is the day the Supreme Grace Light is reaching (us into the earth). I affirm it as a great Truth of Grace”.

44. “Oh my deluded people of the world! Don't you think of rejecting the darkness of desires and lust so as to attain, here on the earth, the state of deathlessness of body as distinguished from the state of those who die. This is the time to do it and you can surely attain that state”.

45. “Oh my shy people of the world! Be careful to see that your heart remains vigilant and watchful without allowing it to indulge in wastefulness (wasting the opportunity). As the Lord has given me today Amrita of Bliss as food, know it to be the day which He has chosen for His manifestation here in the play of Knowledge and Perfection”.

46. “My Father who is Grace-Power is coming now to this earth, to play here the manifestation of Grace. Oh my people of the world living in the four directions! Do not mock at me thinking it as a lie! I tell you in serious earnestness”.

47. “Do not be anxious anymore as to when the Lord is going to come, nor consider it to happen long after. Our Father who possesses us, and who is our Mother too, has choosen to come this day itself. This is the Truth I speak, as I have come to know of it”.

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(This is the translation of the complete poem Suddha Siva Nilai)