Siddhar Sivavakkiyar Hymns (030)

பாட்டிலாத பரமனைப் பரமலோக நாதனை

நாட்டிலாத நாதனை நாரிபங்கர் பாகனை

கூட்டிமெள்ள வாய்புதைத்து குணுகுணுத்த மந்திரம்

வேட்டகாரர் குசுகுசுப்பை கூப்பிடா முடிந்ததே.

—சித்தர் சிவவாக்கியர் பாடல் (030)

The one without song*; the one of the eternal world

The one without land**; the one who governs suryakalai and chandrakalai***

Seeking him, mouth closed, the mantra you recited slowly in whispers****

It is like the secret hush of the hunters*****

—Siddhar Sivavakkiyar Hymn (030)

* The one who is in eternal bliss without even performing any devotional singing, it means he doesn’t need any heart rendering music to make him blissful as he is already in a bliss; music can only help us approach him so that we also enjoy the pure bliss he is writhing in.

** He doesn’t specifically belong to any particular region; he belongs to all land. He can’t be tagged as particular God of any particular country, rather he belongs to the whole of humanity.

*** The unison of suryakalai and chandrakalai shows the eternal one, which could well be considered as the ruling force behind them, well governing their flow, hence their God. That implies he is in everyone falsifying all man-made discriminations.

**** When the consciousness rests naturally upon the divine lamp one can hear the universal sound “ommmmm...” and it is the mantra that showers and adorns the eternal one as described in the first two lines.

***** That sound of the naturally existing mantra is similar to the secret hush of the hunters, here it should be considered as “umm...”, the way they call out, or signal one another during a hunt.