To Acquire the Eight Super Possessions (Ashta Maha Siddhis)
Tamil Transliteration
Siddhiyum siddhitharum deivamagith thigazhum paraa
Saththiyum sathi thazhaikkum sivamum thavam muyalvar
Muthiyum muthikku viththum vithagi mulaithezhundha
Budhdhiyum budhiyin vulle purakkum purathaiyandre
Translation
Eight super possessions, lady bountiful
Sanctioning those powers are Thee,
Exhibiting thyself as The Power ultimate,
And the Lord Siva the pure that buttresses,
The enlightenment of the holy expiating,
The seed of that illumination and the resultant wisdom
Allusion of that astuteness, all thee
Who else can shelter from bondage other than the beauty of the three worlds!
Simple meaning:
Abhirami is all; the eight powers, the Gods that sanction those powers, the Lord Siva that makes that God sustain, the enlightenment of the sages who perform penance keeping Siva in mind, the resultant seed of that enlightenment, the wisdom that comes off the seed, the inner meaning of the wisdom, all are Abhirami, the most beautiful who only relieves us from the bondage of associations and pains
Commentary:
the eight powers are:
1) aNimA (becoming small) – the capacity of awareness of your own
presence in objects
2) mahimA (becoming large) – the capacity of consciousness to permeate all things
3) laghimA (becoming light) – the capacity to go above the gross world
of multitude
4) garimA (becoming heavy) – the capacity of getting gross forms from own undivided consciousness
5) prApti (achieving) – the capacity to follow your own true nature
6) prAkAmya (fulfilling of desires) – the capacity to realize the
multitude of the existence
7) vashitvA (control) – the capacity to do your will
8) IshitvA (ownership) – the perfect freedom
when all these things are the possessions of anybody there can not be need for associations and they will be automatically out of the chains of bondage which is the essence of penance and wisdom
04.03.2008
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
it would have been better if you have identified the institution that can educate the methods of learning and mastering the eight spl powers...great insight..i do not know if you have justification to the original meaning...only Abhirami will know if you have made any mess...good effort ofcourse