Guru
Namasivaya, the disciple
of Guhai
Namasivaya lived in
Tiruvannamalai until he attained
liberation. The only poem
existing written by Guru
Namasivaya, is the Annamalai
Venba, 100 songs of Annamalai.
Invocation
You whose feet are luxuriant
flowers!
You, Supreme Lord [Ganesh],
who lead the celestial retinue
Mounted on the rat!
Guide me as I, a mere dog at
your feet,
Sing in delicate Tamil venba
A song garland to holy,
everlasting Annamalai.
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Mountain, dancer of the primal
dance.
Mountain sought on that day by
the two.
Mountain adorned with the
bright moon and the dancing
serpent.
Mountain where justice
flourishes.
Mountain who summons wise holy
men, Saying, 'Come'.
Annamalai.
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Blue-throated Mountain,
three-eyed Mountain,
Mountain impossible for the
inhabitants of all the worlds to
praise.
Mountain who manifests to
devotees.
Mountain who dispels the arising
births
Of those who daily worship him:
Annamalai.
7
Mountain to whom Guhai
Namasivaya, performer of great
austerities,
Makes obeisance, daily adorning
him with a garland of one
venba verse.
Mountain who abides in the
blissful hearts
Of those who have transcended
the waves of desire and all the
rest:
Annamalai.
8
Mountain standing serene as a
beautiful chakra;
Mountain who dispels the effects
of his devotees' deceitful dark
deeds.
Mountain, reformer of hearts;
Mountain of divine medicine,
Conferring the supreme
attainment of true knowledge:
Annamalai.
9
Mountain whom the faithful walk
around, keeping him to their
right.
Mountain who steals away the
entire burden
Of the past actions of those who
circle It;
Mountain penetrating all the
worlds.
Mountain where my father and
Guru, Om Namasivaya, dwells:
Annamalai.
10
Mountain where gypsy maidens,
slender as reeds,
Sport with the heaven-dwelling
moon.
Mountain like red coral.
Mountain who, as Sadguru,
Placed his splendrous foot upon
my head:
Annamalai.
11
Mountain who, taking the form of
my spiritual Guru and Master,
Namasivayan, the compassionate
heavenly Lord,
Held me in his power.
Mountain whom the Gods
themselves praise,
Mountain who dispels all my
mental suffering,
Evildoer that I am:
Annamalai.
14
Mountain where ripens a harvest
of venba verse
In the affectionate thoughts of
his devotee Guhai Namasivaya.
Mountain fathomed by those
strong in devotion.
Mountain who grew as a column of
red flame
As the Two sought It:
Annamalai.
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Mountain whom my Guru, Om
Namasivaya, approached,
Praising Him daily from his
treasure house of devotion
In verses of true Tamil;
Mountain who flashes light in
all directions;
Mountain who, as silver Sailas,
abides with His consort;
Mountain who abides as
liberation:
Annamalai
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Mountain praised by my Guru, Om
Namasivaya, in beautiful Tamil.
Mountain who affords a sweet
sight
To those who, seeing, worship
Him.
Mountain who, growing long,
stretched from the root of the
universe.
Mountain who prospers in the
hearts of devotees
Who, praising, think on Him:
Annamalai.
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Mountain who drives out the
night of spiritual ignorance.
Mountain who is the lamp of true
knowledge to devotees
Mountain in the form of abundant
knowledge;
Mountain who came to me, a mere
dog,
As father, mother and Sadguru:
Annamalai.
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Celestial Mountain who, coming
into the world
As my Guru Om Namasivaya,
Dwells within the heart of this
devotee.
Mountain who wipes out the
fruits of former deeds.
Mountain who abolishes all the
suffering
Of a long succession of births,
too numerous to tell:
Annamalai.
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Mountain who stands with his
Sakti,
To whom he gave half of Himself.
Mountain who sprouted forth as
the cause of liberation.
Mountain praised in every
quarter.
Mountain who removes the arising
births
Of those who praise and extol
him:
Annamalai.
32
Pure Mountain who unites with
the hearts
Of those servants, clothed in
eminence,
Who, eschewing the five senses
which arise from the world,
Embrace the happiness of true
knowledge.
Mountain who deludes the wicked,
Concealing himself from them:
Annamalai.
33
Majestic Mountain who, as my
Guru,
Held me in His sway,
Keeping me from wandering
through ever-increasing births,
Placing in my hand sweet, true
knowledge,
And uniting his twin feet
together upon my head:
Annamalai.
39
Mountain who yields up to the
devotees who sing his praises
All the things that they desire,
The foremost of which is
liberation.
Mountain clad in lasting glory.
Mountain who, as Sadguru, ruled
over me,
Wicked wretch that I am:
Annamalai.
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Mountain to whom it is seemly
for love-filled devotees,
Contemplating him in their
thoughts, to perform puja.
Mountain who dwells in the heart
of true devotees
In whom attachment to the
wavering mind,
Which leads to desire, has been
destroyed:
Annamalai.
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Mountain who, seeing the great
austerities, without limit
Which She [Parvati} performed in
solitude to save the whole
world,
United with the Mountain's
daughter as half of Himself
And gracefully stands affording
his protection:
Annamalai.
60
Mountain whose meaning blossoms
forth abundantly
For those who, taming the
treacherous unruly senses,
And bringing them under control,
Have purified their minds and
attained serenity.
Mountain of celestial ambrosia,
Who, whatever may befall, deigns
to appear:
Annamalai.
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Supreme Mountain!
Mountain who is the first cause,
without beginning.
Mountain, one half of whom is
the Mother.
Mountain who chants and sings
the Vedas.
Mountain who is justice.
Mountain who is tantra and
yantra.
Mountain who is the
five-syllable mantra [Nama
Sivaya],
proclaimed aloud:
Annamalai.
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Mountain who imprints himself
upon the hearts of those
Who, mastering the five senses,
have attained knowledge,
So that the births caused by
their evil deeds vanish away.
Mountain whom devotees
perpetually praise and worship:
Annamalai.
73
Mountain of true knowledge,
unreachable to Brahma and
Vishnu,
Who travelled his length,
diligently seeking,
But were bewildered.
Mountain who upon the earth,
Wears four different forms in
the four yugas:
Annamalai.
81
Mountain whose throat is adorned
with poison.
Mountain who came to cut off
daily the evil deeds of His
devotees
Mountain who melts the heart.
Mountain who engenders the
sweetness of supreme bliss
In those who love Him:
Annamalai.
85
Mountain who embraces the hearts
of those
Whose conduct is all one, both
inwardly and outwardly;
Mountain who purifies desire;
Mountain who sits astride the
prancing bull;
Mountain who cures me of the
suffering of births:
Annamalai
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Mountain who drives away
suffering
Mountain who removes the ancient
burden of deeds
Mountain who beckons his
devotees to come to Him.
Mountain who reveals His holy
foot.
Mountain who withers up the
afflictions of devotees,
Who feel His presence in their
hearts:
Annamalai.
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Mountain who, spreading from the
roots, along the trunk,
And up to the very tips of the
branches,
Permeates the understanding of
the true followers
Who have received His teaching.
Mountain resonant with the
pranava [the sound of Om];
Mountain who calls out to
devotees, great in austerities,
Bidding them come:
Annamalai.
88
Mountain who gracefully appears
Before those who, performing
thrice-daily worship,
Joyfully praise Him.
Mountain endowed with more than
a mother's sweetness.
Mountain who, as Sadguru,
prospers in my heart, dog that I
am
Annamalai.
99
Mountain who confers undying
liberation.
Mountain who, destroying for His
devotees
The indestructible residue of
deeds,
Comforts them,
Decreeing that the impassable
ocean of multifarious births
Shall henceforth be still:
Annamalai.
100
Mountain who appeared mounted on
the bull,
Along with the bangle-adorned
Uma,
And graciously pardoned my sins.
Mountain who wears the crescent
moon,
And whose matted locks are
entwined with the holy Ganges:
Annamalai.
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