The Layered Teachings of Agathiyar – 1

Who can be accepted as a Guru? Let’s read the layered teachings bestowed by the sage Agathiyar.

Where is the birthplace of speech? Where is the Triveni Sangam?
Where are the gatekeepers of the divine gate? Where is the first Sangam?
Where is the good conch river? Where is Vaikundam?
Where did Narayana lie on the banyan leaf?
Where is the oppression of the suffering five elements?
Where did the six petals and two shoots sprout?
If there are those who can say, let us worship and accept them as our Guru! (1)

Where is the hexagonal position of the Sun?
Where is the Omkara state? Where is the place where it dwells?
Where is the origin of mantras and scriptures?
Where is the mouth that spread the four Vedas?
Where is the birthplace of Ganapathi who precedes everything?
Where is the triangular point? Where is the base?
Knowing and stating such matters,
They can be regarded as divine beings and can be revered as our Guru! (2)

Where is the path that bubbles up in the city?
Where is the knowledge that stands by the method of measurement?
Where is the origin of the dark element?
Where is the sign that stood with one leg raised?
Where is the state that stood as the supreme divine?
Where is the Shiva who arose as all beings?
Those who know and proclaim these matters
Can be regarded as divine beings and can be revered as our Guru! (3)

Where is the state between the head and the feet?
Where is the place where the six tastes were dissolved?
Where is the five-faced ruby?
Where is the letter ‘Umai’ which means speech?
Where is the place where the foot danced?
Where is the letter that stood and spoke with desire?
Those who know and state this matter
We can worship them as our Guru! (4)

Where is the true Guru and his divine presence?
Where is the deathless leg? Where is the head that does not feel?
Where did the three principles stand as one?
Where is the end? Where is the head? Where is the face?
Where are the thousand and eight petals of the good lotus?
Where is the one leg that became the four faces?
Those who know and state these matters
They can be regarded as divine beings and can be revered as our Guru! (5)

Where is the face of the one who wore poison? Where are the three eyes?
Where is the Yama who frightens and kills the five lives?
Where is Indra with a thousand eyes?
Where is the supreme power that stood by the five senses?
Where is the place called the fourteen worlds?
Those who know and state these matters
Can be regarded as divine beings and can be revered as our Guru! (6)

Where is the birthplace of laughter? Where is anger?
Where is the seven hells that became a prison?
Where is the place of forgetting in shock? Where is the thought?
Where is the surrounding endless deficiency?
Where is the place of enmity? Where is the discipline?
Where is the place of day and night?
Those who know and state these matters
We can worship them as our Guru! (7)

Where is the six-faced? Where did the sixty-four arts stand?
Where did the twelve years pass in the sixty feet?
Where is the place where it remained without dying?
Where is the birthplace that came from the procreation point?
Where is the fifty-one alphabets in the intellect?
Without saying anything else, those who state the truth
We can worship them as our Guru! (8)

Where is the origin of the moon in the beginning?
Where is the place where it retreats?
Where did the various castes see as one?
Where did the energy and Shiva stand inseparably?
Where is the forgotten worship of understanding?
Where is the place of the summit of the peak?
The ones who received the divine word of knowledge
State everything about the body! (9)

Where is the birthplace of darkness? Where is the suppression?
Where is the place where the two crossed lines stood?
Where is the place where grace was born and sang?
Where is the one closed door found?
Where is the birthplace of the Holy Spring? Where is the rising well?
Where is the well that fills with the holy water?
We explain the layered teachings with affection to those who understand true knowledge! (10)