1. Look, there it stands as if insentient. Mysterious is the way it works, beyond all human understanding. From my unthinking childhood, the immensity of Arunachala had shone in my awareness.
But even when I learnt from someone that it was only Tiruvannamalai, I did not realize its meaning. When it stilled my mind and drew me to itself and I came near, I saw that it was stillness absolute.
2. Enquiring within “Who is the seer?” I saw the seer disappearing and That alone which stands for ever. No thought arose to say “I saw”. How then could the thought arise to say “I did not see?”
Who has the power to explain all this in words, when even You (as Dakshinamurti) conveyed this of yore in silence only ?
And in order to reveal by silence, Your state transcendent, now You stand here, a Hill resplendent soaring to the sky.