The Great Eternal Speech

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The Great Eternal Speech

or The Maha Vakyas

 

A translation of Arunagirinathar’s Perutta Vachanam:

Tiru Vaguppu-5

 

Source: Saint Arunagirinatha

by Swami Anvananda (Madras: Pongi

Publications, 1975)

 

[1]

Within and beyond the

three worlds

Traversed by the Sun,

What fills everything,

As the happy essence is

THAT.

 

[2]

The blissful silence

controlling

The many mental

modes, again making

Everything blossom

forth is only THAT.

 

[3]

The foolish and vain

votaries of the Six

Faiths,

Debating fanatically and

prattling aloud;

What lies beyond all

such differing

conceptions is THAT.

 

[4]

For them that wallow

and sink,

The dark mire of the

three impurities,

My and Mine, karma and

maya;

What helps them to

cross 'over the useless

ways is THAT.

 

[5]

The Guru of Lord Shiva

Who wears the arka

and cassia flowers on

his head

Is our Lord Muruga, who

manifests as THAT.

 

[6]

The amounts of good

and bad deeds

Added up, makes this

dirty body of ours.

Subtracting our

identification with it,

What becomes the

answer defying

comparison is THAT.

 

[7]

Even if all the learning

and arts,

Beginning from the Rig

Veda,

Will fail to

counter-balance

If weighed against THAT.

 

[8]

When messengers of the

Lord of Death

Come before one at the

time of death,

What endows one with a

natural ability to cross

over to safety, is THAT.

 

[9]

Where the thickly-set

Upanishads end

At that edge, what exists

alone as the crest is

THAT.

 

[10]

Without form, what lies

concealed

The core and essence

Of Fire, Earth, Ether,

Wind and Water

Which fill things, nought

left out, is THAT.

 

[11]

Thought, Object and

Thinker vanish:

What evolves the state

where

One abides forever and

ever is THAT.

 

[12]

To the unwavering

devotees, their

hesitancy gone:

Released of all troubles,

The precious treasure

they enjoy is THAT.

 

[13]

What makes thought,

word and deed lie

submerged

Making it possible to

experience the joy

Of bathing in the divine

grace is THAT.

 

[14]

As the light of lights, as space beyond space

And as the life of lives,

What manifests forever and ever is THAT.

 

[15]

Lord Shanmukha, the valorous One,

He rode on the strong peerless peacock

To fight the asuras who ran and hid themselves.

He married the hunter girl, wearing a dress

Fashioned of beautiful foliage. It was He,

The incomparable One who graciously taught me THAT.

 

OM TAT SAT

 

 

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