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/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 all the learning and arts, beginning

from the Rig Veda, will fail to counterbalance

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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