mahAvAkyaratnAvaliH- Translation No. 32

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*Translation of mahAvAkyas- No.32- Sentences for reflection (manana

vAkyAni).*

 

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116. cidrUpatvAt na me jADyam satyatvAt na anRtam mama,

 

AnandatvAt na me duHkham ajnAnAt bhAti satyavat—

 

Since I am of the nature of consciousness, I am not insentient. Being

the Reality, there is no falsity in me. Being Bliss itself, I have no

sorrow. Because of ignorance (the world) appears as real.

 

117. nAham deho janmamRtyU kuto me nAham prANaH kshutpipAse kuto me,

 

nAham cetaH Sokamohau kuto me nAham kartA bandhamokshau kuto me---

 

I am not the body, so how can there be birth and death for me? I am not the

vital airs, so how can there be hunger and thirst for me? I am not the mind,

so how can there be grief and delusion for me? I am not a doer, so how can

there be bondage and liberation for me?

 

There are six afflictions, which are called 'waves'. They are in three

pairs-birth and death, hunger and thirst, grief and delusion. Of these,

birth and death relate to the body. Hunger and thirst relate to the vital

airs. Grief and delusion relate to the mind.

 

The sense of doership is the cause of bondage. If that goes there is no

bondage. Bondage is not real but is only imagined due to ignorance. Since

bondage is not real, liberation is also not real.

 

118. Anandam antarnijam Asrayantam ASApiSAcIm avamAnayantam,

 

Alokayantam jagadindrajAlamApatkatham mAm praviSed-asangam—

 

How can any suffering befall me who am unattached, who remain established in

my own inner bliss, who have rejected the ghost in the form of desire, who

see the world as merely a product of magic?

 

119. devArcanasnAnaSaucabhikshAdau vartatAm vapuH, tAram japatu vAk, tadvat

paThatu AmnAyamastakam, vishNum dhyAyeta dhIH, yadvA brahmAnande vilIyatAm,

sAkshI aham kincid api atra na kurve nApi kAraye---

 

AmnAya means the vedas. Mastakam means head. So AmnAyamastakam means the

most important part of the vedas, namely, the upanishads.

 

Let the body be engaged in worship of God, bathing, purification, begging

for alms, etc. Let the speech chant the tAraka mantra, and read the

upanishads. Let the mind meditate on vishNu, or let it merge in the bliss of

brahman. I who am the witness do not do anything at all in all this, nor do

I cause them to do anything.

 

120. jnAtam jnAtavyam adhunA dRshTam drashTavyam adbhutam,

 

viSrAnto'smi ciram SrAntaH cinmAtrAt nAsti kincana---

 

Now I have known what is to be known and seen the wonder that is to be seen.

I who had been under strain for long am now at peace. There is nothing other

than pure consciousness.

 

S.N.Sastri