Friday, 26 August 2011

JANANI NAVARATNA MANJARI [An Independent Translation]

                          

                           1


From that first and unique knowledge
Did originate countless tripudis; soon I
forgot myself and fell in darkness!
Favours dragged me into the Sea of Sorrows

O Mother, show me light
Lead me to that holy sky
which is bright and full of knowledge
Lead me to that holy earth
formed by thy name and sound; 
The centre of all True Knowledge.


             
                       2

Nothing is true but true knowledge
Neither the air and fire nor the rest of all.
Truth is only that knowledge 
the pioneer one ; and that is unique
meaningless all vedic rituals.

Slipping minds will rest a while
when this truth is got revealed.
Oh Mother, let me got revealed it
Let my mind rest in peace.

                          3

Rising in its fading stage
and fading in its rising stage
The first and unique knowledge came;
My mind and organs rolled and rolled
keeping spell and frequency.

I am in that horizon
where knowledge is in full(!)
But this stage of mine is none
compared with that honey sucker 
Resting in a lotus bud
sucking honey while in bliss.

                      4

Truths are flowering in my mind
Only drops of water, waves I know
The snake I found in rope is rope
The pot I found is the clay itself

The root of root of all these truths
No doubt, I know that is 'You'
Let me bow thy feet and sit aside
You are none but my goal itself.

                            5

Veiled in by that Super Knowledge
The physical world is beyond sight
Parts and parcel of all forms
The air and fire and the rest of all
visible not in naked eyes;
But they are clear in inner ones.

Through my inner eyes I see
You are in a dancing mood;
Dressed up in that Holy Robes
stitched and woven by the Time.

Thin and smooth your garments are
Yet they hide your body from my sight!
Knowledge being thy holy home
All are in their verbal forms.

                             6

Oh Mother,
You are the fish and you are the deer 
the flies and birds; the snakes and mountains;
the plants and trees ; the rivers  and lakes;
You are also the imaginary Hell and Heaven
And all men and women including I myself
who is but a witness of all these multi-visions
In physical and in verbal forms.
All these wonders that I see
are nothing but the scenes of the Drama
that is being staged, at your own will and pleasure.


                           7

To shoot out all the sins from me
I hold knowledge as an arrow.
My bow is nothing but true faith in thy feet
My iron will is the thread in bow.

Without faith in myself, I can't win
Myself I am creeping into my soul...
Now I am on the path of goal
You are shedding lights I know.
My body weight is nothing but
The weight I gathered from my sins.

                             8

As my thoughts and as my thinking mind
You are growing as a pearl of joy;
As all causes and as all effects
as subjects; and then as objects
First you create, and then you consume!
Your greatness is in such a height
higher than that eternal bliss!
Oh Mother, You are great! really great!

                              9

Shadow like, all worldly objects
reflecting in the mirror of knowledge
are fading as soon as they reflect
as they themselves,  but your own shadows!

You are in that heavenly Abode
Far, far away from my senses
In which knowledge is in full.
Oh Mother, who can praise thee?
Let me rest in silence!

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