SreeNarayanaGuru

[gopu]

9. jayikkuka mahaa dEva
deenaavana paraayana
jayikkuka chid aananda
dayaa sindho jayikkuka

Victory to thee Oh God Supreme!
Victory! Thou who ever from affliction lift !
Victory to thee pure awareness-bliss !
Victory! great ocean of mercy!

Jayikkuka: be victorious; mahhadeva: Great Lord; deeneaavan paraayana : ever engaged in the absolving of suffering; chid ananda: who is awareness-bliss; dayaa sindho: ocean of mercy.

When the great lord is victorious and descends into the every single being, to what would deem the meanest among creation, he would shine in all as mahaadeva with all will, prowess and power. When this happens, where could misery be. God here would glow as the ultimate dispeller of all suffering.( deena avana paraayana). When the whole of existence is devoid of suffering, God would no longer be separated as being out there ( angu); but be One All comprehensive wholeness the experience of which would be pure and whole Awareness –Bliss. (chid-aananda ) In that experience, which verily is supreme Knowledge, no deference of view, attitude, or interest would exist. This is the perfect Love. Daya or compassion is another name for this perfect Love footing. Whole of existence is filled with the victorious God who is a limitless ocean of Love- compassion. It is the glorious vision of this ever-expanding ever-deepening Ocean of Pure Love Light that we get in the final verse of this Upanishad in Malayalam. In this all existence merge and dissolve into a transcendent We Consciousness, which is unalloyed and enduring Bliss.

[gopu]

10. aazham ERum nin mahassaam
aazhiyil njangal aakave
aazhaNam vaazhaNam nityam
vaazhaNam vaazhaNam sukam !

In the ever deepening ocean of thy glory,
May we all merge and be one!
May we so merging live with never an end!
May Infinite Happiness in fullness reign!

Aazham: depth ( implies all dimensions); ERum: go on increasing; nin: your mahass: might, brilliance and energy. aazhi: ocean; njangal: we; aakave: altogether; aazhaNam: may we merge, vaazhaNam: may we live in glory; nityam: for ever ; vaazhaNam sukham: may enduring happiness reign.

In this final verse, the great Guru ever so gently brings us back to the same ocean on the shores of which we stood bewildered and beleaguered by a thousand fears and incertitude, in the first verse. He has, through the nine inimitable verses brought us to the realization that, what we considered
the ocean of worldly suffering, (bhavaabdhi ) is in fact the nectarine ocean of infinite bliss. We would not think of running away from it or strain ourselves to cross it over; but would lose ourselves in it. So loosing ourselves into it we regain ourselves in our true guise. We realize ourselves as the ocean of Light-Love-Infinity. Experiencing this at ever deepening degrees and ever widening realms is experiencing the Bliss that God is. No `there’and `here’ ( angu and ingu ) may exist any longer. It is the perpetual Now of enduring Bliss. Yes it Is the very Footing Of God-Daiva Padam that is revealed to us by the infinite mercy of The Guru.