“The
Act of Purifying the Earth,”
Gosanka Poems
例 しなき 大き力に依らずして など救わめや此現世を | ||||
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S6-38D 例しなき 神の力に依らずして など救はめや此現世を In a set of poems titled “The Heavenly Being Miroku” in Gosanka Poems, Revised, page 2, #6, May 28, 1951.
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S6-38D translation Without depending on / The unprecedented / Power of God, / How can be saved / This present world? |
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千早振る 神の御光射し初めて 塵も芥も消えゆく嬉しさ | ||||
296 | As God’s light Begins to shine, How joyous That the dust and Rubbish disappear. |
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S6-38E 千早振 神の御光射し初めて 塵も芥も消ゆる嬉しさ In a set of poems titled “The Heavenly Being Miroku” in Gosanka Poems, Revised, #7, page 2, May 28, 1951; previous translation, Daily Guide, page 27A.
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S4-397B translation As God’s light / Begins to shine, / How joyous / That dust and rubbish / Disappear away. | ||||
Daily Guide translation The radiant Light / Of Almighty God divine / Shineth and cleaneth / Dirt and filth from earth away, / My heart brightens with great joy. | ||||
大神の 光遍く輝よいて 蘇るらむももの民草 |
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297 | Restored to life Will be the peoples Of all nations as the Light of the Almighty God Shines throughout the universe. |
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S6-75C
大神の 光遍く漂ひて 甦へるなり諸の民草 In a set of poems titled “A Civilized World” in
Gosanka Poems, Revised, #174, page 39, May 28, 1951; previous
translations, Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity, page 26B; Prayers and Gosanka, page 26B; Prayers and Poems, page 26B; Book of Gosanka, #10, page 3.
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S6-75C translation Revived will be the / Peoples of all nations / As the light of the / Almighty God floats / Everywhere in the universe. | ||||
Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity translation All those who visit our miniature / paradise / Feel new life being given to them, / For it is permeated with the Divine / Light of God. | ||||
Prayers and Gosanka translation All those who visit / Our small, perfect paradise / Are given new life, / For it is permeated / With the Divine Light of God. | ||||
Prayers and Poems translation All those who visit / Our small, perfect paradise / Are given new life, / For it is permeated / With the Divine Light of God. | ||||
Book of Gosanka translation The Light of Great God, / Wafting, pervading widely / The small world of man / Embraces all the people / To enliven and uplift. |
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幾千歳 積りつもりし塵芥 祓い浄めよ四柱の神 |
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298 | Four divine beings of Purification, please! Purify and remove the Dust and rubbish Of thousands of years. |
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S6-39A 幾千歳 積りつもりし塵芥 祓い浄めよ四柱の神 In a set of poems titled “The Heavenly Being Miroku” in Gosanka Poems, Revised,
page 3, #8, May 28, 1951; S5-78A 幾千歳 積りつもりし塵芥 浄め給えと祈る吾はも In a set of
poems dated November 11, 1947 and titled “Great Tribulation” in Collection of Akemaro’s Recent Compositions, page 59, #321, November 30, 1949; previous translation of S5-78A, Sounds of the Dawn, Volume I, pages 22 & 121, #42.
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S5-78A translation It is I who pray to / Purify the dust and / Rubbish that / Has accumulated / For thousands of years. | ||||
Sounds of the Dawn translation I pray, that, O God, / Thou wilt purify the world / Of its many clouds— / Clouds which have taken thousands / Of years to accumulate. | ||||
火と水の 大洗霊に打浄め 地上天国樹つる時来ぬ |
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299 | The time has come to Cleanse the spirit With fire and water To construct Paradise on earth. |
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S6-39B 火と水の 大洗霊に打浄め 地上天国樹つる時来ぬ In a set of poems titled “The Heavenly Being Miroku” in Gosanka Poems, Revised, page 3, #9, May 28, 1951.
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地上天国 打樹つるまでのいと深き 仕組にありぬ長き歴史は |
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300 | A profound plan until The construction of Paradise on earth has been The long history Of humanity. |
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S6-39C 地上天国 打樹つるまでのいと深き 仕組にありぬ長き歴史は In a set of poems titled “The Heavenly Being Miroku” in Gosanka Poems, Revised, #10, page 3, May 28, 1951; previous translations, Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity, page 101A; Prayers and Gosanka, page 101A; Prayers and Poems, page 101A; Book of Gosanka, #15, page 4; previous translations based on non- Meishu-sama text 地上天国 世に樹つまでのいと深き 仕組にありぬ長き
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Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity translation I realize now that the long history of / the past / Has been a part of God’s profound Program, / A preparatory stage in the establishment of / paradise on earth. | ||||
Prayers and Gosanka & Prayers and Poems translation I realize now / That the past’s long history / Was part of God’s Plan, / A preparatory stage / In making earth’s paradise. | ||||
Book of Gosanka translation ‘Tis a Plan so deep / That long years in time would pass / Into history, / Before paradise for man / Could be built upon this Earth. |
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地上天国 五六七御代と人称ぶも 理想世界の事にぞありける |
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301 | Paradise on earth, also Called the world of Maitreya by others, Is the very same As the ideal world. |
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S6-76A 地上天国 弥勒の御代と人称ぶも 理想世界の事にぞありける In a set of poems titled “The Ideal World” in Gosanka Poems, Revised, #176, page 40, May 28, 1951; previous translations, Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity, page 28A; Prayers and Gosanka, page 28A Prayers and Poems, page 28A; Book of Gosanka, #332, page 83.
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Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity translation That which some have called the / Kingdom of Heaven on earth, / Others the world of Miroku, still / others Utopia and Arcadia, / Is the ideal world, paradise on earth, / to come. | ||||
Prayers and Gosanka translation That which has been called / Kingdom of Heaven on earth, / Or Utopia, / Arcadia, Miroku, / Is the ideal world to come. | ||||
Prayers and Poems translation That which has been called / The Kingdom of Heaven— / Paradise on earth— / The Age of Miroku— / Is the ideal world to come. | ||||
Book of Gosanka translation Paradise on Earth— / The great world of Miroku / That all men so call / Is but in reality / Meant to be the Ideal World. | ||||