Pean of Joy

Aloka Udapadi
Light that shines the World and beyond.

Viddya Udapadhi
Truth that penetrates all knowledge.

Panga Udapadhi
The transcending Wisdom of all.

Anekajati Samsaram Sandhavissam Annnibisam
Gahakarakam Gavesanto Dukkha Jati Punanppunam
Gahakaraka Ditto Si Puna Geham Na Kakahasi
Subbe Te Phasuka Bhagga Gahakutam Visankhitam
Visankaragatam Cittam Tanhanam Khayamajjhaga

Through many a birth wondered I,
Seeking not finding, the builder of the house,
Sorrowful is repeated birth.

O' Householder, thou art is seen.
Thou shall built no house again.
All thy rafters are broken.
Thy ridge pole is shattered.
Mind attains the unconditioned.
Achieved is the end of craving.

At the dawn on the very day of enlightenment, the Buddha uttered this pean of joy or Udana which vividly describes his transcendental moral victory and his inner spiritual experience.

The Buddha admits his past wandering in existences which entailed suffering.

A fact, evidently proving the belief in Rebirth in Buddhism.

The fundamental ingrained in Dhamma are
Kamma and Rebirth.

He was compelled to wander and consequently suffer as he could not discover the architect that builds the house, the Body and Mind.

In his final birth, while engaged in solitary meditation, he had highly developed in the course of his wandering in Samsara, after relentless  perseverance and search he discovered by his own intuitive Wisdom, the illusive architect, residing not outside but within the recess of his own Mind.

It was Craving or Attachment to the self created mental compendium of enormity.

This latent compendium of mental forms drives the Samsara.

How and when this Craving or Attachment originated is incomprehensible.

What is created by oneself can be destroyed by oneself only.

An external agency is not envisioned but by oneself alone one is created and one is also responsible for (his/her) one's own suffering or happiness.

(The word suffering include both Joy and Unhappiness but due to transitory nature of both feelings, it is wrapped as unhappy or suffering. This word should not be used to belittle and  downgrade absolute Dhamma meaning.There is no negative feeling or thinking implied but the the true nature of its -life- rendering)

The discovery of the architect, the craving or Thanha leads to its irradication or ending of all cravings and attaining the Nibbana or Arahathship ultimate unborn (not reborn) state.

The rafters are:

Kilesa or Passion

Loba or attachment

Dosa or hate and aversion

Moha or illusion

Mana or conceit or self disception

Mittyaditti or Wrong View

Vicikiccha or doubt

Thina or sloth

Uddhacca or restlessness

Ahirika or moral.shamelessness

Anottappa or moral fearlessness

The ridge pole that supports the rafters are:
Ignorance or Avijja the root cause of all passions.

The shattering of Avijja leads to Wisdom unparalleled or Nibbana.