# Nectarean Shower of Holy Doctrines

The Nectarean Shower of Holy Doctrines (Japanese: 甘露の法雨, Kanro no Hōu) is the main scripture of Seicho-no-Ie, a Japanese new religion. It was written by the religion's founder, Masaharu Taniguchi. The text has eight parts.

## Quotes
### Part 1: God

* ​或る日天使生長の家に来たりて歌い給うー
    創造の神は
    五感を超越している、
    六感も超越している、
    聖
    至上
    無限
    宇宙を貫く心
    宇宙を貫く生命
    宇宙を貫く法則
    真理
    光明
    知恵
    絶対の愛。
    これらは大生命―
    絶対の神の真性にして
   * One day the Angel came to Seicho-No-Ie and sang:
       God the Creator
       Is beyond the five senses,
       Even beyond the sixth sense,
       Holy,
       Supreme,
       Infinite,
       Mind that penetrates the universe,
       Life that permeates the universe,
       Law that governs the universe,
       Truth,
       Light,
       Wisdom,
       Absolute love –
       These are the very nature of the Grand Life –
       The Divine attributes of God, the Absolute.
* 神が一切のものを造りたまうや
    粘土を用い給わず、
    木材を用い給わず、
    槌を用い給わず、
    鑿を用い給わず、
    如何なる道具も材料も用い給わず、
    ただ『心』をもって造りたまう。
   * God, in creating all things,
       Uses no clay,
       No wood,
       No hammer,
       And no chisel;
       He uses neither tools nor materials whatsoever;
       He creates solely with His Mind.

### Part 2: Spirit

* 感覚はこれ信念の影を視るに過ぎず。
    汝ら霊眼を備えて霊姿を視るとも
    実在を視たるに非ず、
    感覚にて視得るものは
   * The senses perceive nothing but the shadow of beliefs.
       Although you may possess spiritual eyes and see the figure of a spirit,
       You have not seen Reality.
* 惑障ことごとく消滅し、
    此世はこの儘にて光明世界を示現せん。
   * All delusions will vanish
       and this world will, as it is, turn into a brilliant paradise.

### Part 3: Matter

* 物質は畢竟『無』にしてそれ自身の性質あることなし。
    これに性質を与うるものは『心』にほかならず。
    『心』に健康を思えば健康を生じ
    『心』に病を思えば病を生ず。
    It is but mind alone that gives properties to matter.
    When your mind thinks of good health, health appears;
    When your mind thinks of sickness, sickness appears.
* 物質の奥に、
    肉体の奥に、
    霊妙きわまりなく完全なる存在あり。
    これこそ神に造られたる儘の完全なる『汝そのもの』にして、
    常住健康永遠不滅なる『生命』なり。
    汝ら今こそ物質を超越して
    汝自身の『生命』の実相を自覚せよ。
   * Beyond matter,
       Beyond the physical body
       There is a wondrous perfect being.
       This indeed is your perfect real self exactly as created by God,
       Constantly healthy and eternally indestructible life.
       Now is the time to transcend matter and awaken to the True Image of your life.

### Part 4: Reality

* 実在はこれ永遠、
    実在はこれ病まず、
    実在はこれ老いず、
    実在はこれ死せず、
    この真理を知ることを道を知ると云う。
   * Reality is eternal,
       Reality does not fall ill,
       Reality does not age,
       Reality does not die.
       To know this truth is to know the Way.
* 生命の實相を知る者は
    因縁を超越して生命本来の歪みなき円相的自由を獲得せん。
   * Those who know the True Image of life
       Will transcend karma and gain the original undistorted, perfect freedom of life.

### Part 5: Wisdom

* ​智慧はこれ本来神のひかり、
    実在に伴う円相的光なり、
    それは無量光、無辺光にして局限なし、
    局限なきが故に
    一切のものに満ちて
    一切のものを照し給う。
   * Wisdom in essence is the light of God,
       Perfect and harmonious light, that accompanies Reality,
       Infinite and omnipresent light that fills and illuminates all things.
* 吾が心がみずから描きし夢によって
    吾と吾が心を苦しむるに過ぎず。
   * It is merely our mind suffering
       from a dream of its own creation.

### Part 6: Delusion

* 無明はあらざるものをありと想像するが故に無明なり。
    真相を知らざるを迷と云う。
   * Delusion exists because we imagine that what is nonexistent exists.
       Ignorance of the true state of things is called delusion.

### Part 7: Sin

* 我れは此の仮面を剥いで
    罪と病と死との非実在を明らかにせんが為に来たれるなり。
    嘗て釈迦牟尼如来もこの為に来たりたまえり。
    嘗てイエスキリストもこの為に来たりたまえり。
   * I have come to remove this mask and prove
       that sin, sickness and death are nonexistent.
       Shakyamuni Buddha also came for this purpose.
       Jesus Christ also came for this purpose.

### Part 8: Man

* 人間は物質に非ず、
    肉体に非ず、
    脳髄細胞に非ず、
    神経細胞に非ず、
    血球に非ず、
    血清に非ず、
    筋肉細胞に非ず。
    それらすべてを組み合わせたるものにも非ず。
   * Man is not matter,
       He is not a physical body.
       He consists of neither brain cells nor nerve cells,
       He is neither blood cells nor blood serum nor muscle cells;
       Nor is he the composite of them all.
* 汝ら、よく人間の実相を悟るべし、
    人間は霊なり、
    生命なり、
    不死なり
   * You must awaken to the True Image of man.
       Man is spirit,
       Man is life,
       Man is immortality.
* 光と光源とは一体なるが如く
    人間と神とは一体なり。
    神は霊なるが故に
    人間も亦霊なるなり。
    神は愛なるが故に
    人間も亦愛なるなり。
    神は知恵なるが故に
    人間も亦知恵なるなり。
   * Just as light and its radiant source are inseparable,
       God and man are one.
       God is Spirit,
       Therefore man is also Spirit.
       God is Love,
       Therefore man is also Love.
       God is Wisdom,
       Therefore man is also Wisdom.
* キリストは
    『神の国は汝らの内にあり』と云い給えり。
    誠に誠にわれ汝らに告げん。
    『汝らの内』とは汝ら『人間の自性』なり、
    『真の人間』なり。
    『汝らの内』即ち『自性』は神人なるが故に
    『汝らの内』にのみ神の国はあるなり。
   * Christ said:
    "The kingdom of God is within you."
       Truly, I say to you:
       "Within you" means your true nature, the real man.
       Since your true nature is God-man, the kingdom of God is only "within you."
* 汝ら明かに知れ、繭は蚕に非ず、
    然らば肉体は人間に非ずして、
    人間の繭に過ぎざるなり。
    時来らば蚕が繭を食い破って羽化登仙するが如く、
    人間もまた肉体の繭を食い破って霊界に昇天せん。
   * Realize well that
          the cocoon is not the silkworm.
       If this is so, likewise the physical body is not man
          But merely his cocoon.
       Just as when the time comes
          the silkworm breaks out from its cocoon and flies away
       Man, too, when his time has come
          leaves his body-cocoon and ascends to the spiritual world.
* 人間の本体は生命なるが故に
    常に死することあらざるなり。
   * The essence of man is Life,
       There can never be death for him.

## References

* Taniguchi, Masaharu (谷口雅宣). Kanro no Hōu (甘露の法雨). Seicho-No-Ie. (in Japanese)
* Taniguchi, Masaharu (谷口雅宣). Nectarean Shower of Holy Doctrines. Seicho-No-Ie. (English translation)

## External links

* Full Japanese text online
* Full English text online