Mishi mama ni ware wa satori o eteshikaba shirasede toru to shirazarame ya wa - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

見しままに我は悟りを得てしかば
知らせで取ると知らざらめやは

Roma-ji: Mishi mama ni ware wa satori o eteshikaba shirasede toru to shirazarame ya wa
English Translation: Just as I have seen,
so have I attained to truth
and awakening,
though you take it unannounced,
how could I not know of it
Meaning: Since I have attained enlightenment just as I saw it, how could I fail to know even if you take something without telling me?
Commentary: Book Ten Miscellaneous Poems II 627

Since the poet has attained enlightenment just as he saw, how could he fail to know even if something were taken without his being told? The circumstances of its composition are not clear from the words of the poem, but using a rhetorical question it declares that nothing can be hidden from one who has awakened.
Poems concerning the Buddha's Law continue from the preceding poem, 626, and this poem too sings of enlightenment.

First line, 'mishi mama ni', means just as I saw, using the attributive shi of the past ki.
Second line, 'ware wa satori o', means I, enlightenment.
Third line, 'eteshikaba', means since I have attained, the perfective tsu with shika, the realis of the past ki, and ba expressing a settled condition.
Fourth line, 'shirasede toru to', means that you take it without telling, using the negative particle de.
Final line, 'shirazarame ya wa', means how could I not know, the realis me of the conjectural mu with ya wa forming a rhetorical question. Shira of the fourth line is repeated here.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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