Sri Rama Charita Manasa - Shri Sita Ram Foundation, USA

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of a myriad Cupids; Siddhas, as well as the greatest of sages and bards sing Your
praises. Your glory is not only sacred, it purifies all; in Your wrath You seized Råvaƒa
even as GaruŒa (the king of the birds) might seize a huge serpent. Delight of devotees,
and dispeller of their grief and fear, You are ever unmoved by passion, and are allintelligence,
my lord. Your descent on the mortal plane is beneficent and full of untold
virtues: You come to relieve Earthís burdens and Your manifestations on earth are
wisdom personified. (Though descended on earth,) You are ever unborn, omnipresent,
one (without a second) and beginningless. I gladly bow to You, O Råma, fountain of
mercy ! Ornament of Raghuís race and Slayer of demon Dµuaƒa (Råvaƒaís Cousin),
You eradicate the faults of Your devotees and made Vibh∂aƒa, destitute as he was,
the Ruler of La∆kå. Storehouse of virtue and wisdom and beyond all measure, You have
no pride in You and are unborn, all pervading and free from the taint of Måyå; I constantly
adore You, Råma. Terrible is the glory and might of Your arms, which are deft in
exterminating the hordes of the impious. Compassionate and friendly to the poor without
any ostensible reason and a reservoir of beauty, I adore You alongwith Ramå (S∂tå).
Deliverer from the rounds of birth and death, You are beyond both cause (Prakæti) and
effect (the phenomenal universe) and eradicate the awful weaknesses of the (devoteeís)
mind. Armed with a charming bow, arrows, and quiver, You have eyes resembling a
red lotus. A paragon of kings, home of bliss, Lakm∂ís lovely Consort, subduer of
arrogance, lust and the false sense of mineness, You are free from blemish integral and
imperceptible to the senses. Though manifest in all forms, You never transmuted
Yourself into them all: so declare the Vedas; it is no mere gossip, as will be clear from
the analogy of the sun and the sunshine, which are different and yet identical. Blessed
are all these monkeys, O ubiquitous Lord, who reverently gaze on Your countenance;
while accursed, O Hari, is our (so-called) immortal existence and our ethereal bodies
in that we lack in devotion to You and are lost in worldly pleasures. Now show Your
mercy to me, compassionate as You are to the afflicted, and take away my differentiating
sense (which makes the world appear as apart from You), which leads me to wrong
action and deluded by which I pass my days in merriment, mistaking woe for happiness.
Destroyer of the wicked and lovely jewel of the earth, Your lotus feet are adored even
by ›ambhu (Lord ›iva) and Umå (Goddess Pårvat∂). O King of kings, grant me this
boon that I may cherish loving devotion to Your lotus feet, which is a perennial source
of blessings.î (1ó11)
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As the four-faced Brahmå thus prayed, his body was deeply thrilled with emotion.
And his eyes knew no satiation as they gazed on the Ocean of beauty. (111)
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