Doha 32

Jaṭāyu now dropped his body of a vulture and assumed Śrī Hari’s own form, bedecked with many jewels and clad in a yellow attire of matchless splendour, and possessed of a dark hue and four long arms; and with his eyes full of tears he began rapturous singing of praises of his lord. (1)

“Glory to Śrī Rāma of incomparable beauty, who is Absolute as well as Saguṇa-Sākāra (with form and attributes) and the true impeller of Guṇas (Māyā), too. Your fierce arrows are potent enough to cut off the terrible arms of the ten-headed Rāvaṇa. I incessantly adore the all-merciful Śrī Rāma, the ornament of the earth, who is endowed with a form dark as the rain-cloud, a face resembling the blue lotus and large eyes resembling the red lotus. Possessed of long arms, Śrī Rāma rids His devotees of the fear of transmigration. (1) “Your strength is immeasurable; You are without beginning and unborn, the one (without a second), unmanifest and imperceptible, beyond the reach of the senses, though attainable with the help of the Vedic hymns, the dispeller of pairs of opposites (such as joy and sorrow, birth and death, pleasure and pain etc.), consciousness personified, the supporter of the earth, You are the delighter of the soul of countless saints and devotees who repeat the sacred Name of Rāma. I ever extol Śrī Rāma, who loves and is loved by those who are free from desire and curbs the host of vicious propensities such as lust and so on. (2) “He, whom the Vedas glorify under the name of Brahma, pure (free from the taint of Māyā), all-pervading, passionless and unborn, whom the sages attain through manifold practices such as meditation, discretion, dispassion and Yoga (self-discipline), that fountain of mercy has become manifest as the very incarnation of beauty and enraptures the whole animate and inanimate creation. He is the bee that resides in the lotus of my heart and through every limb of His shines the splendour of many a god of love. (3) “He, who is at once inaccessible and easily accessible, who has a guileless disposition and is both partial and impartial and ever placid, whom the Yogīs perceive with great effort, subduing their senses and mind, that Rāma, the abode of Ramā (Goddess Lakṣmī) and the Lord of the three spheres, the entire creation, is ever solicitous of His devotees. May He abide in my heart, whose holy glory puts an end to transmigration.” (4)

Asking the boon of uninterrupted devotion, Jaṭāyu, the vulture, ascended to Śrī Hari’s Abode. Śrī Rāma performed his funeral rites with due solemnity, with His own hands. (32)