Doha 111

“Glory to You, O Rāma, perpetual abode of bliss. O Hari (the reliever of suffering), O Raghunātha, bearing a bow and arrows! Lord, You are a veritable lion to tear to pieces the elephant of mundane existence, and an ocean of virtues, my sagacious and omnipresent Master. (1) “In Your person stands concentrated the incomparable beauty 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 Rāvaṇa even as Garuḍa (the king of the birds) might seize a huge serpent. (2) “Delight of devotees, and dispeller of their grief and fear, You are ever passionless, and are all intelligence, my lord. Your descent on the mortal plane is beneficent and full of countless virtues: You come to relieve Earth’s burdens and Your manifestations on earth are hordes of wisdom personified. (3) “(Though descended on earth, ) You are ever unborn, omnipresent, one without a second and beginningless. I gladly bow to You, O Rāma, fountain of mercy! Ornament of Raghu’s race and Slayer of demon Dūṣaṇa (Rāvaṇa’s Cousin), You eradicate the faults of Your devotees and made Vibhīṣaṇa, humble as he was, the Ruler of Laṅkā. (4) “Repository of virtue and wisdom and beyond all measure, You are devoid of ego and are unborn, all pervading and free from the taint of Māyā; I constantly adore You, Śrī Rāma. Immense is the glory and might of Your arms, which are deft in exterminating the hordes of the evil doers. (5) “Compassionate and friendly to the poor without any ostensible reason and a reservoir of beauty, I adore You alongwith Jānakī. Deliverer from the rounds of birth and death, You are beyond both cause (Prakṛti) and effect (the phenomenal universe) and eradicate the awful weaknesses of the (devotees’) mind. (6) “Armed with a charming bow, arrows, and quiver, You have eyes resembling a red lotus. A paragon of kings, home of bliss, Lakṣmī’s lovely Consort, subduer of arrogance, lust and the false sense of attachment, (7) “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 the same, so is your relationship with the world. (8) “Blessed are all these monkeys, O omnipresent 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 sensuous pleasures. (9) “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. (10) “Destroyer of the wicked and lovely jewel of the earth, Your lotus feet are adored even by Lord Śiva and Goddess Pārvatī. O King of kings, grant me this boon that I may cherish loving devotion to Your lotus feet, which are a perennial source of blessings.”(11)

As the four-faced Brahmā thus prayed, his body was deeply thrilled with emotion. And his eyes knew no satiation as they gazed on the Ocean of beauty, Śrī Rāma. (111)