Chapter Seven: Literature of the Rasika Tradition
—arises from the lines upon Ramachandra’s feet.1 From the supreme name Rama emerge all other divine names, including Narayana.2
The text closes with an auspicious meditation upon Rama with Janaki in a jewel pavilion in Ayodhya, all gods and goddesses standing before them with folded hands.
3. Śrī Sītā Upaniṣad
This small Upanishadic jewel was printed at Omkara Press, Prayag, in Vikrama year 1924 and published by Siyavallabhasharan of Janaki Kund, Yugal Vinod Kunj, Chitrakuta. It includes the Tattva-bodhinī commentary by Ananta Sri Sitaramiya Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya Yugalvinod Bihari Sharan, described as a bee drinking the honey of Sita-Rama’s lotus feet.
The work establishes Bhagavati Sita’s supremacy. It presents her as the primordial Power and great sovereign goddess, from whose merest portion arise innumerable forms of Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasarasvati, Uma, Radha, Tara, Durga, and others—
Footnotes
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“All avatāras arise from the lines upon Sri Rama’s feet, as do infinite crores of Vishnus, the four vyūhas, Aparajiteshvara, Para-Narayana, eight-armed Narayanas, and countless others; with folded hands they worship him at all times.” Viśvambhara Upaniṣad 8. ↩
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Compare Mahārāmāyaṇa, sarga 51: Vishnu, Narayana, Krishna, Vasudeva, Hari, Brahman, Vishvambhara, Ananta, Vishvarupa, and countless names such as Supreme Lord all shine forth through the name Rama. The page also cites Sadāśiva Saṃhitā 5.7–12, a long hymn praising Rama as surpassing millions of suns, moons, Indras, Vishnus, Brahmas, Rudras, Bhairavas, and Love-gods, and as the sole giver of every bliss. ↩