Chapter Seven: Literature of the Rasika Tradition
9. Sadāśiva Saṃhitā
Svami Ramcharanadas “Karunasindhu” compiled the Śrī Rāma-navaratna-sāra-saṅgraha, printed by Gokul Press, Ayodhya, in Vikrama year 1985 with Pandit Ramavallabha Sharan’s Ratnaprabhā commentary. At several places it cites the Sadāśiva Saṃhitā concerning the glory of the divine Name.1
It then describes divine Ayodhya and its seven enclosures in detail and offers a magnificent meditation upon Rama, the Lover of Saketa, embraced on his left by Sita.2
10. Śrī Mahāśambhu Saṃhitā
Page 11 of the Śrī Rāma-navaratna quotes two verses from the Mahāśambhu Saṃhitā, spoken by Janaki to Ramachandra, on the greatness of the name Rama. Janaki says: some call praṇava supreme, others another seed-mantra; but even praṇava and other seeds attain accomplishment through the syllables ra and ma. The full power of the Rama mantra is difficult to comprehend. If the Vedas have searched from beginningless time without plumbing the depth of Rama’s name, what can be said of anyone else?
Footnotes
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“I bow to Rama, Kausalya’s delight, abode of every good fortune, sole sovereign of every bliss, and destroyer of worldly becoming.” Śrī Rāma-navaratna, p. 19, presented as Lakshmana’s address to the Vedas. ↩
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The cited meditation describes Rama as smooth and dark like a blue lotus, radiant as millions of moons, consciousness itself, supremely generous, overwhelmed by love for Janaki, mighty-armed, embraced by Sita on his left, the supreme form of love and rasa. ↩