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राम

Action and Sacred Learning

From sound to the mountain of Vaikhānasa

Unit 20 of 37 · printed source 96

Sanskrit · Devanagari

क्रियाशक्तिस्वरूपम्। हरेर्मुखान्नादः। तन्नादाद्बिन्दुः। बिन्दोरोङ्कारः। ओङ्कारात्परतो राम वैखानसपर्वतः। तत्पर्वते कर्मज्ञानमयीभिर्बहुशाखा भवन्ति ॥ २० ॥

IAST

kriyāśaktisvarūpam| harermukhānnādaḥ| tannādādbinduḥ| bindoroṅkāraḥ| oṅkārātparato rāma vaikhānasaparvataḥ| tatparvate karmajñānamayībhirbahuśākhā bhavanti || 20 ||

Fresh English translation

This is the nature of the power of action. From Hari’s mouth comes primordial sound; from that sound, the point; from the point, Oṃ. Beyond Oṃ rises Rāma, the mountain of Vaikhānasa, and upon that mountain many branches grow, formed of sacred action and knowledge.