विनय-पत्रिका
Vinaya Patrikā
Tulsīdāsa’s complete garland of surrender, confession, longing, and trust in the grace of Sītā and Rāma
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Tulsīdāsa brings every condition of the soul before Rāma: helplessness, self-knowledge, longing, the burden of the age, and complete trust in the Lord who protects those with nowhere else to turn.
This complete reading edition presents every canonical Devanagari pad beside a fresh English translation, checked against the locked page-image witness through the final offering formula.
Complete contents
Pads 1–20
001Sing of Ganapati, Adored by the World→002Hymn to the Sun→003Whom Should One Petition After Leaving Shambhu?→004There Is No Donor Like Shankara→005Your Lord Is Mad, O Bhavani→006Petition Girija's Lord in Kashi→007Why Do You Not Melt for the Poor?→008Great Is the God and Great the Donor→009O Shiva, Be Pleased and Show Compassion→010O God, Sun Against the Darkness of Delusion→011Hymn to Shiva in the Form of Bhairava→012I Always Worship Shankara→013Serve the Pollen of Shiva's Lotus Feet→014Look, Uma's Beloved Has Become the Forest→015O Goddess, Crush Unbearable Fault and Sorrow→016Victory to the Mother of the World→017Victory to Bhagiratha's Daughter→018Victory to the Ganga, Purifier of the Whole World→019The Celestial River Removes Sin and the Three Afflictions→020You Dwell on the Lord's Head and Shine on Three Paths→
Pads 21–40
021As Yamuna Rose, the Warriors of Merit Advanced→022Serve Kashi, the Wish-Fulfilling Cow of the Kali Age→023Chitrakut, the Tree That Frees All Sorrow→024Awaken, Mind, and Go to Chitrakut→025Victory to the Moon Born from Anjani's Ocean-Womb→026Victory to the Lord of Monkeys, Sun of the World's Night→027Victory to the Abode of Auspiciousness→028Victory to the Famous Son of the Wind→029Victory to the Lion of Monkeys, Mass of Perfect Bliss→030Whoever Has Hanuman as Refuge→031Who Can Glare at One Who Trusts Kesari's Son?→032This Is Not Like You, Resolute Hanuman→033Mighty Son of the Wind, Beloved of Raghubira→034Do Not Take the Desperate Person's Words Apart→035A Good Master Hears Harsh Words in Hardship→036Son of the Wind, Embodiment of Auspiciousness→037Beloved Lakshmana, Benefactor of Your People→038Victory to Infinite Lakshmana, Lord of the Worlds→039Victory to Fortunate Bharata, Bee at Rama's Lotus Feet→040Victory to Shatrughna, Lion Against Enemy Elephants→
Pads 41–60
041Mother, When You Find an Opportunity, Remind Rama of Me→042Mother Janaki, Someday Bring Me to Mind→043Victory to the Embodied Supreme Brahman→044Victory to Rama, Lotus-Eyed King of Kings→045O Mind, Worship Compassionate Shri Ramachandra→046Repeat Rama, Foolish Mind, Again and Again→047Perform This Worship of Rama Raghubira→048Rama’s Worship Removes Every Affliction→049Hari-Shankari: Praise of Vishnu and Shiva→050I Remember Brahman in the Form of the Human King→051I Bow to Janaki’s Lord, Abode of Radiance→052Lord of Kosala, Whose Incarnations Rescue the World→053I Bow to Rama, Treasury of Every Auspicious Good→054All This Is Your Form, Jewel Among Kings→055Rama Removes the Saints’ Anguish→056Destroyer of Demons, Ocean of Compassion→057Grant Me Satsang, Your Own Limb, O Shriranga→058Lotus-Handed Lord, Give Me Support→059Raghubara, Rescue Me from the Forest of Becoming→060I Bow to Nara-Narayana, Abode of Compassion→
Pads 61–80
061Vindumadhava, Source of Every Happiness→062May My Eyes Feast on Vindumadhava’s Beauty→063Mind, Behold Vindumadhava for One Moment→064I Bow to Raghupati, Abode of Compassion→065Tongue, Repeat Rama; Mind, Become the Rain-Bird→066Fool, Chant Rama—His Name Is Your Boat→067Heart, Ever Chant Rama with Love→068Until the Tongue Chants Rama, the Three Torments Burn→069Remember with Love the Name of King Rama→070Mind, Love Rama’s Name by Nature→071Why Shrink from Serving Such a Master?→072Rama Did Me Good through His Own Goodness→073Awaken, Dull Soul, to the World’s Night→074Janaki’s Lord Awakens the Discerning Soul→075Good or Bad, I Am Yours→076Rama Has Named Me Ramabola→077Rama, Life of Janaki and Life of the World→078No Other Gives Compassionately to the Lowly→079You Are Compassionate; I Am Lowly→080Whom Else Should I Ask?→
Pads 81–100
081The Mind’s Threefold Fever→082The Stain Born of Delusion→083A Life Gone Without Worship→084Mind, You Will Regret It→085Mind, Look Upon Madhava→086The Feet Are the Only Refuge→087Take This Counsel, Foolish Mind→088The Mind Never Rested→089My Mind Will Not Abandon Its Stubbornness→090Such Is This Mind’s Folly→091I Have Danced Night and Day→092None Is So Base as I→093Where Have You Forgotten That Grace?→094Why Have You Forgotten Me?→095Even Yama Will Not Count My Faults→096If You Hold Your Servant’s Faults→097If Hari Counted His Servant’s Faults→098Such Is Hari’s Love for His Servant→099Rama’s Renown as Protector of the Poor→100Hear the Character of Sita’s Lord→
Pads 101–120
101Where Can I Go, Leaving Your Feet?→102Hari, You Have Shown Me Great Grace→103This Is My Petition, Lord Raghubira→104I Give Myself to Janaki’s Beloved→105Until Now I Was Lost; No Longer→106Blessed Is the One Rama Honors→107Excellent Is My Deity, Rama→108Worship the Great Hero→109Why Do You Not Show Compassion?→110To Whom Can I Tell This Adversity?→111Keshava, This Cannot Be Told→112Keshava, For What Cause?→113Madhava, Why Do You Not Melt Now?→114Madhava, None in the World Equals Me→115Madhava, How Can Delusion’s Noose Break?→116Madhava, Such Is Your Maya→117Hari, What Fault Can I Lay on You?→118Hari, By What Effort Could You Be Pleased?→119Hari, By What Effort Will Delusion Flee?→120Hari, Why Not Remove This Heavy Delusion?→
Pads 121–140
121Hari, Such Is the Power of Delusion→122Hari, I Do Not Know How to Practice→123Without Your Grace, Maya Does Not Release→124If the Mind Abandoned Its Disorders→125Thieves Have Entered Your House→126My Mind, Heed My Teaching→127I Know I Have No Love for Hari’s Feet→128Remember Sita’s Lord with Love→129Tongue, Why Do You Not Repeat Rama?→130Repeating Rama’s Name→131Pure Love for Rama’s Lotus Feet→132Life Without Love for Rama→133Again I Speak Words for Your Good→134Again and Again I Cry at Your Door→135You Did Not Love the Lover of Rama→136Since the Soul Became Separated from Hari→137If Compassionate Raghupati Grants His Grace→138When Will That Lotus Hand Rest upon My Head?→139O Compassionate to the Poor, the World Burns→140Those Men Live as Forms of Hell→
Pads 141–160
141Raghunayaka, How Can I Make My Petition?→142I Am Deeply Ashamed, O Rama→143Hear Me, Rama Raghubira→144Whom Has Raghubira Not Preserved for His Name’s Honor?→145Ocean of Compassion, Why Does Your Poor Servant Find No Redress?→146Rama, I Wish to Become Your Servant in Every Way→147Ocean of Compassion, Therefore I Remain Heartsick→148With What Face Can I Speak, Raghubira?→149Where Shall I Go, and to Whom Shall I Speak?→150Ramabhadra, I Both Do and Do Not Fear for Myself→151Had You Not Been Ashamed to Serve Rama→152Whom Has Rama Not Blessed through His Own Goodness?→153Raghupati, My Refuge Lies in You Alone→154Lord, Who Else Is Compassionate to the Poor?→155My One Trust Is Rama’s Name→156In Kali, Rama’s Name Is the Wish-Fulfilling Tree→157Serve the Excellent Master Rama→158How Can I Blame the Lord?→159Lord, Every Fault Is Mine Alone→160Hari, I Have Heard You Called Purifier of the Fallen→
Pads 161–180
161If Anywhere There Were Another Lord Like You→162Who in the World Is Generous Like This?→163You Alone Are the True Crown of Givers→164Raghuraya Knows the Way of Love→165Raghubara, This Is Your Greatness→166Such Is Rama, Benefactor of the Poor→167Devotion to Raghupati Is Difficult to Practice→168If There Were Love for Rama’s Feet→169If Rama Alone Had Tasted Sweet to Me→170My Mind Has Never Clung to You Like This→171Cast Me into Yama’s Torments→172Will I Ever Live in This Way?→173No Other Trust Comes to Me→174One Who Does Not Love Rama and Vaidehi→175If One’s Way of Life Is Not Joined to Rama→176Why Deal Crookedly with Such a Good Master?→177Even If You Forsake Me, Rama→178Though You Be Indifferent, My Hope Is in You→179Where Shall I Go?→180Make Me Your Own→
Pads 181–200
181Look Toward Me Somehow, Ocean of Grace→182You Alone Must Devise the Remedy→183You Know the Way of Love→184The Burning of the Heart Departs by Repeating Rama’s Name→185I Feel No Shame in Calling Myself Your Servant→186With What Effort Can I Make My Plea?→187Therefore I Came Early to Your Refuge→188World, Now I Have Recognized You→189Walk Repeating Rama→190You Did Not Naturally Love Rama→191The One True Friend Is the Lord of Kosala→192Without Kinship and Love for Janaki’s Lord→193Even Now, Understand Rama’s Deeds→194If There Is No Love for Loving Rama→195Show Grace According to Your Own Nature→196Why Do You Wander Making So Many Efforts, Mind?→197Because There Is No Love for His Feet→198The Mind Will Regret When the Opportunity Has Passed→199Why Do You Run About, Foolish Mind?→200As Though You Had Received a Body Plated in Copper→
Pads 201–220
201What Gain Came from Receiving a Human Body?→202What Work Did You Accomplish by Taking a Human Body?→203Worship the Lotus Feet of Hari and the Guru→204If the Mind Becomes Attached to Rama’s Feet→205If the Mind Wishes to Worship Hari, the Wish-Fulfilling Tree→206There Is No Other Refuge Like Raghupati→207No Other Bestows Refuge Like Raghunayaka→208Lord, How Can I Tell You My Petition?→209Lord, I Have No Other Support→210Where Else Is There a Place for Me?→211When Will You Show Me That Grace?→212Raghupati, Destroyer of Calamity→213No One Removes Calamity Like Hari→214What Other Lord Has Such a Way?→215Such Is Śrī Raghubīra’s Way→216Whom Else Should We Worship but Hari?→217If There Were Any Other→218When Will You Show Me Hari’s Feet?→219At Your Door Since Dawn→220Take Care of Me, King of Kosala→
Pads 221–240
221Watching for the Path of Grace→222To Whom Else Shall I Speak?→223Will You Ever Regard Me as Your Own?→224When Will My Mind Attach Itself to Raghubara?→225Who Else Will He Trust?→226Let Whoever Trusts Another Do So→227Rama, Your Name Alone Serves My Good→228For Whom Rama’s Name Is Dearest→229May My Tongue Melt if I Say I Am Another’s→230Who Else Helps Without Cause?→231Whom Else Have I?→232Where Shall I Find Another Friend of the Poor?→233The Mind’s Desire Is Strange→234This Fine Life Has Passed in Vain→235Thus Have Hosts of Births Passed→236If the Heart Does Not Know Jānakī’s Lord→237Why, O Tongue, Do You Not Sing Rāma?→238If Your Welfare Is Seen to Lie with Him→239Whomever Hari Firmly Embraces→240He Alone Is Truly Meritorious→
Pads 241–260
241Why Then Do You Not Grant Even Me Release?→242No Friend of the Lowly Is Like You→243Knowing This, I Fixed My Mind upon Your Feet→244This Is How I Lost Wisdom, O Hari→245My Foolish Mind Has Greatly Ruined Me→246All Endure Only Because You Sustain Them→247Chant Rāma, O Tongue→248Protect Me, Protect Me, Rāma→249I Have Thoroughly Known the World’s Masters→250Otherwise I Would Not Call upon You Again and Again→251Your Nature, Virtues, Character, Glory, and Power→252Father, My Condition Has Declined by My Own Doing→253Rāma, Keep Me in Refuge→254Rāma, Your Name Is My Mother and Father→255Rāma, Your Name Is the Saints’ Wish-Fulfilling Tree→256I Cannot Remain without Speaking→257Friend of the Lowly, There Is No Other Refuge→258Though I Knew You, I Forgot You→259If What You Repaired Is Ruined by Me→260When the Master Becomes Indifferent→
Pads 261–279
261Only You Can Make Me Whole→262The Blessedness of Humility at Your Court→263You Know Your Servant's Heart Exactly→264Who Is a Friend Like Hari?→265Call Me Near and Restrain This Dull Mind→266The Nearer I Seek to Draw, the Farther I Fall→267I Will Not Rise Until You Say, ‘You Are Mine’→268I Shall Know You Have Accepted Me→269When Will Rāma Become Dear to Me?→270Will You Ever Look upon Me?→271However I Am, I Am Your Servant→272Do Not Turn Your Eyes Away→273Apart from You, To Whom Can I Speak?→274Where Can This Afflicted, Lowly One Go?→275At Door after Door I Told My Lowliness→276What Have I Not Done, Where Have I Not Gone?→277Read This Poor Man’s Petition Yourself→278Remember Me at Each Opportunity→279Raghunātha Has Signed the Petition→