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राम

The Supreme Rāma

Lord above all lords

Unit 3 of 21 · printed source 3, 4

Sanskrit · Devanagari

स ईश्वराणां परमो महेश्वरः, पतिः पतीनां परमं च दैवतम्। अमूर्तमूर्तादिशरीरकोऽसौ कर्ताप्यकर्ता च न प्रसंयुक्तः। व्याप्नोति सर्वं निजतेजसा योऽणोरणीयान् महतः परस्तात्। मूर्तेन सर्वं निर्माय विश्वं स्वयं तु लीलां वितनोति नित्याम्। द्वयोः शरीरयोरैक्यमतोऽद्वैतं बुधा जगुः। निःसमाभ्यधिकत्वाच्च तदद्वैतं बभाषिरे।

IAST

sa īśvarāṇāṃ paramo maheśvaraḥ, patiḥ patīnāṃ paramaṃ ca daivatam| amūrtamūrtādiśarīrako'sau kartāpyakartā ca na prasaṃyuktaḥ| vyāpnoti sarvaṃ nijatejasā yo'ṇoraṇīyān mahataḥ parastāt| mūrtena sarvaṃ nirmāya viśvaṃ svayaṃ tu līlāṃ vitanoti nityām| dvayoḥ śarīrayoraikyamato'dvaitaṃ budhā jaguḥ| niḥsamābhyadhikatvācca tadadvaitaṃ babhāṣire|

Fresh English translation

He is the supreme Lord of all lords, the master of masters, and the highest divinity. His body is the ground of the formless and the formed. He is both agent and non-agent, yet conjoined with neither. By his own radiance he pervades everything, subtler than the subtle and beyond the great. Through his manifest form he fashions the whole universe, while in his own form he eternally unfolds divine play. Because his two modes are one, the wise call him nondual; because none is his equal or superior, they also declare that nonduality of him.