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राम

The Supreme Rāma

Divine play and the three foremost mantras

Unit 4 of 21 · printed source 4, 5

Sanskrit · Devanagari

सर्वावतारलीलां च करोति सगुणो यः। अयोध्यायां स्वयं रामो रासमेव करोति सः। सगुणनिर्गुणाभ्यां परस्य परमपुरुषस्य दाशरथेर्मन्त्रस्य नादबिन्दू वाङ्मनसोरगोचरौ। तस्य मन्त्राश्चानन्ताः; तेषु षट्शतं वरीयांसः, तेषु च त्रयो मन्त्रा अतिश्रेष्ठाः।

IAST

sarvāvatāralīlāṃ ca karoti saguṇo yaḥ| ayodhyāyāṃ svayaṃ rāmo rāsameva karoti saḥ| saguṇanirguṇābhyāṃ parasya paramapuruṣasya dāśarathermantrasya nādabindū vāṅmanasoragocarau| tasya mantrāścānantāḥ; teṣu ṣaṭśataṃ varīyāṃsaḥ, teṣu ca trayo mantrā atiśreṣṭhāḥ|

Fresh English translation

In the attributed mode he enacts the divine play of every avatāra; as Rāma himself in Ayodhyā he performs the rāsa alone. The sound and bindu of the mantra of Daśaratha's son—the Supreme Person beyond both attributed and attributeless—are inaccessible to speech and mind. His mantras are without number. Six hundred among them are excellent, and among these three are supremely excellent.