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राम

The Supreme Rāma

Rāma's two forms and their emanations

Unit 6 of 21 · printed source 7, 8

Sanskrit · Devanagari

श्रीराम एव सर्वकारणम्। तस्य रूपद्वयं परिछिन्नमपरिछिन्नम्। परिछिन्नस्वरूपेण साकेतप्रमोदवने तिष्ठन् रासमेव करोति। द्वितीयं स्वरूपं जगदुत्पत्त्यादेः कारणम्। तद्दक्षिणाङ्गात् क्षीराब्धिशायी, वामाङ्गाद्रमावैकुण्ठवासी, हृदयात् परनारायणो बभूव, चरणाभ्यां बदरिकावनस्थायी, शृङ्गारान्नन्दनन्दन इति।

IAST

śrīrāma eva sarvakāraṇam| tasya rūpadvayaṃ parichinnamaparichinnam| parichinnasvarūpeṇa sāketapramodavane tiṣṭhan rāsameva karoti| dvitīyaṃ svarūpaṃ jagadutpattyādeḥ kāraṇam| taddakṣiṇāṅgāt kṣīrābdhiśāyī, vāmāṅgādramāvaikuṇṭhavāsī, hṛdayāt paranārāyaṇo babhūva, caraṇābhyāṃ badarikāvanasthāyī, śṛṅgārānnandanandana iti|

Fresh English translation

Śrī Rāma alone is the cause of all. He has two forms, bounded and unbounded. In the bounded form he dwells in Sāketa's Pramoda forest and performs the rāsa alone. His second, unbounded form is the cause of the universe's arising and the rest. From its right side came the Lord who rests on the Milk Ocean; from its left, the Lord of Ramā's Vaikuṇṭha; from its heart, Para-Nārāyaṇa; from its feet, the Lord who dwells in Badarikā forest; and from its amorous splendor, Nanda's son.