ramiJcuvArevarurA
Sahityam
Pallavi
ramiJcuvArevarurA raghUttamA ninu vinA
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O Most Eminent of the Raghus! Without You, whoever would attain bliss?
Anupallavi
zamAdi¹ SaD-guNa gaNA sakala bhuvana janulalO (rami)
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O Lord endowed with the series of six-fold virtues beginning with control of mind! Without You, whoever among people in all the Worlds would attain bliss?
Charanam
rAmayanE² su-marmamu ramayanE³ zarmamu
lasadamara varulakabbenO tyAgarAja sannuta (rami)
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lasadamara varulakabbenO tyAgarAja sannuta (rami)
Were even the effulgent celestial personages able to perceive the high secret of the word ‘Rama’ and the (consequent) delight (bliss) called ‘rama’? O Lord well-praised by this Thyagaraja!
Renditions
Variations
- 2 rAmayanE sumarmamu ramayanE zarmamu – ramyanE sumarmamu rAmayanE zarmamu’
References
- 1
zamAdi SaDguNa
– Six Virtues – zama - dama - titikSa - samAdhAna - uparati - zraddha
(control upon his own mind - control upon his physical body - forbearence for the odds and evens of the nature - equanimity of all beings and having a sympathetic mind - indifference with a Sakshi type of mind - sincere adherence to the words of Guru and Sastras, by word and deed). Source - [[http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2005-January/014664.html Six virtues]]
- Please refer to declaration of Sri Rama in Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kanda, Chapter 18, verse 20 –
- “I do not desire to live in the world as a slave to material gains. Know me to be devoted to immaculate righteousness like the Rshis.”
- 2 rAma – Please refer to the discourse of Kanchi Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati on the true significance of word ‘Rama’. Source – [[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/2952/mantra3.html Rama]]
- 3
ramayanE zarmamu
– the delight called ‘rama’ – consequent on knowing the high secret of the word ‘Rama’. Please refer to Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kanda, Chapter 17, verse 14 –
- “He who did not behold Sri Rama and whom Sri Rama did not notice was indeed despised in the eyes of all men; even his own self would reproach him.”