Sunday, January 6, 2008

श्री राम स्तुति - Salutations to Lord Raama / (6)

प्रकृतिं पुरुषं कालं व्यक्ताव्यक्तस्वरूपिणम ।
यं जानन्ति मुनिश्रेष्ठास्तस्मै रामाय ते नमः ॥


prakritim purushham kaalam vyaktaavyaktswaroopinam
yam jaananti munishreshhthaastasmai raamaaya te namah

अध्यात्मरामायण, युद्धकाण्ड (8/39)


Help on Sanskrit Words:

prakriti: natutre, fundamental form
purushh: brahaman, supreme spirit, universal soul
kaalah: time
vyakta: manifest
avyakta: unmanifest
swaroop: one's own self/form
yam: to whom
jananti: know
munih: sage
shreshhtha: most excellent, highest, superior
namah: pay obeisance to



Commentary:

To Him Who is recognized or known as One and the Same as the Nature (or the Fundamental Form or The Inanimate) and the Universal Soul, and also, the Time with the Manifest and Unmanifest Universe, Whom the highest of the sages only know as being such, let there be obeisances to That Raama, the very embodiment of the Brahman.



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