A storehouse of wisdom, you are free from pride and yet bestow honour on others; the Vedas and the Puranas tell of your holy fame. Knower of essential truth, you acknowledge the service that your devotees do you and destroy their ignorance. Untained by illusion, you bear innumerable names and are yet beyond all.

You are manifest as all, pervade all and dwell in the hearts of all. Be you ever our protector! Tear asunder the bonds of the pairs (of opposites such as hate and love, joy and grief, etc.) and of all troubles and the meshes of birth and death! Abiding in our hearts, O Rama, eradicate our sensuality and conceit!

‘O supreme bliss, O home of grace, fulfiller of the soul’s desires! Pray grant me the boon of unwavering love and devotion, O Rama!

Bestow on us, O Raghunatha, that most sanctifying devotion which destroys every distress and the sorrowful cycle of birth and death. O cow of plenty and tree of Paradise, ready to satisfy the desires of the suppliant, be propitious unto us, my Lord, and grant us his boon!

O Raghunatha, a veritable jar-born Agastya to swallow up the ocean of birth and death, you are both easy of access to those who wish to serve you and giver of joy to all! Put an end, O befriender of the lowly, to the grievous sufferings caused by the mind and grant us equanimity (i.e., Freedom from attachment and aversion)!

O banisher of hope (of gratifying oneself through self-indulgence), fear, jealousy and other evil passions, and disseminator of humility, right judgement and dispassion. O crown of kings and ornament of the earth, grant us devotion to your feet, which serves as a boat to carry one across the river of rebirth!

O you who ever dwell like a swan in the Manasa lake of the sages’ mind, your lotus feet are worshipped even by Brahma and Shankara. You are the Banner of the house of Raghu, the custodian of the Vedic bounds, devourer of time, destiny, prakriti (primordial nature) and the three gunas (or modes).