Lord Rama

श्री राम आरती

(Aarti Kije Shri Raghuvar Ki)

Also known as arati kije sriraghuvaraki

An arati to Rama whose refrain names him twice over and differently each time: let the lamps be turned for Raghuvara, for the one who is being and consciousness and bliss, for Shiva, for the beautiful. The verses after it fill in the household particulars — son of Dasharatha, delight of Kausalya — and then widen again. The movement between the two registers is the whole shape of the song: a prince with a father and a mother in one line, and the impersonal absolute in the next, with nothing done to reconcile them. Eighteen short lines carry it, in the plain singable Hindi of a text meant for the lamp rather than for study.

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Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.

आरती कीजे श्रीरघुवरकी।
सत चित आनंद शिव सुन्दरकी॥
दशरथ-तनय कौसिला-नन्दन,
सुर-मुनि-रक्षक दैत्य-निकन्दन,
अनुगत-भक्त भक्त-उर-चन्दन,
मर्यादा-पुरुषोत्तम वरकी॥
निर्गुण-सगुन, अरूप-रूपनिधि,
सकल लोक-वन्दित विविधन विधि,
हरण शोक-भय, दायक सब सिधि,
मायारहित दिव्य नर-वरकी॥
जानकिपति सुराधिपति जगपति,
अखिल लोक पालक त्रिलोक गति,
विश्ववन्द्य अनवद्य अमित-मति,
एकमात्र गति सचराचरकी॥
शरणागत-वत्सल-व्रतधारी,
भक्त कल्पतरु-वर असुरारी,
नाम लेत जग पावनकारी,
वानर-सखा दीन-दुख-हारी॥
॥ इति संपूर्णंम् ॥

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