aṣṭākṣara śrīrāma mantra stotram

Thirty-six verses on the eight-syllabled Rama mantra, taking the syllables for their subject rather than the story. What the hymn offers is a practice: it says what is to be held in mind continually, what comes of holding it, and that the reciter, having reached every accomplishment, goes at the end to the station of Rama. The closing verse borrows the Gita's last instruction and turns it toward this text, so that the one who has given up all duties and come to a single refuge is also the one who reads this hymn and is loosed from the bond of becoming. Some of the opening lines have come through the source in damaged shape, and the verse divisions there do not fall where the numbering says they should.