Lord Rama (Bharata)

ശ്രീ ഭരത ജീ കീ ആരതീ

(Shree Bharat Ji Ki Aarti (Hindi) in Malayalam)

Also known as bharat ji ki aarti (hindi) · ji ki aarti · arati aratiharana bharataki

An arati not to Rama but to his brother, and the first line puts the pun the whole song rests on: the arati of Bharata, who is himself the remover of arti, of distress. What it praises him for is his attachment to another's feet — he is called one devoted to the lotus feet of Sita and Rama before any quality of his own is named. Then the qualities: bearer of the burden of dharma, steadfast, best among the brave. Fourteen short lines in Hindi, and the interest of it is that a brother who rules only as a regent, keeping his elder's sandals on the throne, is given an arati of his own in the same form the god receives.

ആരതി ആരതി-ഹരന ഭരതകീ ।
സീയാരാമപദപംകജ രതകീ॥
ധര്മധുരംധര ധീര, ബീരബര।
രാമസീയ-ജസ-സൌരഭ മധുകര।
സീല സനേഹ നിബാഹ നിരതകീ॥
ആരതി ആരതി-ഹരന ഭരതകീ...॥
പരമപ്രീതി പഥ പ്രഗട ലഖാവന।
നിജ ഗുനഗന ജസ അഘ വിദ്രാവന।
പരഛത പീയ പ്രേമ മൂരതകീ॥
ആരതി ആരതി-ഹരന ഭരതകീ...॥
ബുദ്ധി-വിവേക ജ്ഞാനഗുന ഇക രസ।
രാമാനുജ സംതനകേ സരബസ।
'ഹരിചംദ' പ്രഭു വിഷയവിരതകീ॥
ആരതി ആരതി-ഹരന ഭരതകീ...॥
॥ ഇതി സംപൂര്ണംമ് ॥

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