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आरती श्री रामायण जी की । कीरति कलित ललित सिय पी की ॥
गावत ब्रहमादिक मुनि नारद । बाल्मीकि बिग्यान बिसारद ॥ शुक सनकादिक शेष अरु शारद । बरनि पवनसुत कीरति नीकी ॥1॥ आरती श्री रामायण जी की........॥
गावत बेद पुरान अष्टदस । छओं शास्त्र सब ग्रंथन को रस ॥ मुनि जन धन संतान को सरबस । सार अंश सम्मत सब ही की ॥2॥ आरती श्री रामायण जी की........॥
गावत संतत शंभु भवानी । अरु घटसंभव मुनि बिग्यानी ॥ ब्यास आदि कबिबर्ज बखानी । कागभुशुंडि गरुड़ के ही की ॥3॥ आरती श्री रामायण जी की........॥
कलिमल हरनि बिषय रस फीकी । सुभग सिंगार भगति जुबती की ॥ दलनि रोग भव मूरि अमी की । तात मातु सब बिधि तुलसी की ॥4॥ आरती श्री रामायण जी की........॥
इति
The Poet
तुलसीदास
Tulsidas
1532 · 1623
There are works of literature, and there are works that become the living tissue of a civilization works so deeply absorbed into the bloodstream of a people that they cease to be read and begin, instead, to be breathed. Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas is that second and almost impossibly rare thing. Composed in Awadhi in the sixteenth century, at a time when Sanskrit had erected a wall of exclusion around sacred knowledge, the Ramcharitmanas was an act of radical democratization a decision by a scholar of profound erudition to lay down his privilege and carry the light directly to those who had been told they were unworthy of it. Tulsidas took the Valmiki Ramayana and did not merely translate it. He recomposed it in the devotional key of Bhakti, saturating every couplet with such concentrated love that the text functions as much as a spiritual practice as a literary one. Generations of Hindu households have woken before dawn to the sound of these verses, heard them at birth and at death, found in them the moral grammar by which they ordered their lives. Tulsidas was not merely a poet. He was, in the most precise sense, an architect one who built a cathedral large enough for an entire subcontinent to live inside. The structure still stands. It has sheltered half a billion souls and shows no sign of age.
Paired Painting
A Preacher Expounding the Poorans, In the Temple of Unn Poorna, Benares
This evocative lithograph captures a profound moment of spiritual discourse within the sacred spaces of Varanasi, known at the time as Benares. James Prinsep, an exceptional scholar, antiquary, and artist who lived in India, recorded the rich cultural and religious tapestry of the holy city with deep observation and sensitivity. Seated on a raised platform beneath intricately carved stone arches, a learned preacher reads and expounds upon the sacred Puranas to an attentive assembly of devotees. The architectural majesty of the Annapurna temple forms a serene backdrop, framing the timeless devotion of the gathered souls who absorb the ancient wisdom with quiet reverence.
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