The Vedas, disguised as bards, sing six stanzas. Victory to you, with form and beyond form, who slew Ravana and took a human body to lift the world's burden. Under your maya all beings wander the road of birth; those you look on with mercy escape the three sufferings. Those proud of knowledge who ignore bhakti fall even from heights the devas seldom reach, while those who trust you and chant your name cross with ease. They praise the feet whose dust freed Ahalya and from whose nail the Ganga flows, and hymn the world as a tree whose root is the Unmanifest. Let others meditate on formless Brahman; we will sing your qualities. Then they vanish, and Shambhu comes to Rama.
जय सगुन निर्गुन रूप रूप अनूप भूप सिरोमने । दसकन्धरादि प्रचंड निसिचर, प्रबल खल भुज बल हने ॥ अवतार नर संसार भार बिभंजि दारुन दुख दहे । जय प्रनतपाल दयाल प्रभु संजुक्त सक्ति नमामहे ॥
तव विषम माया बस सुरासुर, नाग नर अग जग हरे । भव पन्थ भ्रमत अमित दिवस निसि, काल कर्म गुननि भरे ॥ जे नाथ करि करुना बिलोके, त्रिबिधि दुख ते निर्वहे । भव-खेद छेदन दच्छ हम कह, रच्छ राम नमामहे ॥
tava viṣama māyā basa surāsura, nāga nara aga jaga hare | bhava pantha bhramata amita divasa nisi, kāla karma gunani bhare || je nātha kari karunā biloke, tribidhi dukha te nirvahe | bhava-kheda chedana daccha hama kaha, raccha rāma namāmahe ||
जे ज्ञान-मान-बिमत्त तव भव, हरनि भगति न आदरी । ते पाइ सुर-दुर्लभ-पदादपि, पात हम देखत हरी ॥ बिस्वास करि सब आस परिहरि, दास तव जे होइ रहे । जपि नाम तव बिनु श्रम तरहिं भव, नाथ सो समरामहे ॥
je jñāna-māna-bimatta tava bhava, harani bhagati na ādarī | te pāi sura-durlabha-padādapi, pāta hama dekhata harī || bisvāsa kari saba āsa parihari, dāsa tava je hoi rahe | japi nāma tava binu śrama tarahiṃ bhava, nātha so samarāmahe ||
जे ब्रह्म अजमद्वैतमनुभवगम्य मनपर ध्यावहीं । ते कहहुं जानहुँ नाथ हम तव, सगुन जल नित गावहीं ॥ करुनायतन प्रभु सदगुनाकर, देव यह बर मागहीं । मन बचन कर्म बिकार तजि तव, चरन हम अनुरागहीं ॥
je brahma ajamadvaitamanubhavagamya manapara dhyāvahīṃ | te kahahuṃ jānahum̐ nātha hama tava, saguna jala nita gāvahīṃ || karunāyatana prabhu sadagunākara, deva yaha bara māgahīṃ | mana bacana karma bikāra taji tava, carana hama anurāgahīṃ ||