Skandapurana 3.1.49

Śrī Sūta said:

Now, therefore, I shall fully relate the chapter of the hymn to the trident-bearing Rāmanātha;

listen with faith, O twice-born ones, to this greatly meritorious [account]. (1)

When the liṅga was established, Rāma praised the Supreme Lord.

Lakṣmaṇa, Jānakī Sītā, Sugrīva and the other lords of monkeys, (2)

the gods headed by Brahmā, and the great seers headed by the pot-born [Agastya],

endued with devotion, praised Rāghaveśvara individually. (3)

I shall relate that in proper order; listen with reverence.

By the mere hearing of this, a human being would become liberated, O twice-born ones. (4)

Śrī Rāma said:

Homage to you, the Great-Souled, the wielder of the great illusion, the bearer of the trident,

the remover of distress for the devotees of your own lotus-feet, the wearer of serpents! (5)

Homage to the God of gods, to Rāmanātha, the witness;

homage to the one to be known through Vedānta, the granter of ultimate truth to yogins; (6)

to the one always full of bliss, to Viśvanātha, to Śambhu;

homage to the dust of whose lotus-feet is the cause of cutting off the fear of devotees! (7)

Homage to you, the Lord of all; homage to the Supreme Self manifest;

homage to you of wondrous valour, the destroyer of great sins! (8)

Homage to you, the Death of Death, Time itself, and transcending time;

homage to you, the slayer of ignorance, and homage to the remover of sin! (9)

Homage to the sole cause of extinguishing the burning heat of those scorched by transmigration!

Homage to the destroyer of my [sin of] murdering a brahmin, and the consumer of poison! (10)

Homage to you, lord of Pārvatī, imperishable dweller of Kailāsa!

O bearer of Gaṅgā, odd-eyed one, protect me from all misfortunes! (11)

Homage to you who hold the Pināka bow in hand, the destroyer of Madana!

Repeated homage to you in all states at all times! (12)

Lakṣmaṇa said:

Homage to you, Śambhu, the lord of Rāma, the destroyer of Tripura,

The lord of Pārvatī's life, father of Gaṇeśa and Skanda! (13)

Homage to you whose eyes are the sun, moon, and fire, who wear braided hair!

Homage to Śiva, accompanied by Umā, who dispels the fear of Mārkaṇḍeya! (14)

Homage to the cause of the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the entire phenomenal world!

Homage to the fierce, the dreadful, the great god, the witness! (15)

To the all-knowing, the most worthy of choice, the giver of boons, the best,

Homage to you, Śrīkaṇṭha, the dispeller of the five great sins! (16)

Let there be homage to you whose nature is supreme bliss, reality, and consciousness!

Homage to you, the destroyer of the disease of transmigratory existence; homage to the lord of sinews! (17)

Homage to you, the lord of thieves, the lord of forests!

Homage to you, the lord of the Gaṇas, the universal form, the witness! (18)

Impelled by my action, O Śambhu, wherever I shall be born,

There let me have devotion to your pair of feet! (19)

By your grace, let there be no pleasure for me on the unrighteous path,

And let my delight be in the path of Vedic conduct; homage to you! (20)

Sītā said:

O ultimate cause, Śaṃkara, matted-haired one, adorned with the saffron from the breasts of the Mountain's daughter!

Bestow upon me a mind always directed toward my husband, never turned adversely toward another man. (21)

O bearer of Gaṅgā, odd-eyed one, blue-and-red one, Śaṃkara,

Lord of Rāma, homage to you; protect me, O mine of compassion! (22)

Homage to you, lord of the god of gods; homage to you, abode of compassion!

Homage to you, the crusher of the fear of transmigration for those afraid of transmigration! (23)

O Lord, by meditating on your lotus-feet, swiftly casting off fear of the son of the Sun, O Śambhu,

That son of Mṛkaṇḍu swiftly attained immortality; what indeed is not accomplished by taking refuge in you, O supreme Lord? (24)

O supreme Lord, supreme bliss, protector of those who take refuge [in you]!

Bestow devotion to my husband upon me forever; homage, homage to you! (25)

Hanūmān said:

O god of gods, lord of the world, lord of Rāma, treasure of mercy!

Let there be unswerving devotion in me toward your lotus feet! (26)

Without whom the world has no existence, and whose appearance even would not be,

Homage to Śambhu, the lord of Rāma, whose form is true manifestation! (27)

Aṅgada said:

By whose light the world appears, without whose illumination the world

Does not shine—homage to that Śambhu, the lord of Rāma! (28)

Jāmbavān said:

Whose bliss shines in reality as all bliss—

Homage to this Rāmeśvara, whose form is supreme bliss! (29)

Nīla said:

Which [reality] is always undivided, devoid of duality by distinctions of space, time, and direction—

Homage to this Rāmeśvara whose nature is non-difference! (30)

Nala said:

Through whose ignorance Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśāna are manifested,

Homage to you, that Rāmeśvara who is free of ignorance! (31)

Kumuda said:

Because whose true nature is not known, the Pradhāna has been conceived as the cause—

To that cause, Śambhu, the lord of Rāma! (32)

Panasa said:

Waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and the rest are the manifestation of whose ignorance—

To him who is free from waking and the other [states], whose nature is consciousness, homage! (33)

Gaja said:

Because whose true nature is not known, atoms have in vain been imagined

As the cause of effects by wretched logicians. (34)

I always worship that Rāmanātha, the Great Lord, highest bliss,

the witness of all, as the nature of the Self. (35)

Gavākṣa said:

I perpetually seek refuge in Rāmeśvara, Śiva, the tranquil,

who releases bound souls bound by the fetter of ignorance. (36)

Gavaya said:

I praise Rāmanātha, Śiva, the support of all the worlds, / who bears the moon on his crest, the lord of Umā,

the remedy for the disease of worldly existence. (37)

Śarabha said:

I bow to that Rāmanātha, the Self, / who is proclaimed to be merely the internal organ

by those deluded by ignorance of Him. (38)

Gandhamādana said:

I worship the Lord of the Universe, Rāmanātha, the lord of Umā,

the lord of the gaṇas, the three-eyed one, for purification from all sins. (39)

Sugrīva said:

In the midst of the ocean of worldly existence, in fearful water of birth and death,

crowded with rows of waves that are sons, wives, wealth, and fields; (40)

and fallen into a sinking piece of the cosmic egg, finding no ferryman,

crying out, helpless, wretched, trembling before the serpents of sense objects, (41)

terrified by the crocodile of disease, tormented by the fish of the three afflictions—

protect me, O lord of the mountain's daughter, O Rāmanātha, homage be to you! (42)

Vibhīṣaṇa said:

In the midst of the forest of worldly existence, having lost my own path,

where disease is a thief, anger a lion, birth a tiger, and dissolution a serpent; (43)

in the greatly terrifying, blind well of childhood, youth, and old age,

in the fire of anger, jealousy, and greed, on the cruel mountain of sense objects; (44)

and filled with the thorns of fear on the ground—lead me, blind and fainting now,

to the auspicious state, O Śambhu, O Rāmeśvara, now! (45)

All the monkeys said:

Having taken birth, O Lord, everywhere in censurable and uncensurable wombs,

and having fallen again into hells such as Kumbhīpāka; (46)

and having taken birth again in a vile womb through residual karma,

fallen into worldly existence—save us, O Rāmanātha, treasure of compassion! (47)

Protect us, lordless, helpless, wretched, crying out, O Śaṃkara!

Homage be to you, ocean of compassion, Rāmanātha, Great Lord! (48)

Brahmā said:

Homage to you, the lord of the worlds, to Rāmanātha, to Śambhu!

Be gracious to me, Lord of All! Destroy my ignorance! (49)

Indra said:

Whose power is goddess Umā, the mother of the universe, consisting of the three Vedas—

I praise that Śaṃkara, Rāmanātha, the lord of Umā. (50)

Yama said:

Whose sons are the Lord of Gaṇas and Skanda, and whose vehicle is the bull—

him indeed, Rāmeśvara, I serve for the cessation of all ignorance. (51)

Varuṇa said:

By the power of whose worship the son of Mṛkaṇḍu conquered death,

that Rāmanātha, the conqueror of death, I indeed worship in my heart. (52)

Kubera said:

To the Lord, whose ornament is shining earrings,

whose body is red as lac, homage indeed to Rāmeśvara! (53)

Āditya said:

Homage be to you, Mahādeva, Rāmanātha, Three-Eyed One,

to the destroyer of Dakṣa's sacrifice, homage to you; protect me, O Śiva! (54)

Soma said:

Homage to you who are smeared with ashes, who bear the trident, garlanded with serpents,

O Rāmanātha, ocean of compassion, to you who dwell in the cremation ground! (55)

Agni said:

O you whose lotus feet are served by Indra and all the guardians of the directions,

to pure Rāmanātha, space-clad, perpetual homage! (56)

Vāyu said:

To Hara, who has the form of Hari, and whose garment is a tiger skin,

O Rāmanātha, obeisance to you! Grant me my desired wish! (57)

Bṛhaspati said:

To the eternal witness of the ego-sense, to the inward, non-dual reality,

O Rāmanātha, quickly destroy my ignorance! Obeisance to you! (58)

Śukra said:

To the one unattainable by deceivers, whose form is the meaning of the great mantra,

Obeisance to Śambhu, to Rāmanātha, who is free from duality! (59)

The two Aśvins said:

Who constantly shines in the hearts of yogins as the nature of the Self,

Known through undivided manifestation: obeisance to you, O Rāghaveśvara! (60)

Agastya said:

O primeval god, O Mahādeva, O Lord of the Universe, auspicious, imperishable one,

O Rāmanātha, Lord of Ambikā, be pleased, O bull-bannered one! (61)

Forgive my thousand offenses, O moon-crested one;

release me from the sense of “I” and “mine” concerning sons and the rest! (62)

Sutīkṣṇa said:

Lands, gems, wealth, wives, friends, garments, cattle, horses, and sons

are indeed of no real benefit, O Rāmanātha; therefore, grant me dispassion! (63)

Viśvāmitra said:

The scriptures that have been heard are fruitless, and the three Vedas that have been studied are surely vain,

if a mortal has no devotion to you, Īśvara, the auspicious Śrī Rāmanātha. (64)

Gālava said:

Gifts, sacrifices, observances, austerities, and immersions in sacred fords like the Gaṅgā—

for those who do not bow to you, Rāmeśvara, these are all useless; this is certain here. (65)

Vasiṣṭha said:

Even if someone has committed all sins, if, endowed with devotion, he approaches you, O Rāmeśvara,

and bows, those [sins] will dissolve just as darkness truly does before the light of the sun. (66)

Atri said:

Having beheld Rāmeśvara even once, having touched and bowed to you, the Lord,

that man will not enter a womb again; rather, he attains your non-dual nature. (67)

Aṅgiras said:

That person who, approaching you, Rāmanātha, remembers his kinsmen while bowing,

delivers even them from all sins; what wonder is there, then, in his own attainment of his goal? (68)

Gautama said:

O holy lord Rāmanātheśvara, this supreme mystery is hidden and free from grief:

those men who render service to those who worship the soles of your feet are fortunate indeed! (69)

Śatānanda said:

This is to be known by seekers of liberation who know the secret of the knowledge of Vedānta:

abandoning all scriptures, O God, Lord of the hero of the Raghus, service to you [is everything]! (70)

Bhṛgu said:

O Rāmanātha, having shaken off all impurities through contemplation of the dualities,

one goes fearlessly to the lotus of your feet, which is non-dual true bliss, radiant, and an unerring mass of consciousness. (71)

Kutsa said:

O Rāmanātha, service to your feet always bestows the boons of enjoyment and liberation upon men

and destroys hells such as Raurava; what person of discerning taste would not worship [them]? (72)

Kāśyapa said:

O Rāmanātha, for those who serve your feet, what need is there of vows, austerities, or sacrifices?

What need of meditating on the Vedas, scriptures, and recitation? What fruit even from the water of the river of heaven? (73)

O venerable Rāmanātha, come quickly together with Bhavānī at the time of my death,

and lead me to the lotus of your own feet, which is free from sorrow, free from delusion, blissful, and whose nature is consciousness. (74)

The gandharvas said:

O Rāmanātha, for us who worship [you] in the ocean of worldly existence,

which is boundless with waves of suffering, there is indeed no other refuge than you. (75)

The kinnaras said:

O Rāmanātha, in the forest of worldly existence, terrifying with diseases and tigers,

there is no guide to show us the path other than you. (76)

The yakṣas said:

O Rāmanātha, the torment caused by the enemies that are our senses is constantly unbearable for us;

O Dhūrjaṭi, be our helper in conquering them! (77)