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This is a Sanskrit hymn to Sri Ramakrishna, composed by Swami Vivekananda.

ॐ ह्रीं ऋतं त्वमचलो गुणजिद्गुणेड्यो

नक्तं दिवं सकरुणं तव पादपद्मम्।

मोहङ्कषं बहुकृतं न भजे यतोऽहं

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो॥ १॥

भक्तिर्भगश्च भजनं भवभेदकारि

गच्छन्त्यलं सुविपुलं गमनाय तत्त्वम्‌।

वक्त्रोद्धृतोपि हृदि मे न च भाति किञ्चित्‌‌

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीन बन्धो॥ २॥

तेजस्तरन्ति त्वरितं त्वयि तृप्ततृष्णाः

रागं कृते ऋतपथे त्वयि रामकृष्णे।

मर्त्यामृतं तव पदं मरणोर्मिनाशं

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो॥ ३॥

कृत्यं करोति कलुषं कुहकान्तकारि

ष्णान्तं शिवं सुविमलं तव नाम नाथ।

यस्मादहमशरणो जगदेकगम्य

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो॥ ४॥

ॐ स्थापकाय च धर्मस्य सर्वधर्मस्वरूपिणे।

अवतारवरिष्ठाय रामकृष्णाय ते नमः॥

ॐ नमः श्री भगवते रामकृष्णाय नमो नमः॥

ॐ नमः श्री भगवते रामकृष्णाय नमो नमः॥

ॐ नमः श्री भगवते रामकृष्णाय नमो नमः॥

om hrīṁ ṛtaṁ tvam acalo guṇajid-guṇeḍyo

naktaṁ divaṁ sakaruṇaṁ tava pāda-padmam |

mohaṅ-kaṣaṁ bahu-kṛtaṁ na bhaje yato’haṁ

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīna-bandho || 1||

bhaktir-bhagaśca bhajanaṁ bhava-bheda-kāri

gacchanty-alaṁ suvipulaṁ gamanāya tattvam |

vaktrod-dhṛtopi hṛdi me na ca bhāti kiñcit

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīna-bandho || 2||

tejas taranti tvaritaṁ tvayi tṛpta-tṛṣṇāḥ

rāgaṁ kṛte ṛtapathe tvayi rāmakṛṣṇe |

martyāmṛtaṁ tava padaṁ maraṇormi-nāśaṁ

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīnabandho || 3||

kṛtyaṁ karoti kaluṣaṁ kuhakāntakāri

ṣṇāntaṁ śivaṁ suvimalaṁ tava nāma nātha |

yasmādaham aśaraṇo jagad-eka-gamya

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīna-bandho || 4||

om sthāpakāya ca dharmasya sarva-dharma-svarūpiṇe |

avatāra variṣṭhāya rāmakṛṣṇāya te namaḥ ||

om namaḥ śrī bhagavate rāmakṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ ||

om namaḥ śrī bhagavate rāmakṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ ||

om namaḥ śrī bhagavate rāmakṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ ||

Translation

You are the mystic sounds Om and Hrim. You are truth and the immutable reality. You have conquered the gunas—nature, and yet are adored for your gunas—your virtues. Since I do not worship your holy feet, capable of destroying all delusion and full of compassion, with longing day and night, therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge.

Devotion, divine qualities, and worship, which break the bonds of the world, are indeed sufficient to take one to the highest truth. But though I utter these words with my lips, they find no echo in my heart. Therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge.

They quickly transcend the fire of this world who are devoted to you; all their desires are fulfilled in you, O Ramakrishna, who are the path to truth. Your feet, like nectar to mortal beings, quell the waves of death. Therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge.

O Lord, your name, ending in “shna”, is auspicious and pure. It destroys all taint and turns evil into virtue. O sole goal of all the worlds, as I have no place to go for shelter, therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge

Salutations to you, O Ramakrishna, the establisher of dharma, the embodiment of all religions, and the paragon of avataras.

Om, salutations to Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna, salutations again and again.

This is a Sanskrit hymn to Sri Ramakrishna, composed by Swami Vivekananda.

ॐ ह्रीं ऋतं त्वमचलो गुणजिद्गुणेड्यो

नक्तं दिवं सकरुणं तव पादपद्मम्।

मोहङ्कषं बहुकृतं न भजे यतोऽहं

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो॥ १॥

भक्तिर्भगश्च भजनं भवभेदकारि

गच्छन्त्यलं सुविपुलं गमनाय तत्त्वम्‌।

वक्त्रोद्धृतोपि हृदि मे न च भाति किञ्चित्‌‌

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीन बन्धो॥ २॥

तेजस्तरन्ति त्वरितं त्वयि तृप्ततृष्णाः

रागं कृते ऋतपथे त्वयि रामकृष्णे।

मर्त्यामृतं तव पदं मरणोर्मिनाशं

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो॥ ३॥

कृत्यं करोति कलुषं कुहकान्तकारि

ष्णान्तं शिवं सुविमलं तव नाम नाथ।

यस्मादहमशरणो जगदेकगम्य

तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीनबन्धो॥ ४॥

ॐ स्थापकाय च धर्मस्य सर्वधर्मस्वरूपिणे।

अवतारवरिष्ठाय रामकृष्णाय ते नमः॥

ॐ नमः श्री भगवते रामकृष्णाय नमो नमः॥

ॐ नमः श्री भगवते रामकृष्णाय नमो नमः॥

ॐ नमः श्री भगवते रामकृष्णाय नमो नमः॥

om hrīṁ ṛtaṁ tvam acalo guṇajid-guṇeḍyo

naktaṁ divaṁ sakaruṇaṁ tava pāda-padmam |

mohaṅ-kaṣaṁ bahu-kṛtaṁ na bhaje yato’haṁ

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīna-bandho || 1||

bhaktir-bhagaśca bhajanaṁ bhava-bheda-kāri

gacchanty-alaṁ suvipulaṁ gamanāya tattvam |

vaktrod-dhṛtopi hṛdi me na ca bhāti kiñcit

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīna-bandho || 2||

tejas taranti tvaritaṁ tvayi tṛpta-tṛṣṇāḥ

rāgaṁ kṛte ṛtapathe tvayi rāmakṛṣṇe |

martyāmṛtaṁ tava padaṁ maraṇormi-nāśaṁ

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīnabandho || 3||

kṛtyaṁ karoti kaluṣaṁ kuhakāntakāri

ṣṇāntaṁ śivaṁ suvimalaṁ tava nāma nātha |

yasmādaham aśaraṇo jagad-eka-gamya

tasmāt tvameva śaraṇaṁ mama dīna-bandho || 4||

om sthāpakāya ca dharmasya sarva-dharma-svarūpiṇe |

avatāra variṣṭhāya rāmakṛṣṇāya te namaḥ ||

om namaḥ śrī bhagavate rāmakṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ ||

om namaḥ śrī bhagavate rāmakṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ ||

om namaḥ śrī bhagavate rāmakṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ ||

Translation

You are the mystic sounds Om and Hrim. You are truth and the immutable reality. You have conquered the gunas—nature, and yet are adored for your gunas—your virtues. Since I do not worship your holy feet, capable of destroying all delusion and full of compassion, with longing day and night, therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge.

Devotion, divine qualities, and worship, which break the bonds of the world, are indeed sufficient to take one to the highest truth. But though I utter these words with my lips, they find no echo in my heart. Therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge.

They quickly transcend the fire of this world who are devoted to you; all their desires are fulfilled in you, O Ramakrishna, who are the path to truth. Your feet, like nectar to mortal beings, quell the waves of death. Therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge.

O Lord, your name, ending in “shna”, is auspicious and pure. It destroys all taint and turns evil into virtue. O sole goal of all the worlds, as I have no place to go for shelter, therefore, O friend of the lowly, you are my only refuge

Salutations to you, O Ramakrishna, the establisher of dharma, the embodiment of all religions, and the paragon of avataras.

Om, salutations to Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna, salutations again and again.

Sung by Swami Rameshwarananda (Anand Maharaj)

This Sanskrit hymn to Sri Ramakrishna was com­posed by Swami Vivekananda in 1898, around the same time that he composed Khandana Bhava Bandhana and Om Hrim Ritam.

आचण्डालाप्रतिहतरयो यस्य प्रेमप्रवाहो

लोकातीतोऽप्यहह न जहौ लोककल्याणमार्गम्।

त्रैलोक्येऽप्यप्रतिममहिमा जानकीप्राणबन्धो

भक्त्या ज्ञानं वृतवरवपुः सीतया यो हि रामः॥ १॥

ācaṇḍālā-pratihatarayo yasya prema-pravāho

lokātīto'pyahaha na jahau loka-kalyāṇa-mārgam |

trailokye'pyapratima-mahimā jānakī-prāṇa-bandho

bhak­tyā jñānaṁ vṛtavaravapuḥ sītayā yo hi rāmaḥ || 1||

स्तब्धीकृत्य प्रलयकलितं वाहवोत्थं महान्तं

हित्वा रात्रिं प्रकृतिसहजामन्धतामिस्रमिश्राम्।

गीतं शान्तं मधुरमपि यः सिंहनादं जगर्ज

सोऽयं जातः प्रथितपुरुषो रामकृष्णस्त्विदानीम्॥ २॥

stabdhī-kṛtya pralaya-kalitaṁ vāhavot­thaṁ mahāntaṁ

hitvā rātriṁ prakṛti-sahajām andha-tāmisra-miśrām |

gītaṁ śāntaṁ mad­hu­ram api yaḥ siṁha-nādaṁ jagarja

so'yaṁ jātaḥ prathita-puruṣo rāmakṛṣṇas-tvidānīm || 2||

नरदेव देव जय जय नरदेव

nara-deva deva jaya jaya nara-deva

शक्तिसमुद्रसमुत्थतरङ्गं दर्शितप्रेमविजृम्भितरङ्गम्।

संशयराक्षसनाशमहास्त्रं यामि गुरुं शरणं भववैद्यम्॥ ३॥

śakti-samudra-samutthata-raṅgaṁ

darśita-prema-vijṛmbhita-raṅgam |

saṁśaya-rākṣasa-nāśa-mahāstraṁ

yāmi guruṁ śaraṇaṁ bhava-vaidyam || 3||

नरदेव देव जय जय नरदेव

nara-deva deva jaya jaya nara-deva

अद्वयतत्त्वसमाहितचित्तं प्रोज्ज्वलभक्तिपटावृतवृत्तम्।

कर्मकलेवरमद्भुतचेष्टं यामि गुरुं शरणं भववैद्यम्॥ ४॥

advaya-tattva-samāhita-cittaṁ

projjvala-bhakti-paṭāvṛtavṛttam |

karma-kalevaram-adbhuta-ceṣṭaṁ

yāmi guruṁ śaraṇaṁ bhava-vaidyam || 4||

नरदेव देव जय जय नरदेव

nara-deva deva jaya jaya nara-deva

Translation

(From The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.)

He who was Sri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the out­caste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devo­tion sweet in the form of Sita.

He who quelled the noise, terrible like that at the time of destruction, arising from the battle (of Kuruk­shetra), who destroyed the terrible yet natural night of ignorance (of Arjuna) and who roared out the Gita sweet and appeasing; That renowned soul is born now as Sri Ramakrishna.

Hail, O Lord of Men! Victory unto You! I surrender myself to my Guru, the physician for the malady of Samsara (relative existence) who is, as it were, a wave rising in the ocean of Shakti (Power), who has shown various sports of Love Divine, and who is the great weapon to destroy the demon of doubt.

Hail, O Lord of Men! Victory unto you! I surrender myself to my Guru the Man-God, the physician for the malady of this Samsara (relative existence), whose mind ever dwelt on the non-dualistic Truth, whose personality was covered by the cloth of Supreme Devotion, who was ever active (for the good of humanity) and whose actions were all superhuman.

Hail, O Lord of Men! Victory unto You!

[Courtesy:- http://vedantadc.org/achandala-stotram]

Sung by Swami Rameshwarananda (Anand Maharaj)

This Sanskrit hymn to Sri Ramakrishna was com­posed by Swami Vivekananda in 1898, around the same time that he composed Khandana Bhava Bandhana and Om Hrim Ritam.

आचण्डालाप्रतिहतरयो यस्य प्रेमप्रवाहो

लोकातीतोऽप्यहह न जहौ लोककल्याणमार्गम्।

त्रैलोक्येऽप्यप्रतिममहिमा जानकीप्राणबन्धो

भक्त्या ज्ञानं वृतवरवपुः सीतया यो हि रामः॥ १॥

ācaṇḍālā-pratihatarayo yasya prema-pravāho

lokātīto'pyahaha na jahau loka-kalyāṇa-mārgam |

trailokye'pyapratima-mahimā jānakī-prāṇa-bandho

bhak­tyā jñānaṁ vṛtavaravapuḥ sītayā yo hi rāmaḥ || 1||

स्तब्धीकृत्य प्रलयकलितं वाहवोत्थं महान्तं

हित्वा रात्रिं प्रकृतिसहजामन्धतामिस्रमिश्राम्।

गीतं शान्तं मधुरमपि यः सिंहनादं जगर्ज

सोऽयं जातः प्रथितपुरुषो रामकृष्णस्त्विदानीम्॥ २॥

stabdhī-kṛtya pralaya-kalitaṁ vāhavot­thaṁ mahāntaṁ

hitvā rātriṁ prakṛti-sahajām andha-tāmisra-miśrām |

gītaṁ śāntaṁ mad­hu­ram api yaḥ siṁha-nādaṁ jagarja

so'yaṁ jātaḥ prathita-puruṣo rāmakṛṣṇas-tvidānīm || 2||

नरदेव देव जय जय नरदेव

nara-deva deva jaya jaya nara-deva

शक्तिसमुद्रसमुत्थतरङ्गं दर्शितप्रेमविजृम्भितरङ्गम्।

संशयराक्षसनाशमहास्त्रं यामि गुरुं शरणं भववैद्यम्॥ ३॥

śakti-samudra-samutthata-raṅgaṁ

darśita-prema-vijṛmbhita-raṅgam |

saṁśaya-rākṣasa-nāśa-mahāstraṁ

yāmi guruṁ śaraṇaṁ bhava-vaidyam || 3||

नरदेव देव जय जय नरदेव

nara-deva deva jaya jaya nara-deva

अद्वयतत्त्वसमाहितचित्तं प्रोज्ज्वलभक्तिपटावृतवृत्तम्।

कर्मकलेवरमद्भुतचेष्टं यामि गुरुं शरणं भववैद्यम्॥ ४॥

advaya-tattva-samāhita-cittaṁ

projjvala-bhakti-paṭāvṛtavṛttam |

karma-kalevaram-adbhuta-ceṣṭaṁ

yāmi guruṁ śaraṇaṁ bhava-vaidyam || 4||

नरदेव देव जय जय नरदेव

nara-deva deva jaya jaya nara-deva

Translation

(From The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.)

He who was Sri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the out­caste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devo­tion sweet in the form of Sita.

He who quelled the noise, terrible like that at the time of destruction, arising from the battle (of Kuruk­shetra), who destroyed the terrible yet natural night of ignorance (of Arjuna) and who roared out the Gita sweet and appeasing; That renowned soul is born now as Sri Ramakrishna.

Hail, O Lord of Men! Victory unto You! I surrender myself to my Guru, the physician for the malady of Samsara (relative existence) who is, as it were, a wave rising in the ocean of Shakti (Power), who has shown various sports of Love Divine, and who is the great weapon to destroy the demon of doubt.

Hail, O Lord of Men! Victory unto you! I surrender myself to my Guru the Man-God, the physician for the malady of this Samsara (relative existence), whose mind ever dwelt on the non-dualistic Truth, whose personality was covered by the cloth of Supreme Devotion, who was ever active (for the good of humanity) and whose actions were all superhuman.

Hail, O Lord of Men! Victory unto You!

[Courtesy:- http://vedantadc.org/achandala-stotram]

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