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The Gracious Master

Golden Jubilee Souvenir

Sishta Subbarao[1]

अरुणगिरिमुपेतं सच्चिदानन्दमूर्तिं रमण इति पृथिव्यां विश्रुतं ज्ञानसूर्यम्।
गहनहृदयविद्यां लीलया बोधयन्तं सततमहममेयं सद्गुरुं सम्स्मरामि।।
 

aruṇagirimupetaṃ saccidānandamūrtiṃ ramaṇa iti pṛthivyāṃ viśrutaṃ jñānasūryam |
gahanahṛdayavidyāṃ līlayā bodhayantaṃ satatamahamameyaṃ sadguruṃ samsmarāmi ||

I remember my Gracious Master constantly, who is incomprehensible, who has made Arunagiri his abode, whose form is pure Saccidānanda, who is renowned throughout the world as Sage Ramana, who is the Sun of Wisdom, and who teaches in the simplest way the profound truth of the Self.

अन्तर्यश्च बहिर्विधूततिमिरं ज्योतिमंयं शाश्वतं स्थान पराप्य विराजते विनम्‌तामज्ञानमुन्मूरयन्‌ ।
परय॒न्विश्वमपीदमुछछसति यो विश्वस्य पार्‌ पर- स्तस्मे श्रीरमणाय लोकगुरवे शोकस्य हन्बे नमः ॥
 

antaryaśca bahirvidhūtatimiraṃ jyotimaṃyaṃ śāśvataṃ
sthāna parāpya virājate vinamtāmajñānamunmūrayan |
paraya̱nviśvamapīdamuchachasati yo viśvasya pār parastasme
śrīramaṇāya lokagurave śokasya hanbe namaḥ ||

Salutations to Sri Ramana, the universal Master, the Dispeller of misery from the world, the One who chases away the darkness of His devotees and displays Himself as the Eternal Consciousness inhering in the heart, blazing both within and without, bereft of the least trace of ignorance — the One Who shines as the transcendental Truth underlying the world and beyond!


[1] per a 6 Jul 2026 email posted to the Virupaaksha newsgroup in answer to a Sydney devotee's inquiry about some verses that Krithisvasan recited, the composer of the above verses is not mentioned in Sri Ramanasramam's 1946 'Golden Jubilee Souvenir' but it is believed to be Sishta Subbarao whose daughter is a member of the Hyderabad Ramana Kendram