Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Pūrva 4.20
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Devanāgarī
पूजितो वायुपुत्रेण भक्तेन च कपीश्वरम् । आहूय शंसतां सर्वमाद्यन्तं रामलक्ष्मणौ
Transliteration (IAST)
pūjito vāyuputreṇa bhaktena ca kapīśvaram | āhūya śaṃsatāṃ sarvamādyantaṃ rāmalakṣmaṇau
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SanskritIASTMeaning
पूजितः वायुपुत्रेणpūjitaḥ vāyuputreṇahonoured by the son of the Wind; received honours from Vāyu's son
भक्तेन च कपीश्वरम्bhaktena ca kapīśvarama devotee — and the lord of monkeys; a bhakta — and the master of the monkeys
आहूय शंसताम् सर्वम्āhūya śaṃsatām sarvamhaving summoned, they told all; having called, they related everything
आद्यन्तम् रामलक्ष्मणौādyantam rāmalakṣmaṇaufrom beginning to end — Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa; from start to finish, the two brothers
Translation
He was honoured by the son of the Wind, His devotee; and, having summoned the lord of the monkeys, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa told him all from beginning to end.
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Hanumān appears, and he is named with two words: vāyuputra — “the son of the Wind” — and bhakta.
This is the book's first use of the word bhakta, “devotee”, and it is set beside Hanumān not by chance. In the whole tradition he is the model of that relation to the Lord in which service is indistinguishable from love.
Let us remember this word: it will return at the end of the uttara-tāpanī, where it will be said to whom Rāma opens Himself.
It is said that Rāma was “honoured” by him, pūjitaḥ. Again the passive voice, as in the ninth verse, where He was “embraced” by Sītā. The book consistently sets Him as the receiver.
Then — the meeting with Sugrīva and the talk: “they told all from beginning to end”. A small thing, but telling. The All-highest tells the monkey king his story, as one tells it to him from whom one asks help.
In this is the whole sense of the southern part of the Rāmāyaṇa, to which the Vaiṣṇavas return constantly: He could have crushed Laṅkā alone, but gathered an army of the forest folk. The mighty one needs no helpers; the seeker of closeness does.