Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.44
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् यः ओं नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय यो महाविष्णुः भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān yaḥ oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya yo mahāviṣṇuḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ suvastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रःoṃ yaḥ ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥOṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra; Oṁ. The very one who is Śrī-Rāmacandra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is Bhagavān
यः महाविष्णुःyaḥ mahāviṣṇuḥto whom “oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya”, who is Mahāviṣṇu; the one of the twelve syllables, the great Viṣṇu
भूर्भुवः सुवःbhūrbhuvaḥ suvaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Translation
Oṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra — He is the Lord, and He is he to whom “oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya” is spoken, who is Mahāviṣṇu. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The forty-fourth mantra sets inside itself a whole other mantra: “oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya” — the twelve-syllabled.
We read it in the forty-seventh verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva, where it was inscribed on the twelve petals of the diagram. I said then: whoever draws the yantra of Rāma writes on it the name of Kṛṣṇa.
Here the same is done in doxology.
And mahāviṣṇu is added — “the Great Viṣṇu”. This name stands in the book's very first verse: “in this conscious Mahāviṣṇu, born as Hari to Daśaratha”.
And so the ring is closed. The book began with Rāma being Mahāviṣṇu; in the forty-fourth mantra it repeats this, having passed through the name, the form, the diagram, the rite, the tāraka, the Māṇḍūkya and the tale of Kāśī.
Four mantras remain, and all of them are of the last things.