Verse 1

¹In the region of Kimpurusa, Hanuman, greatest among the Lord's own and glad to stay close to those feet, worships with the kimpurusas, and his devotion never breaks: he worships the Bhagavan, the first Person, the elder brother of Laksmana, Rama who is the delight of Sita. ²With Arstisena he listens to the story of his lord the Bhagavan, most auspicious of stories, as the gandharvas sing it after him; and he sings this himself. ³Om. Homage to the Bhagavan, him whose renown is highest. Homage to him whose bearing and whose vows carry the marks of the noble. Homage to him who has trained himself, whom the world serves. Homage to the touchstone of what good men say. Homage to the god who is kind to brahmins, to the great Person, to the great king. Homage.

⁴I take refuge in that one thing which is nothing but unmixed awareness, in which the ordering of the strands has been broken by its own light: turned inward, at peace, laid hold of by a clear understanding, with no name and no form and no I in it. ⁵The mighty one's descent among mortals is here to teach mortals, not only to kill the raksasa. How else could the Lord, who takes his pleasure in his own self, have had the troubles Sita brought on him? ⁶He is the self of those who possess themselves, the best of friends, the Bhagavan Vasudeva, and he is attached to nothing in the three worlds. He would not take on the confusion a woman brings, and he would not leave Laksmana either.

⁷It is surely not high birth that pleases him, nor good fortune, nor fine speech, nor understanding, nor good looks. How else did the elder brother of Laksmana make friends with us, who live in the woods and have been passed over by every one of them? ⁸God or antigod, monkey or man, let him worship with his whole self Rama, the highest, who does not forget a kindness done him, Hari in the shape of a man, who led the northern Kosalas to heaven.