Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, <br />Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare. <br />Hare Rama, Hare Rama, <br />Rama, Rama, Hare Hare. <br /> <br />Hey Ram! Thy names are many, <br />As sweet as the nectar Honey; <br />By which name if I call <br />Show mercy on me, Thy will? <br /> <br />Raja Ram or Sita Ram? <br />Janaki Ram or Jaya Ram? <br />Bala Ram or Atma Ram? <br />Kalyan Ram or Pattabhi Ram? <br /> <br />Rajalakshmi, my mother, <br />Prefixed me her first four letters, <br />And Ramachandran, my father, <br />Suffixed me his first three letters. <br /> <br />Thus I became Raja Ram, <br />An eldest son in the family, <br />Now in my seventies, an Old Ram, <br />To write about Thee, Dasarath Ram. <br /> <br />In the past, numerous authors, <br />Like Valmiki, Kambar, Tulsidas, <br />Wrote Ramayan with Thy permission, <br />And with Thy given inside vision. <br />. <br />Ask not, what is more to be written, <br />What others, about Thee, haven't done? <br />No answer to this question, <br />I've with me, a simple person. <br /> <br />Not because my name is Raja Ram, <br />I wish to take up Thy story <br />But because I love Thee, Sita Ram, <br />I've this thirst to write Thy history. <br /> <br />I ask nothing from Thee, <br />Jaya Ram, please allow me <br />To write Thy story in verses, <br />Free from any faults serious.<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ramayan-part-00-prayer-song/
