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Gathā No. 32 of Pravacanasāra: genhadi neva na muncadi na param
parinamadi kevati bhagavam pecchadi samantado so janadi savvam
niravasesam
“The Ominiscient Lord neither accepts nor abandons nor transforms the external objectivity; he sees all around, and knows eve:ything completely."
Ratnakara has incorporated this in the following poem of Bharaieśa Vaibhava (Niranjana Stuti, 19)
meyyella karnu meyyella manasu ninna meyyella sukha sakti meyyella prabheyada mahima nannedyalli rayya cidambara purusa
“Cidambara Purusa, (Omniscient Lord) you have eyes, mind, the power of joy and light all over the body. Hence, you be seated in my heart."
Gātha No. 412 of Samayasāra : mokkhapahe appanam ethvehi tam ceva
jhavi tam ceya tattheva vivara niccam ma viharasu
annadavvesu
"In the path of liberation one has to fix, contemplate, experience and continuously associate with the ārmā, and abandon the contact of anya dravya.”
Ratnakara echoes this in the following verse (Aparājitašataka 72)
niscayadindamātmane sudarsanamātmane suddhabodhamam iaścaritam nijātmane maņitrayarüpanumātmanembudań niścalamāgi nambi nijamam tilidalliye tinamāgi ce tascirmam negalce śivamendeytā aparājitesvarā
Recently Prof. Hampa Nagarajayya has collected for the first time about 250 devotional songs of Ratnakara with the help of eight palmleaf and paper Mss : and this text with critical introduction, variant readings, select glossary and notes is in the press. I learn from the editor that there is KK's influence on some of these songs also.
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