qMonk literal translation — draft, pending review
Whoever worships you reaches Ram.
And the sorrow piled up over birth after birth — all of it gets forgotten.
Read the two halves for their direction and the structure of the whole poem shows up in one line.
Tumhare bhajana rāma ko pāvai: worship offered here arrives somewhere else. The object of the devotion is Hanumān and the destination is Rāma. He is not the end of the road in his own poem — he is the way onto it. This is the settled shape of Hanumān devotion and it is consistent with everything around it: the verse before wishes him permanently a servant, the verse at the poem's close has the poet calling himself Hari's servant rather than Hanumān's. A poem of forty verses in praise of one figure keeps pointing past him.
The second half is where the choice of verb does the work. Bisarāvai is the causative of bisarnā, to forget — causes to be forgotten. Not cancelled, not paid off, not struck from a record. It goes out of mind.
That is a materially different claim from the ledger-reading of karma, in which accumulated suffering is a debt someone settles. Nothing here is settled. The word is about what is held in attention, and the change it describes happens in the person carrying it, not in an account somewhere. Janama janama ke dukha — the sorrow of birth upon birth — is named as a weight, and what the line says happens to it is that it stops being thought about.
Worship here, Rāma is reached, the old sorrow forgotten: three things said and none of them argued for. The verb is the honest part, and it does not describe a payment.
What is something that used to upset you all the time, and now you hardly think about it?
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