Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma

For what you have done for us, how can I sufficiently praise
you?’
“This is the purport.

“After writing those two verses he insisted on my writing
the third one Manasikam (pertaining to the mind). So I could
not help writing it. It was only then that I wrote the verse,
the purport of which is:
‘O Swami, to relieve the burden of the earth, you took
the avatar of Krishna and by your teaching through the Gita,
like, “whenever there is decline of righteousness,” “for the
protection of the virtuous”* you assured us that you would
have several other incarnations. To praise such a Lord and
his various forms, who am I?’
“These words of praise or ‘Who am I?’ have several
meanings and could be interpreted in different ways by
different people. I wrote this verse on Vishnu mainly on
Muruganar’s insistence. He wrote Kayikam and Vachikam and
said that Bhagavan alone should write the Manasikam. What
could I do?”
I said, “Who else could possibly write the Manasikam?”
Looking at a gentleman sitting opposite, Bhagavan said,
“Look, that Krishnaswami Iyer wrote a commentary on
Bhagavad Gita, attached a picture of Krishna on the front
page of the manuscript and pressed me to write something
underneath. Then I wrote the verse ‘Parthan Therinal’ (in
Tamil) and then changed it into a sloka in Sanskrit reading:
pawRsariwêpe[ ïaviyTva zuÉa< igrm!,
pawRSyaitRhrae dev> k«pamUitR Ss patu n>.

As the Charioteer of Partha (Arjuna), the Lord gave him
the divine teaching. May He, who is compassion incarnate
and who resolved the distress of Arjuna, protect us!
“It is found in Bhagavad Gita Ratnamalika. These are
the only two I have written in praise of Vishnu and I had to
write them under the above circumstances.”
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* Gita, IV: 7 & 8