ऐसी आरती राम रघुबीर की
Aisi Aarti Rama Raghuvira Ki
Tulsidas offers no lamp and no incense — every article of the aarti is replaced by an inner quality.
समर्पितभगवान रामऐसी आरती राम रघुबीर की करहि मन।हरन दुखदुन्द गोबिन्द आनन्दघन ॥१॥
अचरचर रूप हरि, सरबगत, सरबदा बसत,इति बासना धूप दीजै।दीप निजबोधगत कोह-मद-मोह-तम,प्रौढ़ अभिमान चितबृति छीजै ॥२॥
भाव अतिशय विशद प्रवर नैवेद्य शुभ,श्रीरमण परम सन्तोषकारी।प्रेम-ताम्बूल गत शूल संशय सकल,विपुल भव-बासना-बीजहारी ॥३॥
अशुभ-शुभकर्म-घृतपूर्ण दश वर्तिका,त्याग पावक, सतोगुण प्रकासं।भक्ति-वैराग्य-विज्ञान दीपावली,अर्पि नीराजनं जगनिवासं ॥४॥
बिमल हृदि-भवन कृत शान्ति-पर्यंक शुभ,शयन विश्राम श्रीरामराया।क्षमा-करुणा प्रमुख तत्र परिचारिका,यत्र हरि तत्र नहिं भेद-माया ॥५॥
आरती-निरत सनकादि, श्रुति, शेष, शिव,देवरिषि, अखिलमुनि तत्व-दरसी।करै सोइ तरै, परिहरै कामादि मल,वदति इति अमलमति-दास तुलसी ॥६॥
Vinaya Patrika 47, checked against a Vinaya Patrika edition and Drik Panchang
Public-domain composition by Tulsidas; BhajanDhara transcription and meanings prepared independently
Published in aarti compilations without attribution, this is Vinaya Patrika pada 47, titled श्रीराम-आरती, and the verse numbers here are that text's own. The Vinaya Patrika edition reads गोबिन्द, सरबगत and चितबृति where Drik Panchang modernises the spelling; the older forms are kept. No modern source translation is reproduced.
ऐसी आरती राम रघुबीर की का अर्थ
Every physical article of a normal aarti is present here and every one has been replaced. Incense becomes the understanding that Hari pervades everything; the lamp becomes self-knowledge; the food-offering becomes clear feeling; the betel leaf becomes love; the ghee becomes one's good and bad deeds together, with renunciation as the flame. The row of lamps is devotion, detachment and knowing. Tulsidas is not dismissing ritual so much as showing what each of its parts was standing in for, and the poem's first word is an instruction to the mind rather than the hands.