नयनवंत रघुबरहि बिलोकी । पाइ जनम फल होहिँ बिसोकी ॥
परसि चरन-रज अचर सुखारी । भये परम पद के अधिकारी ॥
nayanavaṃta raghubarahi bilokī | pāi janama phala hohim̐ bisokī ||
parasi carana-raja acara sukhārī | bhaye parama pada ke adhikārī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 139: Lakshmana's service on Chitrakuta
5 verses · 139 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Lakshmana's service on Chitrakuta
Every creature with eyes, seeing Shri Rama, gains the fruit of birth and loses its sorrow; even unmoving things, touched by his foot-dust, become fit for the highest state. The forest and hill are auspicious and purest of the pure. Who can tell the glory of the place where the ocean of bliss, leaving the milk ocean and Avadh, lives with Sita and Lakshmana? A hundred thousand Sheshas could not describe it; how could the poet, any more than a puddle tortoise could lift Mount Mandara? Lakshmana serves in deed, mind and word. In the doha, watching Sita's and Shri Rama's feet every moment and knowing their love, he never thinks even in dreams of mother, father or home.
से बन सैल सुभायँ सुहावन । मङ्गल-मय अति पावन पावन ॥
महिमा कहिय कवनि बिधि तासू । सुख सागर जहँ कीन्ह निवासू ॥
se bana saila subhāyam̐ suhāvana | maṅgala-maya ati pāvana pāvana ||
mahimā kahiya kavani bidhi tāsū | sukha sāgara jaham̐ kīnha nivāsū ||
पय-पयोधि तजि अवध बिहाई । जहँ सिय-लखन-राम रहे आई ॥
कहि न सकहिँ सुखमा जसि कानन । जौँ सत-सहस होहिं सहसानन ॥
paya-payodhi taji avadha bihāī | jaham̐ siya-lakhana-rāma rahe āī ||
kahi na sakahim̐ sukhamā jasi kānana | jaum̐ sata-sahasa hohiṃ sahasānana ||
सो मैं बरनि कहउँ बिधि केहीं । डाबर कमठ कि मन्दर लेहीं ॥
सेवहिँ लखन करम मन-बानी । जाइ न सील सनेह बखानी ॥
so maiṃ barani kahaum̐ bidhi kehīṃ | ḍābara kamaṭha ki mandara lehīṃ ||
sevahim̐ lakhana karama mana-bānī | jāi na sīla saneha bakhānī ||
छिन छिन लखि सिय-राम-पद, जानि आपु पर नेह ।
करत न सपनेहुँ लखन चित, बन्धु-मातु-पितु-गेह ॥
china china lakhi siya-rāma-pada, jāni āpu para neha |
karata na sapanehum̐ lakhana cita, bandhu-mātu-pitu-geha ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0