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With Shri Rama, Sita lives happily, forgetting city, kin and home. She gazes at her beloved's moonlike face like a young chakori and rejoices in his growing love as the chakavi rejoices by day. Devoted to his feet, she finds the forest dearer than a thousand Avadhs. The leaf hut is dear, the deer and birds are her family, the munis and their wives are like parents-in-law, roots and fruit are nectar, and a grass mat beside her lord is sweeter than Kamadeva's couch. How could pleasures tempt her whose glance makes rulers of worlds? The doha: devotees drop such pleasures like straw by remembering Shri Rama; for Sita, mother of the world, it is no wonder.
राम सङ्ग सिय रहति सुखारी । पुर-परिजन-गृह-सुरति बिसारी ॥
छिनु छिनु पिय बिधु-बदन निहारी । प्रमुदित मनहुँ चकोरकुमारी ॥
rāma saṅga siya rahati sukhārī | pura-parijana-gṛha-surati bisārī ||
chinu chinu piya bidhu-badana nihārī | pramudita manahum̐ cakorakumārī ||
नाह नेह नित बढ़त बिलोकी । हरषित रहति दिवस जिमि कोकी ॥
सिय मन राम-चरन अनुरागा । अवध-सहस-सम बन प्रिय लागा ॥
nāha neha nita bar̤hata bilokī | haraṣita rahati divasa jimi kokī ||
siya mana rāma-carana anurāgā | avadha-sahasa-sama bana priya lāgā ||
परन-कुटी प्रिय प्रियतम सङ्गा । प्रिय परिवार कुरङ्ग, बिहङ्गा ॥
सासु-ससुर-सममुनि-तिय मुनिबर । असन अमिय सम कन्द मूल फर ॥
parana-kuṭī priya priyatama saṅgā | priya parivāra kuraṅga, bihaṅgā ||
sāsu-sasura-samamuni-tiya munibara | asana amiya sama kanda mūla phara ||
नाथ साथ साँथरी सुहाई । मयन-सयन-सय-सम सुखदाई ॥
लोकप होहिँ बिलोकत जासू । तेहि कि मोहि सक विषय-बिलासू ॥
nātha sātha sām̐tharī suhāī | mayana-sayana-saya-sama sukhadāī ||
lokapa hohim̐ bilokata jāsū | tehi ki mohi saka viṣaya-bilāsū ||
सुमिरत रामहि तजहिँ जन, तन सम विषय-बिलासु ।
राम-प्रिया जग-जननि-सिय, कछु न आचरज तासु ॥
sumirata rāmahi tajahim̐ jana, tana sama viṣaya-bilāsu |
rāma-priyā jaga-janani-siya, kachu na ācaraja tāsu ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
