राउरि रीति सुबानि बड़ाई । जगत बिदित निगमागम गाई ॥
कूर कुटिल खल कुमति कलङ्की । नीच निसील निरीस निसङ्की ॥
rāuri rīti subāni bar̤āī | jagata bidita nigamāgama gāī ||
kūra kuṭila khala kumati kalaṅkī | nīca nisīla nirīsa nisaṅkī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 299: The Lord who makes servants his equals
5 verses · 299 of 326
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The Lord who makes servants his equals
Your ways, your gracious speech and greatness are known to the world and sung by the Vedas and Agamas. The cruel, crooked, wicked and base, if they hear of you and come for refuge and bow just once, you make them your own. You never hold their faults in your heart, and their virtues you praise in the assembly of saints. What master so favours a servant, furnishing him like himself, never thinking of his own deeds even in a dream, and feeling only the servant's shyness and worry? I raise my arm and vow: there is no other such lord. A beast dances, a parrot recites well, but the skill belongs to the trainer. So you correct your people and make them crowns among saints.
तेउ सुनि सरन सामुहें आये । सकृत प्रनाम किये अपनाये ॥
देखि दोष कबहुँ न उर आने । सुनि गुन साधु-समाज बखाने ॥
teu suni sarana sāmuheṃ āye | sakṛta pranāma kiye apanāye ||
dekhi doṣa kabahum̐ na ura āne | suni guna sādhu-samāja bakhāne ||
को साहिब सेवकहि नेवाजी । आपु समान साज सब साजी ॥
निज करतूति न समुझिअ सपनें । सेवक सकुच सोच उर अपनें ॥
ko sāhiba sevakahi nevājī | āpu samāna sāja saba sājī ||
nija karatūti na samujhia sapaneṃ | sevaka sakuca soca ura apaneṃ ||
सो गोसाइँ नहिं दूसर कोपी । भुजा उठाइ कहउँ पन रोपी ॥
पसु नाचत सुक पाठ प्रबीना । गुन गति नट पाठक आधीना ॥
so gosāim̐ nahiṃ dūsara kopī | bhujā uṭhāi kahaum̐ pana ropī ||
pasu nācata suka pāṭha prabīnā | guna gati naṭa pāṭhaka ādhīnā ||
यों सुधारि सनमानि जन, किये साधु सिरमोर ।
को कृपाल बिनु पालिहै, बिरिदावलि बरजोर ॥
yoṃ sudhāri sanamāni jana, kiye sādhu siramora |
ko kṛpāla binu pālihai, biridāvali barajora ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0