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Shri Rama goes on: once I have made my father's word true, I will come back quickly, and the days will pass soon enough. Listen to my counsel, lovely one. If love makes you insist, you will suffer in the end. The forest is hard and fearsome, with fierce sun, cold, rain and wind. The path is full of kusha grass, thorns and stones, and you would walk barefoot on your soft lotus feet over great mountains. There are caves, chasms, rivers and streams too deep to look at, and bears, tigers, wolves, lions and elephants roar until courage flees. A bed on the ground, garments of bark, a meal of roots and fruit, and even these will not be had every day.
मैं पुनि करि प्रवान पितु बानी । बेगि फिरब सुनु सुमुखि सयानी ॥
दिवस जात नहिँ लागिहि बारा । सुन्दरि सिखवन सुनहु हमारा ॥
maiṃ puni kari pravāna pitu bānī | begi phiraba sunu sumukhi sayānī ||
divasa jāta nahim̐ lāgihi bārā | sundari sikhavana sunahu hamārā ||
जौँ हठ करहु प्रेम-बस बामा । तो तुम्ह दुख पाउब परिनामा ॥
कानन कठिन भयङ्कर भारी । घोर घामु हिम बारि बयारी ॥
jaum̐ haṭha karahu prema-basa bāmā | to tumha dukha pāuba parināmā ||
kānana kaṭhina bhayaṅkara bhārī | ghora ghāmu hima bāri bayārī ||
कुस कंटक मा काँकर नाना । चलब पयादेहिं बिनु पदत्राना ॥
चरन-कमल मृदु-मञ्जु तुम्हारे । मारग अगम भूमिधर भारे ॥
kusa kaṃṭaka mā kām̐kara nānā | calaba payādehiṃ binu padatrānā ||
carana-kamala mṛdu-mañju tumhāre | māraga agama bhūmidhara bhāre ||
कन्दर खोह नदीं नद नारे । अगम अगाध न जाहिँ निहारे ॥
भालु बाघ बृक केहरि नागा । करहिँ नाद सुनि धीरज भागा ॥
kandara khoha nadīṃ nada nāre | agama agādha na jāhim̐ nihāre ||
bhālu bāgha bṛka kehari nāgā | karahim̐ nāda suni dhīraja bhāgā ||
भूमि-सवन बलकल-बसन, असन कन्द फल मूल ।
ते कि सदा सब दिन मिलिहिं, सबइ समय अनुकूल ॥
bhūmi-savana balakala-basana, asana kanda phala mūla |
te ki sadā saba dina milihiṃ, sabai samaya anukūla ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
