भइ दिनकर-कुल-बिटप कुठारी । कुमति कीन्ह सब बिस्व दुखारी ॥
भयउ बिषाद निषादहि भारी । राम-सीय महि सयन निहारी ॥
bhai dinakara-kula-biṭapa kuṭhārī | kumati kīnha saba bisva dukhārī ||
bhayau biṣāda niṣādahi bhārī | rāma-sīya mahi sayana nihārī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 92: Lakshmana teaches Guha that the world is a dream
5 verses · 92 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Lakshmana teaches Guha that the world is a dream
Guha calls Kaikeyi's ill counsel an axe laid to the tree of the Solar line, and grieves to see Rama and Sita asleep on the earth. Then Lakshmana speaks in sweet words steeped in jnana, vairagya and bhakti. No one, brother, gives another joy or sorrow; each reaps his own deeds. Union and parting, friend, foe and stranger are snares of illusion. Birth and death, wealth and misfortune, karma and time, home, city, family, heaven and hell, all that is seen, heard or thought, has moha at its root and is not the highest truth. In a dream a king becomes a beggar or a pauper lord of heaven; on waking there is neither gain nor loss. See the world the same way.
बोले लखन मधुर मृदु-बानी । ज्ञान-बिराग भगति-रस सानी ॥
काहु न कोउ सुख दुख कर दाता । निज कृत करम भोग सुनु भ्राता ॥
bole lakhana madhura mṛdu-bānī | jñāna-birāga bhagati-rasa sānī ||
kāhu na kou sukha dukha kara dātā | nija kṛta karama bhoga sunu bhrātā ||
जोग बियोग भोग भल मन्दा । हित अनहित मध्यम भ्रम फन्दा ॥
जनम मरन जहँ लगि जग जालू । सम्पति बिपति करम अरु कालू ॥
joga biyoga bhoga bhala mandā | hita anahita madhyama bhrama phandā ||
janama marana jaham̐ lagi jaga jālū | sampati bipati karama aru kālū ||
धरनि धाम धन पुर परिवारू । सरग नरक जहँ लगि व्यवहारू ॥
देखिय सुनिय गुनिअ मन माहीं । मोह मूल परमारथ नाहीं ॥
dharani dhāma dhana pura parivārū | saraga naraka jaham̐ lagi vyavahārū ||
dekhiya suniya gunia mana māhīṃ | moha mūla paramāratha nāhīṃ ||
सपनें होइ भिखारि नृप, रङ्क नाकपति होइ ।
जागें लाभ न हानि कछु, तिमि प्रपञ्च जियँ जोइ ॥
sapaneṃ hoi bhikhāri nṛpa, raṅka nākapati hoi |
jāgeṃ lābha na hāni kachu, timi prapañca jiyam̐ joi ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0