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The list of beholders continues. The learned saw the Lord as the cosmic form with countless faces, hands, feet and eyes. Janaka's kinsmen saw a dear relative; Janaka and the queens felt a love like that for their own child. To the yogis he shone as the supreme reality, calm, pure and self-luminous. Devotees of Hari saw their chosen deity, giver of every joy. The feeling with which Sita gazed at Shri Rama cannot be told; she felt it and could not speak it, so how could a poet? Each saw the prince of Kosala according to his own bhava, and the two brothers shine there, stealing the eyes of the whole world.
बिदुषन्ह प्रभु बिराट मय दीसा । बहु मुख-कर-पग-लोचन-सीसा ॥
जनक जाति अवलोकहिँ कैसे । सजन सगे प्रिय लागहिँ जैसें ॥
biduṣanha prabhu birāṭa maya dīsā | bahu mukha-kara-paga-locana-sīsā ||
janaka jāti avalokahim̐ kaise | sajana sage priya lāgahim̐ jaiseṃ ||
सहित बिदेह बिलोकहिँ रानी । सिसु सम प्रीति न जाइ बखानी ॥
जोगिन्ह परम-तत्व-मय मासा । सान्त-सुद्ध-सम सहज प्रकासा ॥
sahita bideha bilokahim̐ rānī | sisu sama prīti na jāi bakhānī ||
joginha parama-tatva-maya māsā | sānta-suddha-sama sahaja prakāsā ||
हरिभगतन्ह देखे दोउ भ्राता । इष्टदेव इव सब सुख-दाता ॥
रामहिँ चितव भाव जेहि सीया । सो सनेह सुख नहिँ कथनीया ॥
haribhagatanha dekhe dou bhrātā | iṣṭadeva iva saba sukha-dātā ||
rāmahim̐ citava bhāva jehi sīyā | so saneha sukha nahim̐ kathanīyā ||
उर अनुभवति न कहि सक सोऊ । कवन प्रकार कहइ कबि कोऊ ॥
जेहि बिधि रहा जाहि जस भाऊ । तेहिं तस देखेउ कोसलराऊ ॥
ura anubhavati na kahi saka soū | kavana prakāra kahai kabi koū ||
jehi bidhi rahā jāhi jasa bhāū | tehiṃ tasa dekheu kosalarāū ||
राजत राज-समाज महँ, कोसलराज-किसोर ।
सुन्दर स्यामल गौर तनु, बिस्व-बिलोचन चोर ॥
rājata rāja-samāja maham̐, kosalarāja-kisora |
sundara syāmala gaura tanu, bisva-bilocana cora ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
