पर-हित सरिस धर्म नहिँ भाई । पर-पीड़ा सम नहिँ अधमाई ॥
निर्नय सकल पुरान बेद कर । कहेउँ तात जानहिँ कोबिद नर ॥
para-hita sarisa dharma nahim̐ bhāī | para-pīr̤ā sama nahim̐ adhamāī ||
nirnaya sakala purāna beda kara | kaheum̐ tāta jānahim̐ kobida nara ||
Uttara Kanda
Chapter 41: No dharma equals helping others
5 verses · 41 of 130
What happens in this chapter
No dharma equals helping others
Rama gives the verdict of the Vedas and Puranas: brother, there is no dharma like doing good to others, and no wickedness like causing them pain. Those who take a human body and torment others suffer the great terror of rebirth. Bent on self-interest, they lose the world beyond. To them I am Time, giver of the fruit of good and bad karma. Knowing this, the wise see the sorrow of samsara, give up actions that bind, and worship me. Those who grasp what I have said of saints and the wicked do not fall into the world again. Maya makes many virtues and faults; the real virtue is to see neither, and to see them is lack of discernment.
नर सरीर धरि जे पर पीरा । करहिं ते सहहिं महा भव भीरा ॥
करहिँ मोह अस नर अघ नाना । स्वारथ रत परलोक नसाना ॥
nara sarīra dhari je para pīrā | karahiṃ te sahahiṃ mahā bhava bhīrā ||
karahim̐ moha asa nara agha nānā | svāratha rata paraloka nasānā ||
काल रूप तिन्ह कहँ मैं भ्राता । सुभ अरु असुभ करम फल दाता ॥
अस बिचारि जे परम सयाने । भजहिँ मोहि संसृत दुख जाने ॥
kāla rūpa tinha kaham̐ maiṃ bhrātā | subha aru asubha karama phala dātā ||
asa bicāri je parama sayāne | bhajahim̐ mohi saṃsṛta dukha jāne ||
त्यागहिं करम सुभासुभ-दायक । भजहिँ मोहि सुर नर मुनि नायक ॥
सन्त असन्तन्ह के गुन भाखे । ते न परहिँ भव जिन्ह लखि राखे ॥
tyāgahiṃ karama subhāsubha-dāyaka | bhajahim̐ mohi sura nara muni nāyaka ||
santa asantanha ke guna bhākhe | te na parahim̐ bhava jinha lakhi rākhe ||
सुनहु तात माया कृत, गुन अरु दोष अनेक ।
गुन यह उभय न देखिअहिं, देखिय सो अबिबेक ॥
sunahu tāta māyā kṛta, guna aru doṣa aneka |
guna yaha ubhaya na dekhiahiṃ, dekhiya so abibeka ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0