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Shri Rama goes on teaching the people of Ayodhya. The fruit of a human body is not sense pleasure, he says; even svarga is small and ends in sorrow. A man who spends this body on objects throws away nectar to drink poison, like one who drops the touchstone to pick up a gunja seed. The undying jiva wanders the eighty-four lakh wombs, driven by maya, time, karma, nature and the gunas, until Ishvara, out of causeless love, grants a human birth. That body is a boat on the ocean of becoming. Rama's grace is the favouring wind, the true guru the helmsman. Whoever has all this and still does not cross is ungrateful and dull, and goes the way of one who kills his own self.
एहि तन कर फल विषय न भाई । स्वर्गउ स्वल्प अन्त दुखदाई ॥
नर तनु पाइ बिषयँ मन देहीं । पलटि सुधा ते सठ बिष लेहीं ॥
ehi tana kara phala viṣaya na bhāī | svargau svalpa anta dukhadāī ||
nara tanu pāi biṣayam̐ mana dehīṃ | palaṭi sudhā te saṭha biṣa lehīṃ ||
ताहि कबहुँ भल कहइ न कोई । गुञ्जा ग्रहइ परस मनि खोई ॥
आकर चारि लच्छ चौरासी । जोनि भ्रमत यह जिव अबिनासी ॥
tāhi kabahum̐ bhala kahai na koī | guñjā grahai parasa mani khoī ||
ākara cāri laccha caurāsī | joni bhramata yaha jiva abināsī ||
फिरत सदा माया कर प्रेरा । काल कर्म सुभाव गुन घेरा ॥
कबहुँक करि करुना नर-देही । देत ईस बिनु हेतु सनेही ॥
phirata sadā māyā kara prerā | kāla karma subhāva guna gherā ||
kabahum̐ka kari karunā nara-dehī | deta īsa binu hetu sanehī ||
नर तनु भव बारिधि कहुँ बेरो । सन्मुख मरुत अनुग्रह मेरो ॥
करनधार सदगुरु दृढ़ नावा । दुर्लभ साज सुलभ करि पावा ॥
nara tanu bhava bāridhi kahum̐ bero | sanmukha maruta anugraha mero ||
karanadhāra sadaguru dṛr̤ha nāvā | durlabha sāja sulabha kari pāvā ||
जो न तरै भव-सागर, नर समाज अस पाइ ।
सो कृत निन्दक, मन्दमति-आत्माहन गति जाइ ॥
jo na tarai bhava-sāgara, nara samāja asa pāi |
so kṛta nindaka, mandamati-ātmāhana gati jāi ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
