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Vasishtha continues before Shri Rama. Japa, tapas, discipline, yoga, one's own dharma, the good works born of the Shruti, compassion, self-restraint, bathing at tirthas, and all the Agamas and Puranas read and heard have one fruit: unbroken love for your lotus feet. Can dirt be washed off with dirt? Can anyone get ghee by churning water? Without the water of loving devotion, Raghurai, the stain inside never goes. He alone is all-knowing, the true pandit, home of every virtue and unbroken wisdom, who loves your feet. Then the muni asks a single boon: birth after birth, may that love for Rama's lotus feet never lessen.
जप तप नियम जोग निज धर्मा । श्रुति सम्भव नाना सुभ कर्मा ॥
ज्ञान दया दम तीरथ-मज्जन । जहँ लगि धरम कहत श्रुति सज्जन ॥
japa tapa niyama joga nija dharmā | śruti sambhava nānā subha karmā ||
jñāna dayā dama tīratha-majjana | jaham̐ lagi dharama kahata śruti sajjana ||
आगम निगम पुरान अनेका । पढ़े सुने कर फल प्रभु एका ॥
तब पद पङ्कज प्रीति निरन्तर । सब साधन कर यह फल सुन्दर ॥
āgama nigama purāna anekā | par̤he sune kara phala prabhu ekā ||
taba pada paṅkaja prīti nirantara | saba sādhana kara yaha phala sundara ||
छूटइ मल कि मलहि के धोये । घृत कि पाव कोउ बारि बिलोये ॥
प्रेम-भगति जल बिनु रघुराई । अभिअन्तर मल कबहुँ न जाई ॥
chūṭai mala ki malahi ke dhoye | ghṛta ki pāva kou bāri biloye ||
prema-bhagati jala binu raghurāī | abhiantara mala kabahum̐ na jāī ||
सोइ सर्बग्य तज्ञ सोइ पंडित । सोइ गुन गृह विज्ञान अखंडित ॥
दच्छ सकल लच्छन जुत सोई । जाकें पद-सरोज रति होई ॥
soi sarbagya tajña soi paṃḍita | soi guna gṛha vijñāna akhaṃḍita ||
daccha sakala lacchana juta soī | jākeṃ pada-saroja rati hoī ||
नाथ एक बर मागउँ, राम कृपा करि देहु ।
जनम जनम प्रभु पद-कमल, कबहुँ घटै जनि नेहु ॥
nātha eka bara māgaum̐, rāma kṛpā kari dehu |
janama janama prabhu pada-kamala, kabahum̐ ghaṭai jani nehu ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
