जो माया सब जगहि नचावा । जासु चरित लखि काहु न पावा ॥
सोइ प्रभु भ्रू बिलास खगराजा । नाच नटी इव सहित समाजा ॥
jo māyā saba jagahi nacāvā | jāsu carita lakhi kāhu na pāvā ||
soi prabhu bhrū bilāsa khagarājā | nāca naṭī iva sahita samājā ||
Uttara Kanda
Chapter 72: Rama is beyond maya, like an actor
6 verses · 72 of 130
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Rama is beyond maya, like an actor
The maya that makes the whole world dance, whose ways no one can trace, dances with all its troupe like an actress at the play of the Lord's brow, Bhushundi tells Garuda. That Lord is Rama, dense being, awareness and bliss, unborn, endless, the Bhagwan of unfailing power. He is beyond the gunas and beyond speech and the senses, faultless, formless, eternal, beyond prakriti, dwelling in every heart, Brahman, desireless and imperishable. Delusion has no place in him; can darkness ever stand before the sun? For his devotees' sake Bhagwan Rama took a king's body and did holy deeds like an ordinary man, as an actor takes many guises and shows each mood yet never becomes any of them.
सोइ सच्चिदानन्द घन रामा । अज विज्ञान रूपो बल धामा ॥
व्यापक ब्याप्य अखंड अनन्ता । अखिल अमोघसक्ति भगवन्ता ॥
soi saccidānanda ghana rāmā | aja vijñāna rūpo bala dhāmā ||
vyāpaka byāpya akhaṃḍa anantā | akhila amoghasakti bhagavantā ||
अगुन अदभ्र गिरा गोतीता । सबदरसी अनवद्य अजीता ॥
निर्मम निराकार निरमोहा । नित्य निरञ्जन सुख सन्दोहा ॥
aguna adabhra girā gotītā | sabadarasī anavadya ajītā ||
nirmama nirākāra niramohā | nitya nirañjana sukha sandohā ||
प्रकृति पार प्रभु सब उर बासी । ब्रह्म निरीह बिरज अबिनासी ॥
इहाँ मोह कर कारन नाहीं । रबि सनमुख तम कबहुँ कि जाहीं ॥
prakṛti pāra prabhu saba ura bāsī | brahma nirīha biraja abināsī ||
ihām̐ moha kara kārana nāhīṃ | rabi sanamukha tama kabahum̐ ki jāhīṃ ||
भगत हेतु भगवान प्रभु, राम धरेउ तनु भूप ।
किये चरित पावन परम, प्राकृत नर अनुरूप ॥
bhagata hetu bhagavāna prabhu, rāma dhareu tanu bhūpa |
kiye carita pāvana parama, prākṛta nara anurūpa ||
जथा अनेक बेष धरि, नृत्य करइ नट कोइ ।
सोइ सोइ भाव देखावइ, आपुन होइ न सोइ ॥
jathā aneka beṣa dhari, nṛtya karai naṭa koi |
soi soi bhāva dekhāvai, āpuna hoi na soi ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0