Peace
Goswami Tulsidas teaches us to place trust in Shri Ram while attending to our actions. Trust quiets the demand that every result must follow our wishes. It leaves room for steady effort. For example, a gardener can water a sapling and protect its roots, but cannot make it grow by checking its height every hour. Such checking only increases restlessness. Similarly, do the work that belongs to today, then turn the mind towards Shri Ram instead of repeatedly measuring the result.
तब लगि कुसल न जीव कहुँ सपनेहुँ मन बिश्राम। जब लगि भजत न राम कहुँ सोक धाम तजि काम॥४६॥
“There can be no happiness for a creature nor can its mind know any peace even in a dream so long as it does not relinquish desire (for sensual objects), which is an abode of sorrow, and adore Śrī Rāma (Yourself). (46)
Sunderkand, Doha 46तात स्वर्ग अपबर्ग सुख धरिअ तुला एक अंग। तूल न ताहि सकल मिलि जो सुख लव सतसंग॥४॥
“In one scale of the balance, my dear, put together the delights of heaven and the bliss of final beatitude; but they will all be outweighed by (placed in the other pan of scale) a moment’s joy derived from communion with saints. (4)
Sunderkand, Doha 4राम नाम मनिदीप धरु जीह देहरीं द्वार। तुलसी भीतर बाहेरहुँ जौं चाहसि उजिआर॥२१॥
Install the luminous gem in the shape of the divine name ‘Rāma’ on the threshold of the tongue at the doorway of your mouth, if you will have light both inside and outside, says Tulasīdāsa. (21)
Bal Kand, Doha 21नामु राम को कलपतरु कलि कल्यान निवासु। जो सुमिरत भयो भाँग तें तुलसी तुलसीदासु॥२६॥
The name of Rāma is a wish-yielding tree, the very home of beatitude in this age of Kali, by remembering which Tulasīdāsa (the poet himself) was transformed from an intoxicating drug like the hemp-plant into the holy Tulasī (basil). (26)
Bal Kand, Doha 26बिनु सतसंग न हरि कथा तेहि बिनु मोह न भाग। मोह गएँ बिनु राम पद होइ न दृढ़ अनुराग॥६१॥
“Except in the company of saints nowhere there is talk of Śrī Hari (Satasaṅga), and one cannot be rid of delusion except through such talk. And till one’s delusion is removed, one cannot have deep-rooted affection for Śrī Rāma’s feet. (61)
Uttar Kand, Doha 61संत संग अपबर्ग कर कामी भव कर पंथ। कहहिं संत कबि कोबिद श्रुति पुरान सदग्रंथ॥३३॥
“Communion with saints is the way to emancipation, while that with the sensualist leads to transmigration (birth and death): so declare the saints, the men of wisdom and the learned, as well as the Vedas, Purāṇas and other holy scriptures.” (33)
Uttar Kand, Doha 33प्रिया सोचु परिहरहु सबु सुमिरहु श्रीभगवान। पारबतिहि निरमयउ जेहिं सोइ करिहि कल्यान॥७१॥
“Put away all anxiety, my dear, and fix your thoughts on the Lord. He alone who has created Pārvatī will bring her happiness. (71)
Bal Kand, Doha 71करम बचन मन छाड़ि छलु जब लगि जनु न तुम्हार। तब लगि सुखु सपनेहुँ नहीं किएँ कोटि उपचार॥१०७॥
“Until a man gets sincerely devoted to You in thought, word and deed, he cannot even dream of happiness in spite of all his efforts.” (107)
Ayodhya Kand, Doha 107निंदा अस्तुति उभय सम ममता मम पद कंज। ते सज्जन मम प्रानप्रिय गुन मंदिर सुखपुंज॥३८॥
“They who regard both obloquy and praise alike and who claim My lotus feet as their only possession—such saintly souls are dear to Me as life and are veritable abodes of noble qualities and embodiments of bliss. (38)
Uttar Kand, Doha 38मम गुन ग्राम नाम रत गत ममता मद मोह। ता कर सुख सोइ जानइ परानंद संदोह॥४६॥
“fond of singing and hearing My glories and devoted to My Name, and free from attachment to the world, arrogance and infatuation—the felicity that such a man enjoys is known to him alone who has become one with God, the embodiment of supreme bliss.”(46)
Uttar Kand, Doha 46सकल कामना हीन जे राम भगति रस लीन। नाम सुप्रेम पियूष ह्रद तिन्हहुँ किए मन मीन॥२२॥
Even those who are free from all desires and absorbed in the joy of devotion to Śrī Rāma, have thrown their heart as fish into the nectarine lake of supreme love for the Name. (22)
Bal Kand, Doha 22राम नाम नरकेसरी कनककसिपु कलिकाल। जापक जन प्रहलाद जिमि पालिहि दलि सुरसाल॥२७॥
(To use another metaphor) the Name of Rāma is, as it were, the Lord manifested as a man-lion and the age of Kali, the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu. Crushing this enemy of gods, the Name will protect the devotees repeating It, even as the Man-lion protected Prahlāda. (27)
Bal Kand, Doha 27
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