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# Aranya Kand · Doha 31

**चौ०** 
> तब कह गीध बचन धरि धीरा। सुनहु राम भंजन भव भीरा॥  
> नाथ दसानन यह गति कीन्ही। तेहिं खल जनकसुता हरि लीन्ही॥ १ ॥

**चौ०** 
> लै दच्छिन दिसि गयउ गोसाईं। बिलपति अति कुररी की नाईं॥  
> दरस लागि प्रभु राखेउँ प्राना। चलन चहत अब कृपानिधाना॥ २ ॥

**चौ०** 
> राम कहा तनु राखहु ताता। मुख मुसुकाइ कही तेहिं बाता॥  
> जा कर नाम मरत मुख आवा। अधमउ मुकुत होइ श्रुति गावा॥ ३ ॥

**चौ०** 
> सो मम लोचन गोचर आगें। राखौं देह नाथ केहि खाँगें॥  
> जल भरि नयन कहहिं रघुराई। तात कर्म निज तें गति पाई॥ ४ ॥

**चौ०** 
> परहित बस जिन्ह के मन माहीं। तिन्ह कहुँ जग दुर्लभ कछु नाहीं॥  
> तनु तजि तात जाहु मम धामा। देउँ काह तुम्ह पूरनकामा॥ ५ ॥

Meaning: The vulture Jaṭāyu now recovered himself and spoke as follows: “Listen, Śrī Rāma, the allayer of the fear of transmigration: it is the ten-headed Rāvaṇa, my lord, who has reduced me to this plight; it is the same wretch who has carried off Jānakī. (1)

“He took her away, holy Sir, to the south while she kept screaming loudly as an osprey. I have survived, my lord, only to behold You; my life now is about to depart, O fountain of mercy.” (2)

Said Śrī Rāma, “Live yet more, my loved one!” Jaṭāyu, however, replied with a smile on his countenance, “He whose very name, so declare the Vedas, redeems the most depraved soul, even if it appears on his lips at the moment of his death, (3)

“is present before me in a visible form! What more is wanting now for which I should retain my body any longer?” With His eyes full of tears Śrī Raghunātha replied, “My loved one! you have attained to an enviable state by virtue of your own noble deeds. (4)

“Nothing is difficult of attainment in this world to those who have others’ interests at heart. Casting off your body, My dear, proceed now to My divine abode. What shall I give you, when you have all your desires already accomplished? (5)

**दो०** 
> सीता हरन तात जनि कहहु पिता सन जाइ।  
> जौं मैं राम त कुल सहित कहिहि दसानन आइ॥ ३१ ॥

Meaning: “But on reaching there, my loved one, tell not my father about Sītā’s abduction. If I am no other than Rāma (if I am what I am), the ten-headed Rāvaṇa alongwith his whole family will go and himself say everything to him.” (31)

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Kand: https://ramayana.com/ramcharitmanas/aranya-kand  
Next: https://ramayana.com/ramcharitmanas/aranya-kand/doha-32

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