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# Aranya Kand · Doha 43

**चौ०** 
> अति प्रसन्न रघुनाथहि जानी। पुनि नारद बोले मृदु बानी॥  
> राम जबहिं प्रेरेउ निज माया। मोहेहु मोहि सुनहु रघुराया॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> तब बिबाह मैं चाहउँ कीन्हा। प्रभु केहि कारन करै न दीन्हा॥  
> सुनु मुनि तोहि कहउँ सहरोसा। भजहिं जे मोहि तजि सकल भरोसा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> करउँ सदा तिन्ह कै रखवारी। जिमि बालक राखइ महतारी॥  
> गह सिसु बच्छ अनल अहि धाई। तहँ राखइ जननी अरगाई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> प्रौढ़ भएँ तेहि सुत पर माता। प्रीति करइ नहिं पाछिलि बाता॥  
> मोरें प्रौढ़ तनय सम ग्यानी। बालक सुत सम दास अमानी॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> जनहि मोर बल निज बल ताही। दुहु कहँ काम क्रोध रिपु आही॥  
> यह बिचारि पंडित मोहि भजहीं। पाएहुँ ग्यान भगति नहिं तजहीं॥५॥

Meaning: Seeing Śrī Raghunātha so highly pleased, Nārada spoke again in gentle tone— “Listen, O Rāma! O Raghunātha!! when You impelled Your Māyā (deluding potency) that infatuated me, (1)

“I wanted to marry. Why, then, did You not let me accomplish my desire?” “Listen, O sage: I tell you with all cheerfulness that those who exclusively adore Me, giving up all other expectations and hope, (2)

“of those I always take care, even as a mother tends her child. If an infant child runs to catch hold of fire or a snake, the mother rescues it by drawing it aside. (3)

“When, however, her son has grown up, she loves him no doubt, but not as before. The wise are like My grown up sons, while humble devotees are like My infant children. (4)

“A devotee depends on Me, while the former, a wise man, is self-dependent; but both have to face enemies like lust and anger. Pondering thus, the prudent adore Me and never take leave of devotion even after attaining wisdom. (5)

**दो०** 
> काम क्रोध लोभादि मद प्रबल मोह कै धारि।  
> तिन्ह महँ अति दारुन दुखद मायारूपी नारि॥४३॥

Meaning: “Lust, anger, greed, pride etc., constitute the most powerful army of delusion (ignorance). But among them all the fiercest and the most troublesome is that embodiment of Māyā (the Lord’s deluding potency) called ‘woman’. (43)

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