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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 123

**चौ०** 
> आगें रामु लखनु बने पाछें। तापस बेष बिराजत काछें॥  
> उभय बीच सिय सोहति कैसें। ब्रह्म जीव बिच माया जैसें॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> बहुरि कहउँ छबि जसि मन बसई। जनु मधु मदन मध्य रति लसई॥  
> उपमा बहुरि कहउँ जियँ जोही। जनु बुध बिधु बिच रोहिनि सोही॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> प्रभु पद रेख बीच बिच सीता। धरति चरन मग चलति सभीता॥  
> सीय राम पद अंक बराएँ। लखन चलहिं मगु दाहिन लाएँ॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> राम लखन सिय प्रीति सुहाई। बचन अगोचर किमि कहि जाई॥  
> खग मृग मगन देखि छबि होहीं। लिए चोरि चित राम बटोहीं॥४॥

Meaning: Śrī Rāma walked in front while Lakṣmaṇa followed in the rear, both conspicuous in the attire of ascetics. Between the two Sītā shone like Māyā (the Primordial Divine Energy) that stands between Brahma (God), on the one hand, and the embodied soul (Jīvātmā), on the other. (1)

To illustrate Her beauty, as it exists in my mind, in another way: She looked like Rati (the wife of the god of love) shining between Madhu (the spirit presiding over the vernal season) and the god of love. Raking my brains for another illustration, let me say: She shone like Rohiṇī* between Budha† and the moon-god. (2)

* The deity presiding over the fourth lunar asterism, who was born as the daughter of Dakṣa and was the favourite consort of the moon-god.

† The god presiding over the planet Mercury and descended from the loins of the moon-god.

Sītā trod on the path with meticulous care putting Her feet in the space between Her lord’s footprints. Avoiding the footprints both of Sītā and Śrī Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa traversed the road always keeping them to his right. (3)

The ideal affection of Śrī Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa and Sītā was past telling; how can one describe it? Even birds and beasts were enraptured to behold their lovely form; their hearts were stolen away by Śrī Rāma, the wayfarer. (4)

**दो०** 
> जिन्ह जिन्ह देखे पथिक प्रिय सिय समेत दोउ भाइ।  
> भव मगु अगमु अनंदु तेइ बिनु श्रम रहे सिराइ॥१२३॥

Meaning: Whoever saw the beloved travellers, Sītā and the two brothers, Śrī Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, joyously reached the end of the toilsome journey of life without any exertion, (i.e., they attained liberation from the toils of birth and rebirth). (123)

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