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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 146

**चौ०** 
> पुछिहहिं दीन दुखित सब माता। कहब काह मैं तिन्हहि बिधाता॥  
> पूछिहि जबहिं लखन महतारी। कहिहउँ कवन सँदेस सुखारी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> राम जननि जब आइहि धाई। सुमिरि बच्छु जिमि धेनु लवाई॥  
> पूँछत उतरु देब मैं तेही। गे बनु राम लखनु बैदेही॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> जोइ पूँछिहि तेहि ऊतरु देबा। जाइ अवध अब यहु सुखु लेबा॥  
> पूँछिहि जबहिं राउ दुख दीना। जिवनु जासु रघुनाथ अधीना॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> देहउँ उतरु कौनु मुहु लाई। आयउँ कुसल कुअँर पहुँचाई॥  
> सुनत लखन सिय राम सँदेसू। तृन जिमि तनु परिहरिहि नरेसू॥४॥

Meaning: ‘When all the helpless and afflicted mothers question me, good God! what shall I say to them? When Lakṣmaṇa’s mother, Sumitrā, puts questions to me, what glad tidings shall I convey to her? (1)

‘And when Rāma’s mother Kausalyā comes running like a cow that has recently calved and has her thoughts fixed on it’s calf, the only answer I can make to her queries will be “Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa and Sītā have left for the woods.’ (2)

‘Whosoever questions me, must be answered; this is the treat I shall have on reaching Ayodhyā. Again, when the king, who is oppressed by grief and whose life hangs on Śrī Rāma, puts questions to me, (3)

‘with what face shall I tell him in reply that having safely escorted the princes to the woods, I have come back? The moment he hears the news of Lakṣmaṇa, Sītā and Śrī Rāma, the king will drop his body like a piece of straw. (4)

**दो०** 
> हृदउ न बिदरेउ पंक जिमि बिछुरत प्रीतमु नीरु।  
> जानत हौं मोहि दीन्ह बिधि यहु जातना सरीरु॥१४६॥

Meaning: ‘The swampy ground of my heart did not crack even though the moisture in the shape of my most beloved Śrī Rāma has left. From this I conclude that in this very frame God has endowed me with a body* fit for suffering the tortures of hell.’ (146)

* It is mentioned in the scriptures that sinners who are condemned to hell are endowed with a subtle body (known by the name of Yātanā-Śarīra), which though subjected to tortures in various forms is wonderfully tenacious and does not perish till the sinner has served the sentence.

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