Doha 165
सरल सुभाय मायँ हियँ लाए। अति हित मनहुँ राम फिरि आए॥ भेंटेउ बहुरि लखन लघु भाई। सोकु सनेहु न हृदयँ समाई॥१॥
देखि सुभाउ कहत सबु कोई। राम मातु अस काहे न होई॥ माताँ भरतु गोद बैठारे। आँसु पोंछि मृदु बचन उचारे॥२॥
अजहुँ बच्छ बलि धीरज धरहू। कुसमउ समुझि सोक परिहरहू॥ जनि मानहु हियँ हानि गलानी। काल करम गति अघटित जानी॥३॥
काहुहि दोसु देहु जनि ताता। भा मोहि सब बिधि बाम बिधाता॥ जो एतेहुँ दुख मोहि जिआवा। अजहुँ को जानइ का तेहि भावा॥४॥
Meaning
Guileless by nature, mother Kausalyā pressed him to her bosom with utmost affection as though Śrī Rāma Himself had come back. She then embraced Lakṣmaṇa’s younger brother, Śatrughna; her heart was too full with grief and love. (1) Everyone who saw her loving disposition said, “Rāma’s mother that she is, no wonder she should be so loving.” The mother seated Bharata on her lap and wiping away his tears spoke to him in soothing words. (2) “I adjure you, my child, to compose yourself even now; knowing this to be an unpropitious time sorrow no more. Take not to heart the loss we have sustained and feel no remorse for it, remembering that the course of time and fate is unalterable. (3) “Do not blame anyone, my son; it is Providence that has turned hostile to me in every way. And when He makes me survive even in such trying circumstances, who knows what may be His pleasure with regard to me even now? (4)
पितु आयस भूषन बसन तात तजे रघुबीर। बिसमउ हरषु न हृदयँ कछु पहिरे बलकल चीर॥१६५॥
Meaning
“At his father’s command, dear child, Śrī Raghuvīra discarded his ornaments and princely apparel and put on a hermit’s attire (consisting of the bark of trees) without sorrow or exultation. (165)
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