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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 168

**चौ०** 
> बेचहिं बेदु धरमु दुहि लेहीं। पिसुन पराय पाप कहि देहीं॥  
> कपटी कुटिल कलहप्रिय क्रोधी। बेद बिदूषक बिस्व बिरोधी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> लोभी लंपट लोलुपचारा। जे ताकहिं परधनु परदारा॥  
> पावौं मैं तिन्ह कै गति घोरा। जौं जननी यहु संमत मोरा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> जे नहिं साधुसंग अनुरागे। परमारथ पथ बिमुख अभागे॥  
> जे न भजहिं हरि नरतनु पाई। जिन्हहि न हरि हर सुजसु सोहाई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> तजि श्रुतिपंथु बाम पथ चलहीं। बंचक बिरचि बेष जगु छलहीं॥  
> तिन्ह कै गति मोहि संकर देऊ। जननी जौं यहु जानौं भेऊ॥४॥

Meaning: “Those who sell the Vedas, exploit their piety, are given to backbiting and expose others’ sins, who are deceitful, wicked, quarrelsome and irascible, who revile the Vedas and are hostile to the whole world; (1)

“nay, who are greedy and lecherous and behave as the rapacious do, and who cast their eyes on others’ wealth and others’ wife. Mother, if I ever knew this machination, may Lord Śiva allot me the fate of those wretches. (2)

“who love not the company of the virtuous, who have rejected the path leading to God-Realization, who worship not Śrī Hari even though blessed with a human form, and take no delight in the glory of Śrī Hari and Lord Śiva, (3)

“who have abandoned the path of the Vedas and follow the antagonistic way, and who are impostors and deceive the world by assuming false appearances; may Lord Śiva cast me into the lot of such wretches, if, Mother, I had any inkling of this plot.” (4)

**दो०** 
> मातु भरत के बचन सुनि साँचे सरल सुभायँ।  
> कहति राम प्रिय तात तुम्ह सदा बचन मन कायँ॥१६८॥

Meaning: Hearing Bharata’s truthful, natural and sincere words mother Kausalyā said, “You, my dear child, have always loved Rāma in thought, word and deed. (168)

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