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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 240

**चौ०** 
> सानुज सखा समेत मगन मन। बिसरे हरष सोक सुख दुख गन॥  
> पाहि नाथ कहि पाहि गोसाईं। भूतल परे लकुट की नाईं॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> बचन सपेम लखन पहिचाने। करत प्रनामु भरत जियँ जाने॥  
> बंधु सनेह सरस एहि ओरा। उत साहिब सेवा बस जोरा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> मिलि न जाइ नहिं गुदरत बनई। सुकबि लखन मन की गति भनई॥  
> रहे राखि सेवा पर भारू। चढ़ी चंग जनु खैंच खेलारू॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> कहत सप्रेम नाइ महि माथा। भरत प्रनाम करत रघुनाथा॥  
> उठे रामु सुनि पेम अधीरा। कहुँ पट कहुँ निषंग धनु तीरा॥४॥

Meaning: Bharata as well as his younger brother Śatrughna and friend Guha were so enraptured that their joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, were all forgotten. Uttering the words “Protect me, my lord; save me, my master” he fell flat on the ground like a log. (1)

Lakṣmaṇa recognized his loving voice and inferred in his mind that it was Bharata making obeisance.* On the one hand there was the loving affection of an elder brother, Bharata, while, on the other, there was the stronger claim of service to his master. (2)

* Since Bharata had fallen prostrate behind his back, Lakṣmaṇa, who was loath to divert his mind from Śrī Rāma’s service, could not see him; hence he could only infer his identity from his voice.

He was, therefore, neither able to meet his brother (Bharata) nor ignore him; some good poet alone could describe Lakṣmaṇa’s state of mind. He threw his whole weight on the side of service and remained where he was, even as a kite-flier would pull against a kite that has risen high in the air. (3)

Bowing his head on the ground he lovingly said, “Bharata is making obeisance to you, O Śrī Raghunātha.” Overwhelmed with emotion Śrī Rāma started up as soon as He heard this, His robe flying in one direction, and His quiver and bow and arrows in another. (4)

**दो०** 
> बरबस लिए उठाइ उर लाए कृपानिधान।  
> भरत राम की मिलनि लखि बिसरे सबहि अपान॥२४०॥

Meaning: The all-compassionate Lord perforce lifted Bharata and clasped him to His bosom. Everyone who witnessed the meeting of Bharata and Śrī Rāma lost all self-consciousness. (240)

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