Doha 306
सहित समाज तुम्हार हमारा। घर बन गुर प्रसाद रखवारा॥ मातु पिता गुर स्वामि निदेसू। सकल धरम धरनीधर सेसू॥१॥
सो तुम्ह करहु करावहु मोहू। तात तरनिकुल पालक होहू॥ साधक एक सकल सिधि देनी। कीरति सुगति भूतिमय बेनी॥२॥
सो बिचारि सहि संकटु भारी। करहु प्रजा परिवारु सुखारी॥ बाँटी बिपति सबहिं मोहि भाई। तुम्हहि अवधि भरि बड़ि कठिनाई॥३॥
जानि तुम्हहि मृदु कहउँ कठोरा। कुसमयँ तात न अनुचित मोरा॥ होहिं कुठायँ सुबंधु सहाए। ओड़िअहिं हाथ असनिहु के घाए॥४॥
Meaning
“At home as well as in the woods our preceptor’s goodwill alone will protect both you and me as well as all those about us. Obedience to one’s father and mother, preceptor and master is the prop of all virtues, even as Śeṣa (the lord of serpents) supports the globe on his head. (1) “Therefore, obey their commands yourself and help me do the same, and be the saviour of the solar race, dear brother. This is the one discipline that bestows all success upon the striver and like the triple stream of the Gaṅgā, Yamunā and Sarasvatī at Prayāga, combines fame, salvation and prosperity. (2) “Considering this and even though enduring great hardship make your subjects and your own people happy. My woe has been shared by all; but your lot will be the hardest for the whole term of my exile. (3) “I know you to be tender-hearted, yet I am speaking harsh words to you (talking of separation); but the times are so out of joint that this will not be unjustifiable on my part. In hard times good brothers alone stand one in good stead; it is by one’s arms alone that one parries the strokes even of a thunderbolt. (4)
सेवक कर पद नयन से मुख सो साहिबु होइ। तुलसी प्रीति कि रीति सुनि सुकबि सराहहिं सोइ॥३०६॥
Meaning
“Servants should be like hands, feet and eyes; while a master should be like a mouth*.” Hearing of this ideal way of love between a master and his servants, good poets offer their tribute to the same, says Tulasīdāsa. (306) * While hands, feet and eyes minister to the mouth by supplying food to it, the mouth in its turn, though appearing to accept and appropriate the whole of it to itself, equitably distributes the benefit of it to all the organs by nourishing and revitalizing them in due proportion; so should a master while taking service from his servants and giving nothing to them in return, should nourish them and keep them whole.
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