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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 42

**चौ०** 
> भरतु प्रानप्रिय पावहिं राजू। बिधि सब बिधि मोहि सनमुख आजू॥  
> जौं न जाउँ बन ऐसेहु काजा। प्रथम गनिअ मोहि मूढ़ समाजा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> सेवहिं अरँडु कलपतरु त्यागी। परिहरि अमृत लेहिं बिषु मागी॥  
> तेउ न पाइ अस समउ चुकाहीं। देखु बिचारि मातु मन माहीं॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> अंब एक दुखु मोहि बिसेषी। निपट बिकल नरनायकु देखी॥  
> थोरिहिं बात पितहि दुख भारी। होति प्रतीति न मोहि महतारी॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> राउ धीर गुन उदधि अगाधू। भा मोहि तें कछु बड़ अपराधू॥  
> जातें मोहि न कहत कछु राऊ। मोरि सपथ तोहि कहु सति भाऊ॥४॥

Meaning: “Again, Bharata, who is dear to me as life, will get the Kingdom: God is propitious to me in every respect today. If I do not proceed to the woods even in such situation, I should be reckoned foremost in an assembly of fools. (1)

“Those who nurture a castor-oil plant leaving the tree of paradise and barter away nectar for poison, they too will not lose an opportunity like this, should they ever get it: ponder this fact in your mind and realize it, mother. (2)

“Only one thing pains me most, mother; I am grieved to see the king sore distressed. That my father should be so overwhelmed with grief over a trifling matter is more than I can believe, dear mother. (3)

“The king is stout of heart and a fathomless ocean of goodness; I must have committed some great offence, which prevents the king from speaking out his mind to me. I adjure you, therefore, to tell me the truth.” (4)

**दो०** 
> सहज सरल रघुबर बचन कुमति कुटिल करि जान।  
> चलइ जोंक जल बक्रगति जद्यपि सलिलु समान॥४२॥

Meaning: The words of Śrī Rāma, the Chief of Raghus, were natural and straightforward, yet the evil-minded Kaikeyī gave them a perverse twist. A leech must always move obliquely even though the water on which it moves has a smooth surface. (42)

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