Doha 51
Dialogue between Śrī Rāma and mother Kausalyā
उतरु न देइ दुसह रिस रूखी। मृगिन्ह चितव जनु बाघिनि भूखी॥ ब्याधि असाधि जानि तिन्ह त्यागी। चलीं कहत मतिमंद अभागी॥१॥
राजु करत यह दैअँ बिगोई। कीन्हेसि अस जस करइ न कोई॥ एहि बिधि बिलपहिं पुर नर नारीं। देहिं कुचालिहि कोटिक गारीं॥२॥
जरहिं बिषम जर लेहिं उसासा। कवनि राम बिनु जीवन आसा॥ बिपुल बियोग प्रजा अकुलानी। जनु जलचर गन सूखत पानी॥३॥
अति बिषाद बस लोग लोगाईं। गए मातु पहिं रामु गोसाईं॥ मुख प्रसन्न चित चौगुन चाऊ। मिटा सोचु जनि राखै राऊ॥४॥
Meaning
She gave no reply and wore a sullen look due to anger that could not be easily curbed. She stared at them as a hungry tigress would gaze on a herd of does. Finding her disease incurable, her friends gave her up saying as they went, “Wretched fool!” (1) “Fate could not brook her reigning and has knocked her down. She has done what nobody else would do.” Men and women of the city thus lamented and showered countless abuses on the wicked woman. (2) They burned with terrible agony and sighed. “There can be no hope of life without Rāma,” they said. The people were distraught at the thought of long separation even as aquatic creatures get disturbed when water in which they live begins to fail. (3) All men and women were overcome with excessive grief. In the meantime, Lord Śrī Rāma called on His mother Kausalyā. He wore a cheerful look and the joy in his heart was fourfold. He no longer apprehended lest the king should detain him. (4)
नव गयंदु रघुबीर मनु राजु अलान समान। छूट जानि बन गवनु सुनि उर अनंदु अधिकान॥५१॥
Meaning
The mind of Śrī Rāma resembled a young elephant (newly caught) with kingship for its chain. When He heard of the proposal for exiling Him to the forest, He took Himself to be free and felt overjoyed in His heart. (51)
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