Doha 97
बिनती भूप कीन्ह जेहि भाँती। आरति प्रीति न सो कहि जाती॥ पितु सँदेसु सुनि कृपानिधाना। सियहि दीन्ह सिख कोटि बिधाना॥१॥
सासु ससुर गुर प्रिय परिवारू। फिरहु त सब कर मिटै खभारू॥ सुनि पति बचन कहति बैदेही। सुनहु प्रानपति परम सनेही॥२॥
प्रभु करुनामय परम बिबेकी। तनु तजि रहति छाँह किमि छेंकी॥ प्रभा जाइ कहँ भानु बिहाई। कहँ चंद्रिका चंदु तजि जाई॥३॥
पतिहि प्रेममय बिनय सुनाई। कहति सचिव सन गिरा सुहाई॥ तुम्ह पितु ससुर सरिस हितकारी। उतरु देउँ फिरि अनुचित भारी॥४॥
Meaning
“The piteousness and affection with which the king’s entreaty was attended cannot be expressed in words.” On hearing His father’s message the All-merciful Lord Śrī Rāma admonished Sītā in numerous ways. (1) “If you return, the affliction of your mother-in-law and father-in-law, our preceptor and all our near and dear ones will be over.” In response to Her lord’s advice Jānakī said, “Kindly listen: (2) “Most loving lord of my life, my all-compassionate and supremely wise master, can a shadow be torn away from its substance? The sunlight can never exist apart from the sun nor can the radiance of the moon leave the moon.” (3) Having submitted Her loving entreaty to Her Lord, She spoke these gentle words to the minister: “You are as good a well-wisher to me as my own father or father-in-law; it is, therefore, most undesirable that I should urge something in reply. (4)
आरति बस सनमुख भइउँ बिलगु न मानब तात। आरजसुत पद कमल बिनु बादि जहाँ लगि नात॥९७॥
Meaning
“It is due to grief that I am constrained to address you*; do not take offence at it, Sir. In the absence of the lotus feet of my lord, all other ties of kinship are of little account. (97) * It is unmannerly on the part of a Hindu woman to open her lips before the male elders of her husband’s family.
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