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# Bal Kand · Doha 12

**चौ०** 
> जे जनमे कलिकाल कराला। करतब बायस बेष मराला॥  
> चलत कुपंथ बेद मग छाँड़े। कपट कलेवर कलि मल भाँड़े॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> बंचक भगत कहाइ राम के। किंकर कंचन कोह काम के॥  
> तिन्ह महँ प्रथम रेख जग मोरी। धींग धरमध्वज धंधक धोरी॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> जौं अपने अवगुन सब कहऊँ। बाढ़इ कथा पार नहिं लहऊँ॥  
> ताते मैं अति अलप बखाने। थोरे महुँ जानिहहिं सयाने॥ ३॥

**चौ०** 
> समुझि बिबिधि बिधि बिनती मोरी। कोउ न कथा सुनि देइहि खोरी॥  
> एतेहु पर करिहहिं जे असंका। मोहि ते अधिक ते जड़ मति रंका॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> कबि न होउँ नहिं चतुर कहावउँ। मति अनुरूप राम गुन गावउँ॥  
> कहँ रघुपति के चरित अपारा। कहँ मति मोरि निरत संसारा॥ ५॥

**चौ०** 
> जेहिं मारुत गिरि मेरु उड़ाहीं। कहहु तूल केहि लेखे माहीं॥  
> समुझत अमित राम प्रभुताई। करत कथा मन अति कदराई॥६॥

Meaning: Those who are born in this terrible age of Kali, who though akin to the crow in their doings have put on the garb of a swan, who tread the evil path, abandoning the track of the Vedas, who are embodiments of falsehood and repositories of sins of the Kali age,— (1)

who are impostors claiming to be devotees of Śrī Rāma, though slaves of mammon, anger and passion, and who are unscrupulous, hypocritical and foremost among intriguers— I occupy the first place among them. (2)

Were I to recount all my vices, their tale will assume large dimensions, and yet I shall not be able to exhaust them. Hence I have mentioned just a few. A word should suffice for the wise. (3)

Appreciating the spirit of my manifold prayers, none should blame me on hearing this story. Those who will raise objections even then are more stupid and deficient in intellect than myself. (4)

I am no poet and have no pretensions to ingenuity; I sing the glories of Śrī Rāma according to my own awareness; My intellect, which wallows in the world, is a poor match for the unlimited exploits of Śrī Raghunātha. (5)

Tell me, of what account is cotton in the face of the strong wind before which even mountains like Meru are blown away? Realizing the infinite glory of Śrī Rāma, my mind feels very diffident in proceeding with this narrative. (6)

**दो०** 
> सारद सेस महेस बिधि आगम निगम पुरान।  
> नेति नेति कहि जासु गुन करहिं निरंतर गान॥१२॥

Meaning: Goddess Sarasvatī, Śeṣa (the thousand-headed serpent-god), the great Lord Śiva, Brahmā (the Creator), the Āgamas (Tantras), the Vedas and the Purāṇas unceasingly sing His virtues, saying ‘not this’, ‘not this’.* (12)

* This shows that the gods and scriptures mentioned above, though ever engaged in singing the virtues of Śrī Rāma, are able only to touch the fringe of His glory and find themselves unable to describe it in full. That is why they make only a negative assertion ‘Na iti’ (not this), meaning thereby that whatever is predicated of God falls much too short of His real glory and is at best only a faint indication of it.

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