Doha 144
करहिं अहार साक फल कंदा। सुमिरहिं ब्रह्म सच्चिदानंदा॥ पुनि हरि हेतु करन तप लागे। बारि अधार मूल फल त्यागे॥१॥
उर अभिलाष निरंतर होई। देखिअ नयन परम प्रभु सोई॥ अगुन अखंड अनंत अनादी। जेहि चिंतहिं परमारथबादी॥२॥
नेति नेति जेहि बेद निरूपा। निजानंद निरुपाधि अनूपा॥ संभु बिरंचि बिष्नु भगवाना। उपजहिं जासु अंस तें नाना॥३॥
ऐसेउ प्रभु सेवक बस अहई। भगत हेतु लीलातनु गहई॥ जौं यह बचन सत्य श्रुति भाषा। तौ हमार पूजिहि अभिलाषा॥४॥
Meaning
They lived on vegetables, fruits and roots and meditated on Brahma (the Absolute), who is truth, consciousness and bliss combined. Again, they started undergoing penance for the sake of Śrī Hari, giving up roots and fruits for water alone. (1) Their hearts ever clamoured, “Let us see with our eyes that supreme Lord who is without attributes, indivisible (अखण्ड), infinite and is without beginning and who is contemplated upon by the exponents of the highest reality, (2) “whom the Vedas describe in negative terms such as ‘Not this, not this’, who is bliss itself, unconditioned and without comparison, and from a particle of whose being emanate a number of Śiva, Brahmā and Viṣṇu. (3) “Even such a Lord is subservient to the will of His devotees and assumes for their sake a form suitable for sport (Līlā). If the above utterance of the Vedas is true, our desire will be surely accomplished.” (4)
एहि बिधि बीते बरष षट सहस बारि आहार। संबत सप्त सहस्र पुनि रहे समीर अधार॥१४४॥
Meaning
In this way six thousand years elapsed even while they lived on water. Then for another seven millennia they lived on air alone. (144)
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