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title: "Bal Kand Doha 30b"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 30b

**चौ०** 
> जागबलिक जो कथा सुहाई। भरद्वाज मुनिबरहि सुनाई॥  
> कहिहउँ सोइ संबाद बखानी। सुनहुँ सकल सज्जन सुखु मानी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> संभु कीन्ह यह चरित सुहावा। बहुरि कृपा करि उमहि सुनावा॥  
> सोइ सिव कागभुसुंडिहि दीन्हा। राम भगत अधिकारी चीन्हा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> तेहि सन जागबलिक पुनि पावा। तिन्ह पुनि भरद्वाज प्रति गावा॥  
> ते श्रोता बकता समसीला। सवँदरसी जानहिं हरिलीला॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> जानहिं तीनि काल निज ग्याना। करतल गत आमलक समाना॥  
> औरउ जे हरिभगत सुजाना। कहहिं सुनहिं समुझहिं बिधि नाना॥४॥

Meaning: The charming story which Yājñavalkya related to the exalted sage Bharadvāja, I shall narrate the same dialogue at length; let all good people hear it with a delightful heart. (1)

This ravishing tale was conceived by Lord Śiva, who graciously communicated it to His Consort, Pārvatī. Śiva imparted it once more to Kākabhuśuṇḍi (a sage in the form of a crow), knowing him to be a devotee of Śrī Rāma and the one qualified to hear it. (2)

And it was Yājñavalkya who received it from the latter (Kākabhuśuṇḍi) and narrated it to Bharadvāja. Both these, the listener (Bharadvāja) and the reciter (Yājñavalkya), are equally virtuous; they view all alike and are acquainted with the pastimes of Śrī Hari. (3)

Like a myrobalan fruit placed on one’s palm, they hold the past, present and future within their grasp. Besides these, other enlightened devotees of Śrī Hari too recite, hear and understand this story in diverse ways. (4)

**दो०** 
> मैं पुनि निज गुर सन सुनी कथा सो सूकरखेत।  
> समुझी नहिं तसि बालपन तब अति रहेउँ अचेत॥३०(क)॥

**दो०** 
> श्रोता बकता ग्याननिधि कथा राम कै गूढ़।  
> किमि समुझौं मैं जीव जड़ कलि मल ग्रसित बिमूढ़॥३०(ख)॥

Meaning: Then I heard the same story in the holy Śukarakṣetra* (the modern Soron in the Western Uttar Pradesh) from my preceptor; but as I had no understanding in those days of my childhood, I could not follow it full well. (30-A)

* The name is associated with the descent of Śrī Hari as a Boar (Śūkara) who killed Hiraṇyākṣa, the elder brother of Hiraṇyakaśipu, and lifted up the earth from the depths of the ocean, to which it had been consigned by the said demon.

Both the listener and the reciter of the esoteric story of Śrī Rāma must be repositories of wisdom. How then could I, a dull and stupid creature steeped in the impurities of the Kali age, expect to follow it? (30-B)

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