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title: "Bal Kand Doha 31"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 31

**चौ०** 
> तदपि कही गुर बारहिं बारा। समुझि परी कछु मति अनुसारा॥  
> भाषाबद्ध करबि मैं सोई। मोरें मन प्रबोध जेहिं होई॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> जस कछु बुधि बिबेक बल मेरें। तस कहिहउँ हियँ हरि के प्रेरें॥  
> निज संदेह मोह भ्रम हरनी। करउँ कथा भव सरिता तरनी॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> बुध बिश्राम सकल जन रंजनि। रामकथा कलि कलुष बिभंजनि॥  
> रामकथा कलि पंनग भरनी। पुनि बिबेक पावक कहुँ अरनी॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> रामकथा कलि कामद गाई। सुजन सजीवनि मूरि सुहाई॥  
> सोइ बसुधातल सुधा तरंगिनि। भय भंजनि भ्रम भेक भुअंगिनि॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> असुर सेन सम नरक निकंदिनि। साधु बिबुध कुल हित गिरिनंदिनि॥  
> संत समाज पयोधि रमा सी। बिस्व भार भर अचल छमा सी॥५॥

**चौ०** 
> जम गन मुहँ मसि जग जमुना सी। जीवन मुकुति हेतु जनु कासी॥  
> रामहि प्रिय पावनि तुलसी सी। तुलसिदास हित हियँ हुलसी सी॥६॥

**चौ०** 
> सिवप्रिय मेकल सैल सुता सी। सकल सिद्धि सुख संपति रासी॥  
> सदगुन सुरगन अंब अदिति सी। रघुबर भगति प्रेम परमिति सी॥७॥

Meaning: Nevertheless, when the preceptor repeated the story time and again, I followed it to some extent according to my poor understanding. I shall versify the same in the common man’s dialect (जनभाषा), so that my mind may derive satisfaction from it. (1)

Equipped with what little intellectual and critical awareness I possess, I shall write with a heart inspired by Śrī Hari. The story I am going to tell is such as will dispel my own doubts, errors and delusion and will serve as a boat for crossing the stream of mundane existence. (2)

The story of Śrī Rāma is a solace to the learned and a source of delight to all men and wipes out the impurities of the Kali age. Śrī Rāma’s story is a pea-hen for the serpent in the form of the Kali age; again, it is a wooden stick* for kindling the sacred fire of wisdom. (3)

* The fire used in sacrifices in India is produced by rubbing a wooden stick against a wooden block.

The tale of Śrī Rāma is the cow of plenty in this age of Kali; it is a beautiful life-giving herb for the virtuous. It is a veritable river of nectar on the earth; it shatters the fear of birth and death and is a virtual snake for the frog of delusion. (4)

It is beneficent to pious souls–even as Goddess Pārvatī is benevolent to gods; again, it puts an end to hell even as Pārvatī (Durgā) exterminated the army of demons. It flows from the assemblage of saints, even as Lakṣmī (the goddess of wealth) emerged from the ocean; and like the immovable earth it bears the burden of the entire creation. (5)

Like the sacred river Yamunā in this world it scares away the messengers of Yama (the god of death). It is holy Kāśī, as it were, for the liberation of souls. It is dear to Śrī Rāma as the sacred basil plant Tulasī and is truly beneficent to Tulasīdāsa as his own mother, Hulasī. (6)

It is beloved of Lord Śiva as the river Narmadā (which has its source in Mount Mekala, a peak of the Amarakaṇṭaka hills); it is a mine of all attainments as well as of happiness and prosperity. It is as propitious to noble qualities as mother Aditi is to gods; it is the culmination, as it were, of devotion and love for Śrī Rāma. (7)

**दो०** 
> रामकथा मंदाकिनी चित्रकूट चित चारु।  
> तुलसी सुभग सनेह बन सिय रघुबीर बिहारु॥३१॥

Meaning: The story of Śrī Rāma is the river Mandākinī (which washes the foot of Citrakūṭa); a guileless heart is Mount Citrakūṭa (one of the happy resorts of Śrī Rāma during his wanderings in the forest); while pure love, says Tulasīdāsa, is the woodland in which Sītā and Śrī Rāma carry on Their divine pastimes. (31)

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