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title: "Bal Kand Doha 39"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 39

**चौ०** 
> जौं करि कष्ट जाइ पुनि कोई। जातहिं नीद जुड़ाई होई॥  
> जड़ता जाड़ बिषम उर लागा। गएहुँ न मज्जन पाव अभागा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> करि न जाइ सर मज्जन पाना। फिरि आवइ समेत अभिमाना॥  
> जौं बहोरि कोउ पूछन आवा। सर निंदा करि ताहि बुझावा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सकल बिघ्न ब्यापहिं नहिं तेही। राम सुकृपाँ बिलोकहिं जेही॥  
> सोइ सादर सर मज्जनु करई। महा घोर त्रयताप न जरई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> ते नर यह सर तजहिं न काऊ। जिन्ह कें राम चरन भल भाऊ॥  
> जो नहाइ चह एहिं सर भाई। सो सतसंग करउ मन लाई॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> अस मानस मानस चख चाही। भइ कबि बुद्धि बिमल अवगाही॥  
> भयउ हृदयँ आनंद उछाहू। उमगेउ प्रेम प्रमोद प्रबाहू॥५॥

**चौ०** 
> चली सुभग कबिता सरिता सो। राम बिमल जस जल भरिता सो॥  
> सरजू नाम सुमंगल मूला। लोक बेद मत मंजुल कूला॥६॥

**चौ०** 
> नदी पुनीत सुमानस नंदिनि। कलिमल तृन तरु मूल निकंदिनि॥७॥

Meaning: Even if someone makes his way to it, undergoing so much hardship, he is forthwith attacked by ague in the shape of drowsiness. Benumbing cold in the shape of stupor overtakes his heart, so that the unfortunate fellow is deprived of a dip even after reaching there. (1)

Finding himself unable to take a plunge into the lake or to drink from it, he returns with a feeling of arrogance. And if someone comes to inquire about the lake, he tries to convince him (of its futility) by vilifying it. (2)

All these obstacles do not, however, deter him whom Śrī Rāma regards with overwhelming kindness. He alone reverently bathes in the lake and thus escapes the threefold agony* of the fiercest kind. (3)

* The three kinds of agony referred to above are: (i) that inflicted by other living beings (ii) that proceeding from natural causes and (iii) that caused by bodily or mental agony.

Those men who cherish ideal devotion to the feet of Śrī Rāma never forsake this lake. Let him who would bathe in this lake, brother! diligently practise Satsaṅga (association with saints). (4)

Having seen the said Mānasa lake with the mind’s eye and taken a dip into it, the poet’s intellect got purged of all its dross. The heart was flooded with joy and exhilaration and a torrent of love and rapture welled up from it. (5)

Thence flowed a stream of beautiful poetry, carrying the water of Śrī Rāma’s blissful glory. Sarayū is the name of this river (in the form of this narrative), which is the very fountain of pure bliss. The prevalent view-point and the view-point of the Vedas—these represent its two charming banks. (6)

This holy stream, Sarayū, issuing as it does from the beautiful Mānasa lake, uproots in its course all the impurities of the Kali age, whether in the form of tiny blades of grass or of mighty trees. (7)

**दो०** 
> श्रोता त्रिबिध समाज पुर ग्राम नगर दुहुँ कूल।  
> संतसभा अनुपम अवध सकल सुमंगल मूल॥३९॥

Meaning: The assemblage of three types of listeners* are like the towns, villages and cities on both the banks of this river and the congregation of saints is the incomparable Ayodhyā, which is the fountain of all auspicious blessings. (39)

* The three types of listeners referred to here may be understood to mean (i) liberated souls (ii) seekers of liberation and (iii) sensually-minded men.

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