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title: "Bal Kand Doha 3b"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 3b

Salutations to the wicked

**चौ०** 
> मज्जन फल पेखिअ ततकाला। काक होहिं पिक बकउ मराला॥  
> सुनि आचरज करै जनि कोई। सतसंगति महिमा नहिं गोई॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> बालमीक नारद घटजोनी। निज निज मुखनि कही निज होनी॥  
> जलचर थलचर नभचर नाना। जे जड़ चेतन जीव जहाना॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> मति कीरति गति भूति भलाई। जब जेहिं जतन जहाँ जेहिं पाई॥  
> सो जानब सतसंग प्रभाऊ। लोकहुँ बेद न आन उपाऊ॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> बिनु सतसंग बिबेक न होई। राम कृपा बिनु सुलभ न सोई॥  
> सतसंगत मुद मंगल मूला। सोइ फल सिधि सब साधन फूला॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> सठ सुधरहिं सतसंगति पाई। पारस परस कुधात सुहाई॥  
> बिधि बस सुजन कुसंगत परहीं। फनि मनि सम निज गुन अनुसरहीं॥५॥

**चौ०** 
> बिधि हरि हर कबि कोबिद बानी। कहत साधु महिमा सकुचानी॥  
> सो मो सन कहि जात न कैसें। साक बनिक मनि गुन गन जैसें॥६॥

Meaning: The result of an immersion into the sacred waters of this king of holy places is instantly perceived: crows turn into cuckoos and herons into swans. Let no one marvel to hear this; the glory of contact with saints is no secret. (1)

Vālmīki† and Nārada, Agastya‡, who was born of a pitcher, have related the story of their birth and transformation with their own mouth. Of the various creatures, both animate and inanimate, living in this world, whether in water or on land or in the air, (2)

† Vālmīki had been a hunter and a highway robber in his early life. He was reclaimed by the seven seers and eventually turned out a great seer and poet. We read in the Bhāgavata that Nārada was the son of a maid-servant in his previous incarnation and even as a child came in touch with holy men, who imparted him the highest wisdom and made him a real devotee by their very contact. In his next birth he appeared as a mind-born son of Brahmā.

‡ Agastya was begotten of god Varuṇa through a pitcher. Another great sage, Vasiṣṭha, was also born of the same pitcher. The association thus obtained in his embryonic state with a great sage made him equally great.

whoever has ever attained wisdom, glory, salvation, material prosperity or welfare anywhere and by any means whatsoever, knows it to be the result of association with holy men; there is no other means either in the world or in the Vedas. (3)

Wisdom dawns not without association with saints and such association cannot be easily had without the grace of Śrī Rāma. Contact with noble souls is the root of joy and blessings; it constitutes the very fruit and fulfilment of all endeavours, whereas all other practices are blossoms, as it were. (4)

Through contact with the virtuous even the wicked get reformed, just as iron, a base metal, is transmuted (into gold) by the touch of the philosopher’s stone. On the other hand, if per chance good men fall into evil company, they maintain their noble character like the gem on the hood of a serpent. (5)

Even the speech of deities like Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, poets and men of wisdom falters in depicting the glory of pious souls. Much less can it be described by me, even as a dealer in vegetables finds himself incapable of expatiating on the qualities of gems. (6)

**दो०** 
> बंदउँ संत समान चित हित अनहित नहिं कोइ।  
> अंजलि गत सुभ सुमन जिमि सम सुगंध कर दोइ॥३ (क)॥

**दो०** 
> संत सरल चित जगत हित जानि सुभाउ सनेहु।  
> बालबिनय सुनि करि कृपा राम चरन रति देहु॥३ (ख)॥

Meaning: I bow to the saints, who are even-minded towards all and have no friend or foe, just as a flower of good quality placed in the palm of one’s hands communicates its fragrance alike to both the hands (the one which plucked it and that which held and preserved it). (3-A)

Realizing thus the noble disposition and loving nature of saints, who are innocent at heart and catholic in spirit, I make this humble submission to them. Listening to my childlike prayer and taking compassion on me, O noble souls, bless me with devotion to the feet of Śrī Rāma. (3-B)

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