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# Bal Kand · Doha 45

**चौ०** 
> एहि प्रकार भरि माघ नहाहीं। पुनि सब निज निज आश्रम जाहीं॥  
> प्रति संबत अति होइ अनंदा। मकर मज्जि गवनहिं मुनिबृंदा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> एक बार भरि मकर नहाए। सब मुनीस आश्रमन्ह सिधाए॥  
> जागबलिक मुनि परम बिबेकी। भरद्वाज राखे पद टेकी॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सादर चरन सरोज पखारे। अति पुनीत आसन बैठारे॥  
> करि पूजा मुनि सुजसु बखानी। बोले अति पुनीत मृदु बानी॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> नाथ एक संसउ बड़ मोरें। करगत बेदतत्त्व सबु तोरें॥  
> कहत सो मोहि लागत भय लाजा। जौं न कहउँ बड़ होइ अकाजा॥४॥

Meaning: In this way they bathe for the whole month of Māgha and then they return to their respective hermitages. There is great rejoicing every year and having performed their ablutions while the sun stays in Capricorn, the hosts of sages disperse. (1)

Having bathed on one occasion for the whole period of the sun’s stay in Capricorn when all the great sages had left, each for his respective hermitage, Bharadvāja clasped the feet of the supremely enlightened saint Yājñavalkya to detain him. (2)

He reverently washed the latter’s lotus feet and seated him on a most sacred Āsana (sitting-mat). And extolling his fair renown after duly adoring him, Bharadvāja spoke in a saintly and reverential tone. (3)

“A grave doubt haunts my mind, holy sir! and the whole mystery of the Vedas stands revealed to you. I am afraid and ashamed to utter the doubt; and I lose a great opportunity if I do not express it. (4)

**दो०** 
> संत कहहिं असि नीति प्रभु श्रुति पुरान मुनि गाव।  
> होइ न बिमल बिबेक उर गुर सन किएँ दुराव॥४५॥

Meaning: “The saints lay down the rule, and the Vedas as well as the Purāṇas and sages too loudly proclaim, that pure wisdom cannot dawn in the heart should one keep anything concealed from one’s spiritual preceptor. (45)

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