Doha 6
खल अघ अगुन साधु गुन गाहा। उभय अपार उदधि अवगाहा॥ तेहि तें कछु गुन दोष बखाने। संग्रह त्याग न बिनु पहिचाने॥१॥
भलेउ पोच सब बिधि उपजाए। गनि गुन दोष बेद बिलगाए॥ कहहिं बेद इतिहास पुराना। बिधि प्रपंचु गुन अवगुन साना॥२॥
दुख सुख पाप पुन्य दिन राती। साधु असाधु सुजाति कुजाती॥ दानव देव ऊँच अरु नीचू। अमिअ सुजीवनु माहुरु मीचू॥३॥ माया ब्रह्म जीव जगदीसा। लच्छि अलच्छि रंक अवनीसा॥ कासी मग सुरसरि क्रमनासा। मरु मारव महिदेव गवासा॥४॥ सरग नरक अनुराग बिरागा। निगमागम गुन दोष बिभागा॥५॥
Meaning
The tales of sins and vices of the wicked, on the one hand, and of the virtues of the virtuous, on the other, are like boundless and unfathomable oceans. That is why I have enumerated only a few virtues and vices; for they cannot be acquired or discarded without being distinctly understood. (1) The good as well as the vile, all have been brought into being by the Creator; it is the Vedas that have differentiated them by reckoning the merits of the former class and the demerits of the other. The Vedas, the Itihāsas (such as the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata) and the Purāṇas unanimously declare that the creation of Brahmā (the Creator) is an intermixture of good and evil. (2) It is characterized by pairs of opposites such as pain and pleasure, sin and merit, day and night, the good and the wicked, good birth and vile birth, demons and gods, the high and the low, nectar and poison, a happy life and death, (3) Māyā and Brahma, i.e., Matter and Spirit, the soul (Jīva) and God (the Lord of the universe), plenty and poverty, the pauper and the king, the sacred Kāśī or Vārāṇasī and Magadha or North Bihar (the accursed land), the holy Gaṅgā, the river of the celestials–and the unholy Karmanāśā* (in Bihar), the desert land of Māravāra (Western Rajasthan and Sindha) and the rich soil of Mālavā, the Brāhmaṇa—who is a veritable god on earth—and the butcher; (4) * A river of sinful origin in Bihar, a plunge in whose waters is said to destroy one’s religious merits, Hence it is called Karmanāśā (that which neutralizes one’s meritorious acts). heaven and hell, attachment and dispassion—all these exist in Brahmā’s creation. The Vedas and other sacred books have sifted good from evil. (5)
जड़ चेतन गुन दोषमय बिस्व कीन्ह करतार। संत हंस गुन गहहिं पय परिहरि बारि बिकार॥६॥
Meaning
God has created the universe consisting of animate and inanimate beings as partaking of both good and evil; swans† in the form of saints imbibe the milk of goodness, rejecting water in the form of evil. (6) † The swan is traditionally believed to feed on pearls and credited with the natural gift of separating milk from water.
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