Doha 61
Rāvaṇa awakes Kumbhakarṇa; Kumbhakarṇa’s exhortation to Rāvaṇa and dialogue between Vibhīṣaṇa and Kumbhakarṇa
उहाँ राम लछिमनहि निहारी । बोले बचन मनुज अनुसारी ॥ अर्ध राति गइ कपि नहिं आयउ । राम उठाइ अनुज उर लायउ ॥१॥
सकहु न दुखित देखि मोहि काऊ । बंधु सदा तव मृदुल सुभाऊ ॥ मम हित लागि तजेहु पितु माता । सहेहु बिपिन हिम आतप बाता ॥२॥
सो अनुराग कहाँ अब भाई। उठहु न सुनि मम बच बिकलाई॥ जौं जनतेउँ बन बंधु बिछोहू। पिता बचन मनतेउँ नहिं ओहू॥३॥
सुत बित नारि भवन परिवारा। होहिं जाहिं जग बारहिं बारा॥ अस बिचारि जियँ जागहु ताता। मिलइ न जगत सहोदर भ्राता॥४॥
जथा पंख बिनु खग अति दीना। मनि बिनु फनि करिबर कर हीना॥ अस मम जिवन बंधु बिनु तोही। जौं जड़ दैव जिआवै मोही॥५॥
जैहउँ अवध कवन मुहु लाई। नारि हेतु प्रिय भाइ गँवाई॥ बरु अपजस सहतेउँ जग माहीं। नारि हानि बिसेष छति नाहीं॥६॥
अब अपलोकु सोकु सुत तोरा। सहिहि निठुर कठोर उर मोरा॥ निज जननी के एक कुमारा। तात तासु तुम्ह प्रान अधारा॥७॥
सौंपेसि मोहि तुम्हहि गहि पानी। सब बिधि सुखद परम हित जानी॥ उतरु काह दैहउँ तेहि जाई। उठि किन मोहि सिखावहु भाई॥८॥
बहु बिधि सोचत सोच बिमोचन। स्रवत सलिल राजिव दल लोचन॥ उमा एक अखंड रघुराई। नर गति भगत कृपाल देखाई॥९॥
Meaning
Now, there on Suvela Śrī Rāma uttered words befitting a mortal as He looked at Lakṣmaṇa: “Although it is now past midnight, Hanumān has not yet turned up!” Śrī Rāma raised His younger brother and clasped him to His bosom. (1) “Brother, you could never bear to see me in distress, since your disposition has always been so tender. On my account you left both father and mother and exposed yourself to cold, heat and winds of the forest. (2) “Where is that love now, brother, that you refuse to get up even on hearing my lament? Had I known that I would lose my brother in the forest, I would have never obeyed even my father’s command. (3) “Sons, riches, wives, houses and kinsfolk in this world repeatedly come and go; but a real brother cannot be had again in this world. Ponder this in your mind and arise, dear brother. (4) “As a bird is utterly miserable without wings, a serpent without its head-jewel and a noble elephant without its trunk, so is my life without you, brother, in case insensitive Providence compels me to live. (5) “With what face shall I return to Ayodhyā after losing a beloved brother for the sake of my wife. I would rather have suffered obloquy in the world (for my inability to recover my wife); for, after all the loss of a wife is comparatively less serious a loss (as that of a brother). (6) “Now, however, my unfeeling and stony heart will endure both that obloquy and the deep anguish of your loss, my loved one. Your mother’s only son, you are the sole prop of her life. (7) “Yet she took you by the hand and entrusted you to me, knowing that I would make you happy in everyway and that I am your greatest well-wisher. What answer shall I give her when I go back? Why should you not get up and advise me, brother?” (8) Thus despaired Śrī Rāma, the Dispeller of sorrow, in diverse ways; and tears flowed from His eyes which resembled the petals of a lotus. Umā, continues Lord Śiva, Śrī Raghunātha is one without a second and indivisible (whole); He exhibited the ways of human beings only because He is so compassionate to His devotees. (9)
प्रभु प्रलाप सुनि कान बिकल भए बानर निकर। आइ गयउ हनुमान जिमि करुना महँ बीर रस॥६१॥
Meaning
The hosts of monkeys that surrounded the Lord were distressed to hear the Lord’s wailing. Presently arrived Hanumān like a heroic strain in the midst of pathos. (61)
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