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title: "Sunderkand Doha 38"
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# Sunderkand · Doha 38

**चौ०** 
> सोइ रावन कहुँ बनी सहाई। अस्तुति करहिं सुनाइ सुनाई॥  
> अवसर जानि बिभीषनु आवा। भ्राता चरन सीसु तेहिं नावा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> पुनि सिरु नाइ बैठ निज आसन। बोला बचन पाइ अनुसासन॥  
> जौ कृपाल पूँछिहु मोहि बाता। मति अनुरूप कहउँ हित ताता॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> जो आपन चाहै कल्याना। सुजसु सुमति सुभ गति सुख नाना॥  
> सो परनारि लिलार गोसाईं। तजउ चउथि के चंद कि नाईं॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> चौदह भुवन एक पति होई। भूतद्रोह तिष्टइ नहिं सोई॥  
> गुन सागर नागर नर जोऊ। अलप लोभ भल कहइ न कोऊ॥४॥

Meaning: It was such a contingency that presented itself before Rāvaṇa. They all extolled him only to his face. Perceiving it to be an opportune hour, Vibhīṣaṇa (Rāvaṇa’s youngest brother) arrived and bowed his head at his brother’s feet. (1)

Bowing his head once more he occupied his seat and, when asked to speak, addressed him thus: “Since Your gracious Majesty has asked me for my opinion, I tender it, dear brother, according to my own understanding and in your own interest. (2)

“Let him, who seeks his welfare, good reputation, wisdom, a good destiny after his death and joys of various kinds, turn his eyes away from the brow of another’s wife even as one does not see the moon on the fourth night (of the bright half) of a lunar month. (3)

“Even if a man happens to be the sole lord of the fourteen spheres, he would certainly fall if he turns hostile to living beings. No one will speak well of a man who has the slightest avarice even though he were an ocean of virtues and clever, too. (4)

**दो०** 
> काम क्रोध मद लोभ सब नाथ नरक के पंथ।  
> सब परिहरि रघुबीरहि भजहु भजहिं जेहि संत॥३८॥

Meaning: “Lust, anger, vanity and covetousness are all paths leading to hell. Abjuring all these adore Śrī Rāma, whom saints worship. (38)

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