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# Sunderkand · Doha 48

**चौ०** 
> सुनहु सखा निज कहउँ सुभाऊ। जान भुसुंडि संभु गिरिजाऊ॥  
> जौं नर होइ चराचर द्रोही। आवै सभय सरन तकि मोही॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> तजि मद मोह कपट छल नाना। करउँ सद्य तेहि साधु समाना॥  
> जननी जनक बंधु सुत दारा। तनु धनु भवन सुहृद परिवारा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सब कै ममता ताग बटोरी। मम पद मनहि बाँध बरि डोरी॥  
> समदरसी इच्छा कछु नाहीं। हरष सोक भय नहिं मन माहीं॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> अस सज्जन मम उर बस कैसें। लोभी हृदयँ बसइ धनु जैसें॥  
> तुम्ह सारिखे संत प्रिय मोरें। धरउँ देह नहिं आन निहोरें॥४॥

Meaning: Śrī Rāma said: “Listen, My friend: I tell you My nature, which is known to Kākabhuśuṇḍi, Lord Śiva and Pārvatī, too. If a man, even though he has been an enemy of the whole animate and inanimate creation, comes terror-stricken to Me, seeking My protection, (1)

“and discarding vanity, infatuation, hypocrisy and trickeries of various kinds, I speedily make him the very like of a saint. The ties of affection that bind a man to his mother, father, brother, son, wife, body, wealth, house, friends and relations, (2)

“are like so many threads which a pious soul gathers up and twists into a string wherewith he binds his mind and heart to My feet. Nay, he looks upon all with equanimity and has no craving and his mind is free from joy, grief and fear. (3)

“A saint of this description abides in My heart even as riches reside in the heart of an avaricious man. Only saints of your type are dear to Me; for the sake of none else do I body Myself forth. (4)

**दो०** 
> सगुन उपासक परहित निरत नीति दृढ़ नेम।  
> ते नर प्रान समान मम जिन्ह कें द्विज पद प्रेम॥४८॥

Meaning: “Those men, who worship My manifested (Saguṇa-Sākāra) form, are intent on doing good to others, firmly tread the path of righteousness, and are steadfast in their vow and devoted to the feet of the Brāhmaṇas, are dear to Me as life. (48)

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