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# Uttar Kand · Doha 111b

**चौ०** 
> तब मुनीस रघुपति गुन गाथा । कहे कछुक सादर खगनाथा॥  
> ब्रह्मग्यान रत मुनि बिग्यानी । मोहि परम अधिकारी जानी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> लागे करन ब्रह्म उपदेसा । अज अद्वैत अगुन हृदयेसा॥  
> अकल अनीह अनाम अरूपा । अनुभव गम्य अखंड अनूपा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> मन गोतीत अमल अबिनासी । निर्बिकार निरवधि सुख रासी॥  
> सो तैं ताहि तोहि नहिं भेदा । बारि बीचि इव गावहिं बेदा॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> बिबिधि भाँति मोहि मुनि समुझावा । निर्गुन मत मम हृदयँ न आवा॥  
> पुनि मैं कहेउँ नाइ पद सीसा । सगुन उपासन कहहु मुनीसा॥४॥

**चौ०** 
> राम भगति जल मम मन मीना । किमि बिलगाइ मुनीस प्रबीना॥  
> सोइ उपदेस कहहु करि दाया। निज नयनन्हि देखौं रघुराया॥ ५ ॥

**चौ०** 
> भरि लोचन बिलोकि अवधेसा । तब सुनिहउँ निर्गुन उपदेसा॥  
> मुनि पुनि कहि हरिकथा अनूपा । खंडि सगुन मत अगुन निरूपा॥६॥

**चौ०** 
> तब मैं निर्गुन मत कर दूरी । सगुन निरूपउँ करि हठ भूरी॥  
> उत्तर प्रतिउत्तर मैं कीन्हा । मुनि तन भए क्रोध के चीन्हा॥७॥

**चौ०** 
> सुनु प्रभु बहुत अवग्या किएँ । उपज क्रोध ग्यानिन्ह के हिएँ॥  
> अति संघरषन जौं कर कोई । अनल प्रगट चंदन ते होई॥८॥

Meaning: “Thereupon the great sage recounted earnestly a few virtues of Śrī Raghunātha, O lord of the feathered creation. But himself being devoted to the knowledge of Brahma (the Absolute), and taking me to be the fittest person (to be initiated into such knowledge), (1)

“the enlightened sage began a sermon on Brahma, the unborn, the One without a second and without attributes, the Ruler of the heart (the inner Controller), incomprehensible, desireless, without name or form, attainable only through realization, indivisible and incomparable, (2)

“beyond the mind and the senses, immaculate and indestructible, immutable, unlimited and all-blissful: ‘You are identical with the Brahma referred to above; no more difference exists between Him and you than between a sheet of water and the ripples on its surface; so declare the Vedas.’ (3)

“The sage instructed me in various ways; but the truth that the individual embodied soul is identical with the attributeless Brahma did not appeal to my heart. Bowing my head at his feet, I submitted again, ‘Kindly tell me how to worship the embodied (Saguṇa-Sākāra) Brahma, O lord of the sages. (4)

‘My mind takes delight in the worship of Śrī Rāma even as a fish rejoices in water; how, then, can it exist without it, O wise lord of the sages? Be gracious, therefore, to teach me the method whereby I may be able to behold Śrī Raghunātha with my own eyes. (5)

‘Having feasted my eyes on the King of Ayodhyā, I will then listen to your discourse on the attributeless (Nirguṇa-Nirākāra) Brahma.’ The sage once more recited the incomparable story of Śrī Hari; but demolishing the doctrine that the supreme Spirit does appear in an embodied form, he established the proposition that He is ever without attributes. (6)

“Thereupon I would set aside the view that God is ever attributeless and establish with great vehemence the doctrine that He takes an embodied form. When I thus entered into rather intense argument with him, signs of resentment appeared on the sage’s person. (7)

“Listen, my lord, insolence carried to an excess rouses passion even in the mind of an enlightened soul. Too much friction will produce fire even out of sandal-wood. (8)

**दो०** 
> बारंबार सकोप मुनि करइ निरूपन ग्यान।  
> मैं अपनें मन बैठ तब करउँ बिबिधि अनुमान॥१११(क)॥

**दो०** 
> क्रोध कि द्वैतबुद्धि बिनु द्वैत कि बिनु अग्यान।  
> मायाबस परिछिन्न जड़ जीव कि ईस समान॥१११(ख)॥

Meaning: “Again and again in the heat of passion the sage expatiated on knowledge of the Absolute, while I sat still and put to myself various questions: (111 A)

‘Can there be anger without duality or duality without ignorance? Can an individual soul, dull, finite and subject to Māyā, ever be at par with God? (111 B)

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