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title: "Uttar Kand Doha 42"
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# Uttar Kand · Doha 42

Śrī Rāma’s exhortation to His subjects (Śrī Rāma-Gītā); the citizens’ acknowledgement

**चौ०** 
> श्रीमुख बचन सुनत सब भाई। हरषे प्रेम न हृदयँ समाई॥  
> करहिं बिनय अति बारहिं बारा। हनूमान हियँ हरष अपारा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> पुनि रघुपति निज मंदिर गए। एहि बिधि चरित करत नित नए॥  
> बार बार नारद मुनि आवहिं। चरित पुनीत राम के गावहिं॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> नित नव चरित देखि मुनि जाहीं। ब्रह्मलोक सब कथा कहाहीं॥  
> सुनि बिरंचि अतिसय सुख मानहिं। पुनि पुनि तात करहु गुन गानहिं॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> सनकादिक नारदहि सराहहिं। जद्यपि ब्रह्म निरत मुनि आहहिं॥  
> सुनि गुन गान समाधि बिसारी। सादर सुनहिं परम अधिकारी॥४॥

Meaning: All the three brothers (Bharata, Lakṣmaṇa and Śatrughna) rejoiced to hear these words from the blessed lips of the Lord and their heart overflowed with love. Again and again they made obeisance to Him with profound reverence; there was immense joy in the heart of Hanumān in particular. (1)

Śrī Rāma then retired to His own palace. In this way He enacted new sports (Līlā) every day. The sage Nārada paid frequent visits and sang Śrī Rāma’s holy exploits. (2)

After witnessing fresh deeds continually, the sage would return to Brahmā’s abode and relate all the events there. Brahmā (the Creator) felt overjoyed to hear them and said, “Dear son, hymn Śrī Rāma’s glories again and again.” (3)

Sanaka and his three brothers extolled Nārada: and, though absorbed in Brahma (the Infinite), the sages forgot their Samādhi (absorption) on hearing the hymns of praise to Lord Śrī Rāma, and listened to these with reverence, supremely qualified as they were. (4)

**दो०** 
> जीवनमुक्त ब्रह्मपर चरित सुनहिं तजि ध्यान।  
> जे हरि कथाँ न करहिं रति तिन्ह के हिय पाषान॥४२॥

Meaning: Even those (like Sanaka and others) who are liberated though embodied and are absorbed in Brahma, hear the narrative of Śrī Rāma even by interrupting their meditation (abstraction). Truly, theirs must be a heart of stone, who take no delight in the narratives of Śrī Hari. (42)

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