Ayodhya Kaanda Dialogue between the sage Vasistha, Sri Rama and Bharata - Chaupais
Ramcharitmanas · Ayodhya Kaanda Dialogue between the sage Vasistha, Sri Rama and Bharata · Verse Chaupais 2171
Sanskrit Original
जानहु तात तरनि कुल रीती। सत्यसंध पितु कीरति प्रीती।। समउ समाजु लाज गुरुजन की। उदासीन हित अनहित मन की।। तुम्हहि बिदित सबही कर करमू। आपन मोर परम हित धरमू।। मोहि सब भाँति भरोस तुम्हारा। तदपि कहउँ अवसर अनुसारा।। तात तात बिनु बात हमारी। केवल गुरुकुल कृपाँ सँभारी।। नतरु प्रजा परिजन परिवारू। हमहि सहित सबु होत खुआरू।। जौं बिनु अवसर अथवँ दिनेसू। जग केहि कहहु न होइ कलेसू।। तस उतपातु तात बिधि कीन्हा। मुनि मिथिलेस राखि सबु लीन्हा।।
jānahu tāta tarani kula rītī. satyasaṃdha pitu kīrati prītī.. samau samāju lāja gurujana kī. udāsīna hita anahita mana kī.. tumhahi bidita sabahī kara karamū. āpana mōra parama hita dharamū.. mōhi saba bhāomti bharōsa tumhārā. tadapi kahau avasara anusārā.. tāta tāta binu bāta hamārī. kēvala gurukula kṛpāom saombhārī.. nataru prajā parijana parivārū. hamahi sahita sabu hōta khuārū.. jauṃ binu avasara athavaom dinēsū. jaga kēhi kahahu na hōi kalēsū.. tasa utapātu tāta bidhi kīnhā. muni mithilēsa rākhi sabu līnhā..
You are conversant, dear brother, with the traditions of the solar race, and know how truthful and how fond of fame our father was. You are also alive to the gravity of the occasion, the circumstances in which we are placed and the consideration we should have for the feelings of our elders and further know the mind of your friends, foes and neutrals. You are also aware of everyone's duty as well as of what is best for you and me and of what we should do. I have entire confidence in you; yet I say something appropriate to the occasion. In the absence of our father, dear brother, all out interests have been conserved by the goodwill of our preceptor's family; otherwise our subjects, our kinsmen, our own people and ourselves, all would have been undone. If the sun (the lord of the day) sets before time, tell me, who in this world will not be subjected to hardship? A similar calamity was visited upon us by Providence, but the sage Vasistha and the lord of Mithila saved everything."