Sundar Kaanda Vibhisana sallies forth to obtain Sri Rama's protection and secures it - Chaupais
Ramcharitmanas · Sundar Kaanda Vibhisana sallies forth to obtain Sri Rama's protection and secures it · Verse Chaupais 2189
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सुनहु सखा निज कहउँ सुभाऊ। जान भुसुंडि संभु गिरिजाऊ।। जौं नर होइ चराचर द्रोही। आवे सभय सरन तकि मोही।। तजि मद मोह कपट छल नाना। करउँ सद्य तेहि साधु समाना।। जननी जनक बंधु सुत दारा। तनु धनु भवन सुह्रद परिवारा।। सब कै ममता ताग बटोरी। मम पद मनहि बाँध बरि डोरी।। समदरसी इच्छा कछु नाहीं। हरष सोक भय नहिं मन माहीं।। अस सज्जन मम उर बस कैसें। लोभी हृदयँ बसइ धनु जैसें।। तुम्ह सारिखे संत प्रिय मोरें। धरउँ देह नहिं आन निहोरें।।
sunahu sakhā nija kahauom subhāū. jāna bhusuṃḍi saṃbhu girijāū jauṃ nara hōi carācara drōhī. āvē sabhaya sarana taki mōhī taji mada mōha kapaṭa chala nānā. karauom sadya tēhi sādhu samānā jananī janaka baṃdhu suta dārā. tanu dhanu bhavana suhrada parivārā saba kai mamatā tāga baṭōrī. mama pada manahi bāomdha bari ḍōrī samadarasī icchā kachu nāhīṃ. haraṣa sōka bhaya nahiṃ mana māhīṃ asa sajjana mama ura basa kaisēṃ. lōbhī hṛdayaom basai dhanu jaisēṃ tumha sārikhē saṃta priya mōrēṃ. dharauom dēha nahiṃ āna nihōrēṃ
"Listen, My friend: I tell you My nature, which is known to Bhusundi, Sambhu (Lord Siva) and Girija (Parvati) 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 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 are like so many threads which a pious soul gathers up and twists into a string wherewith he binds his soul to My feet. Nay, he looks upon all with the same eye and has no craving and his mind is free from joy, grief and fear. A saint of this description abides in My heart even as mammon resides in the heart of a covetous man. Only saints of your type are dear to Me; for the sake of none else do I body Myself forth."