Uttar Kaanda Kakabhusundi narrates the story of his previous lives and tells Garuda the glory of the Kali age - Sortas
Ramcharitmanas · Uttar Kaanda Kakabhusundi narrates the story of his previous lives and tells Garuda the glory of the Kali age · Verse Sortas 2126
Sanskrit Original
जेहि सुख लागि पुरारि असुभ बेष कृत सिव सुखद। अवधपुरी नर नारि तेहि सुख महुँ संतत मगन।।88(क)।। सोइ सुख लवलेस जिन्ह बारक सपनेहुँ लहेउ। ते नहिं गनहिं खगेस ब्रह्मसुखहि सज्जन सुमति।।88(ख)।।
jēhi sukha lāgi purāri asubha bēṣa kṛta siva sukhada. avadhapurī nara nāri tēhi sukha mahu saṃtata magana..88ka.. sōi sukha lavalēsa jinha bāraka sapanēhu lahēu. tē nahiṃ ganahiṃ khagēsa brahmasukhahi sajjana sumati..88kha..
The men and women of Ayodhya remained ever absorbed in that (transcendental) joy, to attain which the blessed Lord Siva, the delighter of all, assumed His unsightly garb (such as a garland of human skulls, serpents for His ornaments, ashes for scented cosmetics and a tiger-skin for a loin-cloth). Those wise and virtuous souls who have tasted of that joy only once even in a dream think nothing of the joy of absorption into Brahma (much less of any other earthly or heavenly joy).