be gracious to me,

Jai Sri Ram,
She is eastern horizon whence arose the lovely moon in the shape of the lord of Raghus,

Who affords delight to the entire universe and is blighting as frost to lotuses in the form of the wicked,

Recognizing king Dasaratha together with all his consorts as incarnation of merit and fair blessings,

I make obeisance to them in thought, word and deed, knowing me as a servant of your son, be gracious to me,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai sri Ram,
Even though they were damned as a result of the heap of sins uncured by the calumnitors of Sita,

Who were instrumental in bringing about her life long exile,

They were lodged in a heavenly abode, having been divested the sorrow,

I greet Kaushalya, the eldest queen of King Dasaratha, whose glory stands diffused throughout the world,

May Lord Bless all,

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The Birth Place of Sri Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
I reverence the exceedingly holy city Ayodhya,

The Birth Place of Sri Rama,

I reverence the River Sarayu, flowing beside Ayodhya, which wipes out the sins of the kali age,

Again, I bow to the men and women of the city. who enjoy the affection of the Lord in no small degree,

May Lord Bless all,

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By Shiva's grace

Jai Sri Ram,
By Shiva's grace my composition will shed its luster even  as a night shines in conjunction with the moon and the stars,

Those who will fondly and intelligently recite or hear this story with attention will develop devotion to the feet of sri Rama,

Purged of the impurities of Kali age, will obtain choice blessings,

If Hara and Gauri are really propitious to me, even in dream, let all that i have said in glorification of this poetry of mine, written in a popular dialect, come out true,

May Lord Bless all,

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Ardor

Jai Sri Ram,
Seen the prevalence of the kali age Hara and Girija that Shiva and Parvati evolved a spring of spells in the tongue of savages, incoherent syllables,

Which yield no interpretation and require no repetition but whose efficacy is patent, revealing Shiva's Glory,

That Lord of Uma that Parvati, favorable as he is to me, shall make tis story of mine a source of blessings and joy,

Thus invoking Lord Shiva and his consort, goddess Parvati and obtaining their favor, i relate the exploits of sri Rama with a heart full of ardor,

May Lord bless all,

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True benefactors of Tulsidas

Jai Sri Ram,
The one that sri Ganga ji wipes away sin through immersion and draught,

And the other dispels ignorance through the recital and hearing of her Glory,

I Adore Lord Shiva and his consort Goddess Bhavani,

That My preceptor, and parents, friends of the forlorn and ever given to Charity, servants, masters and friends of Sita's Lord and true Benefactor of Sri Tulsidas,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai sri Ram,
Making obeisance to the feet of gods, the Brahmans, wise men and the deities presiding over the nine planets,

I pray to them with joined palms,

Be pleased to accomplish all my fair desire,

Again i bow to goddess Saraswati and the Celestial river Ganga, both of them are holy and perform agreeable roles,

May Lord Bless all,

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Bark as it were

Jai Sri Ganesha,
I revere all the four Vedas,

Bark as it were on the ocean of mundane existence,

Which never dream of weariness in singing the untarnished glory of Sri Rama,

I greet the dust on the feet of Brahma, the creator, who has evolved the ocean of worldly existence, the birth place of nectar, the Moon and the cow of plenty in the form of saints, on the one hand and poison and wine in the form of the wicked on the other hand,

May Lord Bless all,

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Makar Sankranti

Jai sri Ram,
It is very auspicious chapter today that transit of Sun to zodiac sign Capricorn,

It is an occasion for religious fervor, to perform sacred oblation, meaningful charity and disinterested service for the true cause,

Indeed it is an occasion of Yajna that offering to the sacred fire to purify self and a holy dip in the religious discourse to authenticate the truth of life as man,

 It is just a beginning of the month and truth of sacred Magh glorify this event to update self with knowledge unto self and the Brahma, to mark the life as man,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
Poets and wise men, lovely swans sporting in the Mansarovara lake of Sri Rama's exploits,

Hearing my childlike prayer and recognizing my refined taste, be kindly disposed towards me,

I bow to the lotus feet of the sage who composed the Ramayana,

Which though containing an account of the demon Khara, is yet very soft and charming,

May Lord Bless all,

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Again and again

Jai sri Ram,

The wise admire only that poetry which is lucid and portrays a spotless character,

And which even opponents hear with applause forgetting natural animosity,

Such poetry is not possible without a refined intellect and of intellectual power i have very little,

Be gracious, therefore so that i may depict the glory of sri Hari, i solicit again and again, 

May Lord Bless all,

Thansk please 

Hare Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
The Glory of Sri Rama is charming indeed,

While my speech is rough,

This is something incongruous, I am afraid,

By your grace even this incongruity will turn out well for me, embroidery of silk looks charming even on coarse cloth,

May Lord Bless all,

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Conductive to good of all

Jai Sri Ram,
Those who are still living and those yet to come, i revere them all, renouncing all false appearance,

Be propitious and grant this boon that my song may be honored in the assembly of pious souls,

  A composition which the wise refuse to honor is fruitless labor which only those poets undertake,

Of glory, poetry and affluence that alone is blessed which, like celestial River Ganga is conductive to the good of all,

May Lord Bless all,

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multitudinous virtues of sri Rama,

Jai Sri Ram,
I make obeisance to Bards of the Kali age,

Who have sung the multitudinous virtues of sri Rama,

Even those poets of supreme wisdom who belongs to the popular class as oppose to the cultured class,

Who have narrated the exploits of Sri Hari in the spoken language, including those who have flourished in the past,

May Lord Bless all,

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Reassuring the mind

Jai Sri Ram,
Reassuring the mind in this way,

I shall narrate the charming story of the lord Rama,

Vyasa and various other top ranking poets, who have reverently recounted the blessed glory of sri Hari,

I bow to the lotus feet of them all, let them fulfill all my desires,

May Lord Bless all,

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Jai Sri Ram

Jai Sri Ram,
Sages have sung the glory of Sri Hari in the past,

It will be easy for me to follow that very path,

If a king bridges constructed over big rivers,

Which are too broad, even the tiniest ants cross them without exertion,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
Knowing thus, the wise sing the glory of sri Hari,

Thereby hallow and bring supreme rewards to their speech,

It is on this strength, the supreme efficacy of remembering the lord and the potency of his grace,

That i shall sing the virtues of the lord of Raghus,

May Lord bless all,

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The Lord

Jai sri Ram,
The Lord of Raghus is a straightforward,

The Lord of Raghus is a powerful master,

The Lord of Raghus is merciful master,

The Lord of Raghus is gracious master,

May Lord Bless all,

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Befriender of the Poor

Jai sri Ram,
He is supremely gracious and loving to the suppliant,

He is excessively found of his devotees, treat them as his own,

He has never frowned at him to whom he has shown his favor,

The restorer of what have been lost, the befriender of the poor,

May Lord Bless all,

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Lord's greatness

Jai sri Ganesha,
Though all knows the Lord's greatness as such,

Yet none has refrained from describing it,

The Vedas have justified it Thus, They have variously sung the glory of remembering the Lord,

Who is one, desire-less, formless, nameless and unborn, who is truth, conscious and bliss, who is supreme effulgence, all pervading and all formed, it is he who has performed many deeds assuming a suitable form,

May Lord Bless all,

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Not That

Jai Sri Ram,
Tell me of what account is cotton in the face of the strong wind before which even mountains like Meru are blown away,

Realizing the infinite glory of Sri Rama, my mind feels very diffident in proceeding with the story,

Goddess Saraswati, Sesa, the great Lord Shiva, Brahma, and agmas, the Vedas and the Purans unceasingly sing his virtues,

Saying "not that" Not That"

May Lord Bless all,

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Manifold prayer

Jai Sri Ram,
Entering into the spirit of my manifold prayers, none should blame me on hearing the story,

Those who will raise objections even then are more stupid and difficult to intellect man myself,

I am no poet and have no pretensions to ingenuity, i sing the glories of sri Rama according to my own lights,

My intellect which wallows in the world, is poor match for the unlimited exploits of the lord of Raghus,

May Lord Bless all,

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I occupy the first of them

Jai Sri Ram,
If those pearls are pierced with skill and strung together on the beautiful thread of Sri Rama's exploits,

And if noble soul wear them in their innocent heart, grace in the form of excessive fondness is the result,

Those who are born in the terrible age of kali, who through skin to the crow in their doing have put on the garb of a swan, Who trade the evil path, abandoning the track of the Vedas,

Who are embodiment of falsehood and repository of sins of the kali age, who are impostors claiming to be devotee of Sri Rama, though slaves of mammon, anger and passion and who are unscrupulous, hypocritical and foremost among intriguers, i occupy the first of them,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
I bow to the lotus feet of my Guru, who is the limit of compassion and whose words are sunbeams as it were for dispersing the mass of darkness in the form of gross ignorance,

I greet the pollen like dust of my preceptor, refulgent, fragrant and flavored with love, lovely powder of the life giving herbs, which allays the host of all the attendant ills of Mundane Existence,

I adore Lord Hari, Known by the name of Sri Rama, who is superior to and lies beyond all causes, whose Maya holds sway over the entire creation,

I revere the lotus feet of Lord Rama, Please accept my humble homage, O scion of Raghu,

May Lord Bless all,

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Pearl

Jai Sri Ram,
The wise liken the heart of a poet to the sea,

His intellect to the shall containing pearls and goddess Saraswati to the star called Svati,

The modern Arcturus, the fifteenth lunar asterism considered as favorable to the formation of pearl,

If there is a shower in the form of beautiful ideas, lovely pearls make their appearance in the form of poetic effusion,

May Lord Bless all,

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The Fatigue

Jai Sri Ram
The fatigue occasioned by this long journey cannot be relieved by millions of devices unless she takes a dip in the lake of Sri Rama's exploits,

Realizing this in their heart, poets and wise men chant the glory of Sri Hari alone,

Which wipes away the impurities of the kali age,

Finding the bard singing the glories of worldly men the goddess of speech begins to beat her brow and repent,

May Lord Bless all,

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Invocation

Jai Sri Ram,
Even so, the wise say,

The outpourings of a good poet originate at one place,

In the poets own mind,

And exercise their charm elsewhere, on the mind of admirer, at his very invocation,

May Lord Bless all,

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Young Lady

Jai sri Ram,
So do the wise chant and hear the glory of Sita and Sri Rama,

Even though couched in the vulgar tongue,

The beauty of a gem, a ruby and a pearl does not catch the eyes as it should so long as they are born on the head of a serpent,

the top of a mountain and the crown of an elephant respectively,

The charm of them all is enhanced when they adorn the diadem of a king or the person of a young lady,

May Lord Bless all,

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The milk of dark cow

Jai sri Ram,
My composition will appear extremely delightful to all by its association with Glory of Sri Rama,


Even as timber of every description is transformed into sandal and becomes worthy of adoration by contact with the Malaya mountain,

Nobody takes into account the quality of the wood in that region,

The milk of even a dark cow is white, and promise a great medicinal value,

May Lord Bless all,

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Appears Charming

Jai Sri Ram
The tale of Sri Rama brings forth blessings and wipes away the impurities of the Kali age,

The course of this stream is tortuous like that of the holy Ganga,

By its association with the auspicious glory of the lord my composition will be blessed and well captivate the mind of virtuous,

On the person of Lord Shiva, even the ashes of the cremation ground appears charming and purify by their very thought,

May Lord Bless all,

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Felicity

Jai Sri Ram
Even smoke rising from burning aloe wood is impregnated with the latter's fragrance,

And gives up its natural pungency, although my composition is clumsy,

it treat of a commendable theme,

The story  of Sri Rama, which brings felicity to the world,

May Lord bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai sri Ram,
Although, There is no poetic charm whatsoever,

The glory sri Rama is manifest in it,

This is the only hope which flashes on my mind,

Who has not been exalted by noble company,

May Lord Bless all,

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Pretty woman

Jai Sri Ram,
Even a compassionate of marvelous beauty and written by a gifted poet does not commend itself without the name of Sri Rama,

A pretty  woman with a charming countenance and fully adorned does not look attractive when undressed,

On the Other Hand, the wise recite and hear with admiration even the composition of a worthless poet, which is devoid of all merit,

Knowing it as adorned with the name and glory of sri Rama, for like the bee, saints have bias for goodness,

May Lord Bless all,

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Gracious Name of Lord

Jai Sri Ram,
It contains the gracious name of Lord Raghus,

Which is exceedingly holy and very cream of the Puranas and the Vedas,

It is abode of blessings and the remover of evils and is muttered by Lord Shiva,

The Enemy of demon Tripura, along with consort Uma,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hear it

Jai sri Ram,
Of these details of poesy,

i possess critical knowledge of none,

I vouch for it in writing on a blank sheet,

My composition is devoid of all charms, it has only one merit, which is known throughout the world, recognizing this merit, men of sound reason, who are gifted unbiased, will surely hear it,

May Lord Bless all,

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Sri Ram

Jai Sri Ram,
Knowing it in their heart as adorned with devotion to Sri Rama,

The virtuous will listen to it with bland words of praise,

I am no poet nor an adept in the art of speech and am a cipher in all arts and sciences,

There are elegant devices of letters, subtleties of meaning, various figures of speech, material composition of different kinds, infinite varieties of emotions and sentiments and multifarious flaws and excellence of poetic composition,

May Lord Bless all,

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Who cherish no love

Jai Sri Ram,
To those who cherish no love for the feet of Lord,

And have no sound reason either, this story will sound unattractive to the ears,

To those, however, who posses devotion to the feet of God Vishnu and Shiva,

and whose mind is not perverse, the tale of the chief of Raghus will taste as sweet,

May Lord Bless all

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Delightful Mirth

Jai Sri Ram,
To those who have no taste for poetry nor devotion to the feet of Sri Rama,

This undertaking of mine will serve as a subject for delightful mirth,

My composition is couched in the popular dialect and my intellect is feeble.

Hence it is a fit subject for ridicule and those who laugh shall not incur any blame,

May Lord Bless all,

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Will benefit me

Jai Sri Ram,
The laughter of the evil minded will benefit me,

Crows call the cuckoo hoarse,

Herons ridicule the swan, frogs make fun of the Cataka bird,

Malicious rogues deride refined speech,

May Lord Bless all,

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Rare Good soul like ocean

Jai Sri Ram,
There is some rare good soul like the ocean,

Which swells at the sight of the Full Moon,

Humble is my lot and my ambition high,

My only hope is that all good men will be gratified to hear what i say, while the evil minded will laugh,

May Lord Bless all,

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Rare in this world

Jai Sri Ram,
Those, however, who are hard hearten, mischievous and perverse and cherish other's faults as an ornament, will feel amused,

Who does not like one's poetry, be a delightful or exceedingly insipid,

Such good people as delight to hear other's composition are rare in this world,

The World abounds in men who resemble lakes and rivers that get swollen with their own rise when waters are added to them,

May Lord Bless all,

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lisping ascents

Jai Sri Ram,
Even though my intellect is exceedingly mean, my aspirations pitched too high,

While i crave for nectar, i have no mean in the world to procure even butter milk,

The virtuous will forgive my presumption and listen to my childish babbling with interest,

When a child prattles in lisping ascents, the parents hear it with mind full of delight,

May Lord Bless all,

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your servant

Jai Sri Ram,
Knowing me as your Servant, be genuinely gracious to me all of you, O mines of Compassion,

I have no confidence in my intellect power, hence i supplicate you all,

I world recount the virtues of the Lord of Raghus, Sri Rama but wits are poor. whereas the exploits of Sri Rama are unfathomable,

For this i find not the least resources, my ambition is right royal,

May Lord Bless all,

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Living beings

Jai Sri Ram,
I reverence gods, demons, human beings, Nagas, birds, spirits, manes and Gandharvas and Rakshasas,

Pray be gracious to me all on this occasion,

Eight million and four hundred thousand species of living beings, classified under four broad divisions,

Inhabit land, water and the air, recognizing the entire creation as full of Sita and Rama, i make obeisance to them with joined palms.

May Lord Bless all,

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the emaciator of the moon

Jai Sri Ram,
Knowing the one as the nourisher and the other as the emaciator of the moon,

The world has given it a name and a bad one,

Whatever beings, animate or inanimate, there are in the universe, recognizing them, one and all, as considering of Sri Rama,

I ever adore the lotus feet of all with joined palms,

May Lord Bless all,

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Only men endowed with keen insight

Jai Sri Ram,
Again, in conjunction with water, fire and air it is transformed into cloud and brings life to the world,

The Planet, medicines, water, air and cloth prove good or bad in the world according to their good and evil association,

Only men endowed with a keen insight are able to know this,

The Proportion of Moon light and the darkness is the same in the bright as well as in the dark fortnight, only the two have been named differently by the creator,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
Through contact with the wind when united dust ascends to the sky,

While it is assimilated with mud when united with low laying water,

Parrots and Mainas nurtured in the house of virtuous and the wicked repeat the name of Rama and pour a volley of abuses respectively,

Smoke coming in contact with an evil Earthy substance turns into soot, the same is used as a material for copying the Puranas when converted into beautiful ink,

May Lord Bless all,

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The Good

Jai sri Ram,
The good are honored not withstanding their mean appearance,

Even as Jambavan, who was endowed with the form of a bear and possessed miraculous strength,

Hanuman, won honor in this world, Bad association is harmful, while good company is an asset itself,

This is true in the world as well as in the eyes of Vedas and is known to all,

May Lord Bless all,

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old habits and past Karma

Jai Sri Ram,
By force of the spirit of the times, old habits and past karma even the good deviate from goodness under the influence of Maya,

But just as servants of sri Hari rectify that error and eradicating sorrow and weakness, bring untarnished glory to them,

Even so the wicked occasionally perform a noble deed due to their good association, although their evil nature, which is unchangeable, cannot be obliterated,

Even those who are impostors are respected on account of their Garb, as the world is taken in by their attractive appearance, but eventually exposed and cannot keep up their false appearance till end, as was the case with Kalanemi, Ravana and Rahu,

May Lord Bless all,

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Swan

Jai sri Ram,
God has created the universe consisting of animate and inanimate beings as partaking of both good and evil,

Swans in the form of saints imbibe the milk of goodness rejecting water in the form of evil,

The swan is traditionally believed to feed on pearls and credited with the nature gift of separating milk from water,

When providence blesses one with such discrimination as possessed by the swan, then alone does the mind abandon evil and gets enamored of goodness,

May Lord Bless all,

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Mixture of good and evil

Jai Sri Ram,
The good as well as the vile, all have being brought into being by the creator,

It is the Vedas that have differentiated them by reckoning the merits of the former class and demerits  of the others,

The Vedas and Itihaas such as Ramayana and the Mahabharata and Purana unanimously declare that the creation of Brahma is an inter-mixture of good and evil,

It is charecterised by the pair of opposites such as pain and pleasure, sin and merits, day and night, the good and the wicked, good birth and the vile birth, demons and gods, the high and the low, nectar and the poison, a happy life and the death, Maya and the Brahma, matter and spirit, soul and the God, plenty and poverty, pauper and the king, attachment and dispassion,

May Lord Bless all,

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That Is Why

Jai Sri Ram,
The tales of sins and vices of the wicked, on one hand,

And of the virtues of the virtuous, on the other hand, are like boundless and unfathomable oceans,

That is why enumerated only a few virtues and vices,

For they cannot be acquired or discarded without being duly distinguished,

May Lord Bless all,

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Hare Rama

Jai Sri Ram,
Of course, a good man has a bias for goodness alone,

While a vile person is prone to vileness,

while nectar is praised for its immortalizing virtue,

Poison is extolled for its deadly effects,

May Lord Bless all,

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The good and the wicked

Jai sri Ram,
The good and the wicked gather a rich harvest of good reputation and infamy by their receptive doings,

Although the merits of Nectar, the moon, the seat of nectar,

The Ganga-the river of the celestials and a pious soul, on the one hand, and the demerits of venom,,

Fire, the unholy river Karmanasa and the hunter, on the other hand, are known to all, only that which is to a man's taste appears good to him,

May Lord Bless all,

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common parent

Jai Sri Ram,
Though born together in the world,

They differ in their traits even as the lotus and the leech. Both of which spring from Water,

The good and the wicked resemble nectar and wine respectively,

The unfathomable ocean in the form of this world is their common parent,

May Lord bless all,

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