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कहत मीमांसा वात ब्रह्म ब्रह्माण्ड रूप चर । अविनाशी सो यदपि तदपि सब नाश लखै पर ॥३॥ रामचरण फुर कहत मोहि सम पतित न दूजा । सीयराम पद छाडि करौं हित लखि चर पूजा ॥ आतम ब्रह्म निरूपन सुनहु कछु कहि वेदान्त घर । निर्मल निर्गुन अचल अकल अद्वैत तेज वर ॥४॥ तेहि ते अंड प्रकाश पूरि ब्रह्माण्ड रहेउ इमि । पवन गगन निर्लेप अप्रित घट एक सूर्य जिमि ॥ त्रिगुण कर्म घट नीर राग रवि लखि न परिहि गहि । घर फूटे जल नाम रूप रवि मिलेउ प्रभा रहि ॥५॥ लघु बड़ घट शुभ अशुभ अमित घट सोइ रवि दरसे । तिमि आतम चर अचर भूमि नभ पूरण परसे ॥ नहिं आवै नहिं जाय मरे मारे नहिं काहू । त्रिगुण कर्म करि ढपेउ जथा पूरण शशि राहू ॥६॥ आतम बाल न युवा जरा शीतोष्ण न दोऊ । पाप पुण्य सुख दुःख नरक अरु स्वर्ग न सोऊ ॥ किन्नर सुर गंधर्व नाग असुरो न यक्ष घर । वर्णाश्रम संत न असंत रवि शशि न चराचर ॥७॥ चर भीतर रमि रहेउ आत्मा ब्रह्म भांति इमि । एक बीज तरु अमित बीज प्रति बीज वृत्त जिमि ॥ बहुरि यथा तिल तेल क्षीर घृत देखि न आवै । प्रगटत पेरत मथत उभय बिन यतन न पावै ॥८॥
Fresh English translation
Mīmāṃsā says that speech and the universe's perishable form are Brahman. Though that principle is styled imperishable, from the higher vantage all of it is seen to perish. Rāmacaraṇa frankly says that none is more fallen than he: abandoning Sītā-Rāma's feet, how could worship of the perishable serve him? Hear, then, the Vedāntic account of Self-Brahman: stainless, qualityless, unmoving, partless, nondual and supremely radiant. From it the cosmic egg shines and the universe is filled, while it remains unattached like wind in space or one sun reflected in many vessels. The three qualities and action color the vessel-water, so the sun is not rightly grasped; when the vessel breaks, the water's name and form vanish and the reflected light abides in the sun. The same sun appears in vessels small and great, auspicious and inauspicious; likewise the Self pervades moving and unmoving things, earth and sky. It neither comes nor goes, dies nor is killed; the three qualities and action only eclipse it like Rāhu veiling the full moon. It is neither child, youth nor aged, neither heat nor cold, sin nor merit, pleasure nor pain, hell nor heaven; it is no celestial race, social order, saint or non-saint, sun, moon, or creature. Self-Brahman dwells within all the perishable, as one seed's pattern recurs in every seed of innumerable trees, or as unseen oil in sesame and ghee in milk, revealed only by pressing and churning.