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राहस रस में विवस एक सखि रहि गई न्यारी । प्रभु छबि सुरति लागि प्राण तजि रहि ढिग प्यारी ॥ जासु नाम कहि विवस तेल पति यवन आदि मिले । विरह सहित रटि नाम दास दस गहि न राम हिले ॥२०॥ दास रूप नहिं मिलत रहत ढिग चाह कछू नहि । तीन मुक्ति फल एक एक यहिं रहेउ चारि गहि ॥ तदपि त्रिगुण बिन तजे दास पद कबहु होइ सिधि । जो वनिता पति लहै पिता कुल रहै कवन विधि ॥२१॥ सकल धर्म भये दूरि दासि भइ ब्रज युवती जब । जप तप व्रत नेमादि नाश यह दास होइ तब ॥ बिन जागे नहिं दास दास यह होइ काँहि लखि । बिना लखे कहूँ प्रीति प्रीति बिनु प्रेम सकै भखि ॥२२॥ बिना प्रेम की भक्ति हेतु घृत वारि मथइ जड़ । बिन सतसंग गँवार यथा जग चतुर होइ बड़ ॥ जागि लखै प्रभु रूप स्वप्न जग दुख सुख बीते । प्रीति बढ़ेउ तब प्रेम नेम हति दास सही ते ॥२३॥ अमत जीव जग माँहि वासना बुधि मन चित वस । दास वासना नाश सर्व भ्रम रज्जु भुजंग जस ॥ यथा छार नभ अग्नि नीर मनि मुकुर गये ते । त्यों निर्मल जिय दास वासना नाश भये ते ॥२४॥ जहाँ आस नहिं दास दास जहाँ आस न है इमि । श्रीरामचरण रवि रैनि एक स्थान उदय किमि ॥
Fresh English translation
Overcome by the secret rasa, one companion remained apart. Her awareness fixed on the Lord's beauty, she surrendered her life and yet remained dear beside him. Those such as the oilman, the husband, and the Yavana reached him by helplessly uttering his Name; servants repeat the Name with the ache of separation, and even ten servants cannot make Rāma move from them. The servant-form does not dissolve but remains nearby without desire. The three fruits of liberation each grasp one thing, while servanthood contains all four; yet the servant's station is never perfected until the three qualities are relinquished. How can a woman who has found her husband continue to belong to her father's clan? When the young women of Vraja became maidservants, all formal duties fell away; recitation, austerity, vows and observances ceased, and only then did this servanthood arise. Without awakening there is no servant—what could servanthood perceive otherwise? Without seeing there is no affection, and without affection love cannot be tasted. Devotion without love is as foolish as churning water for ghee; without holy company a rustic cannot become truly wise. Awake, the soul sees the Lord's form, and the dream-world's pleasure and pain pass. Affection grows, then love destroys formal rule, and one becomes a true servant. Countless beings live in the world under desire's rule in intellect, mind and consciousness; for the servant, desire and every illusion vanish like the snake imagined in a rope. As ash returns to space, fire, and water, and the reflected image leaves the jewel or mirror, so the servant's heart becomes pure when desire is gone. Where there is expectation there is no servant, and where there is a servant there is no expectation: Rāmacaraṇa asks how sun and night could arise in one place.