Original · Devanagari
अथ अवकाश १३ ॥ काव्य छन्द ॥ सुनहु योग वैराग्य ज्ञान विज्ञान अनूपम । चतुर्व्यूह प्रभु कृपा अगम सत संग सुगम सम ॥ कठिन योग बसि दूरि भूरि सुख दूरि पूरि होइ । प्रान अपान समान भौंह नासाग्र दूर होइ ॥१॥ टांको शब्द अनूप वज्र घांटी धारि फोरै । शशि श्रुति जल बिनु पवन दीप यहि विधि चित जो है ॥ तहँ सर इक अमी सहस दल कमल प्रेम रस । जेहि जन को जिय भँवर पियत जग तेहि गुलाम बस ॥२॥ तात भली वैराग चिता पर जरत रैनि दिन । त्रिगुण सिद्धि गृह आपु स्वर्ग लखि पाक रहत भिन्न ॥ संचित क्रिय प्रारब्ध तीनि गति मिलेहु तजत सोइ । श्रीरामचरण शिरमौर मोर वैराग्य मान सोइ ॥३॥ ज्ञान हंस सर शास्त्र राम गुन मुक्ताहल चुनि । क्षीरशयन जस क्षीर पियत तजि नीर तीन गुन ॥ सकल काम करि दूरि क्षमा नित मनन राम यश । तेहि पद को पद पीठ रेनु मम शीश बीस बस ॥४॥ धनि विज्ञान अनन्य चराचर ईश रूप रम । पाप पुण्य सुख दुःख मित्र अरि नरक स्वर्ग सम ॥
Fresh English translation
The thirteenth avakāśa praises incomparable yoga, dispassion, knowledge, and realized knowledge. The Lord in fourfold manifestation is inaccessible, yet his grace makes him as easy to reach as holy company. Difficult yoga leaves him far away and distances abundant joy; regulating prāṇa, apāna and samāna, fixing the brow and nose-tip, also leaves him far. The incomparable struck sound breaks the adamantine bell with its edge; consciousness is held like a moon, revelation, waterless wind, or lamp. There is a single lake of nectar, the thousand-petalled lotus filled with love's rasa. Whoever's heart-bee drinks there makes the whole world his servant. Dispassion is a good funeral pyre on which one burns day and night, seeing the three qualities, occult powers, home, self and heaven as separately ripening refuse. It abandons accumulated, current and begun karma even when their three courses meet; Rāmacaraṇa honors such dispassion as his crown. Knowledge is a swan in the lake of scripture, choosing the pearls of Rāma's qualities; like the Milk-Ocean sleeper, it drinks milk and leaves the water of the three qualities. It removes every desire, dwelling constantly in forgiveness and contemplation of Rāma's fame. May the dust of that station's footstool rest upon his twentyfold head. Blessed is exclusive realization, delighting in the Lord's form throughout moving and unmoving creation, regarding sin and merit, pleasure and pain, friend and foe, hell and heaven alike.