देव— देहि सतसंग निज-अंग श्रीरंग! भवभंग-कारण शरण-शोकहारी। ये तु भवदंश्रिपल्लव-समाश्रित सदा, भक्तिरत, विगतसंशय, मुरारी॥ १॥ असुर, सुर, नाग, नर, यक्ष, गंधर्व, खग, रजनिचर, सिद्ध, ये चापि अन्ने। संत-संसर्ग त्रैवर्गपर, परमपद, प्राप्य निःप्राप्यगति त्वयि प्रसन्ने॥ २॥ वृत्र, बलि, बाण, प्रहलाद, मय, व्याध, गज, गृध्र, द्विजबन्धु निजधर्मत्यागी। साधुपद-सलिल-निर्धूत-कल्मष सकल, श्वपच-यवनादि कैवल्य-भागी॥ ३॥ शांत, निरपेक्ष, निर्मम, निरामय, अगुण, शब्दब्रह्मैकपर, ब्रह्मज्ञानी। दक्ष, समदूक, स्वदूक, विगत अति स्वपरमति, परमरतिविरति तव चक्रपानी॥ ४॥ विश्व-उपकारहित व्यग्रचित सर्वदा, त्यक्तमदमन्यु, कृत पुण्यरासी। यत्र तिष्ठन्ति, तत्रैव अज शर्व हरि सहित गच्छन्ति क्षीराब्धिवासी॥ ५॥ वेद-पयसिंधु, सुविचार मंदरमहा, अखिल-मुनिवृंद निर्मथनकर्ता। सार सतसंगमुदधृत्य इति निश्चितं वदति श्रीकृष्ण वैदर्भिभर्ता॥ ६॥ शोक-संदेह, भय-हर्ष, तम-तर्षगण, साधु-सद्युक्ति विच्छेदकारी। यथा रघुनाथ-सायक निशाचर-चमू-निचय-निर्दलन-पटु-वेग-भारी॥ ७॥ यत्र कुत्रापि मम जन्म निजकर्मवश भ्रमत जगजोनि संकट अनेकं। तत्र त्वद्धक्ति, सज्जन-समागम, सदा भवतु मे राम विश्राममेकं॥ ८॥ प्रबल भव-जनित त्रैव्याधि-भैषज भगति, भक्त भैषज्यमद्वैतदरसी। संत-भगवंत अंतर निरंतर नहीं, किमपि मति मलिन कह दासतुलसी॥ ९॥
Lord—Shriranga, grant me satsang, your own limb: it causes worldly becoming to end and removes the grief of one who seeks refuge. O enemy of Mura, those who always rest beneath the tender shoots of your feet remain absorbed in devotion and free from doubt. (1) Demons, gods, serpents, humans, Yakshas, Gandharvas, birds, night-roamers, Siddhas and whatever others there are—through the company of saints, when you are pleased, they pass beyond the three worldly aims, attain the supreme state and reach the goal beyond all attaining. (2) Vritra, Bali, Bana, Prahlada, Maya, the hunter, the elephant, the vulture, and the fallen twice-born who abandoned his proper dharma—all had their stains washed away by the water from saints’ feet; even dog-cookers, Yavanas and others came to share in liberation. (3) Saints are tranquil, independent, without possessiveness, free from affliction, beyond qualities, devoted solely to the Word-Brahman, and knowers of Brahman; skillful, equal in others’ sorrow and their own, far beyond the notion of self and other, supremely attached to you and detached from all else, O discus-bearer. (4) Their minds are always busied solely with the good of the world; they have abandoned pride and anger and amassed a treasury of merit. Wherever they remain, there Brahma, Shiva and Hari—the dweller in the milk ocean—go together. (5) The Veda is an ocean of milk, fine discrimination the great Mandara, and the whole company of sages its churners. Having drawn forth satsang as its essence, Krishna, Lord of the Vidarbha princess, declares this with certainty. (6) A saint’s sound counsel cuts through grief and doubt, fear and elation, darkness and the host of cravings, just as Raghunatha’s swift, mighty arrows expertly crush the massed army of night-roamers. (7) Wherever I may be born under the force of my own deeds, wandering through the world’s species amid countless dangers, there, Rama, may devotion to you and the company of good people always be my one repose. (8) Devotion is the medicine for the three powerful maladies born of becoming, and the devotee is the physician who sees nonduality. There is never any distance between saint and Lord—so speaks servant Tulsi, though his understanding is stained. (9)