Dashak 12 · Samāsa 10

Eat enough for oneself; distribute the leftover food. / But to waste it — is not dharma.

Likewise, be sated by jñāna; tell that very jñāna to people. / Let the swimmer not drown — the drowning.

Take excellent virtues for oneself; tell them to many. / Speak words without having lived — those words are mithyā.

Snāna, sandhyā, deva-arcana; do japa-dhyāna one-pointedly; / Hari-kathā, nirūpaṇa — must be done.

Apply the body to benevolence; come to many for their tasks; / do not let someone's need — remain unmet.

Know the stuck and entangled; as capable, come to help; / speak with soft words — to anyone.

Be sorrowful in another's sorrow; be happy in another's joy; / gather every creature — with good words.

Forgive the faults of many; do the tasks of many; / become closer to strangers — than to your own.

Know another's interior; act accordingly; / examine people — in various ways.

Speak rigorously; give at once the counter-reply; / never come to anger — in kṣamā-form.

Send away all laziness; do much effort; / do not be jealous-in-word — with anyone.

Give the best object to another; speak words with discernment; / attentively conduct — one's own samsāra.

Remember death; be eager for Hari-bhakti; / dying, preserve fame — in this manner.

When one conducts rigorously, many come to know him. / All supporting him — what lacks?

Such excellent-virtued, special — should be called a puruṣa. / By whose bhajana, jagadīśa — is sated.

Many speak with contempt; but let patience not shake. / To unite with wicked — blessed are those sādhus.

Adorned with excellent virtues, shining with jñāna-vairāgya — / he alone is known as good — on earth.

One should labour oneself; bear [the burdens] of many; / wearing down, preserve fame — in various ways.

Seeking fame, there is no sukha; seeking sukha, there is no fame. / Without vicāra, nowhere is there — samādhāna.

Do not deliver a blow to another's heart; let a slip never fall. / For one who is patient, to his mark — no loss.

Own or other's — every task should be done. / To miss the work on occasion — is not fitting.

With good speech, happiness is felt; this is directly known. / Treat another — as one's own.

Hard words feel bad — this comes to pratyaya. / Then speaking badly — for what purpose?

If one is pinched oneself, one is distressed by that. / From one's own [experience] — toward another — should keep [restraint].

She who pains another is the impure Vaikharī. / Destroys oneself — at some occasion.

What is sown sprouts; reply comes according to what was spoken. / Then speaking harshly — for what purpose?

By one's puruṣārtha-vaibhava, many should be made happy. / To make suffer — is the rākṣasa-action.

Dambha, darpa, abhimāna; krodha, and harsh speech — / these are the marks of ajñāna — spoken in the Bhagavad-gītā.

He who shines with excellent virtues — is the great puruṣa. / Several people seek him out — wandering.

Word-jñāna without kriyā — is a dog's vomit. / The good never cast — their gaze upon it.

Doing bhakti from mind; holding excellent virtues as essential; / to that mahāpuruṣa — they come searching.

Such a mahānubhāva — should make a samuccaya (community). / By bhakti-yoga, Devādhi-deva — should be made one's own.

If one oneself dies suddenly — then who will do the bhajana? / For this reason, engage many people — in bhajana.

Our vow is this: nothing should be demanded from the śiṣya. / After us, the jagadīśa — should continue to be worshipped.

For this reason, the samuccaya — mohotsava should be done. / Hand-to-hand, Devādhi-deva — should be made favourable.

Now for the community, two marks are needed; / here listeners, attentively — apply the mind.

That by which many get bhakti — is cash-in-hand prabodha-śakti (awakening-power). / The inner-aim of many — should be taken in hand.

Earlier the excellent-virtues were spoken; those are held as pramāṇa. / The mark of prabodha-śakti — goes ahead.

Walking as one speaks; oneself doing, then speaking; / his words as pramāṇa — people accept.

What is not acceptable to people — people too do not accept. / One alone, people many — in the sṛṣṭi.

Therefore, companions should be; teach accepting-and-accepting; / gently, gently carry them to the end — by vivek.

But these are tasks of vivek; the vivekī will do them by rule. / The rest, poor fellows, by bhrama — begin quarrelling.

Quarrelling with many, alone — without an army, he got through. / For this reason, many — should be kept happy.