Dashak 14 · Samāsa 7

Various ways, various āśramas; the root of all is the householder-āśrama; / where they obtain rest — all the three-world-dwellers.

Deva, ṛṣi, muni, yogī; various tapasvīs, dispassionate ones; / pitṛ-etc. — shareholders, atīta-abhyāgata (guest-wanderer);

born in the household-āśrama, they abandoned their āśrama and left; / yet went about from house-to-house — in kīrti-form.

For this reason, the gṛhastha-āśrama — is supreme-of-supremes. / But sva-dharma is needed, and compassion-for-beings.

Where the six karmas operate; vidhi-oktā (ordained) kriyās are performed; / speaking with speech-sweetness — to every creature.

Rigorous in every way; śāstra-oktā do something. / Within these, the supernatural — is the bhakti-path.

Puraścaraṇī, body-afflicted; firm-vowed, greatly-attentive; / for whom nothing is great — apart from jagadīśa.

Body, speech, life, breath — labors for Bhagavant. / Mind has taken up vow — on the bhajana-path.

Such a Bhagavant's bhakta — specially dispassionate within; / abandoning samsāra, has become mukta — for Deva.

Inner vairāgya — that itself is known as great fortune. / No misfortune — greater than lolangatā (greedy-hanging-on).

Kings abandoning kingdom went; roamed for Bhagavant; / in kīrti-form became pure — on earth.

Such a one — the yogeśvara — inwardly has the consideration of pratyaya; / knows to unlock the interior — of every creature. / Such detached vṛtti — and above that, special ātma-jñāna; / by mere darśana, samādhāna — people attain.

Who arranges remedies for many; but does not come into the ways of people; / whose heart is unbroken — in Bhagavad-rūpa.

To people he seems distracted; but he is alert. / Whose citta is unbroken — in Parameśvara.

In upāsanā-mūrti-dhyāna; or ātma-anusamdhāna; / or in śravaṇa-manana — continuously.

The crores of puṇya of ancestors — if gathered in one's knot — / only then such meeting — happens to people.

Jñāna without pratīti — is all inference. / There whence other-world-sādhana — for creatures?

For this reason, chiefly pratyaya; without pratīti nothing works. / Remedy-like harm — the wise know.

The foolish abandoned samsāra and went; yet died of sheer pain; / missed on both sides — this-world and the other.

In anger-anger he went off; then quarreling-quarreling died. / Pained many people; he too was pained.

He left, but is ignorant; people joined his company. / Guru and śiṣya both alike — in ignorance-form.

Greedy, misbehaving, he went off to foreign lands. / He only misbehaves — among people.

Struggling at home for belly, struggling they leave; / here and there they are beaten — on suspicion of theft.

'Samsāra is mithyā' — so he knew; jñāna understood, he left. / By that, he purified people — like himself.

By one kind of company, they cross; by another, they drown. / Therefore sat-sanga — should be seen well.

Where there is no vivek-examination — whence dīkṣā? / Begging alms door-to-door — not available anywhere.

He who knows another's interior; knows country, time, occasion — / what lack to such a puruṣa — on earth?

A low creature attained guru-hood — there ācāra itself sank. / Veda-śāstra-Brāhmaṇa — who asks?

The consideration of brahma-jñāna — its adhikāra is the Brāhmaṇa. / 'Varṇānām brāhmaṇo guruḥ' — such is the saying.

Brahmins fell from the buddhi; fell from the conduct; / leaving guru-hood, they became — disciples of disciples.

Some go to dāval-malik; some worship pīrs; / some become Turk — by their own wish.

Such is the conduct of kali-yuga; where has consideration remained? / Further ahead, varṇa-sankara — will happen.

Guru-hood came to low-castes; some mahantī has grown; / śūdras ruin the ācāra — of the Brāhmaṇa.

This is not known to the Brāhmaṇa; his vṛtti does not change; / false pride does not leak — of foolishness.

Kingdom has been taken by mleccha-kṣetras; guru-hood by unworthy; / oneself — neither here nor there — nothing.

Brāhmaṇas were sunk by village-heads; Viṣṇu bore the Śrīvatsa [mark]; / that same Viṣṇu was cursed — by Paraśurāma.

We too are that same Brāhmaṇa; with sorrow this word is spoken. / Elders went, having made village-heads — around us.

What have the Brāhmaṇas today done? Food is not had, such it has become. / Has it come to your pratīti — or not?

What should be said to elders? Brāhmaṇa's destiny — should be known. / Occasion-appropriately spoken by svabhāva — please forgive.