Jar chetan gun doshamay biswa kinh

Doha 6 · Bal Kand

Doha Text

जड़ चेतन गुन दोषमय बिस्व कीन्ह करतार। संत हंस गुन गहहिं पय परिहरि बारि बिकार॥ ६ ॥

Transliteration (IAST)

jaḍa cetana guna doṣamaya bisva kīnha karatāra। santa haṃsa guna gahahiṃ paya parihari bāri bikāra॥ 6 ॥

Meaning

The Creator made this world of the inert and conscious, full of virtues and faults; but saintly swans, leaving the water of defects behind, take only the milk of virtues.

Context

This is Doha 6 from Bal Kand, in the episode “Saints and the Unsaintly”. The episode describes the contrasting natures of saints and the wicked, and the value of virtue over vice.

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