Khal parihash hoi hit mora

Chaupai 1, Under Doha 9 · Bal Kand

Chaupai Text

खल परिहास होइ हित मोरा। काक कहहिं कलकंठ कठोरा॥ हंसहि बक दादुर चातकही। हँसहिं मलिन खल बिमल बतकही॥ १ ॥

Transliteration (IAST)

khala parihāsa hoi hita morā। kāka kahahiṃ kalakaṃṭha kaṭhorā॥ haṃsahi baka dādura cātakahī। haṃsahiṃ malina khala bimala batakahī॥ 1 ॥

Meaning

Yet even the mockery of the wicked will only be for my good. Crows call the sweet-voiced cuckoo harsh. Just as herons, frogs, and chataks are laughed at, so the impure wicked laugh at pure, faultless speech.

Context

This is Chaupai 1, Under Doha 9 from Bal Kand, in the episode “Tulsidas's Humility and Devotional Poetry”. The episode describes Tulsidas's humble self-surrender and the purifying glory of Rama-devoted poetry.

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