केसव कहि न जाइ का कहिए

The verses

1. केसव कहि न जाइ का कहिए ? देखत तव रचना बिचित्र अति समुझि मनहिं मन रहिए ॥

   Meaning: O Keshav, words fail me, what is there to say? Beholding Your wondrous creation, the soul can only ponder in silent awe.

2. सून्य भीति पर चित्र, रंग नहिं, तनु बिनु लिखा चितेरे । धोए मिटै न, मरै भीति-दुख, पाइय यहि तनु हेरे ॥

   Meaning: Upon the wall of the void, a picture is drawn without color by a bodiless painter; it washes not away, ending the sorrow of the wall, discovered only by searching within this form.

3. रविकर-नीर बसै अति दारुन मकररूप तेहि माहीं । बदनहीन सो ग्रसै चराचर पान करन जे जाहीं ॥

   Meaning: Within the sunbeam-mirage dwells a crocodile fierce and dire; bodiless, it devours all creation that goes to quench its desire.

4. कोउ कह सत्य, झूठ कह कोऊ, जुगल प्रबल करि मानै । तुलसिदास परिहरै तीनि भ्रम सो आपन पहिचानै ॥

   Meaning: Some call this world real, others deem it an illusion, while some assert both hold sway; Tulsidas says, cast off all three delusions, to know the True Self and find the Way.