Bhartrihari
खलालापाः सोढाः कथमपि तदाराधनपरैः निगृह्यान्तर्बाष्पं हसितमपि शून्येन मनसा । कृतो वित्तस्तम्भप्रतिहतधियामञ्जलिरपि त्वमाशे मोघाशे किमपरमतो नर्तयसि माम् ॥
khalālāpāḥ soḍhāḥ kathamapi tadārādhanaparaiḥ nigṛhyāntarbāṣpaṃ hasitamapi śūnyena manasā | kṛto vittastambhapratihatadhiyāmañjalirapi tvamāśe moghāśe kimaparamato nartayasi mām ||
I somehow put up with the taunts of the wicked while trying to please them; I held back my tears and laughed with an empty heart; I folded my hands even before people whose minds were numbed by money. Hope, futile hope, how much more will you make me dance?
Bhartrihari · Vairagya Shatakam
Bhartrihari
परेषां चेतांसि प्रतिदिवसमाराध्य बहुधा प्रसादं किं नेतुं विशसि हृदय क्लेशकलितम् । प्रसन्ने त्वय्यन्तः स्वयमुदितचिन्तामणिगणो विविक्तः संकल्पः किमभिलषितं पुष्यति न ते ॥
pareṣāṃ cetāṃsi pratidivasamārādhya bahudhā prasādaṃ kiṃ netuṃ viśasi hṛdaya kleśakalitam | prasanne tvayyantaḥ svayamuditacintāmaṇigaṇo viviktaḥ saṃkalpaḥ kimabhilaṣitaṃ puṣyati na te ||
O heart, why do you enter into weariness, day after day trying to please the minds of others in so many ways, to win their favour? When you are at peace within, your own clear resolve rises by itself like a cluster of wish-granting gems: what wish of yours would it not fulfil?
Bhartrihari · Vairagya Shatakam
Vidura
आर्जवेन नरं युक्तमार्जवात्सव्यपत्रपम् / अशक्तं मन्यमानास्तु धर्षयन्ति कुबुद्धयः
ārjavena naraṃ yuktamārjavātsavyapatrapam / aśaktaṃ manyamānāstu dharṣayanti kubuddhayaḥ
A person who is straightforward, and modest because of it, is taken for weak by small-minded people, and they push him around.
Mahabharata · Udyoga Parva · Vidura Niti
Tulsidas
मोरि सुधारिहि सो सब भाँती। जासु कृपा नहिं कृपाँ अघाती॥ राम सुस्वामि कुसेवकु मोसो। निज दिसि देखि दयानिधि पोसो ॥
mori sudhārihi so sab bhāṁtī| jāsu kṛpā nahiṃ kṛpāṁ aghātī|| rām susvāmi kusevaku moso| nij disi dekhi dayānidhi poso ||
He will set right everything about me, he whose kindness never tires of being kind. Ram is a good master and I am a poor servant, yet the ocean of compassion looks at it from his own side and cares for me.
Ramcharitmanas, Bal Kand 1.26 (chaupai 2)
Sutikshna
सहित अनुज मोहि राम गोसाईं। मिलिहहिं निज सेवक की नाईं॥ मोरे जियँ भरोस दृढ़ नाहीं। भगति बिरति न ग्यान मन माहीं ॥ नहिं सतसंग जोग जप जागा। नहिं दृढ़ चरन कमल अनुरागा॥ एक बानि करुनानिधान की। सो प्रिय जाकें गति न आन की ॥
sahit anuj mohi rām gosāīṃ| milihahiṃ nij sevak kī nāīṃ|| more jiyaṁ bharos dṛṛh nāhīṃ| bhagati birati na gyān man māhīṃ || nahiṃ satasaṃg jog jap jāgā| nahiṃ dṛṛh caran kamal anurāgā|| ek bāni karunānidhān kī| so priy jākeṃ gati na ān kī ||
'Will Ram, my master, with his brother, meet me as he would his own servant? There is no firm trust in my heart; no devotion, detachment or wisdom in my mind; no good company, no yoga, chanting or sacrifice, no steady love for his lotus feet. But the ocean of compassion has one habit: the one who has no other refuge is dear to him.'
Ramcharitmanas, Aranya Kand 3.7 (chaupai 3)
Vibhishan
श्रवन सुजसु सुनि आयउँ प्रभु भंजन भव भीर। त्राहि त्राहि आरति हरन सरन सुखद रघुबीर ॥
śravan sujasu suni āyauṁ prabhu bhaṃjan bhav bhīr| trāhi trāhi ārati haran saran sukhad raghubīr ||
Hearing your good name with my own ears I have come, Lord, breaker of the fear of the world. Save me, save me, remover of distress, Raghubir, whose refuge brings joy.
Ramcharitmanas, Sundar Kand 5.43 (doha 1)
Tulsidas
तू दयालु, दीन हौं, तू दानि, हौं भिखारी । हौं प्रसिद्ध पातकी, तू पाप-पुंज-हारी॥ नाथ तू अनाथको, अनाथ कौन मोसो। मो समान आरत नहिं, आरतिहर तोसो॥ ब्रह्म तू, हौं जीव, तू है ठाकुर, हौं चेरो। तात-मात, गुरु-सखा, तू सब बिधि हितु मेरो॥ तोहिं मोहिं नाते अनेक, मानियै जो भावै। ज्यों त्यों तुलसी कृपालु! चरन-सरन पावै॥
tū dayālu, dīn hauṃ, tū dāni, hauṃ bhikhārī | hauṃ prasiddha pātakī, tū pāp-puṃj-hārī|| nāth tū anāthako, anāth kaun moso| mo samān ārat nahiṃ, āratihar toso|| brahma tū, hauṃ jīv, tū hai ṭhākur, hauṃ cero| tāt-māt, guru-sakhā, tū sab bidhi hitu mero|| tohiṃ mohiṃ nāte anek, māniyai jo bhāvai| jyoṃ tyoṃ tulasī kṛpālu! caran-saran pāvai||
You are kind and I am in need; you give and I am a beggar. I am a known wrongdoer and you lift heaps of wrong. Lord, you shelter those who have no one, and who has less than I do? No one hurts as I do, and no one heals hurt as you do. You are the infinite, I a small life; you the master, I the servant. Father and mother, teacher and friend: you wish me well in every way. There are many bonds between us; take whichever one pleases you. Only let Tulsi, somehow, find shelter at your feet.
Vinay Patrika
Ram
इदं तु मम दीनस्य मनो भूयः प्रकर्षति। यदिहास्य प्रियाख्यातुर्न कुर्मि सदृशं प्रियम् ॥
idaṃ tu mama dīnasya mano bhūyaḥ prakarṣati| yadihāsya priyākhyāturna kurmi sadṛśaṃ priyam ||
What weighs on my mind is this: I, so poor here, cannot do anything equal in return for the one who brought me such good news.
Valmiki Ramayana · Yuddha Kanda
Arjuna
कार्पण्यदोषोपहतस्वभावःपृच्छामि त्वां धर्मसंमूढचेताः । यच्छ्रेयः स्यान्निश्चितं ब्रूहि तन्मेशिष्यस्तेऽहं शाधि मां त्वां प्रपन्नम् ॥
kārpaṇyadoṣopahatasvabhāvaḥpṛcchāmi tvāṃ dharmasaṃmūḍhacetāḥ | yacchreyaḥ syānniścitaṃ brūhi tanmeśiṣyaste’haṃ śādhi māṃ tvāṃ prapannam ||
My nature is stricken by weakness and my mind is confused about what is right. I ask you: tell me for certain what is best for me. I am your student; I have come to you, teach me.
Bhagavad Gita 2.7
Tulsidas
मो सम दीन न दीन हित तुम्ह समान रघुबीर। अस बिचारि रघुबंस मनि हरहु बिषम भव भीर ॥
mo sam dīn na dīn hit tumha samān raghubīr| as bicāri raghubaṃs mani harahu biṣam bhav bhīr ||
There is no one as poor as I am, and no friend of the poor like you, Raghubir. Thinking this over, jewel of the Raghus, take away the heavy fear of the world.
Ramcharitmanas, Uttar Kand 7.126 (doha 1)