Bāla Kāṇḍa·Chaupāī·2.4
मुद मंगलमय संत समाजू। जो जग जंगम तीरथराजू॥
राम भगति जहँ सुरसरि धारा। सरसइ ब्रह्म बिचार प्रचारा॥
muda maṁgalamaya saṁta samājū, jo jaga jaṁgama tīratharājū |
rāma bhagati jahã surasari dhārā, sarasai brahma bicāra pracārā ||
English Rendering
The company of the saints, made all of joy and auspiciousness — is the moving Prayāga of this world, walking city to city. Devotion to Rāma is its Gaṅgā-current there; the spread of reflection on Brahman is its underground Sarasvatī.
हिन्दी अनुवाद
आनन्द-मंगलमय सन्तों का समाज इस जगत में चलता-फिरता तीर्थराज प्रयाग है। वहाँ राम-भक्ति गंगा की धारा है, और ब्रह्म-विचार का प्रसार सरस्वती।
Context — Editorial
Here begins the great extended metaphor: the community of saints as Prayāga. Prayāga is fixed; the saints move. Prayāga has three rivers; the saints have devotion, reflection, and — in the next stanza — the karma-stories that cleanse the age.