Baal Kaanda
5 - Contrast between saints and the evil-minded
Dohas
Description
The planets, medicines, water, air and cloth prove good or bad in the world according to their good or evil associations; only men endowed with a keen insight are able to know this. The proportion of moonlight and darkness is the same in the bright as well as in the dark fortnight; only the two have been named differently by the Creator. Knowing the one as the nourisher and the other as the emaciator of the moon, the world has given it a good name and a bad one. Whatever beings, animate or inanimate, there are in the universe, recognizing them, one and all, as consisting of ›Sri Rama, I ever adore the lotus feet of all with joined palms. I reverence gods, demons, human beings, Nagas, birds, spirits, manes (the souls of departed ancestors) and Gandharvas, Kinnaras and Raksasas (giants).* Pray be gracious to me all on this occasion.