Ayodhya Kaanda
67 - Dialogue between Sri Rama and mother Kausalya
Chaupais
Description
May all the gods and manes protect you, O lord of the earth, as the eyelids protect the eyes. The term of exile is like water, while your near and dear ones resemble the fish that live on it; as for yourself you are a fountain of mercy and a champion of virtue. Remembering this please devise some means to see that you come back in time to find them all alive. I adjure you to proceed to the woods in good cheer abandoning your servants, family and the whole city. The fruit of everyone's meritorious deeds is exhausted today and the tide of fortune has turned against us, assuming a sullen aspect." Thus wailing in many ways mother Kausalya clung to Sri Rama's feet accounting herself the most unlucky woman. Her heart was filled with terrible and deep agony and the profusion of wailings was beyond all description. Sri Rama lifted His mother and pressed her to His bosom, and then comforted her with soothing words.