Ayodhya Kaanda
71 - Dialogue between Laksmana and mother Sumitra
Chaupais
Description
Perceiving that the time was unpropitious to them she collected herself and, possessing as she did a naturally good heart, spoke in gentle words, "My dear son, Videha's daughter is your mother while Rama, who loves you in everyway, is your father. Ayodhya is there where Rama dwells; there alone is the day where there is sunlight. If Sita and Rama are really proceeding to the woods, you have no business in Ayodhya. One's preceptor, parents, brother, gods and master-all these should be tended as one's own life. Rama, however is dearer than life, the soul of our soul and the disinterested friend of all. Whosoever are worthy of adoration and most dear to us should be accounted as such only in so far as they are related to Rama. Bearing this in mind, accompany him to the forest and derive, my boy, the benefit of your existence in the world.