Ayodhya Kaanda
75 - Dialogue between Laksmana and the Nisada; Sumantraís dialogue with Sri Rama and Sita and his returning to Ayodhya
Chaupais
Description
"The piteousness and affection with which the king's entreaty was attended cannot be expressed in words." On hearing His father's message the All-merciful Lord admonished Sita in countless ways. "If you return, the affliction of your motherin-law and father-in-law, your preceptor and all your near and dear ones will cease." In response to Her lord's advice King Videha's Daughter said, "Listen, most loving lord of my life, my all-compassionate and supremely wise master: can a shadow be torn away from its substance? The sunlight can never exist apart from the sun nor can the radiance of the moon leave the moon." Having submitted Her loving entreaty to Her Lord, She spoke these charming words to the minister: "You are as good to me as my own father or father-in-law; it is therefore most undesirable that I should urge something in reply."