Ayodhya Kaanda
80 - Dialogue between Sri Rama and the sage Valmiki
Chaupais
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"In beholding your feet, O king of sages, all my good deeds have been rewarded. Now I intend to go wherever you command me to go and where no anchorite may feel disturbed. For such monarchs as prove a source of annoyance to hermits and ascetics are consumed without fire. While the satisfaction of Brahmanas is the root of happiness, their wrath consumes millions of generations. Bearing this in mind pray tell me a place to which I may proceed with Sita and Laksmana (Sumitra's son), and building a charming hut of leaves and grass may spend some time there, O good sir." Hearing these guileless and unsophisticated words of Sri Rama (the Chief of Raghu's line) the enlightened sage exclaimed, "Quite so, right You are. Why should You not speak thus, O Glory of Raghu's line, ever busy as You are in maintaining the laws laid down by the Vedas?