Ayodhya Kaanda
80 - Dialogue between Sri Rama and the sage Valmiki
Chaupais
Description
"Those who overlook others' faults and pick out their virtues and endure hardships for the sake of the Brahmanas and cows, nay, who have established their reputation in the world as well-versed in the laws of propriety-their mind is Your excellent abode. Again, he who attributes his virtues to You and holds himself responsible for his faults, nay, who entirely depends on You and loves Sri Rama's (Your) devotees-it is in his heart that You should stay alongwith Videha's Daughter (Sita). He who, renouncing his caste and kinsmen, wealth, faith and glory, his near and dear ones, his happy home and everything else, cherishes You in his bosom-in his heart You should take up Your residence, O Lord of Raghus. Again, he to whom heaven and hell and even freedom from birth and death are the same inasmuch as he beholds You armed with a bow and arrow here, there and everywhere, and who is Your servant in thought, word and deed-make his heart, O Rama, Your permanent abode."