Ayodhya Kaanda
86 - Dialogue between Bharata and mother Kausalya and king Dasaratha's cremation
Chaupais
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"If, mother, all this has my approval, let me share the terrible fate of those who sell the Vedas, exploit their piety, are given to backbiting and expose others' sins, who are deceitful, wicked, quarrelsome and irascible, who revile the Vedas and are hostile to the world, nay, who are greedy and lecherous and behave as the repacious do, and who cast their eyes on others' wealth and others' wife. Nay, mother, if I ever knew this secret, may Lord Siva allot me the fate of those wretches who love not the company of the virtuous, who have rejected the path leading to God-Realization, who worship not Sri Hari even though blessed with a human form, and take no delight in the glory of Sri Hari and Lord Siva, who have abandoned the path of the Vedas and follow the contrary way, and who are impostors and deceive the world by assuming false appearances."