Ayodhya Kaanda
100 - Dialogue between Sri Rama, Bharata and others
Chaupais
Description
Hearing the affectionate words of the citizens even enlightened sages talked disparagingly of Yoga (asceticism) and dispassion. Having thus performed their daily devotions the citizens made obeisance to Sri Rama with a thrill of joy. Men and women of every rank-high, low or middling-were blessed with His sight according to their own conception. Sri Rama scrupulously honoured all and everyone praised the Storehouse of Compassion in the following words:"From his very boyhood it has been Sri Rama's wont to observe the rules of propriety, duly recognizing the love one cherishes towards him. With a lovely and cheerful countenance, gracious looks and a guileless disposition the Lord of Raghus is an ocean of amiability and modesty." Thus recounting the virtues of Sri Rama they were all overwhelmed with emotion and began to extol their good fortune:"There are few people in the world as meritorious as we, whom Sri Rama recognizes as his own!"