Aranya Kaanda
122 - Grace on Sabari; a discourse on the nine forms of Devotion and departure for the Pampa lake
Chaupais
Description
Sri Rama, dear Uma, (says Bhagavan Siva) is beyond the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas), though the lord of the animate and inanimate creation, and the inner controller of all. (By speaking as above) He demonstrated the miserable plight of earthly lovers and strengthened dispassion in the mind of the wise. Anger, lust, greed, pride and delusion, all these get eliminated through Sri Rama's grace. He who wins the favour of that divine player is never deluded by His jugglery. Uma, I tell you my own realization; the only thing real is worship of Sri Rama, and the whole world is a dream. The Lord then repaired to the shore of the deep and beautiful lake known by the name of Pampa. Its water was as limpid as the heart of saints and it had charming flights of steps on all its four sides. Beasts of various kinds drank of its water wherever they listed, as if there was a crowd of beggars ever present at the house of a generous man.