Uttar Kaanda
204 - Birth of sons to the four brothers; Ayodhya's loveliness; arrival of the sage Sanaka and his three brothers and their dialogue with Sri Rama
Chaupais
Description
Everywhere men sang the praises of Sri Rama (the Lord of the Raghus), and even as they sat this is how they exhorted one another: "Worship Sri Rama, the Protector of the suppliant, the home of elegance, amiability, beauty and goodness, who has lotus-like eyes and swarthy limbs, who looks after His servants even as the eyelids guard the eyeballs, who is armed with a splendid bow, arrows and quiver and is staunch in battle, who delights the saints even as the sun brings joy to a bed of lotuses, who is a Garuda (the king of the birds) to devour the dreadful serpent in the shape of Death, who destroys the feeling of mineness the moment a person bows to Him in a disinterested spirit, and who is a hunter to kill the herd of deer in the shape of greed and infatuation, a lion to quell the elephant of concupiscence, the delight of His servants, a sun to scatter the thick darkness of doubt and sorrow, and a fire to consume the dense forest of the demon race. Oh, why should you not adore the Hero of Raghu's line, who is ever accompanied by Janaka's Daughter, who dispels the fear of transmigration, who plays the role of frost to destroy mosquitoes in the disguise of manifold latent desires, who is ever unchangeable, unborn and imperishable, the delight of the sages, the reliever of the earth's burdens, the munificent lord of Tulasidasa."