Then said the gracious lord of the Solar race, ‘Have done with lamentation and come with me to the forest; there is no time now for sorrowing; make haste and prepare yourself for the journey to the woods.’

Having consoled his beloved with these endearing words, he touched his mother’s feet and received her blessing: ‘Return soon,’ she said, ‘and relieve your subject’s pain, and forget not your heartless mother.

Shall the tide of my fortune ever turn, O God, that I may behold this beauteous pair with my own eyes again? When, O my son, will that auspicious day, the blessed hour, arrive when your mother, still alive, shall see your face, fair as the moon?

When again shall I call you "my darling," "my child", "Raghupati" and "Raghubara," my son, and summoning you, clasp you to my bosom and gaze with joy upon your limbs?

Seeing that his mother was so distraught with emotion that she was scarce able to speak and was greatly agitated, Rama did everything to console her; the pathos of that scene and the intensity of the affection (witnessed on that occasion) were beyond description.

Then Janaki threw herself at her mother-in-law’s feet and said, ‘I tell you, mother! I am most hapless. Just when I should have been serving you, fate has banished me to the forest and has denied me my desire.

But have done with sorrow and cease not to love me; fate is relentless and I am not to blame.’ On hearing Sita’s words, her mother-in-law was so deeply afflicted that (Tulasidasa) cannot describe her plight.