The stupid are bewildered, but the wise rejoice when they see or hear of your doings. All that you say or do is fitting, for one should dance in keeping with the role one has assumed. (Since you have taken a human body and are playing the part of an ordinary king, it is fitting that your words and actions should accord with that part.)

You ask me: “Where should I stay?” But I ask you with diffidence: tell me first the place where you are not; then will I show you a suitable place.’

On hearing the sage’s worlds, brimming over with devotion, Rama was embarrassed and smiled to himself. Valmiki, too, smiled and spoke to him again in tones as sweet as though they were steeped in nectar:

-‘Listen, Rama! I will tell you now the places where you may abide with Sita and Lakshmana, The hearts of those whose ears are like the ocean constantly replenished with the stories of your life like many blessed streams,

-but are never filled to the full, shall be your chosen abode. Again, the hearts of those whose eyes yearn only for your presence as the cuckoo’s for the rain-cloud,

-and, disdaining like the same bird, rivers, oceans and big lakes, find contentment in the raindrop of your beauty, - it is their hearts, Raghunatha, which shall serve as your blissful home, where you may dwell with your brother (Lakshmana) and Sita.

He whose tongue, like the swan in the clear Manasa lake of your renown, gathers up the pearls of your perfections – in his heart dwell, O Rama.