May he who is at once inaccessible and accessible, who has a guileless disposition and is both partial and impartial and ever tranquil, whom the ascetics perceive when, ever subduing their minds and senses, they make untiring efforts, even that Rama, the ruler of the three worlds, Lakshmi’s Lord, ever subject to his votaries, whose holy renown destroys all worldly suffering, dwell in my heart!’

Asking for the boon of uninterrupted devotion, the vulture (Jatayu) ascended to Hari’s realm. With his own hands Rama performed his obsequies with all due ceremony

The most tender-hearted Rama, who is compassionate to the humble and unaccountably gracious, bestowed upon a vulture, a vile carnivorous bird, that salvation which is solicited even by ascetics.

Listen, Uma; the most unblessed of men are they who abandon Hari and become attached to carnal pleasures. The two brothers proceeded further in their search for Sita and marked the thickening of the forest even as they went.

The thicket was full of creepers and trees and swarmed with birds and beasts, elephants and lions. As he went on his way, Rama overthrew the demon Kabandha, who told him the whole story of the curse pronounced on him:

Him I ever worship who is of immeasurable might, beginningless and unborn, unmanifest, (situated as) one, beyond perception, Govinda (the object of all pleasures for the cows and for the senses), who transcends all senses and destroys the duality of opposites (such as happiness and distress), the sum of mystic wisdom, the supporter of the earth and a delight to the souls of countless saints and servants who repeat the spell of Rama’s name; I ever reverence Rama, the adorer of the desireless, the vanquisher of Lust and his brood.

He whom the Vedas hymns as pure (free from the taint of delusion), the Absolute, all-pervading passionless and unborn; he to whom the sages attain by meditation, knowledge dispassion and unswerving discipline (yoga), that fountain of mercy has become manifest as the very incarnation of beauty and enraptures all creation, animate and inanimate. He is the bee that dwells in the lotus of my heart and in his limbs glows the splendour of many of a god of love.

May he who is at once inaccessible and accessible, who has a guileless disposition and is both partial and impartial and ever tranquil, whom the ascetics perceive when, ever subduing their minds and senses, they make untiring efforts, even that Rama, the ruler of the three worlds, Lakshmi’s Lord, ever subject to his votaries, whose holy renown destroys all worldly suffering, dwell in my heart!’

Asking for the boon of uninterrupted devotion, the vulture (Jatayu) ascended to Hari’s realm. With his own hands Rama performed his obsequies with all due ceremony.

The most tender-hearted Rama, who is compassionate to the humble and unaccountably gracious, bestowed upon a vulture, a vile carnivorous bird, that salvation which is solicited even by ascetics.

Listen, Uma; the most unblessed of men are they who abandon Hari and become attached to carnal pleasures. The two brothers proceeded further in their search for Sita and marked the thickening of the forest even as they went.

The thicket was full of creepers and trees and swarmed with birds and beasts, elephants and lions. As he went on his way, Rama overthrew the demon Kabandha, who told him the whole story of the curse pronounced on him:

‘The sage Durvasa cursed me, but at the sight of the Lord’s feet my sin has been blotted out.’ ‘Listen, Gandharva, to what I tell you,’ said Rama; ‘those who are hostile to Brahmans are displeasing to me.

He who in thought and word and deed does guileless service to the Brahmans, the very gods on earth, wins over Brahma, Shiva, myself and all other divinities.