Who is so vile as she who for the sake of a moment’s pleasure considers not the torments that shall endure through a thousand million lives? The wife who without guile takes a vow of fidelity to her husband attains to salvation with the greatest ease;

- but she who is disloyal to her lord becomes a widow in her early youth wherever she be born.

Though woman is inherently impure, she wins to a happy state (hereafter) by serving her lord. (It is due to her loyalty to her husband that) tulasi is beloved of Hari even to this day and her glory is sung by all the four Vedas.

Listen, Sita; women will maintain their vow of fidelity by invoking your name, for Rama is dear to you as your own life. It is for the good of the world that I have spoken these words.’

Janaki was overjoyed when she heard her and reverently bowed her head before Anasuya’s feet. Then the gracious Lord said to the sages, ‘With your permission I would go to some other forest.

Continue to be ever gracious to me and knowing me to be your servant, cease not to love me.’ Hearing these words of the Lord, the champion of righteousness, the enlightened sage affectionately replied,

‘You are that same Rama (the Supreme Deity), the beloved of the desireless and the friend of the lowly, whose grace is sought by Brahma, Shiva, Sanaka and all other knowers of the essence of things (Brahmagyanis), and yet you are addressing these gentle words to me.