'O sagacious prince, unless we get news of Sita we will not return.’ So saying, all the monkeys went to the seashore and spreading kusha grass there, sat down.

Seeing Angad's distress. Jambhavan (the old bear chief) recounted many as instructive tale: 'Imagine not Rama to be an earthling, dear friend; know him to be the same as Brahma (the Supreme Spirit), without attributes, invincible, unborn.

We, his servants, are all highly blessed, ever devoted to the Absolute endowed with attributes!

Wherever the Lord incarnates himself of his own will for the sake of gods, earth, cows and Brahmans, there the worshippers of his qualified form abandon all the joys of transcendental experience and abide with him.

While Jambavan was thus instructing Angad in many ways, Sampati (Jatayu’s elder brother) heard him from his mountain-cave. When he came out of it and saw a host of monkeys, he said to himself, ‘God has sent me a fine feast!

I’ll eat them all up today; I’ve been dying for want of a meal these many days past. I’ve never had a good bellyful, but today Providence has given me a large supply of food once and for all!’

The monkeys trembled with fear when they heard the vulture’s words, ‘Our doom is now sealed, we are sure,’ they said to themselves. All the monkeys rose when they saw the vulture; Jambavan, too, was given over wholly to disquieting thoughts.