My lord, I love and revere you as my father.

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My lord, I love and revere you as my father, and hold you as dear as my own family guru; father and mother I have none.

Source Tulsidas, Ramayana, Ayodhyâ-kând, §70 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Tulsidas’s Ramayana, Bharat, brother of Prince Rama, answers the wise King Janak with immense tenderness: he loves and reveres him as a father and cherishes him as his own guru, his spiritual guide. Today, think of someone who has guided you like a father or a mother, and tell them, or write to them, what they mean to you.

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