On the one side is His love for his son; on the other his promise; He is thus in a strait. If it lies in your power, be obedient to His commands and so terminate his misery.”
She sat and spoke stinging words so composedly that Cruelty itself was disturbed to hear her. From the bow of her tongue she shot forth the arrows of her speech against the king as it were some yielding target; as though Obduracy had taken form and become a bold and practised archer. Sitting like the very incarnation of heartlessness, she expounded to Raghupati the whole history. Rama, the sun of the solar race, the fountain of every joy, smiled inwardly and replied in guileless terms, so soft and gracious that they seemed the very jewels of the goddess of speech: “Hearken, mother; blessed is the son who obeys his parent’s commands; a son who cherishes his father and mother is not often found in the world.
She sat and spoke stinging words so composedly that Cruelty itself was disturbed to hear her. From the bow of her tongue she shot forth the arrows of her speech against the king as it were some yielding target; as though Obduracy had taken form and become a bold and practised archer. Sitting like the very incarnation of heartlessness, she expounded to Raghupati the whole history. Rama, the sun of the solar race, the fountain of every joy, smiled inwardly and replied in guileless terms, so soft and gracious that they seemed the very jewels of the goddess of speech: “Hearken, mother; blessed is the son who obeys his parent’s commands; a son who cherishes his father and mother is not often found in the world.