There the well-instructed Sita and Rama are ever wont to sit in the midst of the hermits, listening while sacred legends are read and all the Vedas, Shastras and Puranas.”
As he listened to his friend’s speech and gazed upon the tree, Bharat’s eyes overflowed with tears. The two brothers advanced reverently; Saraswati would fail to do justice to their love. When they saw the prints of Bima’s feet they rejoiced like some beggar on finding the philosopher’s stone, and applied the dust to their head, heart and eyes with as much delight as if they had found Bama himself. Seeing Bharat’s utterly indescribable condition, birds, beasts and all created things, whether animate or inanimate, were absorbed in devotion. The guide in his excitement lost the way, but the gods showed it to him and rained down flowers. Saints and sages gazed in rapture and burst out into praises of his sincere affection: “Who in all the world is like Bharat, who makes fools wise and the wise fools?”
As he listened to his friend’s speech and gazed upon the tree, Bharat’s eyes overflowed with tears. The two brothers advanced reverently; Saraswati would fail to do justice to their love. When they saw the prints of Bima’s feet they rejoiced like some beggar on finding the philosopher’s stone, and applied the dust to their head, heart and eyes with as much delight as if they had found Bama himself. Seeing Bharat’s utterly indescribable condition, birds, beasts and all created things, whether animate or inanimate, were absorbed in devotion. The guide in his excitement lost the way, but the gods showed it to him and rained down flowers. Saints and sages gazed in rapture and burst out into praises of his sincere affection: “Who in all the world is like Bharat, who makes fools wise and the wise fools?”