“Distressed by your absence, my Lord, there have come with the great sage your mothers and all the people of the city, your servants, captains and ministers.”
When the Ocean of amiability heard the guru had come, he left Satrughna with Sita and went off in haste that very minute, he Rama, the steadfast, the righteous, the all-merciful. On seeing the guru, he and his brother were delighted and fell on their faces to the ground. The holy man ran and raised them up and embraced them, and greeted both brothers with the utmost affection. The pilot, quivering with emotion, gave his name and prostrated himself afar off; but the Rishi must needs greet him as a friend of Rama’s, as though love had been spilt upon the ground and he stooped to pick it up. Faith in Rama is the root of all good; in heaven the gods applauding rained down flowers: “There is no one so utterly vile as he, nor any one in the world equal to the great Vasishtha;
When the Ocean of amiability heard the guru had come, he left Satrughna with Sita and went off in haste that very minute, he Rama, the steadfast, the righteous, the all-merciful. On seeing the guru, he and his brother were delighted and fell on their faces to the ground. The holy man ran and raised them up and embraced them, and greeted both brothers with the utmost affection. The pilot, quivering with emotion, gave his name and prostrated himself afar off; but the Rishi must needs greet him as a friend of Rama’s, as though love had been spilt upon the ground and he stooped to pick it up. Faith in Rama is the root of all good; in heaven the gods applauding rained down flowers: “There is no one so utterly vile as he, nor any one in the world equal to the great Vasishtha;