For the sake of his faithful people the very God, our Lord Râma, has become incarnate as a king and for our supreme sanctification has lived as it were the life of any ordinary man. As an actor in the course of his performance assumes a variety of dresses and exhibits different characters, but himself remains the same;
Such, Gurur, is Râma’s divertissement, a bewilderment to the demons, but a delight to the faithful. Sensual libertines in their dulness of soul impute the delusion to the Lord, like as when, Sir, a man whose eyesight is in fault says that the moon is of a yellow colour; or when mistaken as to the points of the compass affirms that the sun has risen in the west; or as one on board ship, who deludes himself with the idea that he is standing still and that the land is moving. When children in play turn round and round, the house, or whatever else it may be, does not turn round, it is only their idle fashion of talking. In this way only, O Garur, can error be ascribed to Hari; never even in a dream is He really subject to delusion. The wretched dullards, who succumb to Mâyâ, have a thick veil over their soul, and these are the obstinate fools who raise doubts and lay their own ignorance on Râma.
Such, Gurur, is Râma’s divertissement, a bewilderment to the demons, but a delight to the faithful. Sensual libertines in their dulness of soul impute the delusion to the Lord, like as when, Sir, a man whose eyesight is in fault says that the moon is of a yellow colour; or when mistaken as to the points of the compass affirms that the sun has risen in the west; or as one on board ship, who deludes himself with the idea that he is standing still and that the land is moving. When children in play turn round and round, the house, or whatever else it may be, does not turn round, it is only their idle fashion of talking. In this way only, O Garur, can error be ascribed to Hari; never even in a dream is He really subject to delusion. The wretched dullards, who succumb to Mâyâ, have a thick veil over their soul, and these are the obstinate fools who raise doubts and lay their own ignorance on Râma.