It is beneficent to pious souls as Parvati is friendly to gods; again, it destroys hell as Parvati exterminated the army of demons. It flows from the assembly of saints as Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth) sprang from the Ocean of milk; and like the immovable earth it bears the burden of the universe.

It is like the sacred river Yamuna in this world to scare away the messengers of Yama (the god of death), and like holy Kashi, as it were, to grant liberation to the living. It is dear to Rama as the sacred tulasi (basil plant) and is truly beneficent to Tulasidasa as his own mother, Hulasi.

It is as dear to Shiva as the river Narmada, daughter of Mount Mekala; it is amine of all attainments as well as of happiness and prosperity. It is to noble qualities what mother Aditi is to the gods; it is the culmination, as it were, of devotion to and love for Raghunatha.

The story of Rama is the river Mandakini (which washes the foot of Chitrakuta); a pure, guileless heart isMount Chitrakuta (one of the happy resorts of Rama during his wanderings in the forest); while sincere love, says Tulasidasa, is the forest where Sita and Rama carry on their divine pastimes.

The acts of Rama are a lovely wish-yielding (fabulous) gem and a graceful adornment for saintly wisdom. The sum of virtues possessed by Rama is a blessing to the world and bestower of liberation, riches, religious merit and eternal salvation.

The acts of Rama are true teachers of wisdom, dispassion and Yoga and celestial physicians (Ashvinkumaras) for the dread disease of transmigration, parents of devotion to Sita and Rama, and the seed of all strict vows, religious practices and observances.

-the destroyers of sins, of agonies and of griefs; our loving guardians in this as well as in the next world; the valiant ministers of King Reason, and a veritable Agastya to drink up the illimitable ocean of greed.