The glorious names of Rama, his virtues and acts, his lives and deeds have all been declared by the Vedas to be beyond number. As Rama, the Blessed Lord, is infinite, so are his stories, his glory and manifold virtues without end.

Yet, seeing your great devotion, I will tell the story to the best of my ability and as I have heard it. Your inquiries, Uma, are naturally winning and delightful, such as the saints approve, and I too am pleased to hear.

But, Bhavani, there was one thing I did not like, though you spoke under the influence of a delusion; for you suggested that the Rama whom the Vedas hymn and the sages contemplate is someone else!

Such words are spoken and heard by those vile wretiches who are possessed by the devil of delusion: heretics, who are averse to the feet of Hart, and know no difference between truth and falsehood.

It is the foolish and ignorant, the blind and unblest sensuality, the lecherous, decetiful and grossly perverse, who never even dream of visiting the assembly of holy men.

-and who have no sense of gain and loss - it is they who say such things as are repungnant to the Vedas. The mirror of their souls is suillied and they have no eyes to see; how, then, can such wretches behold Rama's beauty?

For those who have no knowledge either of the unqualified Brahma or of qualified Divinity, who jabber lying words of various kinds and who wander astray in this world under the influence of Hari's illusive power, no assertion is too absured to make.