Is all infinite radiance day and night, requiring neither lamp nor ghee nor wick (to light it); the poverty of ignorance comes not near, nor does the blast of covetousness ever extinguish the light.

The overpowering gloom of ignorance is dispelled, and all the swarms of moths (of vanity, etc.) keep away utterly overcome. Evil propensities like lust, anger and covetousness dare not approach him in whose heart the gem of faith abides.

For him venom is changed to nectar and enemies to friends, and without this jewel noone can find happiness. He is never affected by those grievous mental afflictions by the influence of which all living creatures suffer pain.

He in whose heart abides the jewel of faith in Rama cannot have the least woe even in a dream. They are the wisest of the wise in this world who spare no pains to secure this jewel.

Yet though this jewel is manifest in the world, no one can find it without the grace of Rama. There are easy ways to its attainment, but luckless souls contemptuously reject them.

The Vedas and Puranas are holy mountains and the stories of Rama their many glorious mines. The saints are the expert mineralogists and penetrating intellect their pickaxe; while spiritual wisdom and detachment (from worldly affairs), Garuda, are their eyes (surveying the mines).

Any creature who searches with love finds the jewel, faith, in itself a mine of every blessing. I have in my heart this conviction, my lord, that the servant of Rama is greater than Rama himself.