lord rama in sunder kand

Lord Rama is telling his nature to Vibhishan, listen my friend: I tell you my nature, which known to lord Shiva too. If some one, even though if he has been an enemy of whole animate & inanimate creation, comes terror stricken to me, seeking my protection & discarding vanity, infatuation, hypocrisy & trickeries of various kinds, I speedily make him very like a saint.

The ties of affection that binds a man to his relatives, self & attachments of self as wealth, friends, property are like so may threads which a pious soul gathers up & twist into a string wherewith he bind his soul with my feet. A saint of this description abides in my heart even as mammon resides in the heart of covetous man. Only saints of your type are dear to me.

Those men who worship my personal form, are intent on doing well to others; firmly tread the path of rightness, & are steadfast in their vow & devoted to the feet of Brahmins are dear to me as my life. You possess all virtues as same as that.

Vibhishan in all submissive mode said lord you are pillar of the whole creation-animate & inanimate, protector of suppliant & knower of all hearts, also aware of my heart that I did have some lurking desires in my heart before; but the same have been washed away by the stream of devotion to your lotus feet.

Lord Rama said my friend you have no craving but my sight in the world never fails to bring the reward. So saying, lord Rama applied on his forehead the scared mark of sovereignty & a copious shower of flowers rained down from the heavens.

He was suffering from the invisible fire of insult at heart from his elder brother but lord Rama blessed him with what he had never dreamed of. The virtues raven attain by the submissive mode through his ten heads the same is obliged him by rama as just on the pace of reward for worship.

Lord ask Vibhishan dear friend how our army could cross over this mighty sea, replied by Vibhishan that lord your arrows itself is enough to dry up innumerable sea, yet propriety demands that you should approach the ocean & request the deity presiding over it to allow you a passage.

The ocean is an ancestor of yours; hence he will oblige you. Lord Rama starts prayer to please the deity ocean for a courtesy passage to army. There raven send the spies to know about the outcome of Vibhishan meeting with Rama. They mistaken their assumed shape of illusion which they bear to act their on as monkey & got noticed by all, roughly treated by the monkeys bear they called the name of lord Rama, laxman saved them & send message along with to their king raven.

Convey the message to your king raven that either surrender sita with all respect & have peace or your hour is on & reaching at you for conclusion.

They reached their in the assembly of raven with all courtesy & submit their version on the query from raven, tell me about the fate less Vibhishan, those monkeys & bear along with the news about the ascetics whose heart is obsessed with terror of me.

Did you meet them or did they retreat on hearing my fair renown? Then he starts to tell minute by minute they observe on that side of sea.

Thanks
Mahesh sharma