Chapter Eight: Literature of the Rasika Tradition in Hindi

Vishvamohini, Mriga, Mora, Premaprabha, Sudvarika, and Dhira—
All these wise leaders of companion-groups serve the Couple’s feet with concentrated life.

Their beautiful residences encircle Kanak Bhavan on every side.
Every palace accords perfectly with happiness and is filled with immeasurable joy.
In every bower dwell countless companions and thousands of excellent group-leaders.
They reign and resound throughout the city, whose houses are all fashioned of gold.

Santana and many other forests shine with a loveliness that cannot be described.
Flowers and fruit grow green and sway, while companies of young women sport among them.

Concerning the Worshipper

Worshippers of the Divine Couple

Those who repeatedly place upon their heads the dust of a worshipper of the Couple’s feet
Find welfare in all ten directions, while immense misfortune is destroyed.

Worshippers of the Couple are treasuries of bliss, sporting within the very form of Sri Sita-Rama.
They perform the happiness-giving practices of ritual and dharma while contemplating their relationship with the Couple.
Advocates of the many rival doctrines and paths fill the world with debates and lose themselves.
Worshippers of the Couple are rare, brothers: Sita and Raghurai dwell within their hearts.

Service to the feet of a worshipper of the Couple makes the pleasures of millions of Love-gods and deities seem like spittle.
Sita-Rama, the very abode of happiness, dwell continuously in their minds.
Association and colourful friendship with them bestow happiness equal to millions of wish-fulfilling trees.

The Vedic revelation describes the excellent conduct of a worshipper of the Couple as beyond the three guṇas.
Their instruction removes the delusion, affliction, birth, and death.
Whoever accepts a worshipper of the Couple as guru crosses the ocean of becoming without exhaustion or labour.

Those who abandon distortion in mind, action, and speech and serve Sita-Rama—
Whoever serves such devotees obtains the heart’s desired ends.

Worship

Raghupati alone is the one Man; all other beings, inert and conscious, are women.
This firm knowledge arose through the grace of Sita’s beloved.

Having attained human birth, the wise jīva obtains knowledge of the Self and does not abandon it.
Whatever male or female body one assumes, one does not forget one’s own feminine form.
Those upon whom Bhagavan bestows grace are shown this knowledge of the Self.
Those who cherish the excellent feminine disposition receive the right to serve the Couple’s form.