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1497–1623 India
Tulsidas Hindi pronunciation: [t̪ʊls̪iːd̪aːs̪], also known as Goswami Tulsidas; (1497–1623) was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion to the god Rama. A composer of several popular works, he is best known as the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana in the vernacular Awadhi.
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Faith in the Creator, who is mainly in his Godness and Godly in his man-ness, is like a human-self and can take him along.
No virtue is equal to the good of others and
The world knows that to quell the belly-fire, I ate crumbs and morsels given by men of caste, high-caste, low-caste or no cast.
There is no difference between knowledge and devotion,
In dependence, there is no happiness, even in a dream.
I call him Rama. You can call him by any other name but have faith in him, surrender all worldly desires and passions to his will and without effort, become disciplined and principled.
Faith is that which dispels desire,
God refuses to be mine,
Tuslidas:I call him Rama. You can call him by any other name but have faith in him, surrender all worldly desires and passions to his will and without effort, become disciplined and principled.
Am a servant of Rama,
To follow the path of knowledge is to tread on the edge of a sword.
This story shed its lustre at Ayodhya. on this day of Sri Rama's birth the presiding spirits of all holy places flock there...
What did I not do, where did I not go, to whom did I not bow.
P.E.Keay: The Ramacharitamanas undoubtedly is the great poem worthy to rank among the great classical masterpieces of world literature.
Mother and father abandoned me at birth and the author of my life also did not write any worth or merit on the page of destiny.
Unless one cultivates slave-master relationship with the Lord,
[I] begged for crumbs and morsels door to door...Plodding and dawdling around lanes.
As the Ruler, so the people.
Auspicious was the conjunction of the planets in an auspicious house; auspicious the moment; auspicious the day of the week and of the month; and full of delight was all creation, animate and inanimate, when Rama, father of delights, was born.
The story of Ramachandra, as narrated in the Valmiki Ramayan and the Adhyatma Ramayan, after reinforcing and revitalizing it with the essence of whatever the Puranas, the Vedas, and other scriptures could give, I, Tulsidas, am writing for the delight of my own soul.
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