The RÁMÁYAN of VÁLMÍKI - Part 1 - 9

by MB (Official) in English Spiritual Stories

Canto IX.Rishyasring. The wise Sumantra,thus addressed, Unfolded at the king's behest The plan the lords in council laid To draw the hermit from the shade: “The priest,amid the lordly crowd, To Lomapád thus spoke aloud: “Hear,King,the plot our thoughts ...Read Moreframed, A harmless trick by all unblamed. Far from the world that hermit's child Lives lonely in the distant wild: A stranger to the joys of sense, His bliss is pain and abstinence; And all unknown are women yet To him,a holy anchoret. The gentle passions we will wake That with resistless influence shake The hearts of men;and he Drawn Read Less