Tulsidas Quotes

This fair city opens to all Rama’s heaven, The whole world knows well here is holiness given. Beyond number souls from the four wombs are born. But the souls who in Avadh die never return. Well knowing this city the home of delight, The giver of wealth, source of all that is bright, Its history pure I’ll begin to relate; Once heard it destroys passion, envy and hate.

Yatha Raja Thatha Praja

On Tuesday, the ninth day of Chaitra, month pleasing, In th’ city of Avadh my story releasing. 'Tis the birthday of Rāma, as scriptures declare, And the day when the pilgrims are gathering there. All demons, birds, serpents, men, saints and gods too There are meeting to bring to their lord homage true; On this festival day of the lord Rama’s birth They all sing with acclaim his high praises and worth.(After Dohā 33)

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.

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.

He walks without legs, hears without ears, does all the deeds without hands.
He enjoys all the juices without a mouth, spells all the truth without a voice, touches everything without hands.
He see very object without eyes and inhales all the scents without a breath.

Mine is no caste or cult, what care I for one or the other...
No one is of any use to me, nor am I of any use to anyone.
Don’t have a son to need, someone’s daughter to wed.
Tulsi is the slave of Rama, whoever may say whatever he likes.
Begged for food, slept in a mosque, have nothing to take and nothing
to give, call me a swindler or a saint, call me a Rajput or a Julaha.

[I] begged for crumbs and morsels door to door...Plodding and dawdling around lanes.

No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.

Listen, Vibhishan, Angad, Sugriv! Pure and clean "Is my city; my land is the fairest e'er seen! "Tho' for beauty men always of Paradise dream, "And tho' scripture, as all know, declares it supreme, "Tho' but few know the secret, yet this I declare- "That dear to me is Avadh beyond all compare! "Here's my birthplace, this city delightful, secure; "On the north River Sarju flows, sacred and pure, "In which bathing, without any labours or pains, "His abiding-place with me forever man gains; "Very dear to my heart are all those who here dwell; "They attain thus my realm, there and here all is well."

There is no difference between knowledge and devotion, Both of them save the soul from the miseries of worldly life.

In dependence, there is no happiness, even in a dream.

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.

Unless one cultivates slave-master relationship with the Lord,
No one can go across the ocean of this material world.
Who is as virtuous a master as Rama?
And who is as vicious as I am?

Paradheen sapanehun such naheen.