Tulsidas Quotes

Yatha Raja Thatha Praja

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.

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

Faith is that which dispels desire,
Devotion is that which generates knowledge.
And Vedas say that knowledge is that which fashions freedom.

God refuses to be mine,
thine or his. For him the truth is but one but the proud and the vain have forged many out of their desires and fancies.

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.

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.

Am a servant of Rama,
Accredited to His Court, What for should I
Be a Courier of man?

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.

What did I not do, where did I not go, to whom did I not bow.

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.

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.