ll Ram - Sita Appreciation Thread ll - Page 90

Let's see now how RamCharit Manas starts off.

Goswami Tulsidasji starts his epic thus

I revere Vani (Sarasvati) & Vinayak (Ganesh), the originators of sound represented by the alphabets

of the multitudes of objects denoted by those sounds, of poetic sentiments as well as of meters, & the begetter of all auspiciousness.

I greet Goddess Parvati & Bhagvan Shankar, embodiments of reverence & faith respectively, without whom even the adept cannot perceive God enshrined in their very heart.

I make obeisance to the eternal preceptor Bhagvan Shankar, who is infinite wisdom, and resting on whose brow the crescent moon, though crooked in shape, is universally adored.

I pay homage to the king of poets (Valmiki) & the chief of monkeys (Hanuman), of pure intelligence, both of whom sport in the holy woods of glories of Sita & Ram.