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Rāma, Sītā, and Lakṣmaṇa walked ahead and reached Sage Atri’s āśrama. Rāma prostrated before him and the sage received him like a son. He personally provided hospitality to Rāma and cheered up Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa. His wife, the aged and noble Anasūyā received Sītā. Atri narrated to Rāma about his dhārmic wife: “Once when the world was ravaged by severe drought for ten years, Anasūyā created roots and fruits and made the river Jāhnavī flow out of the power of her intense tapas.
Climb the stairs one by one to reach the top. It's impossible to jump from one floor to the next. It is dangerous too. Likewise any accomplishment must be done in a step by step manner. That is what this nyāya says.
In the Rāmāyaṇa, after Daśaratha left to the heavenly abode, when Bharata begged Rāma to return to Ayodhyā and become the king, Srirāma says the following -
yathā kāṣṭhaṃ ca kāṣṭhaṃ ca sameyātāṃ mahārṇave ।
sametya ca vyapeyātāṃ kālamāsādya kañcana ॥
evaṃ bhāryāśca putrāśca jñātayaśca dhanāni ca ॥(2.105.26, 27)
{ವಂಶಸ್ಥ} ವಂಶಸ್ಥದ ಛಂದೋವಿನ್ಯಾಸವನ್ನು ಗಮನಿಸಿದಾಗ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಗಣಗಳನ್ನುಳ್ಳ ಇದರ ಮೊದಲ ಹಾಗೂ ಕಡೆಯ ಗಣಗಳು ಪ್ರತೀಪರೂಪದವೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಂದರೆ, ಮೊದಲಿಗೆ ಎರಡು ಲಘುಗಳ ನಡುವಣ ಗುರುವೊಂದನ್ನುಳ್ಳ ಜ-ಗಣ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರೆ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಎರಡು ಗುರುಗಳ ನಡುವಣ ಲಘುವೊಂದನ್ನುಳ್ಳ ರ-ಗಣವಿದೆ:
[u – u] – – u u – u [– u –]
With the wives of Daśaratha before him, Sage Vasiṣṭha set out to the spot where Rāma was. Kausalyā saw the bathing place of Rāma and was overcome by sorrow. They even saw the piṇḍa made of iṅgudī that Rāma had offered to his father and lamented at his fate. They then spotted the brothers.
A lion would pause for a while when going around, observing what is happening on its rear and then proceed further. That is its nature. Perhaps there is some doubt that another lion might be waiting to take away its prey which it has already killed.
All the above are sāttvika qualities. “Abhijāta” means one who is born after performing puṇya. Such a person is blessed with daivī qualities. Whoever thinks he is born in a good family and acts accordingly — one who has earned the qualification to worship the Divine — he will be blessed with the wealth of these above qualities. It releases the jīva from bondage. All this is divine wealth.
The qualities opposite to the above are āsurī qualities.
Bharata, the mothers, and the army reached the vicinity of the Citrakūṭa mountain. Bharata observed, “The trees on the mountains scatter their flowers on the mountain slopes just as the dark water-laden clouds send down showers when the heat of the summer is over. Look at the startled deer, Śatrughna! As they quickly dart off, scared of our huge army, they look like banks of clouds in the sky flying before the wind in the autumn. These trees wear bunches of flowers on their heads supported by cloud-blue boughs just as the dākṣiṇātyas wear a garland of flowers on their heads.