“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.”

—  Tulsidas

His confessional statements on his own experiences made in Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 49

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