“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.”

—  Tulsidas

Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5

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Hindu poet-saint 1532–1623

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