GOD ALONE HAS BECOME ALL THINGS

AT one time Rama was overpowered by the spirit

of renunciation. Dasaratha, worried at this, went to

the sage Vasistha and begged him to persuade

Rama not to give up the world. The sage came to

Rama and found him in a gloomy mood. The fire

of intense renunciation had been raging in the

Prince's mind. Vasistha said: "Rama, why should

you renounce the world? Is the world outside

God? Reason with me." Rama realized that the

world had evolved from the supreme Brahman. So

he said nothing.