"From the invocation to the conclusion, the poet Tulsidas seeks the grace of Rama and announces over and over again that the final object of his poetic performance is the attainment of bhakti – complete dedication to Rama. The narrative ends with an elaborate discourse on the supremacy of the devotional sentiment."
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Tulsidas, in Ramacharitamanas, quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern", by K. R. Sundararajan in p.xx.
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