"Am a servant of Rama, Accredited to His Court, What for should I Be a Courier of man?"
— Tulsidas

January 1, 1970

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A couplet he composed when he refused to accept the honour as one of the Ratna’s (Jewel) as a poet in the Imperial court of Akbar by his friend Abdurrahim Khan-i-Khana. Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 54