17. Destroying Arrogance

Synopsis Who is the Best? Stamping Arrogance Rebirth
Prayer (for children) Saviour  Humbleness
The Director Prayer to forgive

Link 1:
Lav - Kush and their friends
Used to pray in the evening
Sita and her Sakhis, in the hermitage
Used to chat together sitting ||1||

At one time Lav - Kush's mother
And others were all sitting
They were discussing various topics
But Lav -Kush were missing ||2||

I am the best, I am elder to you
The twins are fighting together
On this they are quarrelling
One of their friends told her ||3||

Sita herself went and saw
Both of them fighting intensely
She called them in front of all
And told them very tersely ||4||

Song 1 :

Who is the Best?

Sita:
Who claims "I can see
Better than all the People "
Can you at all see?
Farther than the eagle?
Ha..Ha..Ho..Ho..Hee…Hee (soft laughter of the Mother)

Who claims "My sense of smell
Is better than the rest "
Can you at all catch the smell,
A humble dog can scent?
Ha..Ha..Ho..Ho..Hee… Hee

Who claims "I can cook
Delicacies galore "
Can you make ambrosial
Honey of the flower?
Ha..Ha..Ho..Ho..Hee… Hee

Who claims "I can hear
Better than him or her"
Can you match the Blue-Whale
In subtle sounds it can hear?
Ha..Ha..Ho..Ho..Hee… Hee

Who claims "I can fly
And keep flying away"
Can you catch the soul departed?
That flies into the Milky Way?
Ha.Ha..Ho..Ho..Hee…

I salute you all in love
Oh! Brothers, sisters, dear,
Who is then the best of all?

(Lav and Kush say with
friends assembled:)

"It's our Mother Nature!"