Yada Yada hi Kousalya Daasivachcha Sakhiva cha
Baaryavath Baginivathcha Mathruvachchopathishtathi
Devotion is Premasawroopa. The world is controlled by a single force called Love. So does the Lord get captured by the net of love. This love is of 5 types. The affection expressed by the mother towards the child, the love that a friend shows towards another, the service that a servant does towards his employer, the love of a wife to her husband and finally the love of the gnanis towards the bruhamam. The first type is called vathsalya, the next one sakhya followed by dasya, madhurya and shantha.In Srimad Ramayana Kousalya shows Vatsalya, Sugriva shows sakhya, Anjaneya for dasya, Sita for madhurya and the rishis for shantha. Out of all these 5 Madhurya is the best. This is because in madhurya there is vatsalya, in madhurya there is sakhya and all other bhavas. A wife can be a mother at times, a friend at times, a maid servant at times. She can be everything.
Kousalya served Dasaratha in all ways. When she served him food she was like a mother. When he was a little worried about certain matters she would advise him like a sister. When she ridiculed him and played with him jokilng she was like a friend. When she wiped the dust off his paaduka and served his feet she was like a servant. Thus Dasaratha considered her as a wife, a sister, a mother, a friend and all.
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