Quotes from Literature~ The Ramayana

"A river or a hill, a tree or a cloud, indeed any object of beauty may raise one to contemplation of the Supreme Being and silent worship of Him.  In particular sacred rivers, temples or images, which for generations have been objects of devotion and worship possess this power in a special degree, in virtue the sacred thoughts they have witnessed and absorbed as garments retain perfumes."

Quotes from Literature~ The Ramayana

This snippet of Sacred Hindu poem is from Canto IV in Book I~

"When to the end the tale was brought,
Rose in the sage's mind the thought;
Now who throughout this earth will go,
And tell it forth that all may know?"