19. He cannot be excited to pleasantry nor tempted to taste of pleasures; he attends to no business, but remains in silence. 20. No woman with her loosened locks and tresses, and the negligent glances of her eyes, can please him any more than the playful fawn can please the trees in the forest. 21. Like a man sold among savages, he takes delight in lonely places, in remotest skirts, in the banks (of rivers) and wild deserts. 22. His aversion to clothing and conveyance, food and presents, bespeaks O king! that he is following the line of life led by wandering ascetics. 23. He lives alone, Oh lord of men! in a lonely place, and neither laughs nor sings nor cries aloud from a sense of their indifference to him. 24. Seated in the posture of folded legs (Padmásana), he stays with a distracted mind, reclining his cheek on his left palm. 25. He assumes no pride to himself nor wishes for the dignity of sovereignty; he is neither elated with joy nor depressed by grief or pain. 26. We do not know where he goes, what he does, what he desires, what he meditates upon, whence and when he comes and what he follows. 27. He is getting lean every day, growing pale day by day, and like a tree at the end of autumn, he is becoming discoloured day after day. 28. Satrughna and Lakshmana are, Oh king! the followers of all his habits, and resemble his very shadows. 29. Being repeatedly asked by his servants, his brother-princes and his mothers (as to the cause of his dementedness), he says he has none, and then resumes his taciturnity and indifference. 30. He would lecture his companions and friends saying, “do not set your mind to sensual enjoyments which are only pleasing for the time being.” 31. He has no affection for the richly adorned women of the harem, but rather looks upon them as the cause of destruction presented before him. 32. He often chaunts in plaintive notes, how his life is being spent in vain cares, estranged from those of the easily attainable state of (heavenly bliss). 33. Should some dependant courtier speak of his being an emperor (one day), he smiles at him as upon a raving madman, and then remains silent as one distracted in his mind. 34. He does not pay heed to what is said to him, nor does he look at any thing presented before him. He hates to look upon things even the most charming (to sight). 35. As it is chimerical to suppose the existence of an etherial lake, and lotus growing in the same, so it is false to believe the reality of the mind and its conceptions. Saying so Ráma marvels at nothing. 36. Even when sitting amidst beauteous maids, the darts of Cupid fail to pierce his impenetrable heart, as showers of rain the (unimpregnable) rock. 37. That “no sensible man should ever wish for riches which are but the seats of dangers”; making this his motto, Ráma gives away all that he has to beggars.