17. Saguna is not only easy but free from danger, but it needs nirguna to complete it. As saguna grows, the flower of nirguna, of devotion to principle, should blossom. Nirguna and saguna complement each other, they are not incompatible. Starting from saguna, one has to tread the path to the goal of nirguna : nirguna, too, needs the waters of saguna to cleanse the subtle impurities of the mind. Each gains luster from the other. 

18. Both these kinds of bhakti are nobly illustrated throughout the Raamaayana, especially in the Ayodhyaa Kaanda. Bharata illustrates the nirguna form of bhakti, and Lakshmana, the saguna form. 

19. When Rama set out for the forest, he did not intend to take Lakshmana with him. Rama did not think it was at all necessary. He tried to console him saying, "Lakshman, I am going to the forest at the bidding of our father. You should stay at home. By coming with me, you would only add to the suffering of our parents. 

Serve our parents and our people. If you stay with them, I shall be free from care. Stay here in my place, and do my duty for me. In going to the forest, I am facing no danger. I am only visiting ashramas of rishis." With one word, Lakshmana makes a clean sweep of all Rama's arguments. Tulsidas pictures this incident vividly.

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