न जन्म नूनं महतो न सौभगं न वाङ्न बुद्धिर्नाकृतिस्तोषहेतु: । तैर्यद्विसृष्टानपि नो वनौकस- श्चकार सख्ये बत लक्ष्मणाग्रज: ॥ ७ ॥
na janma nunam mahato na saubhagam na van na buddhir nakrtis tosa-hetuh tair yad visrstan api no vanaukasas cakara sakhye bata laksmanagrajah
- na
- not
- janma
- birth in a very polished, aristocratic family
- nunam
- indeed
- mahatah
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- na
- nor
- saubhagam
- great fortune
- na
- nor
- vak
- an elegant manner of speaking
- na
- nor
- buddhih
- sharpness of intelligence
- na
- not
- akrtih
- features of the body
- tosa-hetuh
- the cause of pleasure to the Lord
- taih
- by all those above-mentioned qualities
- yat
- because
- visrstan
- rejected
- api
- although
- nah
- us
- vana-okasah
- the inhabitants of the forest
- cakara
- accepted
- sakhye
- in friendship
- bata
- alas
- laksmana-agra-jah
- Lord Sri Ramacandra, the elder brother of Laksmana
One cannot establish a friendship with the Supreme Lord Ramacandra on the basis of material qualities such as one’s birth in an aristocratic family, one’s personal beauty, one’s eloquence, one’s sharp intelligence or one’s superior race or nation. None of these qualifications is actually a prerequisite for friendship with Lord Sri Ramacandra. Otherwise how is it possible that although we uncivilized inhabitants of the forest have not taken noble births, although we have no physical beauty and although we cannot speak like gentlemen, Lord Ramacandra has nevertheless accepted us as friends?