How to describe compassion of Lord Rama !! कथञ्चिदुपकारेण कृतेनैकेन तुष्यति।

 

Bhagwan Sri Ramachandra Murthi was the complete personality and among His very many great qualities – a striking quality   is His unbounded ‘daya’ i.e.,compassion.  The term "Rama Piran" typically refers to Rama as the great benefactor or "Great One." He is celebrated for his mercy towards all beings, including his enemies (like Vibhishana) and those in distress. 

Lord Rama's compassion, central to the Ramayana, is an all-encompassing empathy for all beings, shown through his care for parents, subjects, and even enemies, exemplified by protecting the surrendered Vibhishana, reviving fallen Vanaras, forgiving spies, and offering Ravana chances to repent, highlighting his role as a benevolent, just ruler and protector of the distressed, embodying Sarva Bhuta Hite Rataha (welfare of all creation). 

Throughout Ramayana we can find that His compassion overpowers all His other divine attributes. The Ramayana gives a beautiful glimpse of his compassion. The sloka (Ayodhya Kanda 1.11) states:

 

कथञ्चिदुपकारेण कृतेनैकेन तुष्यति।

न स्मरत्यपकाराणां शतमप्यात्मवत्तया।।2.1.11।।

கதஞ்சிதுபகாரேண கரிதேநைகேந துஷ்யதி.

ந ஸ்மரத்யபகாராணாஂ ஷதமப்யாத்மவத்தயா৷৷

 

Sree Rama at Karapakkam in OMR Chennai

Gifted with self-restraint, Rama was pleased even with a single small  benefit done somehow to HIM, yet did not remember even a hundred offences committed by others.  At some point of time if a person unknowingly serves the Lord in some manner,  He considers it to be great and becomes pleased very much and even if a person commits many (hundreds of) offenses, He doesn't mind because the Lord is self- satisfied. Whenever the Lord visited His elders, he used to leave his paduka(slipper) at the doors and enter. The Lord once thought for a moment, "This slipper is serving me so nicely, but I'm always leaving it at the doorsteps. It probably deserves a better place". The result of that momentary thought was that the paduka ruled Ayodhya for 14 years. So He recognized the service of everyone (even that of His slippers) without discrimination.

 

In common parlance – to  show how big something is with a hand gesture, you use your fingers and hands to create a visual scale: a small "pinch" (thumb and index finger close) for tiny, a medium gap for moderate, and spreading arms wide or using the full span of your open hand for large or huge items, often accompanied by descriptive words like "this big" or "huge!".   Leave humans spreading arms, a Pelican spreading its wings too would not be enough to properly describe the mercy, kindness and compassion of Sree Rama.

 
adiyen Srinivasa dhasan
Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
13.12.2025