Shloka 6.127.2
भरद्वाजाश्रम-समागमः / Meeting Bharadvaja at the Hermitage (Homeward Blessings)
सोऽपृच्छदभिवाद्यैनंभरद्वाजंतपोधनम् ।शृणोषिकच्चिद्भगवन्सुभिक्षानायमंपुरे ।।6.127.2।।कच्चित्सयुक्तोभरतोजीवन्त्यपि च मातरः ।
tatheti ca pratijñāte vacanāt samanantaram |
abhavan pādapās tatra svargapādapasannibhāḥ ||6.127.20||
As soon as he pledged, “So be it,” the trees there at once became like the trees of heaven.
Rama and Lakshmana having greeted sage Bharadwaja who had asceticism as his wealth, enquired, saying, "Have you heard that crops have been good, Bharata is active, and mothers are doing well in Ayodhya?"
The verse links truthfulness and spiritual merit to efficacy: a sage’s truthful promise, grounded in tapas, bears immediate, beneficent results—showing dharma as a power that supports life.
Bharadvāja’s assent to Rāma’s request is instantly manifested as the environment becomes abundantly fruitful and heavenly in appearance.
Bharadvāja’s spiritual potency and reliability; his word is effective because it is rooted in disciplined ascetic life.