Shabari (Sanskrit: शबरी, IAST: Śabarī), also known as Bhilni, Bhilani, and Shramana, is an elderly woman ascetic in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

[1] The sage responded that, if she offered seva (service), the god Rama would give her darshana.

Thus, collecting a few berries, Shabari would return to the ashram and eagerly await Rama's arrival.

To this, Rama[4] responded that, of the many types of food he had tasted, "nothing could equal these berries, offered with such devotion.

Whomsoever offers a fruit, leaf, flower or some water with love, I partake in it with great joy."

Rama notices the donas, or bowls, of handmade leaves in which she had offered the fruits and is impressed by the hard work Shabari has gone through to make them and, hence, blesses the tree so that the leaves naturally grow in the shape of a bowl.

The third is service to the guru (...) Fourth is to sing My kirtana (communal chorus) (...) Japa or repetition of My Holy name and chanting My bhajanas are the fifth expression (...) To follow scriptural injunctions always, to practice control of the senses, nobility of character and selfless service, these are expressions of the sixth mode of bhakti.

That which is most difficult for the greatest yogis was easily attained by you, Shabari, because of your sincere devotion.