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vii) Luv and Kuśa sing the Rāmāyana in Śrī Rāma's Court
The last Ordeal of Sita
Canto LXXXXIV
As the night passed and the day approached, both (Kuśa
and Lava) having taken their bath and made offerings to
the fire, sang (the poem) there as instructed formerly by
the sage Vālmīki. That scion of Kakutstha heard that musical
recitation accompanied with musical notes, never heard before,
composed by the former teacher (Bharata). (1-2) Śrī Rāma was
amazed on hearing (that song) set to the proper beat and tune
and accompanied with the lute, from the two boys. (3)
Then in the midst of the performance (of the
Illumination, Heroism and Harmony
Preface
The task of preparing teaching-learning
material for value- oriented education is enormous. There is, first, the idea
that value-oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive,
and that the teaching-learning material should provide to the learners a growing
experience of exploration.
Secondly, it is rightly contended that the
proper inspiration to turn to value-orientation is provided by biographies,
autobiographical accounts, personal anecdotes, epistles, short poems, stories of
humour, stories of human interest, brief passages filled with pregnant meanings,
reflective short essays written in w
Sri Rama
The Beloved and Victorious Hero
Published by
Shubhra Ketu Foundation
and The Mother's Institute of Research
This monograph is part of a series on Value-oriented Education
centered on three values : Illumination, Heroism and Harmony.
The research, preparation and publication of the monographs that
form part of this series are the result of the work and cooperation
of several research teams of the Sri Aurobindo International
Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER) at Auroville.
General Editor: KIREET JOSHI
Author of this monograph: Jyoti Madhok
(Compilation of texts by Jyoti Madhok
from Srimad Valmiki-Ramaya
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(iii) Hanūmān conveys Śrī Rāma's message to Sita
Canto XXXI (Sundarakanda)
Having
indulged in speculation of various kinds, Hanūmān
(who was endowed with extraordinary intelligence), they
say, made the following sweet speech within the hearing
of Sītā (a princess of the Videha territory): — (1) "In the line
of the Ikswākus there was a highly illustrious and greatly renowned king named
Daśaratha, who was given to meritorious
deeds and owned excellent chariots, elephants and .horses. (2)
Born in a line of universal monarchs, he was the foremost of
royal sages in point of virtues, vied with seers in austerity and
was a com
(vi) Sita is exiled
Canto XLIII (Uttarakanda)
Wise
and witty narrators used to sit around the king reciting various kinds of
stories. (1) Vijaya, Madhumatta, Kāśyapa, Mangala, Kula, Surāji, Kāliya, Bhadra,
Dantavaktra and Sumāgadha used to narrate with great delight
various kinds of humorous stories to the high-souled Rāma.
(2-3)
After sometime, during the course of the narration of a certain story,
Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) inquired: — "Bhadra!
What are the talks of the town and the kingdom? (4) What
are the people of the town and the country talking about me
and about Sītā, Bharata and Laksmana and what indeed about
Śatrughna and mother Kaikeyī ? Kin
APPENDICES
I
Sri
Aurobindo on the Ramayana
The pure literature of the
period is represented by the two great epics, the Mahabharata, which
gathered into its vast structure the greater part of the poetic activity
of the Indian mind during several centuries, and the Ramayana.
These two poems are epical in their motive and spirit, but they are not
like any other two epics in the world, but are entirely of their own kind
and subtly different from others in their principle. It is not only that
although they contain an early heroic story and a transmutation of many
primitive elements, their form belongs to a period of highly developed
intellectual, ethical and social culture, i
Introduction
I
The
epical story of Sri Rama has been an undying power of sustenance of the three great qualities that have characterised the idealism of Indian culture, viz., heroism that is spontaneously fearless and valorous, a human-divine tenderness that imparts restraint to exuberance, an over- flowing sweetness to the ingathered strength of virtue, and an indefatigable austerity that must end in triumph and celebration of victory. Sri Rama,
the hero of the Ramayana is the human-divine light as fierce as the summer sun
and also as tender as the rain of love, each drop of which, bears the healing charm of the splendid moon of the autumn. He is a mass
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(iv) Śrī Rāma vanquishes and kills Rāvana
Canto XCIX (Yuddhakanda)
On seeing Mahodara and Mahāpārśwa killed, the notorious champion Virūpāksa, who was endowed with ex
traordinary might, having (already) been struck down,
a great rage actually seized Rāvana in the course of the great
conflict. He urged on his charioteer and addressed to him the
following words: so the tradition goes: — (1-2) "Killing the
two princes, Rāma and Laksmana, I shall certainly get rid of
the suffering caused (to me) on account of the ministers who
have been killed and the city which has been laid siege to (by
the monkeys). (3) In the fight I shall cut d
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(v) Sita's ordeal and
Return of Śrī Rāma, Sita and Lakshmana to
Ayodhyā
Canto CXIV
Having greeted the foremost of all archers, Śrī Rāma,
whose eyes resembled the petals of a lotus, that great sage (Hanūmān) submitted to him as follows: — (1)
"You ought to see that divine princess of Mithilā, who is sorely
stricken with grief, for whose sake this course of action was
undertaken, which has (now) borne fruit. (2) Having heard of
your consummate victory, that princess1 of Mithilā, who is over
whelmed with grief, her eyes bedimmed with tears, longs to see you. (3) By her,
who was full of trust in m
Selected Episodes
( i ) Śrī Rāma is Exiled
Canto XVI (Ayodhyākanda)
Passing through the outermost gate of the inner chambers
(for women), which was crowded with men, Sumantra (who knew many old legends)
next reached the inner gate, which was solitary and was guarded by young men
wielding a Prāsa (a barbed missile) and a bow and adorned with
ear rings of burnished gold, unfailing in their duty and single
minded of purpose and fully devoted (to their master) (1-2)
Here he saw stationed at the gate, staff in hand, aged men clad in ochre coloured liveries and richly adorned, most attentive to
their duty and guarding the inmates of the inner apart