RAMAYANA FOR CHILDREN
BALAKANDA
CHAPTER 3
The great sage Valmiki had got from the divine saint, Narada
only a bare outline of the story of Sri Ramachandra. So he went into a tapas,
and meditated. Before his inner eye there unfolded the whole events of King
Rama’s life. Valmiki got to see in his mental eye all the deeds done by Rama,
Lakshmana and Sita, Dasaratha, his qeens and his subjects; they lived and moved
before the mental eye of the great sage in meditation!
In the first six books of Ramayana, the epic, Valmiki
describes Lord Vishnu coming down into the mortal world. Rama’s childhood, his
father, Dhasaratha’s bid to coronate him, and his death, Rama’s life thereafter,
his meeting with Kuha, Rama’s interview with Bhathvaja, and the building of a
lovely cottage on the banks of Chitrakuta , Surpanaka’s mutilation , Bharata’s crowning of the
sandals of his brother, Rama, the kidnapping of Sita and the war that ensued
with Ravana, and the return of Rama to Ayodhya are all described therein.
And in the Uttarakanda Valmiki described the coming years of
Rama and his golden rule, how he cast away his queen to avoid censure and every
other things that were to ensue get ably portrayed by the incomparable poet,
Valmiki.
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