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========================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/04/2020. III.THE PLOT THICKENS -1. Post-12. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. While being abducted, Sita flapped her limbs like a caged bird, shrieked and shouted but there was none to come to her rescue. On the way she left a trail by dropping her ornaments. When Ravana was intercepted by Jatayu, a devotee of Rama, who put up a fight, the latter eventually lost the battle and fell down. Ravana thereafter reached his capital without any disturbance and confined Sita to a garden in his palace, called Ashoka-Vatika. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Rama returned to find Panchavati without its soul, its life, its Sita. He suspected foul play and went round asking for the whereabouts of Sita from birds and beasts, plants and trees, wailing and weeping like an ordinary man....

04/04/2020. II - COSMIC DRAMA : 3 3. Ideal Human Relationships Post-11. Ideal Human Relationships 1. Ramayana is an epic which delineates with remarkable clarity and the precision of a surgeon’s knife, how to conduct human relationships of all types. To my mind it appears to be an authentic interpretation in sociology, a comprehensive directory of human relations. There is no end to this variety of relations between man and man, man and woman and it may be surprising that the ideal behaviour of almost every human relationship has been depicted in this epic.  To name a few :  the relationship between father and son as represented by Dasaratha and Rama;  son and stepmother—Rama and Kaikeyi;  husband and wife—Lakshmana and Urmila;  king and his subjects—Rama and inhabitants of Ayodhya;  brother and brother—Rama, Bharata and Lakshmana;  married man and a wanton—Lakshmana and Surpanakha;  God and devotee—Rama and Sugreeva;  king and his army—Rama ...