Ramayanam : (18/07/2013 )

  ========================================================================== Monday 18, June 2024 05:30. Section One  PRELIMINARY  EKASLOKI RAMAYANA  (Ramayana in One Slogam)  Swami Sivananda Post-3. ========================================================================== STORY OF VALMIKI: Thief Ratnakar became Valmiki Rishi. Ratnakar lived in the country of the Kiratas. He was brought up amongst them. He was a Brahmin only by birth. He was always devoted to the practices of a Sudra. He begot many sons through a Sudra woman. He became a thief when he was in the company of thieves. He destroyed many creatures. He always moved about with bow and arrow in hand. Once he saw the seven Rishis in the forest and ran after them in order to plunder them. The Rishis said, “Why are you following us?” He said to them, “I have come to take away from you what you have. My many sons and wife are starving. I roam about in the hills and forests to maintain them.” The Rishis said to Ratnakar, “Ask your

=============================================================================== Sunday 09, June 2024 05:30. Section One  PRELIMINARY  EKASLOKI RAMAYANA  (Ramayana in One Slogam)  Swami Sivananda Post-2. =============================================================================== AHALYA’S PRAYER: Ever do I bow unto that Hari who has in this incarnation assumed a human shape and is called Rama, who is of a delightful form, who carried the bow, whose eyes are large like the lotus. I bow unto no other. The dust of whose lotus-feet is to be sought for through the Vedas, from the lotus of whose navel sprang forth the lotus-seated Brahma, whose name is ever cherished by the God, Siva, that Ramachandra do I cherish in my heart day and night. I take refuge in Him whose deeds in various incarnations are sung in the world of Brahma by Narada, Siva and Brahma and the rest, as well as by the goddess of speech with tears of joy running down her breasts. This Rama is verily that supreme self—the a