Rama

through that expedition includes Rama going into the village to kill Titans with his mentor Sage Vasishtha, stringing the bow of Shiva, no man is able to complete this task, and being ostracized for 14 years and live in the forest with Sita and his brother Lakshmana, and the most stupendous quest that he accomplished was the one that he saved Sita. While living in the forest, the beautiful Sita captured the eye of a Demon ruler Ravana. Ravana abducted Sita and Rama rescued her with the help from the

keeping with living a virtuous life” (India: The Ramayana 242). Acting contrary to your predestined role in society impairs not only the individual’s ability to obtain dharma but that of humanities as well. The hero of the epic in this monomyth is Rama, who understands the sacrifices he must make in order to “succeed in being a faithful and dutiful son, loving husband, and caring brother, while also being a stern leader and powerful warrior.” Rama’s ability to comprehend his conscious devotion to

The Ramayana is an Ancient Indian epic poem that follows the story of a young prince named Rama who is a mortal incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The plot follows a narrative that starts from his first time outside the royal palace, through his banishment from the kingdom and his quest to save his beloved wife Sita from Ravana, the evil King of Lanka, all the way to his coronation as King of Ayodhya, the kingdom from which he was originally banished. Throughout the whole narrative, there is one

husband Rama. Following the death of Ravana, Rama renounces Sita assuming that because she has lived in another man’s house she has committed adultery. In order to maintain her honor Sita jumps into a funeral pyre, customary for the widows of Hindu aristocrats, and commits suicide. However, because she is pure the fire god, Agni, rejects her asserting that “Sita has not the smallest fault, and she is innocent. Lakshmi of good fortune is your wife, and she loves you” and returns her back Rama who is

Rebuffed by Rama, Surpanakha “threw herself in front of [Khara], as a bolt of lightning would fall from the sky” (Sattar, p. 245) to seek his help to avenge her, thus catalysing conflict between Rama and Khara. Similarly, Kaikeyi “flung herself on the ground” (Sattar, p. 116) to invoke Dasaratha’s sympathy. Thereafter, she forces Dasaratha to commit the unrighteous act of banishing Rama from his rightful kingdom, threatening to “kill [herself] right

Sings the Blues The epic story of Rama and Sita, as portrayed by Valmiki’s Ramayana and the modern day film Sita sings the Blues are two different versions of the same story which contain several contrasts as well as similarities. The Ramayana is the ancient version which was written by a sage named Valmiki in 550 B.C.E, featuring a love story between an ideal prince and an ideal woman. It outlines the adventures of Rama in his journey to find his abducted wife Sita. Rama is portrayed as an avatar, being

She is the one who requests Rama to capture the deer, saying, “There is an animal at our gate with a body of shining gold, and its legs are set with precious stones. It's a dazzling creature. Please capture it for me” (88). When Rama leaves, Sita is left alone with explicit instructions not to leave and let anyone enter the house, but is too naive to avoid Ravana, the disguised

Rama is the only character in the Ramayana who is solely created for one purpose; he is created to fulfill his dharma. The dharma he is created to fulfill is to kill Ravana. The epic begins showing this when Sita, Lakshmana, and Rama settle in Panchvati. Rama "never lost sight of his main purpose in settling down in this region- he had come here to encounter and destroy the asuras

Bhagavad Gita, and Rama, from the Ramayana, really that different from each other? The Bhagavad Gita is a story about the conversation between Arjuna and Krishna when Arjuna is questioning if he should fight in a war. While The Ramayana is about the life of Rama during his exile and going back to his kingdom. Although these two stories are very different, they do include some similarities. For example, both stories have characters that are avatars of Vishnu, Krishna and Rama. The stories also revolve

reincarnation is one of the other main principles in Hinduism. The moral focus in The Ramayana is dharma and the story is used to teach people about dharma. Many of the characters in The Ramayana try to uphold their dharma. The Hero of the story Rama tries to uphold his dharma by being a good son to his parents by following his father’s wishes even after his death, and a good husband to his wife by never stopping to look for her until he avenges her capture. Joseph Campbell states in the hero’s