BEHOLD A WONDER!

On the way Raama saw the vessels holding the consecrated water for the coronation. He walked round them in worship. With calm majesty lie left behind the white umbrella and other royal insignia and advised the crowds to disperse.   The Prince, in whom Desire had been vanquished, went to the house of Queen Kausalya to give her the news and take her blessings before departing to the forest.

Readers should exercise their imagination and build up in their own hearts the passions and sorrows of the persons figuring in this epic.  Dasaratha's anguish, Raama's cheerful renunciation and the greedy passion of Kaikeyi which smothered all noble impulses these are familiar phases in our daily lives.

Vaalmeeki and Kamban saw with the vision of genius and made the events in Raama's story live again in song. We too should see them through imagination. This is the meaning of the tradition that, wherever Raama's tale is told Hanumaan himself joins the gathering and reverently stands with tear-filled eyes, listening.  May everyone that reads this chapter receive by Raama's Grace strength to bear the sorrows that have to be faced in life.

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