Friday, April 8, 2011

Ramayanam - Introduction

Introduction
The Epic written by the first poet "Valmiki", which stands as the reference of the moraled human life and human relations.

Valimiki, by birth, a tribal man, altered by Divine Sage Narada and turned into a sage. One day, while he was performing his mornign rituals, he found a couple of birds happily singing and fluttering their wings. But when he returned back finishing his rituals found one of the lay dead due to arrow of a hunter and the other crying and flying around the bird.

Without his knowledge, he uttered his first verse of two lines cursing the hunter for his cruelty, and was astonished at his lines which came out of his mouth.

The creator of the World, Brahma, appeared before him and explained him that it was on his wish that the Goddess of Education, Saraswathi, uttered the verse from his mouth.

He also ordered him to write the Holy Story of Lord Sri Rama, incarnation of Lord Mahavishnu himself.
When Valmiki requested about, how would he know about the Holy Story, The Creator gave him a boon of Divine Sight through which he could see whatever he needed and oredered him to fulfil his responsibility of writing Holy Story of Lord Sri Ram, later which became the first poetic literature in the world of poetry and literature.