Shirdi Sai Baba Stories,Leelas and Teachings.: Ram Vijaya-Chapter 29.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Ram Vijaya-Chapter 29.

Share Author: Manisha.Rautela.Bisht on 3:11 AM

Dear all

Here is chapter-29 from the book Ram Vijaya. Readers who have missed out any chapter can read them by clicking on the link provided below this chapter . Jai Sai Ram.

Ram Vijaya-Chapter 29.

From there he went to the palace of Vibhishan, the youngest brother of Ravana, where he was much pleased, because the demon was the devotee of Rama, and every thing there was clean.He also saw there an idol of Rama,[Vishnu], which Vibhishan worshipped every day.
Thence he went to the palace of Kumbhakarna, where he was in deep sleep snorting all the time. Maruti was disgusted with the sight of the heaps of bones and the flesh of human beings and animals scattered around his palace. When he failed to find Sita there and at other places, he was enraged; and, assuming an invisible form, he began to trouble the demons and demonesses of Lanka in various ways.

When they carried water in their pots, he broke them with his tail. He dashed to pieces the chariots of the princes who happened to drive in the streets. One day a barber began to shave the beard of Ravana, when Maruti stood behind him in an invisible form and thrust his tail into the hose of the former. The barber was startled; and in confusion he shaved the mustaches of Ravana.

Ravana got angry and slapped the barber in the face, when the monkey also gave a slap to the demon-king. Maruti pulled down the houses of the demons with his tail, while their families were asleep. One day in a minute he extinguished all the lamps in Lanka, and consequently all of a sudden, were in confusion and alarm. The inhabitants of Lanka said to themselves, " Sita, whom Ravana has brought here, has created the devil to annoy and trouble us." Maruti then entered the palace of Ravana, where he and his wife, Mandodari were fast asleep.

On beholding Mandodari, Maruti thought that she was Sita and that she fell in love with the demon-king. He got much enraged, and was about to carry them where Rama was staying with Lakshman. But, in the meantime, Mandodari was awakened in alarm and said to her husband, " I have dreamt a dream which indicates that Indrajit and you will be killed, that the Asoka forest will be destroyed, and that Lanka will be burnt, because you have unjustly brought Sita here.

I, therefore, implore you to restore her to her husband." " You need not be afraid of it in the least" replied Ravana. " I have posted five crores of the demons and demonesses to watch the Asoka forest and they will not allow Rama to kill us and destroy the forest." So saying Ravana despatched his servant to the Asoka forest to see whether Sita was there.

Maruti accompanied the servant in an invisible form. He saw Sita sitting under the shade of a tree. The servant returned to Ravana and Maruti remained in the Asoka forest.

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