Thursday 21 June 2012

9. Scheming and creation of the Epic.

     Sage Valmiki had already heard the essence of Ramayana from Sage Narada.  He started searching for further known details in the legend of that dexterous Rama.  After cleaning himself, Valmiki sitting on a sacred grass mat, whose apices are towards east, touched waters, and made his palms adjoined in reverence, and then by his yogic insight started to search comprehensively, for the narrative course of Ramayana.
     Comment: Touching/sipping waters for aachamana, pariSechana , before undertaking any auspicious work, including daily meal, is customary, because water cleanses the internal system, both mind and body.
     He started seeing things mentally like a TV Serial (without any commercial breaks).  He saw the entire Ramayana with every minute details.
     The great godly saint Valmiki then composed Ramayana, wording admirably and meaningfully.  Sage Valmiki said Ramayana in twenty four thousand verses, in six hundred chapters, in six books, likewise an end-piece too.
     Valmiki named it as the 'Legend of Seetha' sithaayaH charitam mahaan.
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