Sampoorna Ramayanam Page #7

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I'll have to abandon Sita

to support the people

"Laxman, take her to

the grove tomorrow"

No!

No brother!

I'll never obey this order from you

"Laxman, this is an acid-test.

Be firm like a rock. "

No... I can never do this.

I just can't.

Then shall I accept that

Laxman will not obey Rama henceforth?

O brother!

Then leave Sita

in the grove tomorrow morning

Life without ideals is useless

At times, an ideal life is futile"

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, but

nobody can meet His Majesty today"

- Why not?

- Because those are his orders

Can't even I meet him?

A devotee can't see her Lord?

Why? What's the matter?

- Nobody can meet His Majesty.

- You don't know it...

...but he has arranged

for me to go to the grove

May be he has forgotten it.

Just sound him and he'll run here

"- Go on. Go and tell him.

- How, your Majesty?"

"- He has locked the door.

- Not of his heart, I hope!"

Dear husband...

Open the door

Open the door, please"

He really has shut the door.

He's so busy with the

welfare of his people...

...he can't even hear me!

This royal duty sure is queer

"Our life in exile was much better.

There, he was only mine"

"Here, I've to share

him with everybody"

Your Majesty, the chariot is ready"

Laxman, your brother's so good"

I just said I wanted to see

the sacred grove and he arranged it

"Laxman, why don't you talk?

Are you angry with me?"

- No.

- You're crying? What's the matter?

"Stop the chariot at once!

Stop, I say! Laxman! Stop!"

"Tell me, why are you crying?

Answer me"

For my sake, Laxman"

"Because you stayed in Lanka,

the people here criticize you"

- And you're crying for that?

- No.

I'm crying because even after

knowing you're innocent...

...Lord Rama has decided

to abandon you!

Lord Rama has abandoned me?

O Lord...

"Mother Ganges, hide me

in your lap of waves"

"My husband, Lord Rama

has discarded me"

A mother's door is always

open for her daughter

Even a father has a special place

in his heart for his daughter

"- Who are you?

- Your father, Valmiki"

"- Please let me die, O sage.

- You alone don't have a right... "

"... over your life, my dear.

You'll have to live for Rama's heirs"

How can I? Where will I go?

Where will I stay?

- In my hermitage.

- What if the wives of the sages ask...

why did your husband discard you?

"I'll answer for you.

Come, my dear"

This is your hermitage

- Gautami...

- Master...

Yes, Master?"

- This is...

- She's my daughter.

Really?

Her name?

Name?

Her name is... Vandevi

Where has she come from?

- From her in-law's place

She has now come to me.

- Will she stay here for some time?

Ofcourse.

- How nice!

Come, my dear. "

Sita! Sita!

My Lord...

"Master, what shall we name them?

- Name?"

He will be Luv.

And this will be Kush

One who is invincible is Luv.

And the one who purifies...

...the atmosphere is Kush.

Luv and Kush

Twelve years have gone.

I abandoned Sita for my people

"Sometimes I wonder, why didn't

I abdicate instead?"

"Master, what do the people

want from me?"

"They want you to be an emperor

and wish you to perform "Ashwamedh"

Really? And who will sit

beside me when I do it?

- Your wife.

- Sita?

- You've abandoned her.

- Then?

You'll have to remarry

"Sir, can a woman marry another

man when her husband's alive?"

No.

Then how can a man remarry

when his first wife is still alive?

"I'll not do this injustice.

Sorry, but I refuse to marry again"

I'll never marry again.

Never!

"- What are you doing, boys?

- Punishing this washerman. "

He's the cause of

mother Sita's sorrow

- So we'll punish Rama too.

- To us they're both equally guilty.

"Don't say that, boys.

Rama is people's guardian"

- Very law abiding and just.

- In Ramayan you blamed Kaikayi

"And you call Rama, the one who

abandoned Sita, a just King?"

"No boys, Rama didn't abandon her.

He forsaked his own wishes... "

...for the sake of his people.

He taught the world...

...the kinds of sacrifices a King

has to do for his people

- Rama is the best.

- Then are we anything less?

How can you be? You're also

the progeny of a great person

Now go and study.

Go on

And who's your father?

- Didn't Master say...

we're the son's of a great man.

- And what's his name?

- His name?

- Tell us... come on

They'll tell only if they knew it!

- The poor things have no father...

So how will they know his name?

- Shut up!

Mother!

Mother!

Why? What's the matter?

Why are you so upset?

- Boys insult us.

- They make fun of us.

Why?

Because we can't tell them

our father's name

"Tell us Mom,

who is our father?"

You boys didn't ask till now.

- So we're asking you today. Tell us

Your father's name is...

- Yes Mom? Hurry up

How can I?

Do you have any difficulty

in telling us?

"- Is he sinful?

- No, no... "

Is he a demon then?

- No

Is he cruel or a killer then?

- No! No! No!

O' clouds...

"pour out as a proxy

to the tears in my eyes"

"O' lightning, represent my feelings

with a thunderbolt"

"O' clouds, pour out as a proxy

to the tears in my eyes"

"O' shroud of mist,

hold back the thunder within. "

"Today make do with

my compassionate voice"

"My eyes are one

with the rainy season"

O' clouds...

pour rain as tears through my eyes

"I'm swallowing poison

thinking it to be nectar"

"Like a fish helplessly striving

for life without water"

"I am being restless

with the jolts of fate"

O' clouds...

"pour out as a proxy

to the tears in my eyes"

"O' lightning, convey my heartfelt

with a thunderbolt"

"O' clouds, pour out like

the tears in my eyes"

My dear...

O Sage...

Master...

- I understand your problem

How long will I hide their

father's name from my sons?

The time is ripe. Your sons

will know their father's name

And the world will know

their lineage

Long live the King of Ayodhya

Lord Rama...

- Mom! Mom!

- What is it children?

- Please let us go with Master.

- Where is he going?

Ayodhya.

- Ayodhya!

"Yes. There we'll see

the Master's ideal... "

"the hero of his epic "Ramayan",

Lord Rama!"

See the cruel people there!

Children!

Then why go to such a place?

"We'll apply the dust on which Sita

has trend to our forehead, mother"

"What's the matter, Mom?

What's wrong?"

"- What is it, Mom? Tell us.

- It's nothing, son. Nothing"

Any idea why the Master

is going to Ayodhya

I'll tell you.

Go and study boys. Go on

I've been invited to Ayodhya.

- An invitation? From Ayodhya?

"Yes. Lord Rama is performing

the "Ashwamedh" ritual. "

He's performing "Ashwamedh"?"

Yes. He's truly a rare king

How can he do that ritual

without a wife beside him?

"He had abandoned me physically.

Today, I'm no longer in his heart. "

"You tell me, O Sage.

How do I live? On what hope?"

Take courage. I'll go to

Ayodhya and see for myself

"If Lord Rama has remarried,

then he's not the hero of my epic... "

...but some other Rama.

"My devotion, my faith and even

my epic poem Ramayan is untrue!"

We can see dents even...

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