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The Ninety-Ninth Chapter
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With a heart filled with sorrow, Rama, his eyes filled with tears, thought with a sigh, "Alas! It is a great hardship that Sita, with her beautiful demeanor, even though she is in another world, does not leave me. She, being a virtuous woman, with her past good deeds, is still intent on my welfare." 111-112
Then, gradually, as Sita's sorrow subsided, Rama regained his composure with the remaining women. 113
Rama and Lakshmana, who were endowed with the divine weapons called Hal and Chakra, who were righteous, filled with unwavering love, and oceans of noble qualities, and who ruled the earth from the Himalayas to the southern seas, shone brightly like the gods of the heavens. 114-115
Gautama Swami says to King Shrenik, "O King! In that Ayodhya, where men were like gods, those two best of men, Rama and Lakshmana, with their excellent radiance, attained supreme enjoyments like the Indras." 116
"Their character, which was the result of their good deeds and which brought joy to all beings, and who were radiant like the sun, remained immersed in the ocean of happiness for an unknown period of time." 117
Thus ends the Ninety-Ninth Chapter, called "Rama's Sorrow," in the Padma Purana, composed by the Acharya, known as Rishi Ravishena. 66
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