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The Abandonment of Sita
But she was not aware of Shri Ram's deceptive plan. She did not know that she would be left in the forest and that she would not be going on a pilgrimage. She did not know that she was leaving her palace for good and that she would never return to her palace.
Sita, the sublime !
Sita had remained firm and unshakeable like the Meru mountain in Lanka. She had firmly rejected Ravan's entreaties with utter contempt but now the chastity of that noble woman was suspected by the people of Ayodhya. Countless gods and goddesses, Gandharvas and Kinnaras had admired Sita's purity and glorified her nobility and their cries of jubilation had reverberated throughout the universe but the same sublime Sita was being abandoned by her lord today. Shri Ram had adopted a deceptive plan to discard her. Of course, Shri Ram experienced inordinate grief when he abandoned Sita. He experienced great anguish at the thought of the separation from Sita. His mind whirled like a dry leaf caught in a whirlwind, but what happened at the end? What could he do? Whenever sinful karmas emerge to the surface, such unexpected calamities At such times, calamities fall upon human beings like crumbling mountains. The clouds of calamities envelop their lives and the jivas in samsar feel absolutely helpless against the immeasurable power of karmas.
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