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find each and everything i.e. How to eat...dress.. talk and many other things of everyday life... and they are true in their belief.
One old man was sitting on the platform with a copy of the Ramayan on his lap. He was reciting it with his whole concentration. An honeymooning couple standing just near him, laughed at him. The young-man enquired mockingly, "Grandpa, what will you get from these orthodox books. Just read some thrillers and enjoy your life. Why waste your precious time ?"
The oldman just looked up from his reading and said, "I gain each and everything from this very book." With these words he resumed his reading.
The train came and both boardered in the same coach. As the train streamed off, the youngman shrieked with despair, "Oh, my wife is left behind !" However the wife reached him. The couple was astounded by the remark that came at the time, from the old man's lips, "Dear young man! Didn't I tell you, there is everything in the Ramayan. If by chance you had read it, this problem might have never occured."
The youngman totally perplexed said, "Grandpa, what does that mean, explain it. I cannot understand you,"
"Oh simple... very simple" by saying so, he turned out a chapter and said, "Read this...'while embarking a boat, Sri Rama, let Seeta first in and then he followed her.' This is the manner shown in Ramayan while travelling, i.e., ladies first." And the youngman was astonished at its reality.
Because of its inspiring heroes the epic was written and sung by the poets, born centuries ago. Nowadays, different texts of the Ramayan are available written by Vimalsuri, Hemchandrasuri, Sanghdasgani, Svayambhudev, Valmiki, Tulsi etc. and many more. The detailed facts concerning the
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