Continuing their travels, Rama entered a place where many sages lived. All were fruit gathers and would live on the fruits they collected. For clothing they had animal skins, and their hair was matted.
The sages were living in fear of the rakshashas. Rama asked them not be afraid as long he was there.
Rama strung his bow string, and seeing this Sita was scared. She said, the rakshashas had not harmed them, so why was he wanting to kill them.
She said would tell him a story that she had heard from her father.
In the forests, there was sage called Daksha. Someone had kept a sword with him, for safe keeping. One day an old bird came there. It wasn't able to move much, because of its age. Evil thoughts came in the head of the sage, and he killed the bird with that sword. Weapons in hand, can bring evil thoughts in one's mind. Let us go away somewhere else,
Rama said to her : O beloved, lotus faced one, you have nothing to fear. With great sages living around, there is nothing that one needs to fear.
Travelling they saw a lake and could hear music coming from the lake. They asked the sages around, what was the mystery of the lake. They said there was a sage there who used to perform austere meditation. To break his meditation, Indra sent apsaras to distract him. Five apsaras went there, but afraid of being cursed they hid themselves. This is why the music was coming.
Rama wanted to meet this sage and went inside his ashrama, near the lake.
Thus time passed in the forests for Rama, Sita and Lakshmana. Someplace they would spend a month, somewhere three months and somewhere a year. Thus time passed, and ten years passed away.
The sages were living in fear of the rakshashas. Rama asked them not be afraid as long he was there.
Rama strung his bow string, and seeing this Sita was scared. She said, the rakshashas had not harmed them, so why was he wanting to kill them.
She said would tell him a story that she had heard from her father.
In the forests, there was sage called Daksha. Someone had kept a sword with him, for safe keeping. One day an old bird came there. It wasn't able to move much, because of its age. Evil thoughts came in the head of the sage, and he killed the bird with that sword. Weapons in hand, can bring evil thoughts in one's mind. Let us go away somewhere else,
Rama said to her : O beloved, lotus faced one, you have nothing to fear. With great sages living around, there is nothing that one needs to fear.
Travelling they saw a lake and could hear music coming from the lake. They asked the sages around, what was the mystery of the lake. They said there was a sage there who used to perform austere meditation. To break his meditation, Indra sent apsaras to distract him. Five apsaras went there, but afraid of being cursed they hid themselves. This is why the music was coming.
Rama wanted to meet this sage and went inside his ashrama, near the lake.
Thus time passed in the forests for Rama, Sita and Lakshmana. Someplace they would spend a month, somewhere three months and somewhere a year. Thus time passed, and ten years passed away.
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