A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""498 THE RAMAYANA.form of a mendicant monk and stood at the gate and askedfor alms. "Wait a bit,"said Sita,"tillmy husband comesand I will give you plentiful alms". cannot,. wait, Mad"Iam ;1 am very hungry ; give me anything" you have."Well, Sita had a few fruits in the cottage which she Droughtout ;but this mendicant monk said : "Come out a littledistance ;I cannot come nearer" ;he was a holy person.So, Sita came out of the magic circle ;and immediately,the giant s body came ;and holding Sita in his arms, hecalled his magic chariot, and putting her in that, he fledwith Sita, the weeping Sita. Nobody was there to helpher. She took a few of her ornaments from her arms andbegan to scatter them down. She was taken to Lankain the island of Ceylon. And because she would not ev^nspeak tQJ his giant, she, chastity itself, the giant wantedto punish her kept her under a : tree, day and night she;should live under a tree, or consent to be the wife of thisgiant king.Rama and Lakshmana came back and Sita was notthere Their ! grief knew no bounds. They did not knowwhat became of her. The two brothers went on, seekingfor Sita. After long searching, they found a group ofmonkeys, and in the midst of those was Hanuman, thedivine monkey. Have you heard of Hindus worshippingthe monkey? You see, by the monkeys and demonsthey mean the aborigines of Southern India. So, Ramaat last fell in with these monkeys and they told him that:the skies in a chariot a demon andthey saw flying throughthat demon was carrying a most beautiful lady and that she<vasweeping, and that where they were she just droppedone of her ornaments, and here was the ornament. AndLakshmana took up the ornament, and said ;I donot know whose ornament is that;and Rama took itup