A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

cameSita""Don"THE RAMAYANA. 503ceremony may be performed. And they arranged evena cframatic entertainment, a great festival ;and this greatsage poet,hf>with his pupils. The stage was there ;everything there ;and Rama and his three brothers andall the nobles and the people of Oude were in the audience ;and then the life of Rama was beYng enacted : his warsenfcted, fiis wars in the South with the demon kings, andall that, till poor Rama, he was nearly mackiened, andwhen the time came for Sita s exile, Rama did not knowwhat to do. And then says the sage:t be grievedfor, I will show you Sifca ",and the real Sita was broughton to the stage, and Rama jumped on the stage and embraced his wife.All of a sudden, the sarniemurmur arose :test ! the test !"Thecould bear it no longer.(/l*Eere isthe test she says and fell down and died.Thus ended thelife of Sita ;and Rama, he also died, but he lived only afew days after Sita s death till he could bear it no longer.He gave his throne to his son, and himself plunged intothe waters of the Sarayu, the mighty river that washes hiscapital and gave up his body and joined Sita in the otherworld.This is the great ancient epic of India ;Sita, as you read in the book, they are the1and Rama andmodel ideals ofIndia. Every child, especially girls, they worship Sita.The height of ambition of a woman is to be like Sita :the pure, the all -suffering! When you see theseideals, youcan at once find out the real conditionof life in India Suffering. Sita stands, as it were, forthe race. The West says: Do. Show your power bydoing. India : show your power by suffering."TheWest has solved the problem, how much a man can hare.India is solving the problem, how little a man can have.