Hello everyone.

Valmiki Maharshi popularly known as adikavi wrote a great Epic the  srimad Ramayana with 24000 slokas in seven wonders the history of lord Sri Rama is described in it.

Now I am going to to discuss small story which has been extracted from the 63rd and 64th cantos  in Ayodhya Kanda of the srimad Ramayana.

On account of the boons offered by the emperor dasaradha to kaikeyee Sri Rama went into the forest to live in exile. His father was over with guilt sending the son into the forest . When he entered Kaushalya chamber in her palace she was blaming him in the agony of parting from the son he recalled the mistake that he committed in his youth and narrate to her everything about is sages son called Shravana Kumara.

He describe the situation like this.

Oh lady if a human being wants to perform an action he must consider it consequences before doing it otherwise he will become a fool.

Oh my dear wife prior to our marriage as it Prince I reached the banks of the river For hunting it was very dark and I heard a bubbling sound in the river mistaking it for the sound of an elephant drinking water from the river I shot an arrow and killed it when the arrow hit the target I heard the sorrowful words who is it that the short a hermit like me at this late night.

I never harm others and I have come to this river for water who will take care of my aged and blind parents if I die.

When I approached him in great fear he looked at me angrily as if he would burn me and in savere tone he said oh king I came here for water to quench the thirst of my parents what harm have I done to you it is true that if I die my old blind and weak parents also will die. They are waiting for me for water so go to them immediately and inform what has happened. Then I went to his parents with water hearing my footsteps they said dear son why are you so late bring the water quickly we shall quench thirst.

Then I said oh great souls I am not your son I am a khastriya my name dasaratha I have committed a sin that could be blamed by the virtuous people. I went to the sarayu for hunting  on hearing bubbling sound I mis took it for the sound of an elephant. Drinking water from the river and I shot an arrow  at it. hit by the arrow your son died.and then the sage couple cursed me you killed our innocent son and subject us to boundless misery of losing a son so you too may suffer from that mystery and die of it like us. This was narrated bye dasaradha to his wife kousalya

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