kirtibasi ~ কীর্তিবাসী রামায়ণ

ramayan is sruti for me. in my very childhood i aimed for ramayan of my own. i thought one rupee would be the price for a children ramayan. i used to beg money from ma. on days, i was sick and very reluctant to drink barley, she would give me one paisa for drinking the same. i could not make the savings to one rupee and could not have my own children's ramayan. ma wrote baba to bring a ramayan from kishoreganj. it was very momentous day when ramayan arrived. it was written in bengali in verses by krittibas. next i got another book worthy of my deep devotion in puranas. it was mahabharata written by kasiramdas. it was moth eaten fat book with lot of illustrations. i read this book along with ma sleeping with her and reading. it was not continuous but random depending on her mood. later i bought two volumes a complete translation of sanskrit mahabharat; besides i also read some complete english translations. i possess mahabharat in bengali and one ramayan in english but do not read them.

Sruti is enough.

recently i heard a bengali author who wrote many novels around many great minds from bengal whom i have read extensively and also possess many of his books. he hypothesized that the two children of sita might not have been ram's child. she spent first night with ravana at his palace where even mondadori was not allowed to be present. he also was hypothesizing that sita did not conceive even after living with ram 14 years. ram of course did not dispute but left the father of sita's child be decided by valmiki who wrote ramayan. he left them be born and brought up by him. all the other three brothers of rama had two child each and there was no controversy about their fathers. 

again sruti, i do not know and not curious to read valmiki even though it is available for me to read in the internet. i do not have to get up from my easy chair. indeed sita got rid of all the ornaments on the way to lanka but she did not get rid off her sacred thread of her marriage. she left that between her and ravana. and asked him never to cross the line to touch her. i do not know.

sruti.

i am not interested to know whether sita's sons were ram's or ravana's.

sruti is story for me to hear ~ bits and pieces in any order is enough ~ once is enough ~ no erudition is required ~ whatever one hears is a report or composition and not an eyewitness account. ramayana is story written by valmiki and rama had no option but play act the same. if there are questions that occupy one's mind. it is intended to be solved by the questioner himself. i have no questions unanswered.

sruti not required to be reread or memorized or completed ... or reheard ~ one shall be seeing similarities in real life until the echo stops.