I Want a Brother Like Ravana!

The most authoritative text on the life of Shri Ram is the Valmiki Ramayana, composed by Maharishi Valmiki, a contemporary of Shri Ram. This is the most ancient text on the life of Shri Ram. After this come the Shri Ramcharitmanas composed by Goswami Tulsidas and the Tamil text Kamba Ramayanam composed by Rishi (sage) Kamban. The authors of both the Ramcharitmanas and the Kamba Ramayanam have clearly stated at the very beginning of their texts that they are writing based on the Valmiki Ramayana. Therefore, among these three as well, the Sanskrit text Valmiki Ramayana remains the most authoritative.

According to the Valmiki Ramayana, Ravana was a most wicked rakshasa who was a repository of all vices; he would have meat thrown into yajnas (sacred fire rituals), have rishis murdered, and commit the most heinous acts like the rape of women. According to the Valmiki Ramayana, he was not at all a man of character. Those who say that Ravana did not even touch Sitaji have neither studied the Ramayana nor do they exercise their intellect. That Ravana did not touch another man's wife is completely false; the Ramayana itself refutes this.

See from the Valmiki Ramayana -

In the Aranya Kanda, numerous shlokas (verses) clearly describe that Ravana abducted Mata Sita while overcome by lust. Blinded by lust, Ravana gave a most vulgar description of Mata Sita, which I do not wish to reproduce here. Mata Sita rebuked and reviled that wretch in many ways, describing the valour and glory of Shri Ram, warning and threatening him to stay away. However, that villainous creature ruthlessly grabbed Mother Sita by her hair and touched her with his sinful hands. Thereupon, Mata Sita, deeply wounded, began to lament grievously and, squirming in agony, hurled numerous reproaches at Ravana. People nowadays take great interest in proving such a sinful soul to be a mahatma (great soul). Read this, and see if your mind does not fill with disgust as well...

Having spoken such disagreeable words to Sita, the Princess of Mithila—who was worthy of loving speech and accustomed to speaking endearingly—that utterly evil-minded rakshasa Ravana, infatuated with lust, approached and seized Sita (who was venerable like a mother), as if Budha (Mercury) insolently attempted to seize his mother Rohini in the sky. With his left hand, he grasped lotus-eyed Sita by her head and hair, and placing his right hand under both her thighs, he lifted her up.

As soon as the chariot appeared, Ravana, roaring loudly, threatened Sita, the daughter of Videha, with harsh words, and lifting her into his lap as described earlier, placed her immediately upon the chariot.

Look at how explicitly it is written in the Ramayana that Ravana not only cruelly touched Sitaji with his hands, but brazenly abducted her by lifting her from under her thighs and placing her in his lap. Look at the next verse again: even while entering Lanka, the villainous Ravana held her in his lap so that she could not escape his grip.

As Sita writhed in struggle, Ravana entered the city of Lanka holding her in his arms, carrying his own personified death.

These verses and meanings have been taken from the *Srimad Valmiki Ramayana* with translation published in two volumes by Gita Press. It is clear from the evidence that Ravana was an utterly characterless enemy of women. He was a villain who abducted, humiliated, and committed atrocities upon women, and driven by lust, he not only touched Sitaji but forcibly abducted her through violence. Now, if anyone says that Ravana did not touch another man's wife, give them a fitting reply by showing this post and stop the spread of falsehoods. Jai Shri Ram.

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