Sita’s Abduction and Respect for Women in the Sundara Kanda

There’s no such thing in the Ramayana. He grabbed her by the hair, put his hand beneath her thighs and carried her off. Ravana did.

While she was unconscious, she cried, “Oh, Rama! Oh, Lakshmana!”

He carried her away as she wept. He made her sit in the chariot and took her away, holding her down.

As he was carrying her away, Lord Brahma was in meditation.

He was startled by her scream. Startled, he looked and said, with a very happy expression, “Oh! Your penance saved you today.”

“You were cooking the food you’d need to die, my boy,” he said.

So, notice one thing about this country.

See what power a person who has performed great penance has, even though no penance need be done, that is the dignity of a woman.

To go after a woman, to hurt a woman for no reason by saying things that should not be said, whether she goes to college to study, or goes to work, Just because only one child was seen, if we say whatever comes to mind, it's like we're cooking up poison.

If we have to suffer the consequences in the very end, even ten heads wouldn't have been enough—they'd have been devoured.

That's why, as long as the Ramayana's Sundara Kanda remains in circulation, bad thoughts won't arise in children. if everything we give them comes mixed with poison, and we don't give them the nectar we should, then who is to blame if we beat our chests,

saying they're going bad?