# Brahma’s Boon to Valmiki and Hanuman’s Words on Ravana’s Austerities

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118607871088922725
- Source account: [@\_the_Saviour](https://x.com/_the_Saviour)
- Source language: Telugu
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:58
- Published: 2026-11-06
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities) May you realize that whatever is said in Valmiki's Ramayana is true.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=4) Because Valmiki alone had a boon. A boon granted by the four-faced Brahma.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=9) When you began writing the Ramayana after performing achamanam, not only the events that happened, but you could also know the feelings in the characters' hearts.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=18) Starting with Mother Sita, you could know even what was in the demons' minds.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=22) Brahma blessed Sage Valmiki, saying he could write the Ramayana with all that he knew.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=26) Brahma blessed Sage Valmiki. So whatever came from Sage Valmiki's mouth, you should regard as the truth.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=32) I also know what is holding you back from believing that.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=36) Did he grab Mother Sita by the hair, put his hand under her thighs, and carry her off?

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=39) Didn't he burn to death? You and I needn't say this.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=42) Hanuman said it at the end of the Sundara Kanda.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=45) Actually, he grabbed Mother Sita by the hair put his hand under her thighs and carried her off?

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/thfswu2ToNBl/en/brahma-s-boon-to-valmiki-and-hanuman-s-words-on-ravana-s-austerities?t=52) He should be reduced to ashes at once. Still, they said that if he was alive, his ascetic power must be immense.