{"id":75583,"date":"2025-08-16T01:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=75583"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:25:43","slug":"looking-for-sita-in-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/looking-for-sita-in-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Sita (In Lanka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hanuman_Lanka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75584 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hanuman_Lanka-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hanuman_Lanka-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hanuman_Lanka.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking for Sita<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Hanuman searched everywhere, but Sita was nowhere to be found. Finally, in a bedroom filled with unspeakable opulence as he had never seen before, gigantic and shining as the sun, he saw Ravana, the king of the Raksasas. He looked at his powerful body and was glad he was sleeping.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00abNo, Sita couldn&#8217;t be there,\u00bb he thought. \u00abThe most chaste of women would rather die than lie with someone other than her husband\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">He kept searching, looking in every corner of the vast palace. In an enchanting garden he saw the Puspaka chariot, which had belonged to Kuvera, and bowed to pay respectful obeisances. He found the harem, and in a beautiful room he saw Mandodari, Ravana\u2019s wife. Hanuman was dazzled by so much splendor. She was so beautiful that Hanuman thought she was Sita. He was seized with great joy, but then he thought better of it:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00abNo, Sita would never get down to Ravana&#8217;s harem. That woman couldn&#8217;t be Sita. It couldn&#8217;t be her.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Unable to find her, Hanuman was very discouraged. Could Ravana have killed her for refusing to submit to his will? He thought that if Sita had died, he would kill Ravana and then would fast to death. An immense rage flooded his heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cThe Ramayana\u201d, in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/ramayana-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for Sita Hanuman searched everywhere, but Sita was nowhere to be found. 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