{"id":75716,"date":"2025-08-21T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=75716"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:28:25","slug":"ravana-visiting-sita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/ravana-visiting-sita\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravana Visiting Sita"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75717\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ravana_sita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75717 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ravana_sita-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ravana_sita-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ravana_sita.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Le Ramayana : Ravana enleve Sita&#8217;. Illustration anonyme pour une chromo publicitaire Liebig de 1931. Credit : Collection Grob\/KHARBINE-TAPABOR. Credit: Album \/ Collection Grob\/KHARBINE-TAPABOR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ravana Visiting Sita<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">While he was absorbed in that meditation, Hanuman saw in the distance Ravana walking towards them. Surrounded by his most trusted ministers, Ravana walked with a proud and determined step. Hanuman hid behind a bush not far away to be able to hear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">When Sita saw Ravana approaching, her tender face darkened. It was clear that the Raksasa often came to visit her, certainly to try to convince her to abandon herself to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Ravana, visibly angry, looked at her sternly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s been almost a year,\u201d he said, \u201cand you&#8217;ve lived all your time in this garden without knowing any of the joys you are entitled to. Convince yourself. Rama will never arrive. Be my queen. You can&#8217;t even imagine the things I could give you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Sita didn&#8217;t answer. She didn&#8217;t even look at him. Ravana knew that when Sita did this it was useless to even try to talk to her. Irritated, he gave some instructions to the guardians and walked away, looking at her with deep desire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">As soon as Ravana was gone, the guardians tried in every way to persuade her to accept the mighty king as her husband, but Sita wept, complained, called the name of Rama, and did not answer. Unresponsive to her desperate tears, the Rakshasis tormented her more and more, threatening to torture her to death if she didn&#8217;t change her mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Sita continued to cry, desperately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Ravana Visiting Sita While he was absorbed in that meditation, Hanuman saw in the distance Ravana walking towards them. Surrounded by his most trusted ministers, Ravana walked with a proud and determined step. 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