[Advaita-l] Did Shri Rama really abandon Sita?

[Shashi]

Dear All,

The Sanskrit uttarakanda attached to the Valmiki Ramayana, whoever it was written by, was not written by Goswami Tulsidas,
who wrote his own Ramcharitmanas.


Shashi 



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> On Dec 18, 2017, at 10:14 AM, Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> Namaste Sriramji,
> I just noticed that this topic was already discussed. I agree, everything should be studied systematically but there are no authentic teachers. 
> It appears that uttara kanda was added by Goswami Tulsidas. Again not sure if that is when this version of Ramayana started. But certainly seems to be a Vaishnavite contribution. 
>    On Monday 18 December 2017, 7:24:15 PM IST, Venkata sriram P <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in> wrote:  
> 
> First you study the kAvya completely under Acharya.  It should be studied from 'rasa' perspective and then from 'dharma' perspective as it is a 'dhvani' kAvya.  Above all, to understand the purport of rAmAyaNa, 'rAma-tAraka' mantra japa should be performed only then the pandora box is opened by kavIshwara (Valmiki) and kapIshwara (Anjaneya) who are the AchAryAs of rAmAyaN.
> 
> Cursory readings and picking up theories randomly from google / here and there is of no use and leads to vitaNDa-vAda.  
> 
> rg,
> sriram
> 
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> On Mon, 18/12/17, Aditya Kumar <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Did Shri Rama really abandon Sita?
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org, "Venkata sriram P" <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>
> Date: Monday, 18 December, 2017, 1:11 PM
> 
> 
>             Apparently it was a curse by a parrot, as
> per padma purana. Not sure if it's
> accurate.
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