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His Grace Jivananda Prabhu has posted these 2 nice quotes from Ramayana they are fully in line with what I quoted from the Bible spoken by Jesus Christ Luke 6:27 "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
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Luke 6:28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
and seeing these teachings in Sri Sita Devi is proper and wonderful glorification of Sri Sitadevi ,I pray at Her lotus feet to bless me like She did Sri Hanuman with such transcendental instructions
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Who can we blame for our suffering?
After the killing of the demon Ravana Lord Rama sent Hanuman to bring Sita to Him. When Hanuman found Sita the following conversation took place:
Standing with folded hands, Hanuman suggested, “If you so desire, I can kill all these hideous Rakshasa women who have tormented you for so long. In fact, I would take great pleasure in avenging all the suffering that you had to undergo. I simply await your permission.”
By nature, Sita was very kind to the downtrodden. So, she replied, “They are only foolish maidservants who had to carry out the orders of the King. Whatever I had suffered was the result of my own misdeeds, and these Rakshasis acted only as instruments in the hands of destiny.”
Thus Sita, the goddess of fortune Herself, accepted Her suffering as a result of Her own actions and did not claim to be victimized nor blame others for Her suffering.
If this is so for Sita Mataji, the eternal associate of Lord Rama, is it not so as well for us? Sita Rama ki jaya!

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Comment by Paramananda das on October 26, 2015 at 10:57am

The story of the tiger, the hunter and the bear (Told by Sita Mataji, the eternal consort of Lord Rama to Hanuman):

“Hanuman, perhaps you have heard this old adage that was once spoken by a bear: ‘A great man never takes into account the offenses that are committed against him. Indeed, he vows that at all costs he will not return evil with evil.’ The story goes like this:

There was a hunter being chased by a tiger, and so he climbed up into a big tree. It so happened that there was a bear perched upon one of the branches. Seeing this, the tiger said, “This hunter is our common enemy. Therefore, you should push him out of the tree so that I can eat him.” The bear replied, “This hunter has taken shelter of my home, and so I will not do anything to harm him. To act in such a way would be most unrighteous.” After saying this, the bear went to sleep.

The tiger then told the hunter, “If you push the bear out of the tree so that I can eat him, I promise that I will not harm you.” Being swayed by the tiger’s words, the hunter pushed the sleeping bear. But, as he was falling, the bear managed to grab onto a branch and save himself. The tiger then said to the bear, “Because this hunter tried to kill you, you should retaliate by pushing him out of the tree.”

And yet, even though the tiger appealed to the bear in this manner, again and again, he refused, saying, “A great person never takes into account the sins of one who has offended him. Instead, at all costs, he keeps his vow to never return evil for evil, because he knows that good conduct is the ornament of virtuous persons.”

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