I am going to try a new style of writing while reading the stories. Instead of summing up just a couple of stories I am going to sum them all up. It will make the stories make more sense when I go back for notes.
22. Bharata performs funeral rites for his father. While both Rama and his other brother are still exiled. Bharata cannot go seek his brother until this is done.
23. Rama is found by Bharata in Chitrakuta.
24. Bharata is unsuccessful in his attempt to persuade Rama to come home. Instead Bharata takes Rama sandals to represent Rama while he is gone. The sandals are able to represent Rama because they have touched his feet. In the end Bharata decides not to return to the kingdom and to wait for Rama to return too.
25. Rama and Sita and Lakshmana visit the sages Atri. Sita tells the sage’s wife her life story. The wife of sage gave blessings to Rama and Sita and Lakshmana.
26. Sita was abducted by Viradha, a crazy demon!, and Rama and Lakshmana go to battle with it. Viradha is actually a gandharva called Tumburu.
28. A rakshasha, Shurpanakha, falls in love with Rama. Rama does not share the same feelings Shurpanakha feels towards him. Rama tells her his wife is Sita! Rama then tells Shurpanakha to hit up his brother Lakshman because he has no wife... Win Win?
29. Shurpanakha is upset about the rejection she faced from Rama. She is so madden that she and her brother attack Rama and the gang. Rama was able to push the attackers back.
30. Again Shurpanakha and her brother attack Rama and again the hero defeats them. To end it Rama shot Khara with a blazing arrow of death! Sita was pleased by her husband.
32. The story changes pace. Maricha gave advice to Ravana who was plotting to abduct Sita. Maricha’s advice was to not mess with Rama. Maricha agreed to help Ravana kidnap Sita. Maricha was transformed into a golden deer and roamed the woods near Rama, waiting to be seen by Sita.
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| 33. Rama, Sita and the Golden Deer |
34. The sneaky sneak golden deer. It turns out the Maricha is not only able to shape shift, but he is also able to imitate the voice of Rama! How devastating for Sita. When Maricha returns to where Sita is he cries out for help. Sita wants Lakshaman to go help Rama, but Lakshamana tells Sita is is a trick of demons.
35. Sita and Maricha are both convincing enough to persuade Lakshaman to leave Sita’s side. When he does Ravana changes into a sage to get close to Sita. Ravana eventually sized Sita and carried her away :-(
36. Ravana captured Sita and they flew away in a car. Sita is smart and drops her jewelry as they fly away so that Rama may follow them. Brahma foresees the death of Ravana and rejoices because his plan to have Rama kill Ravana is coming to light!
37. Ravana was to force Sita to have sex with him, but because of a curse he cannot. So now he must convince Sita to have sexual intercourse, but she refuses thinking of the good time between her and Rama.
38. Rama finally finds out that Sita is gone. Lakshamana and Rama return to the hut and are told by Jatayu what happened.
40. Rama learn more about Sita from a Rakshasha. They head to Sugriva where they find a hermitagee. A woman named Shabari has been told a long time ago that Rama would come to her. The place was caught in a time warp, The woman ask Rama to preform funeral rites and burn her to flames, now that her task is complete.
I never really knew how to do my reading diaries so I would try to summarize them up, but not for myself, I think I was treating it as a more formal summation. But, the way you are doing actually makes more sense. Notes in a way? It would be really easy to go back and just look at the key points from that week's readings. I shall keep that in mind!
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