If you look at this last situation, the way life happened to him, it's a continuous series

of disasters, loses his kingdom, what is rightfully his ends up in the forest, loses his wife,

gets kidnapped, fights a brutal war which is not interested in, brings back his wife, suffers

very uncharitable comments about his wife from everybody around. A wife was very dear to

him pregnant with two children. It once takes her and leaves her in the forest, never sees

her again in his life. And unknowingly ends up in a battle against his own children, fights a

battle with his children, gets defeated by them, goes through the disgrace of that endless

disasters. And wife dies without he ever meeting her. But still, why? The significance of

Rama is not the life situations, the significance of Rama is the way he conducted himself through

this disastrous series, series of disasters that occurred to him with how much gracefulness

he conducted himself right through his life. With all the disasters happening, number

once was he seeing, seen angry, never once was he seen, cursing someone, never once was

he seen, freaking out, conducted everything gracefully. So people who were seeking liberation,

sought Rama, people who were seeking a graceful life sought Rama, people who understood, people

who had the wisdom to see that extraordinary situations can go wrong any moment, just any

moment. Oh, it will not happen to us, it's a foolish way to live. It will not happen to

me, it's a foolish way to live. Even if it happens, I will go through that gracefully,

it's a wise way to live. So people sought Rama because they saw this phenomenal wisdom,

so life became a continuous series of disasters. Never once wavered from his truthfulness,

from what he set up for himself, the fundamentals of his life, never once deviated from that,

just hang on to what he has to do, conducted with utmost balance. In fact, people on the

spiritual path, there is a tradition of seeking disasters, really. Many spiritual seekers

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