Dadi-Nani Ki Kahaani Nani Ki Kahaani Nani Ki Kahaani

Tulsidas and the Ramayana
The Ramayana was originally written by Sage Valmiki.
The story of Rama and Seeta was very popular during Tulsidas’ time.
Tulsidasji sang the Valmiki Ramayana to large gatherings of people.
However he soon realized that the people could not appreciate the beauty of the Valmiki
Ramayana because it was in Sanskrit.
Tulsidasji decided to rewrite the Ramayana in the spoken language.
The Ram-Charit-Maanas is the title that he gave to the new version of the Ramayana that
flowed from the depths of his heart.
The original Sanskrit version of the Ramayana had 60,000 verses.
Whereas the Ram-Charit-Maanas consists of 30,000.
The people became jealous of Tulsidasji.
They started to criticize him for tampering with the original version of the Ramayana.
Some of them said that Tulsidas should be stopped immediately from committing such
‘grave trespasses’
At first the cruel remarks of his people hurt Tulsidas.
He could not work, because he would be disturbed about what people were saying about
him.
But do you think that he stopped writing because of that?
Don’t ever believe it, if people tell you that you are dumb or stupid.
Tulsidas continued to sit on his desk everyday and he continued to write.
Soon, Tulsidas realized that God lives in everyone’s heart.
Therefore, how could Tulsidas think ill of those who tormented him?
Dear Children, do you think that you can start to think like this?
This is the way great people think!