Haritosh Srivastav tells a Ramayana story for Dussehra where Lakshman visits the dying Ravana and learns a moral: defer bad actions as long as possible and do good actions promptly. Day 25 of a 51-day storytelling challenge.
Happy Dussehra and Vijayadashami, everyone! Today is Vijayadashami or Dussehra. So today's story is also from the epic Ramayana, and this story is about Lord Ram's younger brother Lakshman and Ravana. So the story goes like this: when the battle was done and Lord Ram had defeated Ravan, and Ravan was about to die. At that time, Rama asked Lakshman to go and learn from Ravan. He said that even though he was a bad person, his deeds were not good, he was one of the most learned person, and you don't want to miss an opportunity to learn from him. Lord Lakshman goes to the place where Ravana was taking his last breaths, and he went just next to where he was. He sat next to his head and said, yeah, I have been sent by my brother. I want to learn from him, learn from you. Ravana refused and said, if you are coming here to learn from me, you need to give me the respect, the same respect that you give to a teacher. So I want you to go back and come towards my feet, stand next to my feet. Lakshmana was perplexed, but finally he gave in. He came back and then this time stood next to Ravana's feet. And then Ravana gave him the important lesson of his life, and he said, you must defer the bad action as much as you can. You should takeβ if you have to take the bad thing, do the bad thing, you should do it as late as possible. While you should do the good things as soon as you can, as early as you can. This is the, the golden mantra. This is the main teaching that I want to give you, and this will help in your life. So even from your enemy you can learn a lot of things, just like Lakshman learned this lesson from Ravan. I hope you like this story, and I, I try to bring in a contextual story keeping in mind the Vijayadashami. So I hope you are having a great Vijayadashami, and I'm gonna see you tomorrow for the day 26. Today was day 25, so I am on a 51-day storytelling challenge and I'm gonna see you tomorrow with the day 26 of 51-day storytelling challenge. As I say every time, keep learning, keep growing, and keep going out of your comfort zone. This is Haritosh Srivastav. I'm gonna see you tomorrow. Once again, happy Vijayadashami. Take care, stay safe, and stay blessed.
