After the death of Khara and Dushana, Surpnakha rushed to her brother Ravana in Lanka. Weeping bitterly, she narrated him the whole story of her insult by Laxman and Khara and Dushana’s death by Rama. Knowing Ravana’s liking for beautiful women, she also described Sita’s beauty thereby arousing his curiosity about her. She suggested that Ravana should kidnap Sita and make her his wife. Ravana was shocked at the news because Khara and Dushana were as powerful as he and it was impossible for any ordinary human to kill them. He realised that Rama was no ordinary man but an incarnation of the Lord himself. He thought of all his cruel deeds that he had committed in his life. He knew that there was no other way that he might be forgiven for his cruelty. So he made a plan so that he might challenge Rama in a battle. He wished to be killed in the battlefield at the hands of the Lord so as to attain salvation. He also thought that he would kidnap Sita and marry her if Rama and Laxman were some ordinary princes. He thought that in both the cases, he would be at an advantage.
RAVANA’S REALISATION
