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#Ravana_and_Vali #SrimadhRamayanam
Ravana worshiped Lord Shiva with such devvotion that Lord Shiva being very pleased with him granted him of being more powerful than all the Devas, ganas and yakshas. In his arrogance, Ravana did not ask Lord Shiva to become more powerful than

humans or from vanaras. After getting this boon from Lord Shiva, Ravana eyed the heavens. He along with his son Meghanad defeated and routed the Devas. Meghanad brought Indra to his kingdom in Lanka and there tied him up in the court. (He became Indrajit after that) Indra was

desperate and prayed to all the Gods to come to his help. Sometime later, Sage Narada came to talk to Ravana. 'Lord Ravana!' He bowed to Ravana. Ravana's heart swelled with pride. The heavenly sage was bowing to me. Ravana nodded his head as Sage Narada continued, 'I heard how

you captured Indra. The King of the Devas. As soon as I heard this I came to see you. I would have come sooner.' Ravana frowned, 'What delayed you, Sage Narada?'
Sage Narada smiled quietly, 'I was delayed by a vanara.' He said rolling his eyes in amusement. Ravana was actually

stunned. 'What do you mean?'
'A Vanara stopped me. I met a Vanara called Vali.' Sage Narada opened his eyes wide spreading his man, 'Imagine VAli does not even know you. He just held me up and was telling me about his adventures, he did not even care about you or even know about

you'
That did it. Ravana picked up his sword angrily, 'Sage Narada will you take me with me there, now?'
Sage Narada nodded his head innocently. 'Please come with me.'
Ravana was about to call his general to get his army ready. Sage Narada asked, 'What are you doing?'
Ravana said

angrily, 'I am going to take my army and crush that Vanara. He will never open his mouth again.'
Sage Narada looked slightly astonished, 'Army? You are going to attack a Vanara with an army? Please' Narada said as he slapped his head against his forehead, 'Attacking a Vanara with

an army even if you are successful you would be the laughing stock of the world. Imagine what everyone will say, Ravana with his army crushed a monkey.'
Ravana realized that it would sound a silly. He nodded, 'I will get ready take me with you please.'
Sage Narada and Ravana set

off to find Vali. As they were traveling in the Pushpaka vimana they were coming near a big mountain, when Sage Narada shouted. 'Stop! Stop! Ravana, this is the place.'
Ravana immediately landed the vimana and got down. He looked around and saw nothing except the huge mountain.

He turned to Sage Narada, 'Where is Vali? Is he near the mountain.'
Sage Narada tried to keep an innocent face as he said, 'No Ravana! The mountain is Vali! Ravana blinked. All thought process had left him. Vali was huge. Ravana actually shivered. But he could not exactly show

before Narada that he was afraid. Swallowing Ravana neared the tail of Vali. The tail itself was so huge that it looked like a big rock. Ravana had a sudden idea. He could probably try pulling the Vanara by dragging it with the tail...Ravana went near the tail and tried lifting

it up. However the tail moved....Then Ravana using ten of his hands, tried holding the tail, but the tail just kept moving and soon the tail wound itself around Ravana. Ravana tried moving around and found that he was totally tied up. Ravana was struggling to get out of Vali's

tail and in the process got more entangled. He turned around to ask for Sage Narada's help and to his surprise found that Sage Narada was nowhere to be found!! Ravana was trying to reach his sword to cut himself out, when he felt himself being heaved above. Frightened he held on

tightly to the tail. He turned and saw that huge figure which he had seen sitting down was now standing. Ravana stared at awe at the huge figure. Vali easily was taller than the tallest mountain around the area. Yet Ravana saw Vali bow to the Sun God with great humility. Next,

Vali jumped in and stood inside the water offering prayers to the Lord. After finishing his prayers Vali jumped again, obviously dragging his tail with him and unknowingly a wet and thoroughly disgruntled Ravana with him. Vali had decided to go to all the pilgrimage spots in the

world and worship the Lord from there. He went to each pilgrimage dived into the water and offered prayers and jumped up again to another place. After a few hours, Vali returned to his own palace at Kishkinda. He was feeling happy. He had finished his pilgrimage successfully. He

had wanted to do this for so long.He walked inside his palace nodding to his guards. His guards looked at the king and saw him strangely but did not say anything. Vali in his happiness missed the weird expressions on his guards eyes. It was only when he saw his young son that he

came to know what he had done. 'Father! When did you come?' His son asked running and skipping towards him. Vali was about to open his mouth when his son looked at him strangely, 'Father! What do you have in your tail?'
'My tail? What do I have in my tail?' Vali for the first

time turned around and then he saw a wet angry looking tiny man tied to the tail. His sons started giggling, 'Father! You pulled this man with you. you dragged him with you to all the pilgrimage places, the man looks so wet.The man was so pathetically tiny, you did not even know

that he was attached to your tail.' The boy broke down laughing and turned and called out loudly. 'Hey! Everybody come here. Look what my father did on his pilgrimage.' Much to Ravana's embarrassment, the whole palace was laughing themselves silly looking at him, while Vali was

trying to undo the bonds. Meanwhile finally after struggling a lot, Vali removed the last knot tying Ravana. That was when he remembered about his boon to Lord Shiva. He had asked to become stronger than Devas, Yakshas and Ganas. He had never asked to be powerful than Vanaras and

here was a Vanara, who had just effortlessly dragged him all over the world, without even realizing it! Ravana raced away as far as possible from the Vanara and ran into his pushpaka vimana and jumped into it a far wiser man than before.
Jai Sri Ram
Sarvam Sri Krishnarpanam🙏