Lanka Kaanda
193 - Hanumån carries the happy news to Sita; Sita rejoins Sti Rama and enters fire as a test of her purity
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Description
With Her thoughts fixed on the Lord, the Princess of Mithila entered the flames as though they were cool like sandal-paste, crying "Glory to the Lord of Kosala, whose feet are adored by the great Lord Siva with the purest devotion !" Both Her shadow-form as well as the social stigma (occasioned by Her forced residence at Ravana's) were consumed in the blazing fire; but no one could know the secret of the Lord's doings. Even the gods, Siddhas and sages stood gazing in the air. Fire assumed a bodily form and, taking by the hand the real Sri (Sita), celebrated alike in the Vedas and the world, escorted and presented Her to Sri Rama even as the Ocean of milk presented Goddess Indira (Laksmi) to Lord Visnu. Standing on the left side of Sri Rama, She shone resplendent in Her exquisite beauty like the bud of a gold lily beside a fresh blue lotus.