Early Life

Maharishi Valmiki was born as Ratnakara to sage Prachetasa. At a very young age, Ratnakara went into the forest and got lost. A hunter, who was passing by, saw Ratnakara and took him under his own care. Under the love and care of his foster parents, Ratnakara forgot his original parents. Under his father's guidance, Ratnakara turned out to be an excellent hunter. As he approached marriageable age, Ratnakara was married to a beautiful girl from hunter's family.

Ramayana

The Rāmāyaṇa, originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,001 verses^[2] in seven cantos (kāṇḍas). The Ramayana tells the story of a prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon (Rākshasa) king of Lanka, Rāvana. The Valmiki Ramayana is dated variously from 500 BC to 100 BC, or about co-eval with early versions of the Mahabhārata^[3]. As with most traditional epics, since it has gone through a long process of interpolations and redactions it is impossible to date it accurately.

In the original Valmiki Ramayana, Valmiki wrote that Rama was nothing more than the ideal human being. However, Brahminical reshaping and manipulaton of the Ramayana eventually presented Rama as a supreme deity. The first stage includes the composition of books 2 - 6 sometime in the fifth century BCE and their oral transmission up to and including the forth century BCE. The presentation of Rama as essentially human hero.

The second stage extends from the third century BCE to the first century CE, during which time those five books were reworked and expanded. This period brings greater status for the king, for most of this period, Rama is viewed as an ethical human.

The third stage extends from the first to the third century CE, bringing with it the addition of book 1 (‘The book of childhood’) and the some what later book 7 (epilogue).

This stage is marked by the presentation of Rama as an avatar of Vishnu. This stage also produced a pronounced emphasis on Varna- Dharma: Sambuka, the Sudra ascetic, is killed by Rama in order to bring a Brahmin boy back to life.

Valmiki has very minutely described the daily life of Rama after he became King.

The administration, as Valmiki states, was entrusted to Bharata, his brother. Rama had freed himself from the cares and worries about his kingdom and subjects. According to those accounts, the day was divided into two parts, up to forenoon and afternoon. From morning to forenoon he was engaged in performing religious rites and ceremonies and offering devotion. The afternoon he spent alternately in the company of Court jesters and in the Zenana. When he got tired of jesters he went back to the Zenana. Valmiki also gives a detailed description of how Rama spent his life in the Zenana. This Zenana was housed in a park called Ashoka Vana. There Rama used to take his meals. The food, according to Valmiki, consisted of all kinds of delicious viands. They included flesh and fruits and liquor. Rama was not a teetotaler. He drank liquor copiously and Valmiki records that Rama saw to it that Sita joined with him in his drinking bouts. From the description of the Zenana of Rama as given by Valmiki it was by no means a mean thing. There were Apsaras, Uraga and Kinnari accomplished in dancing and singing. There were other beautiful women brought from different parts. Rama sat in the midst of these women drinking and dancing. They pleased Rama and Rama garlanded them. Valmiki calls Ram as a 'Prince among women's men'. This was not a day's affair. It was a regular course of his life.

As has already been said Rama never attended to public business. He never observed the ancient rule of Indian kings of hearing the wrongs of his subjects and attempting to redress them. Only one occasion has been recorded by Valmiki when he personally heard the grievance of his subjects. But unfortunately the occasion turned out to be a tragic one. He took upon himself to redress the wrong but in doing so committed the worst crime that history has ever recorded.

The incident is known as the murder of Sambuka, the Shudra. It is said by Valmiki that in Rama's reign there were no premature deaths in his kingdom. It happened, however, that a certain Brahman's son died in a premature death. The bereaved father carried his body to the gate of the king's palace, and placing it there, cried aloud and bitterly reproached Rama for the death of his son, saying that it must be the consequence of some sin committed within his realm, and that the king himself was guilty if he did not punish it; and finally threatened to end his life there by sitting on a dharana (hunger-strike) against Rama unless his son was restored to life. Rama thereupon consulted his council of eight learned Rishis, and Narada amongst them told Rama that some Shudra among his subjects must have been performing Tapasya (ascetic exercises), and thereby going against Dharma (sacred law), for according to it, the practice of Tapasya was proper to the twice-born alone, while the duty of the Shudras consisted only in the service of the "twice-born". Rama was thus convinced that it was the sin committed by a Shudra in transgressing Dharma in that manner, which was responsible for the death of the Brahmin boy.

So, Rama mounted his aerial car and scoured the countryside for the culprit. At last, in a wild region far away to the south he espied a man practicing rigorous austerity of a certain kind. He approached the man, and with no more ado than to enquire of him and inform himself that he was a Shudra, by name Sambuka who was practicing Tapasya with a view to going to heaven in his own earthly person and without so much as a warning, expostulation or the like addressed to him, cut off his head. And lo and behold! At that very moment the dead Brahman boy in distant Ayodhya began to breathe again. Here in the wilds the Gods rained flowers on the king from their joy at his having prevented a Shudra from gaining admission to their celestial abode through the power of the Tapasya which he had no right to perform. They also appeared before Rama and congratulated him on his deed. In answer to his prayer to them to revive the dead Brahman boy lying at the palace gate in Ayodhya, they informed him that he had already come to life. They then departed. Rama thence proceeded to the Ashrama, which was nearby, of the sage Agastya, who commended the step he had taken with Sambuka, and presented him with a divine bracelet. Rama then returned to his capital.

History of Bhagwan valmik according to the Shri Ramayan Ad Dharm Granth

The great Valmiki was originally from an anarya community.His father was the great king Varuna and mother mata karakhni devi but she did not give birth to him Valmiki took the form of a new born child and apppeared before her.Valmiki incarnated himself on this earth 4 times to wash away the sins of sinners and to educate people he brought knowledge with him on to this earth. Valmiki existed before time he is the almighty god.Before the creation of this universe the re was nothing but water.Bhagwan Valmiki sat on the lotus flower and created the world in 36 yuga after this he created Shiva ji and then Parvati from the flesh of Shiva ji's thigh.It was from here that the human race was created.This katha(story)is explained in much more detail in the Shri ramayan Ad Dharma Granth. Valmiki was not a daku(highway robber)as Tulsi Dass portrays him as in the Ram charitar Manas it is a lie this was a all a plan he tried to attack the name of Bhagwan Valmiki to supress the original hindu people which are the dalits.the hindu religion originates in india and the dalits ar the native people the aryan race adopted the hindu religion this is a very well known fact.He also injected a great amount of false stories into the ramayana.There was no need for Tulsi dass to retell valmki's ramayan the ramayan should stay as it is which is the way Bhagwan valmiki wrote it.he tried to make the almighty god Bhagwan valmiki who created this universe look like a robber and make him the servant of rama in the ramacharitra Manas this is not true. Ram Chandra worshipped Bhagwan valmik he was a disciple of Bhagwan valmik valmiki wrote the ramayana 10,000 years before the birth of rama due to the killing of the krauncha bird he was upset by seeing this and cursed the hunter who shot the arrow into the birds chest and told him that he would suffer in another life for his actions.This is the reason why Ram chandra sent his wife sita to valmik's ashram because he was not allowed to live happily with his wife,valmiki did not allow this because when he killed the krauncha bird its partner was alone and sad.The reason why rama suffered was because of this.this proves that Bhgwan valmiki is the almighty because only god can decides someones fate. Bhagwan Valmiki is the eradicator of all disease as portrayed in the guru granth sahib and the reviver of souls as portrayed in the Shri Ramayan ad Dharam Granth.He is known as this because when the twins of rama lav and kush killed rama,bharat,lakshman,shatrughan and the entire army of rama including the Banner saina, Bhagwan Valmiki prepared amrit and showered them with it,they were instantly revived.This is the first ever Amrit.This is where Guru gobind Singh got the idea of amrit from and decided to include it in his own religion.Even guru Gobind singh and Guru Nanak were disciples of Valmik because they were incarnations of Lav Kush the sons of rama.This is explained in the suraj parkash granth.The remaining amrit was was buried underneath a beri(tree) which is called Dukh Bhanjani beri a pond of this sacred water soon after formed.This is where the Sikh goden temple is now situated it is due to this that the town is called Amritsar.It was where the amrit was buried that the disabled husband of bibi Rajhni saw black crows dive into the water and emerged from the water as doves, he then decided to bathe in the amrit himself and was cured of his diseases.The fourth sikh guru Ramdass ji knew about this and started building the sikh shrine here as it was the holiest of places. Bhagwan valmiki's ashram is also situated in Amritsar which is called Valmik Tirath.This is where sita took refuge and it is where the twins Lav and Kush were born and raised.However Kush was not born to Sita Bhagwan Valmik made him out of straw this again proves that Valmiki is the almighty because only god can create a life form.Bhagwan Valmiki demonstrated his power many times,people tried to test Bhagwan valmiki's power e.g raja sagar fired Hundreds of arrows at Bhagwan Valmiki within seconds Knives appeared and cut up every arrow which was fired.This is also explained in much more detail in the Shri Ramayan Ad Dharm Granth.Another time where Bhagwan Valmiki demonstrated his powers was when the son of Draupadi, Abhimanyu was sent to hell and getting beaten by the jam doot it was Bhagwan Valmiki that freed him from hell and opened the gates of heaven for him.