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He sat there silently for a while and then told me that he was highly educated. He was a graduate from Agra University and that now he had renounced everything. Renunciation must be physical and practical, he said. He was, he said, a wandering Sadhu and that he travelled a lot. He said that no one can get the entire answers about Ramayan, until and unless one creates and visualizes the Historical environment of that time. The epic written by Maharishi Valmiki has lot of voids, and everyone knows that. Yet people try to answer questions pertaining to voids without going into historical and geographical environment of that time, and usually such answers are wrong. The second problem, he said was that people who answer or need the answer do not entirely believe that Shri Ram was a historical figure. “You have to first believe that Shri Ram was a historical figure and an incarnation of Vishnu and your belief MUST be ABSOLUTE”, he said. “Secondly you must understand comprehensively that the incarnation of Lord Vishnu was to establish Dharm, and as such every important event in which Shri Ram or Mata Sita was involved would provide a Dharm. Sometimes two event clubbed together would constitute a Dharm”. “Agni pariksha and disownment of Sita after Shri Ram became King are connected”, he said. “Sita was disowned after Shri Ram rejected the result of Agni Pariksha, and that too after a fair trial”.