WHOSE FAULT ?

SHIRAMA has gone to forest, with his consort Sita Devi and beloved brother Lakshmanan, in order to fulfill the boons granted by the King Dasaratha to his wife Kaikeyi.

After the departure of Sri Rama, king Dasaratha, could not bear the separation of his beloved son, the incarnation of all virtues whom he got after doing penance for long and completing the yagna (putra-kameshti) and has also left for his heavenly abode.

As the king has expired, and that his eldest son has gone to forest to fulfill the wishes of his father, the Royal priest Vasishta sends messengers to Kekayarajyam to bring Bharata, the next heir to the throne, where he had gone with Satrugna to spend some time with his maternal uncle.

Bharata returns to Ayodhya, to find everything in lifeless condition. To his great shock and astonishment, he finds that his father has expired and his elder brother Sri Rama has left for forest to spend his time for fourteen years, at the behest of his own mother Kaikeyi.

He scolds his mother, whom he considers the root cause of all miseries. He is not able to bear the separation of Sri Rama and the death of his father.

He ponders over to find who is the root cause of all these unbearable events and catastraophies.