The Holy Places Visited by Lord Rama During this year’s Rama Navami , let us go back in history and get a glimpse where Lord Ramachandra performed His pastimes, as recorded in Valmiki Ramayana. Lord Rama, Sitadevi and Lakshmana in the forest The Supreme Lord descended as Sri Ramachandra in Treta-yuga in order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to re-establish the principles of religion. Lord Ramachandra exemplified the characteristics of an ideal king for maintaining and protecting the highest culture of humanity. His exalted qualities and activities are always sung and relished by His devotees. The great epic Ramayana narrates how Lord Rama was sent to the forest by His father Maharaja Dasharatha. Demonstrating the behaviour of an ideal son, the Lord left for the forest obeying the order of His father, just when He was to be coronated as the king of Ayodhya. The Lord along with His consort Sitadevi and younger brother ...