Brahma further informed Valmiki that the purpose of this divine inspiration was to enable the sage to render the highly edifying tale of Lord Rama that he had been told by Narada into a great epic poem that would be both morally uplifting and aesthetically pleasing.

The god informed the sage that it was he himself who had inspired him to create a new medium of verbal expression that had enable him to transform the powerful emotion of grief (shoka) into poetry (shloka). Suddenly his musings were interrupted by the arrival of the great creator divinity, Lord Brahma. Valmiki returned to his ashram, pondering this strange event. To his astonishment, the curse emerged from his mouth as a perfectly formed metrical verse, suitable for recitation to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Witnessing this terrible act and hearing the piteous cries of the bereaved hen crane, Valmiki spontaneously cursed the hunter. As the enraptured sage watched the birds a tribal hunter, taking advantage of the couples’ absorption in one another, shot and killed the male bird. There he became entranced by sight of pair of beautiful cranes mating. Upon the seer's departure, Valmiki walked to the banks of the nearby river to perform his obligatory ritual bath. Narada replied by narrating briefly the virtues and history of King Rama. The sage asked his guest if there were any truly noble, heroic, and virtuous men in the world of their day. One day the legendary sage Valmiki received a visit in his ashram (forest hermitage) from the divine seer Narada. The way the poem came to be composed is itself an interesting story, which is told in the opening chapters of the epic itself. The Valmiki Ramayana is a monumental epic poem about the exemplary hero and divine incarnation, Lord Råmacandra, of the ancient North Indian kingdom of Kosala. This interview with Robert Goldman analyzes the Ramayana through the lens of the Hero's Journey.

The ramayana of valmiki