(Sita at Asokavana)
Sita was interned by the cruel King Ravana in the most beautifully laid-out garden in Lanka called Asokavana, the forest of No-sorrow. The flower beds, lawns, trees and creepers, bowers and groves were most pleasing to the eye and refreshing to the mind. But, Sita derived no joy there from! She found therein only empty vanity, lust for power and foul pleasure. She felt real ananda when an ugly monkey started repeating the name of Rama from the branch of the tree under which she sat. That name was for her the source of unfailing ananda. (SSS Vol. 6, pp. 40-41)