Sita insisted on accompanying her husband into the forest. They roamed through the woods for many happy years, together with Rama's devoted half-brother, Lakshman. Thier numerous adventures, some harrowing, others hysterically funny, are lovingly described in the Ramayana.
Rama is very protective of Sita, whom he adores, and Sita is completely devoted to Rama. To this day, Rama and Sita are held up as the best possible example loving Hindu marriage.
But something's always got to go wrong. Tragedy strikes again. Rama and Lakshman are lured away from their campsite and when they return, Sita has vanished into thin air!
The bulk of the Ramayana is about Rama's desperate search for his missing wife, and the amazingly daring rescue when he finally finds her. It turns out that she was kidnapped by the tyrannical king of Lanka (that's today's Sri Lanka). I'll tell you more about how Rama gets Sita back in Chapter 14, " Avatars: Gods in Human Form".
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