Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 7

How long would you keep trying at something if you knew you might die before it worked? A year? Ten years? A whole life? Now imagine you are not the first to try. Your grandfather tried. He failed. Your father is trying, and he too is going to fail. And you are told: this is your task too, and you may fail, and even so, you must not stop.

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Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga forty-two, and the closing of sarga forty-one. The election of Amshuman as king, his thirty-two thousand years of tapas in the Himalayas without success, Dilipa's thirty thousand years of rule, his many sacrifices and his death without accomplishing the task, Bhagiratha's birth, his  ...