With some tears in her eyes, Sītā stated that the disadvantages of living in the forest as stated by Rāma were actually to her advantage. She also said that when she was in her father’s house, she had heard from some brāhmaṇas who knew the Sāmudrika-śāstras and from a female mendicant that she would live in the forest in the future. So she told Rāma that she was very eager to live in the forest with Him. Though Sītā-devī, unable to tolerate His separation, thus requested Him in many ways to allow her to reside in the forest with Him, Śrī Rāma still did not agree with her and consoled her.