Hanuman's Leap Across the Ocean
Classical Stories · No. 53 — The monkey hero who forgot how mighty he was.
- Classical Stories
- 48 min
- Ages 8–13
- 8 chapters
About this audiobook
Hanuman, the monkey hero, was so mischievous and mighty as a child — trying to eat the sun, mistaking it for fruit — that the gods placed a gentle forgetting on him, so he would not know his own vast powers until he truly needed them. Years later, in the search for the captured queen Sita, the monkey army reaches the ocean's edge and despairs: no one can cross to the island fortress of Lanka. Then an old bear reminds Hanuman who he is — and, remembering at last, he grows huge, gathers himself on a mountaintop, and leaps the whole sea in one tremendous bound to carry hope to a captive queen.
Why it's worth a listen
The mightiest, most joyful hero of the Ramayana leaps across an entire ocean in a single bound to find a captured queen — but only after a friend reminds him of powers he had completely forgotten he possessed. A soaring adventure about courage, devotion, and remembering who you really are.
A question to keep
How do you find your true strength when you have forgotten you ever had it?
Chapters
- The Mango in the Sky
- The Edge of the World
- The Silence of the Waves
- The Bear's Whisper
- The Mountain That Bowed
- The Golden Flight
- Landfall on Lanka
- A Question to Keep