What can I say is that we should be proud to have our guru like Valmik, a writer, philosopher ,spiritual leader and in some ways a scientist . He is our form of leonardo de vinci  of the middle ages. We admire the craft of the renaissance period in the west and Valmik was BC !!!!! so you can imagine the creativity and respect he must possess , so why would he become a robber instead. Even the western world should be aware of his poetic knowledge. In North India, he also considered a brave fighter of Dravidian family who fought against the Aryans. ANUSHASHANPARVA in Mahabharat, Valmiki was called to Yudhisthara. Valmiki in Mahabharata appeared among the Suparna bird of the Garuda dynasty indicates that they were Kashatriyas by their deeds (worshipper of Vishnu). VISHNU PURAN (ref. 3/3/18) Rishi Traksha Vyasa was also called Valmiki who was the 24th Vyasa. Saint Ravidass Says he came from low caste got immortal position due to Ram Bhakti. Tulsidass says that Valmiki know the efficiency of word Rama who sings reverse letter of Rama became pure. Work of 16^th Century describes birth take place with the semen of Rishi Krinu and his marriage with sudra, a female serpent. BHAGAVATAPURANA consider work of 6^th –7^th Century A.D. states Valmiki, a great ascetic born from ant-hill. In 17^th Century Guru Gobind Singh (10^th Guru of Sikhs), in his DASAM GRANTHA refer Valmiki as an incarnation of Brahma. DEVI BHAGWAT PURAN (1000-1100 century) (ref. 7/2/3-7) says that Maharishi Chawan was also called Valmiki because of his hard meditation. Body all covered with sand (balu) and inside ants make their home so called valmiki. All these stories, which are woven around the name Valmiki at the requirement of time by Manuvadis. [also see välmiké religion and hindu Caste ]

Lot many other evidence about Bhagwan Valmiki as Robber were found in Vashnavkhand, Avantyakhand, Prabhaskhand & Nagarkhand. But the stories do not co-relates each other and thus proves them baseless.

All of us encluding all the Scholars even the brahmins admit that Bhagwan Valmiki was born in Satyug. In Satyuga the people never tell a lie and always speaks the truth and there was no voilence or crime & people obey to the lawa. There was only peace & everyone keep faith in other. No one hide its things due to fear of theft. Bharat (Jambu Dweep) was known as paradise as it has abundance of resourses. All trees were full of fruits and no person sleeps due to hunger. That is why it was known as Satyuga.

If there is everything in abundance then how a person can become a theif or robber? The evil things arise due to hunger stomach and where there shortage of resourses and where one group of the society is too much rich and other too much poor. But Scholar named that period 'Satyuga' only due to its clealiness, equality, justice, peace, abundance of resources, faith in each other, no crime, truth, no place for lie, worthiness etc. These baseless stories are the growth of sick minds of Manuvaadis and Brahmanism woven around Bhagwan Valmiki.

Now the question will arise then why brahmins made these false & baseless stories? This was a political conspiracy.

Bhagwan Valmiki gave to the Dravidians (or Bheels, native peoples of Bharat - India) divine and best knowledge to rise. He gave nectar to the dying army of Rama who came alive, Re-alive Kusha when died during fight with the army of Rama. He has a heart full of mercy for the poor peoples even for the birds. This is known that in his ashram lion and deer drink in the same river together without any fear. He has too much for the community. He had three lac disciples in Satyuga and in Treta yug they increased to four lac. And from ancient time he was worshipped as God. In seventh century's evidences are found in the manuscripts that in Hind-China in Champa state Valmiki Mandir was found where his statue was installed.

He felt remose when a hunter shot an arrow and killed one of the crane couple. Heart full of love and even mercy for a bird how could me such a great person a dacoit or robber can kill anyone.

According to Pandit Krishna Dev Prasad Gaud, Rishi Valmiki was not a common man but a great scholar and scientist so he couldnot be a robber or dacoit.

Dr. S.N. Vyasa, MAPHD can't admit Bhagwan Valmiki to be a robber. He in his work "India in the Ramayan Age" (Page 4 & 5) wrote,

"The Mahabharat too hints at Valmiki being originally robber but the authenticity of this material on the life of Valmiki is not beyond question"

"The story of the conversion of a robber is intended more to underline the chastening influence of the name Rama"

"The fanciful derivation of the name Valmiki from Valmek or Anthill stresses the rigid austerity observed by the sage"

Ram took birth in Treta yuga and Bhagwan Valmiki came in Satyuga, thousands of years before him. During Satyuga no one knows about Rama as he took birth thousands of years afterwards. No one worshipped Rama that time as they were not known to Rama. Then how could Bhagwan Valmiki worshipped him chanting the reverse word 'RAMA RAMA' to 'MARA MARA'. To make name of Ram popular publicly these type of baseless stories are woven around Bhagwan Valmiki which he had nothing to do with.

Dr. Purshottam Lal Bhargava in his work 'Ramayan Aank' (Page 12) writes,

"Maharishi Valmiki had not mentioned anywhere in his written Ramayana about Ram-Ram"

It is worthy to note that while other Ramayana treat Rama more as an Avatara of Vishnu, Valmiki's Ramayana emphasizes mainly the human side of his personality.

Colonel James Tod in his work 'The History of Rajasthan' (Page 25) writes,

"It is very curious circumstances that Hindu legend gives to two of their most celebrated authors whom they have invested with a scared characters a descent from aborignal and impure tribes of India. Vyasa from a fisherman and Valmiki, the author of other grand epic 'The Ramayana', from a Budhek or - robber an associate of the bheel tribe at Aboo".

"The conversion of Valmiki said to have been miraculous when in th act of robbing the shrine of diety is worshipped into a story of considerable effect in the wors of chand from olden authority - this story is unbelievable."

"The reputed authors of the epics Vyasa & Valmiki were blackened in the Budhistic age by making one of the offspring of guilty intercourse and other a robber. But the mischief failed to efface the grandeur of their noble characters, which has already got firm hold on the minds of the people. They looked upon them as Gods or Demigods and no vilification or calumny could detract from their noble characters or dislodges them from the position of esteem and reference in which they were enshrined. The Indian epics were degraded by the Budhists with a motive during the period of Budhistic ascendency"

Other references in favour of Bhagwan Valmiki not being a robber were found in :

Valmiki Ramayana, Yogavasistha, Mahabharat, Matasyapuran, Harivansh Puran, Brahmpuran, Bhagwat Puran, Kurm Puran, Akshar Lakshya, Shri Ram Samvaad, Raghuvansh, Uttar Ramcharit, Budhcharit & Kundanmala.

Whereas in favor of Bhagwan Valmiki being a robber were found in Skandpuran, Avantyakhand, Prabhaskhand & Nagarkhand -robber but the stories do not corelate each other.

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In the seventh book of the epic, Vālmīki is spoken of as a friend of King Daśaratha. Rāma's brother Lakṣmaṇa leaves the pregnant Sītā (Rāma's wife) in Vālmīki 's hermitage. Finally, it is Vālmīki who shelters Sītā, raises her two sons, and plays the role of reconciler between Rāma and Sītā by testifying publicly to Sītā's purity. In this context, Vālmīki describes himself as a son of Pracetas, which makes him a member of the family of Bhṛgus, an influential lineage of brahmans in ancient India.

A folk legend records that the sage was born out of an "anthill" (Sanskrit, valmīka) and therefore was called Vālmīki. This story appears with minor variations in the Skāndapūrāṇa and also in the Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa and Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa. Many popular bhakti Rāmāyaṇas, including the Krittivāsa Rāmāyaṇa of Bengal, adopt this story.

Thus, there are two kinds of biographies for Vālmīki. One type describes Vālmīki as a sage-poet born of a high-caste brahman family and endowed with supreme wisdom and the divine sensibilities that made him the creator of poetry, while the other type describes him as a sinner transformed into a saint. The first type of biography is in conformity with the status of the Rāmāyaṇa as the great epic that it is in the Brahmanic tradition. The second type of biography relates to the status of the Rāmāyaṇa as a bhakti poem that transforms its readers from sinners into devotees of the god Rāma. The two types of biographies thus reflect the two major orientations and interpretations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Hindu culture.

Bibliography
Bulcke, Camille. "The Rāmāyaṇa: Its History and Character." Poona Orientalist 25 (January–October 1960): 36–60.
Goldman, Robert P., trans. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, vol. 1, Bālakaṇḍa. Princeton, N.J., 1984. See especially the introduction (pp. 3–59).

From Anmol Sahota's (Site Member) Sister Ritu. She is final year student of Music & Poem
 HINDI WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION :

   Jiske Hath Mein Hattyar.... (one who keeps the weapon)
   Use kahte ho tum Bhagwan!!! (you call him God)
  Jiske Hath Main kalam.... (one who keep a pen)
  Use Daku bana Dala ???? (you call HIM thief)
  Jiske hath mein-------2 (repeat above four lines two times)
 
  Usne ki Ramayan Rachana karke shristi ka nirman (HE wrote Ramayana & created this whole Universe)
  Varna is jagat mein kabhi bhi aa nahi sakta tha Ram (otherwise no one ever exist in this universe not even Great Rama)
  Jo Khud Shristi ke baad aaya Use kahte ho tum prabhu Ram (Ram came in this worlds after HE created the Universe and you define Rama as God (Top all)
  Jisne ki shristi rachana Use hi Kyon Bhula dala.... (You have forgotten HIM who created this Universe)
  Jiske hath mein-------2 (repeat)
 
  Jab Shivji ne jahar ka pyala Ek ghunt mein pi dala..... (When Shiva drank the bowl of Poison)
  Tan Agani ko shant karane Vo Teri Sharan Aya..... (Shiva body started burning & was in Great pain & came before YOU for relief)
  Jo khud uskii sharan mein hai Use kahte ho tum jatadhar.... (One who came before Him you calls HIM JATANDHAR (God)
  Jiske Charno mein Sansar Use Kyon Ashut kah dala... (All the Universe is under HIS feet, HE is the MASTER of this whole Universe and you call HIM Shudra, a lower (inferior to all)
  Jiske hath mein-------2 (repeat)
 
  Krodh mein aakar kitno ko hi maar dala kali ne (In a furry Mother Kaali killed a lot)
  or tandav kare shivji ne dubo diya thal pani mein (and Shiva dances and the earth drown in water)
  Koi le bheint bakre ki kisi ko chahiye hai bali (some wanted offering of killing of animals)
  jisne kuch nahi manga Use Katil Kyon kah dala....... (HE asked for nothing and you call HIM a Prosecutor)
  Jiske hath mein-------2 (repeat) 

HINDI :

Kya Shrishtee ko bananee wala use dwara banayee gayee jeeva dwara jana jaa

sakta hai aur agar Srishtikarta uske dwara banayee gayee jivaa dwara jana

jaa sakey tou srishtee kee rachnaa kaisee.

Hum sab uskee srishtee ke rachnaa ke patraa hai.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION :

Can anyone among us can describe about HIM who created us alongwith this whole Universe alongwith us. HE is the Author and we are just HIS characters (Puppets) in this Play between life and Death

If we could ever describe HIM even a tiny minute detail about HIM, then we could be the Author and HE, a character (Puppet). We are just playing our roles given by HIM.

Today we are treating ourself as GOD by changing HIS clothes, HIS appearance with painting and describing about HIMSELF giving HIS life autobiography, playing our own ideas with asking silly questions and then giving their answers

This world we are living is full of illusions created by HIM and we could never solve it or know HIS reality, not even the Big Bang theory or Science even.

FOR EXAMPLE A SIMPLE ILLUSION IS :

We always say:

GOD IS NO WHERE

where the GOD even lies within this WORD when we separate W and fix with NO, It appears :

GOD IS NOW HERE (So God is present everywhere)

 So stop thinking about HIS appearance and believe in HIS Judgment.

 HE has thirty Six Crore GODS and DEMIGODS (36 Crore Devi Devtaa ) at HIS service and for HIS praise you just keep pure faith in HIM without any question or doubt about HIS appearance & simply do the duty by Loving HUMANITY

 Excuse any hard words against HIS Excellency