Finally....

…contd…..

All this explanation, I’ve given as per Valmiki Ramayana. There are different versions in telugu, tamil, moslem, Bengali, nepali, jain, Buddhist and so. In Kerala, muslim community plays a dance-drama during their marriage as part of marriage ceremony in which Ramayan is played. This form of dance is called ‘mappillai pattu’. The story varies in some parts in these versions. These are later day versions and the interpretation is solely of the writer. Why is it so? Don’t we see films based on real life incidents but characters and few imaginary and fictional characters and situations included for the flow of the script. “Similar way, these writers felt that this is the way it would’ve happened. Even if I take and read Valmiki Ramayan, it doesn’t mean I understand it the way it was written! Why? Because I am no Sita or Rama to understand their stature. How can I fully grasp their import and question or justify their action? Then is reading these epics waste as I would never get their meaning in toto? No. read them and that’s why we don’t say ‘reading’ in Sanskrit, we say we did ‘parayanam’ thre is no word I know in English and nearest is reading though! So we don’t complete reading. We read it regularly through out our lives and as we live what we little understand and then read, we understand a little more and that way their meaning changes every time we read them. If it is not happening so, you are blindly looking at words and that is of no use. Stop then and there.

In short understand that you shouldn’t look at the person but at the Ideal and hold it as an example to live up to – however lofty you may feel about yourself yet your Ideal should always be the highest! And Lord Rama represents the higher Ideal by way of a person living as per ‘nyaya’ and dharma. and not everytime ‘nyaya’ (justice) can be right but it is still nyaya and should be lived up to and followed too!

A word

I hope you enjoyed reading explanation of this query as much as I enjoyed explaining it. If explanation was not up to the mark, if it didn’t clear your doubts and if your heart still holds Rama guilty of his acts, then the flaw entirely rests on my explanation only and not in the character of Rama and Sita. Question again as to what was not clear and I’ll try again. But a nobody like me justifying actions of Lord Rama looks like a small lamp trying to show the brilliance of Sun God. How stupid on the part of lamp to think that it can show the world the greatness of Sun! similar has been my effort in this area. It holds good when I talk about any incarnation. In my enthusiasm, I may vomit few examples and explanations but they don’t cover the grandeur of this characters and scriptures. What I feel does impede my writing which otherwise too is limited and crippled as I feel I can explain better in person than in writing. But even that explanation would fall short of the grandeur of these scriptures and ideals that I talk about. So forgive my short-comings and also my arrogance to take up the cause of writing about such topics!

And Vaibhav, explanation apart I did go on a personal ride of bliss just by writing, thinking and feeling all through so thanks for creating one such opportunity to me! What i received this song summarizes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luz758PAC04

And your query's answer is given in 9 days - as if it is Ramanavami - 9 days of Rama. This is the celebration one should work towards always and not do it only at physical level!

(And maybe you gave me a 3 mark question and I in my enthusiasm ended up writing a 16 mark answer!)

Jai siya ram!

concluded.....