What Ramayana teaches us?

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Disliking wife for her lack of beauty, wealth, health or her inability to do chores and using Rama’s example and divorcing her saying “for my family’s name and prestige/ marrying again to beget children (here read it as sons) for the sake of family etc” doesn’t come under this category. I often see people quoting this episode to justify their nefarious intentions. Quoting right examples for wrong purpose and intention can’t make it right. Fine some people may buy it but the fact would be they are wrong.

Again don’t think he’s like our politicians ready to stoop to any levels and compromise anything and everything just to hold on to their posts and chair. If he had attachment for the throne, he would not have gone to forest in the first place and that too when all his subjects pleaded and so did his brother Bharata. But because, Bharata took a promise that he had to return as per his father’s wish and so was Kaikeyi’s wish he did it. And for this personal benefit, he couldn’t let go off his responsibility like an emotional fool as a commoner.

This is as per socio-political scenario of that time. How to understand it spiritually? Please refer to post dt. Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Wednesday, October 30, 2013, Monday, October 13, 2014, Thursday, October 31, 2013, Saturday, November 2, 2013.

Further to that post, let’s understand the entire episode (this I’ve explained in few of my classes and Madhumita, I remember you asking about this explanation once and I gave only partial explanation then. I am giving more of that day’s explanation now)

Ramayana when seen as a story of a human being gives you various situations similar to what we face in our lives and as to how to face that situation and how to arrive at a decision which is based on ‘Dharma’ always. It also shows us that if a man without compromising on Dharma if takes decision in his life however painful they are for him, he can raise to Godhood by his karma. To lead a life of activities and responsibilities is everybody’s need and compulsion, but to use that as an excuse to outgrow one’s limitations and rise to higher possibilities is the lesson that we can learn from Ramayana. Rama teaches how to convert a limitation into a strength and something that would transform us. Through, every character Ramayana teaches us the Law of Karma and Law of Universe by showing us the cause and effect in that characters life. Just by following these examples we can check our attitude and decisions in life to avoid suffering cause by wrong decisions.

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