Sunday, April 16, 2017

Me, My Guru - Ramayana and Rama - Indian Mythology


Me, My Guru



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3. He sent her away as he wanted to please others and get a ‘good name’.


Wrong as his other act contradicts this statement. If it was to please others, he would have taken second wife and no one would’ve questioned him. But he had principles and in the times when people or men taking more wives was a norm he having given his word to Sita at the time of their marriage, that he would be ‘ekpatnivrata’ – one woman man was a big thing. And he never used any excuse to remarry. That talks about his character. It also proves that he didn’t do things to please others. He didn’t bend the rules or principles to his convenience.


4. He doubted Sita’s character:

Wrong again as he never doubted her. But he couldn’t let his conviction be forced on others’ doubts. So, he had to leave her.


5. He asked her to give agnipariksha (prove her purity by entering the fire) : When Sita is brought to Rama after the war is over by Vibhishina with due respects, Rama says “I have fulfilled my duty of protecting you and freeing you from the Ravana’s abduction. Now you are free to choose and take any able prince as your husband. I free you from this bondage”.


He never asks her to give ‘Agnipariksha’. Sita understanding his dilemma and his incapacity to take her in decides to immolate herself instead of choosing someone else as her husband and asks Lakshmana to light a pyre and jumps into it. Then the Agni Deva, the God of fire and various Gods come to vouch for her purity and seek Rama to take her as his wife. Then Rama replies that he never even for a moment doubted her but he wanted the world to know the greatness of Sita, so he had to treat her harshly. 

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