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Ravana’s logic
does hold good to women and people who are clamouring only for physical joys.
It falls flat for people who value their loved ones more than material things.
Like-wise people
with crooked intentions can twist Rama’s act to justify their actions. But
. a.
That doesn’t make Rama’s act
wrong.
b. It doesn’t right their wrong
acts.
Rama at no place
disrespects women. Infact, he respects Sumitra, Kaikeyi and other queens of his
father as much as he did his mother. His personal benefit was nil, infact he
suffered his separation from ‘his Sita’. The pain of ‘Viraham’ – separation can
be understood only by a person who has ever loved! How can mortals who are
governed by sex in their relationships know what ‘viraham’ is?
When a man
leaves his wife :
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Because his family disproves of
his wife, then it is wrong. It is duty of a husband to protect his wife – even
against onslaught of his family members. She comes to his house leaving her parents
and her home trusting him to protect her. When his family assassinates her
character or her personality, she doesn’t fail, he fails. He’s failed as a
husband. A man if is not able to give material comforts inspite of his best
efforts, then he is not faulted. Yes, he may be taunted by his wife and others
but ‘as per Dharma he is not wrong’. He hasn’t failed as a husband. But if he
doesn’t stand by her when she is assaulted even verbally by his family members
or others, then he is no man. He is a ‘sinner’. He’s gone against ‘Dharma’. He
is no man. He’s one with that who’s committed a
murder of a spirit. This is ‘Dharma’. This rule applies to all men. They may
justify their actions but the Nature takes its course based on this ‘Dharma’
only. Even if his wife forgives me or doesn’t hold grudge against him if he
hasn’t realized the pain she has endured in his family and doesn’t seek her
forgiveness, he has to bear consequences of his acts.
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Sita didn’t hold it against him
yet she couldn’t accept that she was asked to prove her purity in future and
hence went into the folds of Mother Earth.
In Kaliyuga, Sita can leave her husband if her pain crosses the
threshold of her tolerance. She is ‘still right’ – not as per feminist but ‘as
per Dharma’. And Rama lived a ‘lonely life’ for the rest of his life. That was
his punishment. In his next janma as Krishna, as he knew the fact that he had
failed as a ‘husband’, to compensate, he
is ever eager to please his women folk. He lives as a ‘person who lives only to
please his wife’. The mistake in life is to be corrected in following janmas
for sure! There is no excuse even for the Lord and even if he acts as per
Dharma. He was ‘right’ as king but ‘as husband’ he had wronged his wife – for
sure, so he had to bear consequences of the same. This is the ‘Law of Karma’.
This is the journey of the soul. That’s why as Krishna he remains as a ‘King
maker’ and doesn’t become a king inspite of being more qualified than all the
kings of that time put together.
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