Originally posted by: .Vrish.
Very true. In fact, in one of their confrontations w/ a rakshasha in Aranya Kand, Rama loses his cool @ one point and speculates that Kaikeyi must have wanted that from them. However, he always smacks Laksman whenever the latter casts his aspersions 😈😆
The serials - both the Sagar ones in particular - IMO overdid it by showing Rama even as Manthara loving, and Manthara as repentant. Even in Valmiki, there is nothing about Rama going the extra mile to placate Kaikeyi, the way Yudisthir would do for Gandhari after the war. This attribution of mahan-ness is really annoying 🤔
In RSR, they did show RSL visit Valmiki @ Chitrakoot. Valmiki was very much a sage, and if his work is to be believed, all the Ramayan had already been written - he was just witnessing it live for those few days 😆 He would probably have spent much of the Treta Yuga in the anthill, and then emerged fully enlightened.
Incidentally, in which book does the story of Ratnakar/Valmiki first surface? It's definitely not in the Ramayan, or is it?
I actually don't mind Ram as Manthara-loving, because I blame Kaikeyi more than Manthara for the vanvaas. Sure Manthara may have incited her, but ultimately it was Kaikeyi who exiled Ram, not Manthara. It's Kaikeyi's fault that she had insecurities about her position in the household, despite the fact that she had a very secure and pampered life. Manthara was only a servant who was against Ram, but Kaikeyi did love Ram throughout his childhood, so Manthara influencing her is more her fault than Manthara's. So Ram "forgiving" Manthara is alright, since there is nothing to be forgiven IMO. Manthara did not exile Ram, Kaikeyi did.
Oh, I never knew that! Valmiki had already written Ramayan before it happened? I was under the impression that Valmiki wrote Ramayan after Ram, Sita and Lakshman returned to Ayodhya, and before Sita's vanvaas.
I don't think it's Valmiki Ramayan that Ratnakar's story is written. It's in another purana, can't remember which, but it's written in reference to someone telling someone else how one can elevate their status through devotion, like Valmiki, who was originally a thief of lower class, elevated himself to a sage through devotion.
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