Mansi,
To be frank with, I liked the whole of Saturday's maha episode which covered Maham and Jodha and also of Mondays'
About your question on why Jodha had to lie to Maham, whether to get her Bad duva reversed or to reconcile her with Jalal. No that was not what was on her mind. All she thought of was to give that elderly lady who had suffered a lot to bring up 2 kids by showering all her love and life. Now in the last days of her life, one was died an abnormal, not to wish even for the enemies death in front of her own eyes and the reason for that untimely death was none other than her other son.
She had thought of living a royal life but she has no one next to her while she is dying, the pampered children of her's, has shredded all the bonds with her and no longer consider her as his mother also. One died out of greed and the other killed him out of rage, in all this she was left alone. The one who thought will kill the other got himself killed mercilessly for his unhampered anger and for being unethical to his master. He wanted to pluck the moon (the taqth) and his mother had promised him to get that (like a mother pamper her child while feeding the food showing the moon) but never did the 2 realized whatever they thought as moon was the Sun in reality. The son didn't heed the warning of his mother and touched the Sun and burnt alive leaving his mother to grieve. And here is the mother who in her anger to lose her beloved son, without realizing what she said, blamed the Sun about the upcoming Eclipse which will damper his Shining by covering in the form of curse that even he will face the sadness she is facing by losing his own kids.
Had she had the control over her mind, she would have realized what she did, but in her rage, she was inconsolable and had cursed and still not over it. She is not ready to live in this eternal world where son is not there. She doesn't want to live a life provided by her other son who was the killer of her soul. Hence she has decided not to have anything and live this world.
But as we know, the elders say that a person should not die with some unsatisfied wishes or they should not die grieving which will land their soul will not have a peace will keep wandering. So Jodha wanted this elderly lady to have a peaceful death, so that her soul rests in peace. Maham would have done some blunders now, she would have been scheming but she had raised a tiny Jalal to the great Shehenshah Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar. Jodha is treating her as Jalal's mother and not as Jalal's enemy. And Jodha thought it would be a tribute to that lady if she can make her exit bearable for her.
If Yudhistira could lie about Ashwatham's death (off course he completed his sentence about the elephant but he knew very well with Krishna's Panchjanya, Guru Drona will not hear that part) to make his teacher drop his armaments in the war against Pandava's, (with the good intention to save the goodness in the world), I vote for Jodha's lie to Mahm to give her some respiring peace before death.
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