Originally posted by: shruthiravi
Respect your parents. Yes they might have their own faults. But listening to them, yielding to them in the most important decisions of your life doesnt harm you. It only enriches you. Only if you stay truthful to your existing relations, you can be truthful to the new relations also.
Breaking the existing relations and building new one is like building castles on sand. A strong wave can wash it away.
Excellent post as always and very well written...
@blue - so true and completely agree with you... all our puranas insists this ... very well put...
interesting to know what would sita reply to urmila...
this is just my thought...
i would just like to highlight two aspects...
Not only her father's wish but also a guru's wisdom is intertwined in this as the way for sita's marraige was stated by parashuram ...
Fear,insecurites are also a part of moha that occupies only the mind that is confused ...sita says clearly your wish will not be against my good and a guru always guides us through the wisest path,,,,
so she accepts this syamvar without a doubt for if she truly believes in her heart they are meant to be together...where there comes a doubt that they may not marry each other ,,, and like she says she would be truly lucky if it happens that way as here ram will not only be her choice but her father's ,gurus choice too...
Those two questions putforth by urmila
"Are your feelings not important and y this sacrifice ..."
my feel was sacrifice happens only when we abandon or forego something on consideration of something else...
here there is no question of abandoning because the very qualities that sita admired in ram ... compassion, might,purity of heart are the ones required to lift the danush too...
overall when we feel something strongly with purity of heart there is nothing to feared or worried about... we have only to believe and have trust and patience ...nature would take its course... ...