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Maan Swabhiman Abhimaan Ahankaar ...
What is the difference between these ?
Maan - respect - to give maan to someone - is to give respect to someone, irrespective of their status in life, or their position
Like Rama giving maan to that old lady, whose fields he was working in - even though he is a prince, he respects his hosts, respects the fact that farming is almost sacred to Mithila, and gives maan to the land and the people of the land
Swabhiman - self respect - not to get intimidated by someone's superiority of bal or dhan, to maintain your dignity throughout, in the face of adversity - Sita's conversation with Malyavan, the silent dignity with Janak and Kushadhwaj etc behave in front of Ravana.
Both maan and Swabhiman are positive feelings and mean respect for self and others
Abhimaan - pride - here the feelings border on negative - when we act with pride and differentiate between people based on their station in life, or based on feelings of superiority - Dashratha - when he talks of keeping distance from ordinary people - kekeyi - also shows abhiman in large amounts
And of course the worst of these is Ahankaar - an asuri pravritti- when people have an exaggerated sense of self importance and believe themselves to be invincible and above law.
Their Abhimaan is based on shallow superiority of wealth, money, position, family than on real attributes of values and personal qualities .
Ravana has been displaying these in plenty - he epitomises the saying - power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
This was the gyan of the day,
As for the episode - total 10/10 episode !
Sita looks really very very beautiful
Ravana with his super ego was maha entertaining - the man is so full of himself that he even had the gall to tell Mahadev that it's God's privilege to have a Bhakt like Ravana - I am loving all the Ravana scenes - he is super entertaining with his king size arrogance
And of course - Rama ji ke darshan hue aaj - he looked too good, and the scene in the field was very endearing-
So dekho dekho dekho - full on mazedaar episode today - thanks to handsome and wonderful Rama and beautiful lovely Sita and total Tashan of Ravana !
Seher Hone Ko Hai
