Originally posted by: nneeiill
mangalsutra is not an ancient tradition as is believed ..
we have put up so many links proving the fact..and there is not a single one which says ram tied mangalsutra...so i wont go this harsh on PH atleast for not showing mangalsutra..anyways we h ave debated this in last 5-6 pages...ab aur energy nahi hai to prove😆
sita wore choodamani..that was the mangal abhushan or symbol of marriage during ramayan times...
I'm not saying the links you provided were wrong, nneeil.😳 It's just that I don't buy much of the research that has been done on all these customs, you know why? Our India has gone through sooo much history, so many transitions, and ruled by all sorts of different people. The scriptures we have today are definitely not the originals, because several different tribes ruled India and many of them either distroyed the original content or changed them to interpolate their customs.
So how can we say the research that has been done is 100% true.😕 We cannot. Just as we cannot proove the existence of God, I also don't think we can prove the 100% validity of the scriptures we have today. Mangalsutra may or may not have existed during the treta yug. We will just never know for sure no matter how much research is done, because our India has gone through far too much transitions to determine indefinitely what happened or did not happen. So I think it's fair to believe either thing, that Sita wore a mangalsutra or she did not. We cannot say it's a FACT that Sita did not wear one, because we will never know what happened in the trata yuga despite the scriptures we have today. These scriptures are not 100% reliable.
So in the end of the day, just as we have unconditional faith in God, we must believe all these things on faith. If mangalsutra is a custom someone believes in, then they can believe Sita wore a mangalsutra. If it's not, then they can don't have to belueve in it. But nothing is a fact.