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A ruse was needed by Ravan to make Sita cross the Lakshman Rekha. As long as Sita was inside the rekha, she was protected from all evils. Even with all of his powers, Ravan could not cross the rekha to get to Sita. So, changing tactics he came disguised as a sadhu and appealed to Sita's goodness, asking her to step out to give him the alms. Sita crosses the limit in good faith but soon realized how she was deceived when Ravan abducted her.
Did all of the above sound familiar?
Sometimes tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking and relies strongly on an illusion called permanence.
Taiji entered a scenario of punar vivah, carrying with her all the archaic notions and principles of a society that follows patriarchy. As such she automatically becomes a permanent prisoner of a blind tradition...but, but, but...isn't tradition supposed to be a guide and not a jailer?To show that what might have begun well may need an ending at some point? To only continue what is worth continuing? The blinkers-on, narrow vision of taiji won't allow her a broader view of a social issue. So she sees what she has always seen and known to be the gospel. Since Shobha and Aarti have stepped out of her vision, she deems them pariahs. "Aarti was an orphan...My son rescued her from the roads, gave her a respectable life by marrying her, bestowed on her the rights to become a mother to a boy. For all his goodness, she should have been forever indebted to him. Yet, in return of all these favors, what did she do? The moment his back is turned, she remarried...chi!! What kind of a low woman is she who leaves her husband for another man? And to top it all even takes the family heir with her? Arre...men are in a habit of venturing out; in the end they always come back to the familyfold. Couldn't she have waited for him? I shall ensure that he is given back his rights...that his son and wife return to him. As far as Shobha is concerned, she doesn't deserve my blessings for committing such a blasphemous sin of letting her bahu go to another man."
Even Scindias couldn't completely escape being ensnared by the redundant rules of society: they feel like a messiah in giving a hapless widow and her little boy a second shot at family life. Oh yes...a widow is fine...rescuing her makes them feel good. She is the bechari woman who cannot fend for herself. But a divorcee? Well...that's another matter altogether. "You see, there must have been something wrong in her that her husband left her"...is the common mentality. This is going to be acid test for the Scindias, not only of their goodness but also of their broadmindedness...
Well...so there we are? A mirror to a society that gives all the wrongful rights to a man but doesn't give an inch to even a single rightful right to a woman...and also makes a woman the biggest enemy of another woman. Shobha went against the grain and committed an act of bravado...somewhat like living in Rome and striving against the Pope. Even she had to resort to subterfuge to get a good act through. Now her son is using that subterfuge as a weapon to get back what was always his, but now resides on the other side of the line. To make his property, who is the only answer to his loneliness, cross the line, he'll have to ensure she is pushed to confront him...and when she does, he'll ensure she mistakes her new husband for him. So the truth will be out without his active presence...The new so-called family are sure to oust her and then he'll step forward to be the reluctant, benevolent "rescuer". He will come out as both a victim and a hero as the situation demands...and in the end it's all win-win for him, without anybody really getting hold of his connivance, as circumstantial evidence favored him. Either all of that or Prashant is indulging in the ultimate act of redemption: ensuring Yash gets the message of his heart across to Aarti. The Bad Ravan who lured Sita out or the Good Ram who helped Sugreev win his wife Ruma back from Bali...it's your choice as of today. Who knows what the CVs have up their sleeve?
Love is when you look at her eyes and see her heart...
Yash requests Shobhama to give him Aarti's childhood photographs. The photos on seeing which he had inadvertently commented,"Aartiji, your eyes even now are as innocent as they were in these pictures." He is trying to convey in so many ways to get his feelings through to her, not knowing she already knows...but at the moment she is so preoccupied with the guilt of being the not-so-innocent keeper of a lie that she is withdrawing from him. She is unable to face him...feels undeserved of his pure love...scared to hurt him. The walls are closing in on her, and she feels trapped...The parents that she did all this for have seemed to betray her. She is traumatized to the core now. Her eyes reflect her agony. How can then Yash not read what her eyes so clearly give away? For now he has her safe under his umbrella, howsomuchever abuses the pseudo-defenders of societal norms toss at her. He also defends Shobha very subtly, and in his own dignified manner, by praising her in front of taiji, so that the latter knows how the woman she is accusing is actually revered by some. Yash is happy...Yash is in love...Yash wants Aarti to reciprocate his love...yet, before verbally confessing his love he might have to face the test of that love: Have faith in what his heart knows as the gospel truth or give in to the mind's emotions and question her intent...What'll be his choice? One thing is for sure: Yash will never let Aarti go...the quiet gentleman is leaving no chance in showing his possessiveness by constantly throwing his arm around his wife...engulfing her in his protective fold...trying to secure her jittery nerves. When the time comes for him to face the truth about the woman he loves so much, more than the shocked hurt he may feel, he'll have to immediately grasp that it is the time she is suffering more than him...that she will need these arms around her to make her safe from the throes of loneliness and betrayal that already surround her now...that she will break down into pieces unless he breaks her fall!!!
That's it friends. Everyone waits with baited breath for Yash's reaction, followed by Scindias'. Will they rise to the occasion and form an impenetrable wall against the Dubey trio (though I give Dubeyji the benefit of the doubt for yesterday, for acting thus to momentarily shut up taiji...yet there's no denying that he has harbored the forbidden wish at times)?
Have a nice day.😊
Did all of the above sound familiar?
Sometimes tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking and relies strongly on an illusion called permanence.
Taiji entered a scenario of punar vivah, carrying with her all the archaic notions and principles of a society that follows patriarchy. As such she automatically becomes a permanent prisoner of a blind tradition...but, but, but...isn't tradition supposed to be a guide and not a jailer?To show that what might have begun well may need an ending at some point? To only continue what is worth continuing? The blinkers-on, narrow vision of taiji won't allow her a broader view of a social issue. So she sees what she has always seen and known to be the gospel. Since Shobha and Aarti have stepped out of her vision, she deems them pariahs. "Aarti was an orphan...My son rescued her from the roads, gave her a respectable life by marrying her, bestowed on her the rights to become a mother to a boy. For all his goodness, she should have been forever indebted to him. Yet, in return of all these favors, what did she do? The moment his back is turned, she remarried...chi!! What kind of a low woman is she who leaves her husband for another man? And to top it all even takes the family heir with her? Arre...men are in a habit of venturing out; in the end they always come back to the familyfold. Couldn't she have waited for him? I shall ensure that he is given back his rights...that his son and wife return to him. As far as Shobha is concerned, she doesn't deserve my blessings for committing such a blasphemous sin of letting her bahu go to another man."
Even Scindias couldn't completely escape being ensnared by the redundant rules of society: they feel like a messiah in giving a hapless widow and her little boy a second shot at family life. Oh yes...a widow is fine...rescuing her makes them feel good. She is the bechari woman who cannot fend for herself. But a divorcee? Well...that's another matter altogether. "You see, there must have been something wrong in her that her husband left her"...is the common mentality. This is going to be acid test for the Scindias, not only of their goodness but also of their broadmindedness...
Well...so there we are? A mirror to a society that gives all the wrongful rights to a man but doesn't give an inch to even a single rightful right to a woman...and also makes a woman the biggest enemy of another woman. Shobha went against the grain and committed an act of bravado...somewhat like living in Rome and striving against the Pope. Even she had to resort to subterfuge to get a good act through. Now her son is using that subterfuge as a weapon to get back what was always his, but now resides on the other side of the line. To make his property, who is the only answer to his loneliness, cross the line, he'll have to ensure she is pushed to confront him...and when she does, he'll ensure she mistakes her new husband for him. So the truth will be out without his active presence...The new so-called family are sure to oust her and then he'll step forward to be the reluctant, benevolent "rescuer". He will come out as both a victim and a hero as the situation demands...and in the end it's all win-win for him, without anybody really getting hold of his connivance, as circumstantial evidence favored him. Either all of that or Prashant is indulging in the ultimate act of redemption: ensuring Yash gets the message of his heart across to Aarti. The Bad Ravan who lured Sita out or the Good Ram who helped Sugreev win his wife Ruma back from Bali...it's your choice as of today. Who knows what the CVs have up their sleeve?
Love is when you look at her eyes and see her heart...
Yash requests Shobhama to give him Aarti's childhood photographs. The photos on seeing which he had inadvertently commented,"Aartiji, your eyes even now are as innocent as they were in these pictures." He is trying to convey in so many ways to get his feelings through to her, not knowing she already knows...but at the moment she is so preoccupied with the guilt of being the not-so-innocent keeper of a lie that she is withdrawing from him. She is unable to face him...feels undeserved of his pure love...scared to hurt him. The walls are closing in on her, and she feels trapped...The parents that she did all this for have seemed to betray her. She is traumatized to the core now. Her eyes reflect her agony. How can then Yash not read what her eyes so clearly give away? For now he has her safe under his umbrella, howsomuchever abuses the pseudo-defenders of societal norms toss at her. He also defends Shobha very subtly, and in his own dignified manner, by praising her in front of taiji, so that the latter knows how the woman she is accusing is actually revered by some. Yash is happy...Yash is in love...Yash wants Aarti to reciprocate his love...yet, before verbally confessing his love he might have to face the test of that love: Have faith in what his heart knows as the gospel truth or give in to the mind's emotions and question her intent...What'll be his choice? One thing is for sure: Yash will never let Aarti go...the quiet gentleman is leaving no chance in showing his possessiveness by constantly throwing his arm around his wife...engulfing her in his protective fold...trying to secure her jittery nerves. When the time comes for him to face the truth about the woman he loves so much, more than the shocked hurt he may feel, he'll have to immediately grasp that it is the time she is suffering more than him...that she will need these arms around her to make her safe from the throes of loneliness and betrayal that already surround her now...that she will break down into pieces unless he breaks her fall!!!
That's it friends. Everyone waits with baited breath for Yash's reaction, followed by Scindias'. Will they rise to the occasion and form an impenetrable wall against the Dubey trio (though I give Dubeyji the benefit of the doubt for yesterday, for acting thus to momentarily shut up taiji...yet there's no denying that he has harbored the forbidden wish at times)?
Have a nice day.😊
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