Why is Vrinda such a bhashan queen? - Page 5

Actually, the first time V & J had their standoff over her worshipping Vishnu, I got teed off when she asked him, 'In what way would you be any different from them (the devas) if you forcefully banned me from worshipping who I want.'. Somehow, that sort of a line has always rubbed me the wrong way, b'cos it's exactly the argument that moral equivalence advocates use when they try and argue for the no retaliation option. Like Yudhisthir often did in the Mahabharata, or plenty of others that I don't wish to name, since that would derail the thread.

Making her a doctor? Fine. But given what she's known for, having her advocate just the opposite of that before marriage really looked bizarre. Also, Jalandhar was justified in demanding that she not worship the enemy. In this case, Vishnu was very much their enemy, since he had kept them from the amrit, and, as per this serial, from anything else as well (yeah, yeah, in the original, the asuras were simply not interested in anything else.) So Jalandhar viewed Vishnu in a pretty poor light - as someone dedicated to empowering his enemies, and as such, he was perfectly justified in saying that nobody ought to worship Vishnu in this place. Since Vrinda did, he decided that he had no place there, and chose to keep his distance. It was in reaction to that that Vrinda made her remarks about what would be the difference b/w him & them, which to me was total... you get it!

Jalandhar had a right not to want to live under the care of someone he saw worshiping the enabler of his enemies, and Vrinda had no business preaching to him otherwise.