i would like to make some clarifications .
I have not bashed this show but offered some suggestions to the CVs . Upon reading them the responses i got were
Mandodari is not at all that important but mentioned very less in the Ramayana
how come i was so sure [ but the same were insisting that the Ramayan shown by the Sagars was very much akin to the original and hence true ...and therefore beyond question]
i sensed a strong antipathy to the very idea of a relationship of love and respect between Ravan and his queen . Obviously viewers were very satisfied with the way he was shown ...all negative , arrogant and snapping at his well wishers .
The viewers were iinterested in seeing only a love story between Sita and Ram . The fact that a love story existed between his formidable rival and his queen was rather irritable to them and my authenticity about sources was questioned but at the same time no one bothered to give the authenticity of their sources . Instead various suggestions were advanced to me . This Ramayan should be read by me and that Ramayan should be read by me ...it was implied that i needed brushing up on my half baked knowledge .
Now i even made a post saying disregard my post . Coz i sensed that my perspective was really not being understood and the discussion was going awry and i was being pounced on . For example ...Shani dev .
I said that Mandodari looking directly at Shani and eliciting information about Ravan's fate was rubbish . These words were highlighted in red and i was told to not bash the show as some liked it .
Now i was slightly confused coz why was it assumed that i was not among those who liked the show
And i had not bashed the show but some wrong facts shown and my opinion stands .So do my words . It is indeed rubbish to show anyone directly gazing at Shani and talking thus and i don't mean this as a disrespect to the God at all . That is his speciality , his story .
His vakra drishti is something divinely ordained and even his biological father Surya was not exempt from it when he gazed at him as a baby . That is his divine power .
Now Ravan knew this . Upon Narad's advice he stepped on all the nava grahas when he went to ascend his throne but he kept Shani locked in a basement of his palace with no windows so he could not look at Lanka with his vakra drishti .
When Hanuman freed him Shani has looked over at Lanka with his vakra drishti and the bad days of Lanka have started . Lanka was burnt and never the same again .
His drishti was feared even by his parents so Mandodari should not be shown gazing at him directly and talking ...i mentioned this anomaly as i felt it was an insult to the great god for he was no ordinary prisoner .
His drishti is is divine gift .
Shani is feared but he is that aspect of the Supreme being as a whole that shows folks the truth . That all near and dear ones flee in times of difficulties and you are left alone . It is when difficulty strikes that one thinks of God ...if all was well all the time one would hardly give him a thought and take the credit for the success to oneself .
The sade sati or the seven year itch lasts for seven and a half years and after making one see the reality and ensuring that he has acknowledged that there is a power greater than man which controls our destinies , Shani leaves , with a blessing that is abundant ...man faces a shower of good luck at the end of sade saati .
Noway would i dream of misunderstanding this aspect of God .
As far as the Mandodari issue is concerned ...i leave it upto u ...if u don't find her that important , fine . If u do , fine too .
Someone has mentioned about no one reading the 300 versions . I agree . At a certain point one gives his or her opinion on the basis of his or her reading and experience . I gave mine based on my reading , no one has to believe it implicitly .At the same time no one has to constantly doubt it either . Repeatedly i have said Enjoy the show my friends .😊
