Thank you everyone for making this an interesting discussion. I have gone through all your comments and due to time restraint cannot reply to each and every one of you. Will still put my summarized thought on all the discussions
Every incarnation of Lord Vishnu had teaching in it and the teachings the Lord wants to give out through Ram and Krishna stands out because we as humans can relate more to it. And someone put it Ramayana and Mahabharata has lot of mystism into it and we should not take the literal meaning of it. It is said that Krishna's Leela's should not be repeated unless you are able to understand why he did what he did. Same is the case with Ram. There was a reason Ram did what he did and the betterment of the present generation is in understanding why he did what he did correctly.
I personally see Sita as a very strong woman. Sita had a free thought and she argues with Ram on Patni Dharma and makes him agree to the fact that she will accompany him to jungle. Sita is a woman who refuses to go with Hanuman at night, because she thinks her honor and her husband's honor lies in the fact he rescues her fighting the man who abducted her. She was not a pushover. Even after abandonment Sita does the duty of a mother and Queen by raising the sons well. She never bad mouths Ram and her love for him is eternal. And Ram's love for Sita is also eternal that irrespective of the pressures put on him to remarry Ram remains steadfast in his loyalty towards his wife. The separation not only pains her, it pains him too equally.
But why I put this post is because there are many common perceptions, including that in my family that being Sita meaning being mute. Tolerating every rubbish thrown at her. I have seen movies, teleserials where abused and subjudicated leading ladies compared with Sita. And I want that perception to change.
I would round of this post by telling Indian Vedic culture was always about balance. Everything in the universe was there, because it was needed. In everything there was good and bad. Humans were given intelligence to differentiate between good and bad. Make the right choices on what to preserve, what to destroy. That's why knowledge, wealth and power is associated with woman. And a man is told to acquire the Purusharth or rather Dharm, arth, kama, moksha. In other words for the benefit of the world the right man has to be associated with the right woman. Ram was born to kill Ravan and Sita was the means through which he was supposed to complete that purpose on life. In most of our stories we can see this. Sita is Shakthi to Ram and Kali for Ravan.
And Ravan as a man is shown disrespecting the Shakthi he has and that is Mandodari. The woman who is accorded Panch kanya status and abode of great virtue.
So every principle of Vedic culture was created for balance in nature and excess of anything created imbalance. Mostly avatars happened to correct this imbalance and restore the balance once again.
Another beauty of Vedic culture is that Lord Vishnu's greatest devotee belongs to Asura clan( Prahalad) his greatest follower or sevak is a monkey or animal ( Hanuman) and his greatest friend a warrior, a Kshatriya Prince( Arjun) . It shows God doesn't differentiate the Bhakti Bhav, its we humans without intrapreting the learnings correctly bring the difference or boundaries.
And shows like Siya Ke Ram should give the message so as an individual we strive to create the balance for the betterment of society at large.
By the way I am seeing lot of my old friends in this forum, Shanti, Idea virus, verita so happy to see you all here and others who commented I hope to have a healthy discussion and debate with you on the epic we all love
And I have a rule. You can disagree, dissent with my POV or anyone else's POV in my threads. But I request everyone not to bash anyone for their POV. It hurts me, even if someone else's POV is bashed in my thread. 😃
Edited by shruthiravi - 9 years ago
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