Was ram

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Really a ideal husband. Ram was an ideal son son, brother king to his subjects but was he an ideal husband. I want this show to highlight this issue too.

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Posted: 9 years ago

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They will surely show this which is what I feel.

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Posted: 9 years ago

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I am not sure because in this show we will get to know abt Sita more

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Originally posted by: tikit
Really a ideal husband. Ram was an ideal son son, brother king to his subjects but was he an ideal husband. I want this show to highlight this issue too.

Janaki will probably be able to offer a more rounded answer, but here is my take:

The thing about Ram was that as an avatar of Vishnu, he had quite a few things to do while playing the role of a human.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes how he descends from his spiritual abode to the material realm for whenever there is a decline in religious practices (dharma) and a rise in irreligion, he comes to reestablish those principles of dharma and annihilate those who are creating havoc in society.

So Ram's avatar was to set the example of how a person should live as well as to take out those negative people. He also had to fulfill the curses and boons of all those people.

One boon that comes to mind was when Vishnu promised to take birth from Aditi's womb three times (Aditi, Kausalya, Devaki). One curse that comes to mind was when Narada cursed Vishnu that he will feels the pangs of separation from his wife.

Anyway, so Ram had to juggle all these things as well as set an example of mankind and take out the evil people.

Was Ram an ideal husband? Of course he was. But what happens is people overlook a person's entire life, just to focus on a minute detail - such as the agnipariksha and Sita's exile. But look at the circumstances even then ... Ram didn't marry twice, and instead preferred to live alone and suffer in his separation from Sita. Ram was extremely handsome and as King of Ayodhya, I'm sure finding a bride would be extremely easy, yet he chose not to do it and rather during the Ashwamedha sacrifice he sat next to a golden statue of Sita rather than marry again. That's true dedication to one's wife.

The Ramayan describes Ram's pangs of grief when Sita was kidnapped. He totally and completely broke down. I've read people say that Ram went to Lanka only to reclaim his lost honor because of Sita's kidnapping, but I don't think that theory makes much sense, just pure bull. And same goes for the Agnipariksha. I refuse the believe that the same Ram who started asking the trees and animals where his beloved Sita went, would even for a split second think that Sita was impure and could not be accepted. He even ate the bitten fruits that Shabrai Mata offered him.

I think this blog post sums it up perfectly:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/2012/11/sita-abandonment-no-matter-which-way-one-looks-ram-was-never-a-bad-husband/

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Well the article is nice. Lets see how this show shows how siyas ram was.