Originally posted by: ..RamKiJanaki..
So today's episode of SKR has Mareech as this tragic figure who's already a devotee of Ram but manipulated by little bro Subahu.😆I was highly entertained by the way the writers wrote this episode, fictional though it is. So first Mareech does the last rites of mother Tataka, and then he falls at Ram's feet to beg for forgiveness as Subahu looks on angrily.Later in their own dwelling, Subahu beats up his brother and scolds him for falling at the feet of their mom's killer. So Mareech then decides to attack Vishvamitra's ashram yet again while Ram and Lakshman are at working fixing it up.
For those of you who are interested in the actual story, this is how it happened in the epic. After leaving with Vishvamitra from Ayodhya, Ram and Lakshman first encounter Tataka's den, not in Vishvamitra's ashram, but in a forest near the banks of river Ganga. Vishvamitra explains Tataka's history to Ram and urges him to kill Tataka not only to put an end to her reign of terror, but also to free Tataka from her curse by Rishi Agastya. After Ram kills Tataka, her curse is broken and she once again becomes the beautiful yaksha princess she had been. She blesses Ram and thanks him for breaking her curse, and then she returns to her heavenly abode.
As for Mareech and Subahu, they were quite distant from their mother. They attacked sages' yagnas and destroyed them at the behest of Khar and Dushan, who terrorized the Dandakaranya and other jungles nearby. Khar and Dushan ruled over the asuras (at the behest of Ravan) and made sure no yagnas were completed by sages to attain divya astras. After killing Tataka, Ram and Lakshman travelled for a long time before reaching Vishvamitra's ashram. There, Vishvamitra once again began his yagna which had been interrupted many times before, while Ram and Lakshman guarded it vigilantly. As expected, Mareech and Subahu attacked them. Ram, wanting to give them a warning before killing them unnecessarily, used an astra to throw Mareech 1000s of miles away. Subahu, incensed by this, attacked with more fervor, compelling Ram to finally kill him.
This act of Ram in throwing Mareech miles away by a single arrow is what changed Mareech's mindset towards him. Mareech was just as bad as Subahu before, but after seeing Ram's prowess, he realized that Ram was no ordinary human being but an incarnation of God himself. Thus, Mareech began meditating on God and yearned to seek spiritual enlightenment, before Ravan disturbed his meditation and ordered him to take the form of a golden deer.
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