Why didnt Ram move forward when Lakshman asked him to - Was it right - Page 3

@Ramya not only you, but I also felt a Malyavan in Lakshman 😃. But the fact you need to see is the way Ram reacted to it. Calmly calling him Lakshman. It was a soft admonish to his brother.

@shruti ... beautiful explanation and felt the same way too...
and an interesting interpretation of breaking of shiv danush


when a reading on pinaka, shiv's danush found an interesting an anlogy of tripurasura ...

briefly the story goes like that that three brothers prayed to lord brahma for immortality .. since brahma says it couldn't be done they ask for three cities build of gold,silver and iron and their end should come only when the city could be shot by a single arrow...the story goes on as they are tempted to leave the bakthi maarg they were used to and started indulging excessively..
Now the gods then went to Shiva and began to pray to him. When Shiva appeared, they told him that "the demons had now become evil and should be destroyed. They had even stopped worshipping Shiva's linga."shiv accepted and destroyed them...

later we see the same case with ravana praying with his brothers to brahma and get the boon..
but now he doesn't leave bakthi ... he takes greatest pride is his bakthi and think his devotion to shiv makes him invincible as he has the cover of bakthi to protect him and can do whatever he please ...so for me raams breaking the bow could also be seen as just being bakth wouldn't make anyone invincible .. the protection would also be broken if misused ...


in essence when we forget the purpose of why certain blessing is given to us and start misusing forgetting the enormous responsibility that come with it ,it becomes the source of destruction too..

@Shruthi: Yes, CV's nicely show the difference b/w Ram and Ravan but in the long run they should not forget about Laxman. Yes, he was impulsive and blind loving of his brother. He did athma samarpan to Ram but he too know the dharm, guru bhakti etc.
I am not criticizing the CV's but what to send a caution that there is no need to suppress one to highlight the goodness of another.😊
To be frank, I can't see the portrayal of my second favourite like this😆

Don't worry Ramya. Lakshman will jump in front of Parashuram now. First defeat me before you go to my Bhaiyya😆😆

Shruthi, very nice post👏👏,

Hi Shruthi, a perfect post to say the gist of this Swayamvar. Ram had to be refrained from action as he was not ordered to do that task. he has been loaned to Maharshi Vishwamithra by his father and till he (rishi) returns him to his father Dashrath, Ram had to act only on his Guru or shall I say at the moment, his foster father's instructions. This he had been telling alkshman as and when he was insisting on returning to Ayodhya that since they have come with Guru, unless he orders us to go back, we shall not act or ask his permission in that line. So how will he act on his own when the question is not just a bow but the future of a girl, relationship between 2 countries and the future of 3 more girls in that family. He was not aware of the fact that an invite for him had been sent to Ayodhya and without an invite, how can he take part in the Swayamvar. If there was an invitation and his participation was needed, then his father would have sent in a word in that regard which was missing at the moment. If King Janak had thought him to take part in the contest, atleast he would have indicated this wish to Gutru Vishwamithra and that would have been conveyed to Raghav. But his Guru had only indicated that they are visiting Mithila only to view and bow down to Shiv Dhanusha nd not to string that bow and accept Mithili's hand. So he felt he was not considered as a prospective groom for Janaki and when the bride's father has not considered him as match to his daughter, how can he disregard his (a father's) selection and intrude??? Even after his beloved brother's hurt outburst, he kept quiet and tried quitening Lakshman, but never crossed his boarder line and asked permission. he was confident that if he was to string the bow, then his Guru will order him and bless him to succeed. Without the blessings of his elders, he can't visualize himself taking part in task.

@Ramya & shruthiravi, Though you found malyavan in Lakshman, that should not affect us as there was clear cut differentiation between the two. Yes both did praise their master & brother but when Malyavan did that, he clearly indicate the rest as spineless or jokers while Lakshman mentioned though he doesn't doesn't know the qualities and strength of the rest of kings present there (since king Janak called them as useless in a polished way as there were none to lift the Sacred bow) he knows the strength of his brother and he being a Raghuvanshi, can't take it if someone under estimate the power of a Raghuvanshi. The anger and hurt which he had at that moment was evident that if not for the presence of Ram & Guru Vishwamithra, he would have marched up to bow and lifted that and proved the Raghuvanshi blood and strength. By God's grace he had 2 elders with him and that he gave the chance to his brother to lift the Dhanush and it had all his love, affection and hope for his brother andf price for his Origin.

@Jaya: I like this positive angle of Laxman's act.

@Jaya forgive us mortals 😆😆😆 for taking the romance angle 😆😆. You know right a quite lot of us here are naughty at times doesn't matter we are dealing with a divine love story😆😆😆. But yes I agree to you. His action was for her respect, her father's respect and prove right the word of wise men like Parashuram and Yajyavalkya who asked Janak to arrange such a swayamvar.