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This was a very tough line from vashisth to Sita and infact a tough one to any woman. How can you be wife and queen together. Is it possible. Yes it is possible. But then you have to be really duty bound. Even claiming an inch of right you will fail in maintaining the balance. So what does that mean in practice.
In practice as a wife she has to understand her husband's decision and as a Queen she has to obey it without questioning.
Only a wife can understand the husband's dilemma. His moral conflicts. His need to protect her and at the same time perform his duty too.
And his need to do both gives him really tough choices and the mental pain of that tough choice has to be equally taken by her.
If you look Agnipareeksha Ram had to make Sita do it, so that society doesnt question her. He was trying to protect her reputation as well as ensuring as King of Ayodhya his praja know his wife is chaste and has good conduct. Because if king or queen's conduct is bad then it will affect Praja.
But still the tongues wages. He has to be separated from her so that the gossip mongers stop gossiping. Imagine Ram's pain for taking that decision and Sita's dilemma in accepting them. If Sita had not been a wife and queen together she wouldnt have been able to withstand these.
As a wife she was understanding that his duty is towards his praja. They come first. Their happiness come first. And he will take decisions for their happiness suffering himself. And as a queen she has to abide by that decision and suffer along with him.
But again it is applicable when both parties suffer. Not when the man has a lavish life taking all his rights and making only the woman do the duties.
Sita's suffering was to ensure Ram perform his duties, not claim his rights. That is what we should be understanding by the line of Guru vashisth.
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