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Saanjh sauna rahe Rajyatilak ka Dussharat hai Pran kina
Raat bhare mai kaun kumati bhaye hot bhor ban Dina.
Translation - Evening (saanjh) I heard that Dussharat has decided (pran) for the coronation. What evil thought (kumati) crossed overnight that banishment (ban) was given right in the morning (bhor)
Here in the show they have exaggerated the whole Rajyatilak Tilak Vidhi but in Ramacharitramanas everything took place in night. There is a beautiful contrast, in the evening Ram goes to Sita and tells her about his coronation. He tells her that they have to fast and sleep on floor. Few hours later he again goes to her, this time to tell that he is banished from the Kingdom.
What I liked most about this track is that how fast things can change. I know Ram's vanvaas was for greater good and he came to earth for specific reasons. However we still can't deny that things changed in his life in matter of few hours. A would be King in one moment, an ascetic in another. It is moments like these that make me feel how we can't be ever sure of anything in life. Our fate can change any day, any moment and we human beings watch in awe as that happens. Such moments makes us realise how small we are and how little control we have in few of the most important things in our lives. It also makes us realise that there is a greater power that control things in its own mysterious ways. Here Dussharat was all set to hand over his throne to his son and call it his Sanchit Karmo ka fal (Killing of Sharvan Kumar and the promises he gave to Kayeki) that he had to send the same son for fourteen long years of exile. He probably died thinking whether or not Ram will even survive fourteen years in forest.
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