Hello everyone.I just watched 3 episodes back to back today.so please excuse my meanderings from one path to another. Ram goes in search of Siya and finds her and what follows is his assurance that he would find her wherever she is...an allusion to her forced stay in Lanka. The symbolism in the river and the barren land perhaps represented, the latter her state of mind and the former her hope that he finds her. His search for her a foretelling of the same after her kidnapping by Ravan. I liked this seemingly calm search, a beautiful prelude to the turbulent and poignant one in the future. If this was about the faith of a wife as well a devotee.
Then the Hanuman scene was a gentle reminder to us that we will lose our way to him if we get lost in the mires of self-pride in knowing him. Reminded me of the times when I would inadvertently listen to unwanted conversations between people in the temple premises, it would be any thing from the number of times they have visited the temple to their strict religious practices etc...where was the deity in all of this?
The Sita- Anusuya convo was quite poignant for they both had an inkling that the journey of Sita in the future would be the test of her mental strength as well as her endurance...It was as if by giving her the special attire Sati Anusuya was reassuring her that her forced stay in Lanka would in no way diminish her purity of mind and her self respect...the day she left Mithila it was Raj rishi Janak -her father who acted as a guide ,today it was a mother.
The contrast and the similarities in the Birthday celebration scenes for Ram and Bharat were quote good. Here it is Sita who brings his family to Ram and in the Nadi gram it is Shrutkirti who brings Bharath's family to him.Sita lights earthern lamps thus closing the loop where she with her sisters had done the same on their journey to Ayodhya. The contrast was that with Bharath they were really present while Sita evoked their memories for Ram.
I loved the dialogue when she says that her wish for them is that Ram should always be in her eyes and she should always be in his heart...the symbolic thing is that she does not say that he should be in her vision or even that they should always be together...perhaps an indication to both her kidnapping and her banishment.
Again in the scene where she talks about how a female animal gives birth, protects her kid ,nurtures it without its mate's help, Ram had the same expression that he had when he returns the fallen sand from her birth ground. Reminds me of a story from Vaman avatar .When Bali's sister first sees this beautiful boy she thinks in her mind that she would have liked to feed him and then when she sees his true colors ,she with anger states that she would have liked to poison him. Vishnu smiles in his mind at her thoughts and says so be it. In Krishna avatar she is born as the demon putana who tries to kill him as an infant. I just felt that when Ram was listening to Sita's views , he said so be it...she did do it all excellently without his presence, didn't she?
Savita
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Indian Mythology
