Thanks Savitha. You have beautifully explained Sita-Lakshman dynamics. Yes you are right. Sita is protecting Lakshman from the guilt so that he can emotionally support his brother. And I had also put the same thing but in a different way, that she is enabling him to fight Meghnad. With your analysis I can make an extended analysis of the same. A mother has to ensure the child has the protection even in her absence, that child is able to pull off the battle of his life for the protection of dharma.
Meghnad has to brought down by Lakshman only. Others can help. But that battle is his. His alone. He has to fight Meghnad's Maya. He has to have absolute control on his emotions.
@aditi don't hesitate to put your questions. We can discuss. Only thing we don't want is comparison between various Ramayana and tell this is right or wrong in SKR.
Now coming to Meghnad. Guys I am drooling over him. What a character sketch. What clever manipulation. This man knows what he wants and how to achieve that. He uses the revenge angle on his mamashri and tells he only has to take Bali to that Rishyamooka mountain. But what Meghnad forgets is that Bali knows what will happen if he enters that mountain so to lure him there intellect of Mayavi is not enough. He will do blunder for sure. Meghnad has good strategy, but when it comes to application he may lose out because he doesn't have the right people to implement the same. Strategy as I said is theory, execution is as important or more important than theory. Because many things can go wrong when you try to execute and only the one who can think on their feet can manage right execution of a plan. Even Sita does it brilliantly. Even in her captured state she gives boon to Jatayu that he will be alive till he pass on the information of her abduction to Ram and Lakshman. She drops her jewellery in Rishyamooka mountain. Mareecha does it cry in the sound of Ram to lure away Lakshman.
But Mayavi yes as the name suggests he will create Maya to bring rift between brothers, but the place of the curse becomes Sugreeva's asylum and from where the plan of the destruction of Lanka is hatched. That's what I said illusion of solar eclipse, temporary victory for adharma.
Now let us see interesting parallel. On one hand we have Ram and Lakshman trying to stop Virat asur on whom no arrow makes an impact. Jatayu comes and tell the way to kill him. The brother's plan the strategy. Here a friend comes at the rignt time to give right information and Ram-Lakhan are able to strategize so that the evil is defeated.
Kishkinda beautiful symbolism was shown when 2 brothers went in 2 paths because of the asurs. In the absence of a friend Hanuman the brothers doesn't know the real intention of these asurs. They think they are simply attacked. They doesn't understand the strategy is divide and rule. They just react to Mayavi and Dundubi challenge. We need to understand why someone is challenging you just like that. Same thing happens to Arjun on day 13 of kurushetra war. On day 12 Arjuna defeats Drona's plan of taking Yudhi in capture . They know that with Arjun around capture of Yudhi is not possible. So they make king of trigartha challenge Arjun on evening of day 12. Trigartha king knew he will die and Arjun also knew that king is no match for him. But then why the challenge. Reason was simple. Creation of Chakravyuha which only Arjun and Krishna knew how to break. With them away they can capture Yudhi. What Drona didn't know was an young man with half knowledge of Chakravyuha will wreak havoc and become the martyr in such a way that day 13 belong to him. Abhi overturns all of drona's plans. And the question can Abhi's death be prevented. If it is not Abhi, then it is Arjun. Because Karna was standing with the weapon Shakti. No defense against it in direct battle. Arjun cant enter chakravyuha when Karna had Shakti. No matter Arjun can break Chakravyuha, but he will have to fight Karna and if Karna uses Shakti war done and dusted with. Jayadrath has the boon he can hold off the entire army except Arjun for one day. If Arjun gone and if Jayadrath uses his boon where will dharma win.
We have to know the ripple effect, to understand why Krishna took away Arjun. Jayadrath can be bought down only by Arjun. And he had another interesting boon. If his head fell on the ground, the one who put the head on the ground his head will break.
It is with Pasupathaastra Arjun directs Jayadrath's head to his father's lap. And it is Krishna who tells Arjuna to do tapasya of Mahadev and get Pasupathastra. Reason was Jayadrath, to set direction for Jayadrath's head.
Kaurava army was targeting Yudhi to end the war quickly. And Krishna he was targeting the defense of Dury. And in any war the strategist will only target the defense and protect the right people for the victory. For victory of dharma Arjun was needed, hence for Krishna his protection was paramount.
In Kaliyug also we are dealing with people with multiple boons. If you attack someone directly even you will be destroyed. That's why direction becomes important and unfortunately you cant see the 8 direction, so it is better to trust your intuition which for me is Krishna's direction.
And if you see what happened to Bali yesterday it is his lack of knowledge on what is happening in the particular direction he threw dundubi. It was his mistake, a mistake borne out of his anger, his need to show off his prowess that resulted in the curse. He never intended to hurt that rishi.
And in that lies another message. If you are facing problems in life, first try to understand whether you have made any mistakes. Some we might know, but some we may not know but if we try to introspect we will get them too. Make effort to correct them.
Then check if your parents or siblings have done some mistake . See the effect of your parents mistake sometimes you will have to bear. Just like the vanvass of Ram. It was not his fault. But the mistake of Dasrath who gave Kaikeyi open ended boons and gave a lot of importance to her over and above crown queen Kausalya.
Many times we see only the other party faulty, without looking where our family went wrong. If you are able to trace that path, make effort to correct them also.
Because even when hurt happens unintentionally you have to bear the consequences.
And I loved that Sita's ideal world is breaking. Her dialogues of asur ka uddhar well yesterday it was virat and today I guess more asurs are coming
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