SKR:OF LOOPS AND SYMBOLISMS #4: 1/08: updated on pg. 132 - Page 95

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@ayushi long time no see. Havent seen you in my fiction thread at all for long.

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@Vipraja when you say dharma will win, in essence it means real knowledge will win. Brahma gyaan. For that it has to come out. Steps are being taken. It is happening. Only knowledge can defeat the darkness of our times

27/7/2016

Another beautiful episode with another path crossing of Ram and Ravan. Ram who was willing to give his throne for his younger brother. Look at Ravan. He has got good younger brothers in Vibishan and Kumbhakaran. But what is he doing. He is using them. Kumbakaran today tells a beautiful thing. A younger brother is a friend as well as a sevak to the elder brothers. But it depends on how you treat them. If you treat them like friends equal to you, they automatically become your sevaks. Just like Ayodhya brothers. Ram treats his kid brothers as friends, hence a Bharath doesn't accept throne, a Lakshman accompanies him for vanvass and guard him leaving his sleep, a Shatrughan runs a kingdom worshipping his chappals.

Ravan he treats them as Sevaks. End result. He loses them. Vibishan quits to enemy side. Kumbakaran dies figthing. If you look Vibishan chooses Lok kalyan over Bhatrudharm in physical space, Kumbhakaran chooses Bhatrudharm in physical space, but mentally he chooses Lok kalyan that's why he refuses to accept the blessings for victory from Kaikasi. Ram beautifully understands this. His eyes reflected the compassion for his Bhakth to whom he was going to grant Moksha the very next day. And why Moksha comes fast for Kumbakaran. Because he realizes what is happening is adharma. Yet he comes to do his duty as a brother. So to the man who fulfills his duty Lord grants Moksha. Kumbakarna doesn't see the destruction of Asura kul. But Ravan is forced to. What is the point in winning a war after losing all your near and dear ones. If you are alone in the battlefield. Your wealth and power is gone if your loved ones are gone.

If you see in MB Yudhi makes the mistake of treating his younger brothers as sevaks when he keeps them as deal in the infamous hall of dice. They were his brothers, not properties. They were individuals with their own thought processes, not to be chained for his incorrect decision. If he knew Dharma correctly he would have kept himself slave first giving the control of infamous hall of dice to Bhima or Arjuna. They were capable. They would have shouted, threatned and withdraw from the game. They might have fought to liberate him also. But he doesn't treat them his friends, but his sevaks. This is the issue when power in the form of being an elder comes in wrong hands. This is where the whole confusion starts. Elders don't have right on the bodies and minds of youngsters. They cannot take blind decisions on the youngsters life for satisfying their needs.

Today Kumbakaran tells that to his mother. I loved his convo with Kaikasi. You have made us victims of your Mahatwakamsha. Even after born in Rishi kul instead of teaching us dharma you taught us to conquer. Especially your elder son. Think about the sanskaar you gave him. Very beautiful dialogue relevant to many mothers who use kids as their means to achieve their Mahatwakamsha. My mother talks about a line in Tamil which is translated as " My son the happiest day in my life was when you were placed in my arms for the first time, but the most proud day in my life was when the world praised you and asked who is the lady who has borne such a noble young man. "

There is a line from a Malayalam song which is a beautiful lullaby which is translated as "Whichever country you are, whatever you do, always remember to keep the sweetness of the milk your mother gave you" or in other words never put my name to shame with your actions.

Mother the most important role in a woman's life. A role in which she has to walk teaching the child the values in such a way that it is not her need of power he satisfies by conquering, but with his actions when world is bowing before the child in reverance, she is remembered. Kausalya, Sumitra, Devaki, Yasodha, Tara some of the exemplary mothers in our mythology. Go around you will see many more in real life. Problem today is that when a man becomes successful his father's name is taken more, not mother's. But our mythology we could see both parents were given equal importance.