24/10/2016
What can I write about today's episode. It is an analyst's delight when the scene you analyzed plays out in front of you. I guess I don't have to talk anything specific about Sita's dialogues, but still would briefly touch upon it. But more than that I will touch upon the walk of Siya Ram today. From the time I have seen those parallel tiles I have been waiting for it. I was waiting to see how they will show the new line. How they will show the new maryada Ram has set. CVs did it mind-blowingly. Yes there were dialogues. But Ramayan has its own share of mysteries into it, which you will get only if you observe. The line is what defined it.
Now go back, go back to the first scene where Janak draws a line and Sita emerges. Mithila which has a Sanskriti that respects woman, a Sanskriti where a man is able to draw a perfect line in the field with the farming equipment Mahalakshmi comes. Note that the equipment is made of gold when Janak draws the line. That shows the meeting point of Sanskriti and Prakriti in perfect harmony as gold represent Sanskriti.
Go back to the scene before Swayamvar where Ram is helping an old woman to plough the field. He is unable to draw the line. He tries ,but he fails. Then Lakshman comes and tell him Vishwamitra has asked to meet him. Ram goes but not before telling the lady that he will try to draw the line perfectly. It showed Ram who has come from a culture which doesn't respect woman was unable to draw the line. He was not a man who was like his predecessors who believed in male supremacy. He was a man who believed in co-existence, who respected all the woman in his life. But how to ensure the society which he inhabits can be made that tolerant he was unsure at that point. Hence his inability to draw the line.
Go to today's scene. Sita come in bridal dress. Then she walks with Ram. Note the walk. Sita walks on one set of tiles, while Ram on other. Then at sometime point she stops and allows him to continue on the new tiles. That walk signified, Ram drawing the new maryada, while Sita walked on the old maryada. His illusion of following the old maryada was achieved through her. While his real intention was creating the new maryada. She stops at a point, while he continues. That means they have succeeded in creating the new maryada. Now the time to call the shots. Note the point where Sita stops. 4 paths meet. Knowledge, wealth, power meet to give moksha. Most important the power. Sita has the knowledge of what her duty as a woman is, her wealth is her children, the power is given to her by her husband by asking her to come wearing the wedding dress and she starts the play.
Brutally she questions. Sanskriti falls at her feet. She tells he is just a reflection. Reflection of the society that loves to blame the woman. Because that is how the society is made to view woman. Queens asks sorry. Sita gives back telling today you have come to take me. What about the scores of Sita's who never got a chance to explain themselves. Who didn't even know what their crime is for the punishment they got. Don't they deserve justice. When she denies death to Ayodhyavasis, she is making them live. Live a life more painful than death which they get by her rejection. The pain the males gives to woman through their subtle rejection. When they say they want a son, when they pray for a son when they have a daughter. When terms like Kanyadan, Gothra Change, and name change is used to rip her identity. When she is raped and she get questioned. When a man runs behind her, marries her, but she is called the person who has trapped the boy. When it is told she is not supposed to have any ambition, dreams and her dreams should be around marriage and motherhood. Marriage and motherhood is her ultimate achievement not the trophy she get for her performance in professional sphere. It pales in comparison to the achievement of marriage. Marriage and parenthood is important. The most beautiful phases of a human's life. But is it important only to a woman. Doesn't man want marriage, don't he wants to be a father. Well the questions seems irrelevant. Today society tells girls are running away from marriage, but doesn't ask itself why it is so. What has gone so wrong for the girls of today not to want marriage a beautiful bond. I read some artice in newspaper where it was mentioned girls are becoming less feminine. Question. Why. Why a woman let go of her nurturing ability. Why she is letting go of her loving nature. Why she doesn't want to do the traditional sringaar. Because she is not appreciated for those. She is belittled for doing those. I know there will be more questions and answers in tomorrow's episode. So stopping my rant today for this episode. You can add on.
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