Watching Ramayan always gets me wondering. The days of doordarshan, Ramayan was one of the serials we used to follow very religiously. The scene I remember of it was Seetha getting gobbled. Maybe I dont remember that scene, and I have just succeeded in making up that scene well with Ramanand Sagars sets in my mind.
Well, the new Ramayan in NDTV had again that scene yesterday. That scene, like always, makes me wonder. If Ram's perfomed his duty as a king, should it have been at the stake of his duty as a husband. How many times would he want to 'test' Seetha? If she walked through the fire to prove her chastity, why wasn't it enough later on? When some person in Ayodhya brings it up, couldn't that be told to him? Was it necessary to send her to the wild? She was asked to prove again when coming back with her children. I could understand the pain when she goes into the earth.<> How many times!!!
If she did a mistake, that was to want the golden deer. If she did a mistake, that was to cross the lakshmanrekha. But such a punishment!!! Oh well, might have been a mistake to go for vanvaas. New angle to the story-- did urmila have to give tests as well? She was away from lakshman for 14 years;
When Seetha married Raghunandan, did she dream of this? He was ekapathnivrathastha, but didn't she follow the same with lot more trouble? She played a single mom to Luv Kush for a long time. After the grand swayamvar, was this life a fair one?
