Question regarding Kaikeyi

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Dear Devotees,

 

Any event happens due to the effect of interlocking events of the past and

designs for the future.

 

Dasaratha was under a curse to die of Putrashokam because, while hunting in the

forest, he inadvertently caused the death of the young son of an aged, blind

couple.

 

He wanted to marry Kaikeyi, a foreign princess of exotic beauty, due to kama and

promised the father that her son would succeed him as the king.

 

He sent Bharata and Shatrughna to Kaikeyi's father's home. Without informing

Kaikeyi, he made arrangements for the coronation of Rama - ignoring the promise

that he had given at the time of his marriage to Kaikeyi. He wanted to avoid a

confrontation with her.

 

He almost succeeded since, due to her love and affection for Rama, Kaikeyi at

first did not see anything wrong in this. But when her well-wisher Kooni

convinced her, she reminded Dasaratha of the two boons he had granted to her

when she saved his life on the battle-field and demanded that he crown Bharata

and send Rama to the forest. Kooni was only carrying out her duty as a guardian

appointed by her king to protect Kaikeyi's interests. Unknown to her, she became

also an agent to aid the Avatar's purpose.

 

Dasaratha could not proceed with the intended coronation of Rama and, due to his

ill-health, age and strong emotions, swooned and fell down. When summoned by

Kaikeyi, Rama came and decided that the dharmic way of dealing with the

situation was to accede to Kaikeyi's demands which Dasaratha was bound to

concede.

 

The primary cause of Rama proceeding to the forest appears to be Dasaratha - not

Kaikeyi or Kooni.

 

In the forest also, destiny seems to have guided the handling of the situation

involving Soorpanakha. She was teased by Rama to approach Lakshmana who got

angry and disfigured her face by cutting her nose. In the normal course,

Lakshmana who greatly repected ladies, would have adopted other means to get rid

of her as a nuisance. It was because of this that Soorpanakha sought revenge,

enticed Ravana with an account of the beauty of Sita and persuaded him to abduct

her.

 

When Mareecha came on the scene as the golden deer, Lakshmana could sense that

the deer was the demon in disguise; but Rama chose to follow the galloping

animal far into the forest and finally kill it with disastrous consequences.

Sita, a normally respectful person who was aware of the ability of Rama and the

fine qualities of Lakshmana, abused him and goaded him to leave his guard-post

and proceed to save Rama who, she knew, was capable of destroying hordes of

demons.

 

If rescuing and recovering Sita was the objective, Rama could have preferred to

seek the assistance of the invincible Vali; yet he went the more difficult way,

chose Sugreeva, killed Vali, crossed the Ocean and battled with Ravana.

 

Every event in Ramayana was tuned in towards one single goal: the battle with

and Killing Ravana and his horde of Rakshasas: that was the primary purpose of

the Avatar.

 

But, perhaps, there was another intention also: namely, to educate us on the

frailties of the human character and the weakness of the human intellect when it

acted on its own limited capabilities, however high. That is why after Sita's

ordeal by fire in Lanka after Ravana's death, Rama told Brahma: 'I do not know

who I am, except that I am the son of Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya.' May be, this

the important message: you are not the limited person that you imagine; you are

informed, guided by the illuminating spirit and you should make an effort to

realise it.

 

All the circumstantial events narrated in Ramayana, which do not make sense in a

dharmic way, were perhaps intended to tell us forcefully how we suffer and act

irrationally due to lack of contact with this superior intelligence which is

always within our reach.

 

As I had pointed out in a previous post, even the great Bhakta Narayana

Bhattathiri in his Narayaneeyam (Canto35 Verse 10), written about 400 years ago,

noted the inexplicable situations in Ramayana (like the fire-ordeal of Sita) and

observed:

 

"This human embodiment of Thine is for instructing mankind how too much

attachment (Kama) will lead to pangs of separation and how addiction to Dharma

(the letter of the Law) will push one to such Adharma as abandonment of innocent

ones. Otherwise, it is unimaginable how Thou, who art ever established in the

Atman-consciousness, canst ever have any weakness of the mind."

 

Dasan

Krishnaswamy M.K.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH

Dear Bhagavathbandhu,

Kaikeyi is not exactly an evil person. But at that instance the divine lord

(Shree Maha Vishnu) must have created the evil thoughts to her to attend his

exact duties of Sree Raama incarnation. Our great poets must be with the

intension of showing the intesity of her evil thoughts.

Jai Srimannaraya.

Raamu Nukala RAMANUJADASA:

 

 

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