RE: Q - Doubt in RAmAyanam

[Guest guest]

QUESTION:

 

Dear HH Sri Jeeyar Swamiji,

I have one doubt wrt the abduction of Sita by Ravana as per Valmiki Ramayana.

According to Valimiki Ramayana,Ravana abducts Sita by catching her hand. Sita is

pure,chaste and fire and anyone who touches fire will get burnt(unless the other

is also fire/water). Does not Valmiki's interpretion violate the chastity of

Sita? On the other hand Kamban (Kamba Ramayanam)pictures Ravana carrying the

entire hut because ravana can't touch her. I love this version. Kamban defends

SriRama's each & every action and proves that He is PuruSOththamA. But since

Valmiki's is considered authentic,I would like to know why Valmiki wrote like

that.

AzhwAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam

gita

 

 

ANSWER:

 

JAI SRIMANNARAYANA!

WHO NEEDS SOMEBODIES SUPPORT TO DEFEND LORD SRI RAMA. WHATEVER VA:LMI:KI WROTE

AS SRI:RA:MA:YANA, WAS HAPPENED EXACTLY. IT WAS NOT JUST A STORY. IF IT WOULD

HAVE BEEN A STORY THEN YOU NEED TO ACCEPT OR REJECT OR LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE. IT

WAS HAPPENED AND THAT IS ALL. WHO CARES WHETHER ONE ACCEPTS IT OR NOT? TWIN

TOWERS OF NEW YORK WERE BLASTED DOWN BY TERRORISTS ON 9/11, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE

THE INCIDENT AND WANT TO CHANGE THE SAME THINKING THAT AMERICA WAS A GREAT

COUNTRY, IT IS UPTO YOU. BUT THE WORLD DOES NOT PERMIT IT TO BE ANNOUNCED.

HISTORY IS SOMETHING, ONE SHOULD ACCEPT, WITHOUT ANY HESITATION. WHY THAT

HAPPENED AND WHAT WAS THE LOGIC BEHIND, IS ONLY THE THING YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND

AND JUSTIFY IT ACCORDINGLY. KAMBAR AND TULASIDAS, DID NOT WANT TO ACCEPT THE

HISTORY AS IT WAS HAPPENED AND THEY INTRUDED INTO THAT BY CHANGING SOME PORTIONS

OF IT. THUS THEY DID A LOT OF INJUSTICE TO THE LORD RAMA AND TO THE HISTORY OF

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

 

RAVANA, CAUGHT HOLD OF SITHA AND PUT HER IN HIS CHARIOT. HE TOUCHED HER. SHE

ALSO ADMITTED THAT BEFORE HANUMAN WHEN HE FIRST MET WITH HER IN LANKA. BUT SHE

SAID THAT I WAS HELPLESS DURING THAT TIME. THAT MEANS SHE ACCEPTED THAT ACT OF

RAVANA. AS YOU SAID, SHE WAS HAVING THE ABILITY OF CURSING HIM TO ASHES. BUT SHE

WANTED TO GO TO LANKA ALONG WITH HIM, SO THAT SHE CAN TEACH SOMETHING TO HER

CHILD RAVANA, TO CORRECT HIS OWN MISTAKES. HE CANNOT APPROACH THAT MOTHER, WHILE

SHE WAS WITH SRIRAMA. EVEN HE WANTED A LONELY TIME WITH HER TO LISTEN FROM HER.

SHE OPTED FOR THAT. THOUGH IT WAS PAINFUL A LOT, BUT MOTHER BEARS WITH SUCH

PAINS MANY A TIME, FOR RECTIFYING THE CHILDREN WHO TOOK WRONG DIRECTION IN THEIR

LIFE. RAVANA WAS ONE SUCH PERSON.

 

SO YOU NEED NOT JUSTIFY HIS TOUCHING SITHA. IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME, WHAT

HAPPENED THEN.

=CHINNAJEEYAR=