Ram – The Perfect Man???
_Utkarsh Tiwari
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| Ram- the warrior Sketch credit Ig: @artisic_riya Ig:@essaylikhnewala |
Timeless and eternal
Ramayana, with era based interpretations, is said to end with Prince Ram returning to Ayodhya, after killing the demon king Ravan but the real ending
goes even further.
The Less Perfect world
Ram made Sita his queen and
started ruling the nation. Then adversity struck, as the rumors were spread all over the kingdom of their
highness Sita being impure, and thus the people demanded one more test. However,
before coming to Ayodha, Sita had already proven her chastity by giving up the fire test (it is also interpreted as the
process of getting Sita back from the Agni Devta). Sita was devoted to her
husband and this time she owes no explanation to the public and decided to live
her remaining life in the forest without her husband.
you are reading Ram – The Perfect Man???
But, Ram was the king of
Ayodhya and a king owes everything to his people. If
he kept the demand for his subjects to forsake Sita, he would be unfair to his wife. And, if he
forsake his subjects and follow Sita into her second exile, he would be leaving
his state headless. Ram, the perfect man
in this less than perfect world, has dedicated his life to his duty, but which
duty comes first? His duty as a husband or his duty as a king?
“What comes first?”
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| Sketched by Vishal Verma @emerging writers |
It’s a question that Ramayana
puts forward. But, there is no right answer to this. Moreover, the answer is
subjective and this is a question even god struggles with.
After all, Ram was the king of Ayodhya thus he prioritized his role as king over his role as Sita’s husband.
Does this make him an “Imperfect Man” or at least an "imperfect husband"?
The answer is again subjective.
Once again Sita is taken away from Ram but this time not
because of evil Ravan but because of the social evil. Since then, Sita and Ram had never met each other. Although,
Ram lived in the palace, but his living conditions were similar to what Sita
was enduring in the forest. Even if, circumstances may have separated them. But
till the very end, he remained Sita’s husband in Spirit, if not in mind. The perfect man, the man who is said to be the avatar of
Lord Visnu dies longing for the love of his life.
You think this was a successful
life?
But we still worship Ram, why?
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| Lord of Virtue: Ram PIc Credits IG: @mrkapture @essaylikhnewala |
We worship him not because
he was the super success of the day. The worthiness of Ram is not in his life
situations, but in the way, he conducted himself elegantly throughout his life.
Any one of these events if happens in our lives, most of us would be broken, bitter for the rest of our life, no matter what had happened, he never became bitter, he never became angry, he never became hateful. At no given point in time he lost control over himself, he took all the action that he was supposed to take, though life had thrown tragedies one after another. He remained above them and WE WORSHIP THAT.
Any one of these events if happens in our lives, most of us would be broken, bitter for the rest of our life, no matter what had happened, he never became bitter, he never became angry, he never became hateful. At no given point in time he lost control over himself, he took all the action that he was supposed to take, though life had thrown tragedies one after another. He remained above them and WE WORSHIP THAT.
you are reading Ram – The Perfect Man???
Ram as a man, the epitome of all things right and correct,
has shown mankind a way to conduct itself in adversity. It doesn’t matter
which path Ram chose, what matters is how he conducted himself after his
decision.
This is all it is, no matter
what world will throw at you, it is not 100 % your choice, but what you make
out of it is 100% yours.
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6 comments:
Jai shri ram
Very nice article, whole Ramayana in short form. ��
Jai shree Ram
Speechless article. No word is left to say. Well written and good moral at last🙏🙏
Well written.keep rising 🤗Bhai
JAI SHRI RAM🙏🙏
Jay shree ram
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