Remember Ramayana, the death of Ravana and return of Rama to Ayodhya and within in no time Rama decides to send his beloved wife Sita back to the forest. Of all things that happened in Ramayana, this is the one aspect I couldn't come to terms with and hence I asked our beloved late Rajima and her asnwer was as always cut throat and to the point "You guys with all your live-in relationships and all will never understand why, and will keep blaming Rama for doing the wrong thing"
A decade or so ago, I was talking to a senior colleague of mine about 401K and causally and off handedly mentioned to him how people in my parents generation often took out loans on their Provident Fund (Indian equivalent of 401k), first he looked straight in my eyes and said "they did it to take care of you and your education" and he went on to say his own stint of withdrawing from 401K funds in his younger days.
Let’s try another simple one, back in the days before age of cell phones or even phones and tracking and all such, even if the arrival of my dad from work got delayed by few hours (2-3) we had to wait calmly and patiently. Can I imagine such a thing in present day? It was normal for those days.
There are many such incidents like these that I keep encountering these days leading me to think, if I can’t even fathom what it was like 3 or 4 decades ago, what gives me the ability to understand, comprehend to what happened or even written a few thousand years ago.
Yes, Rajima had that talent, delivering great lessons in a sentence or two.
Ps: this is another take on my previous post of “Rama and Sita”
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