The other eternal question stems from the Indian epic Ramayana, after all things endured by Sita, why did Rama decide to send her off to forest.
About a decade and half ago, I was doing this course on Krishna avatara with Late Rajima and I can’t think of a better scholar than her in Indian epics. I took the courage to ask her but didn’t know where to start. I was beating around the bush to ask her and she said “ask whatever it is directly”.
Me: was Rama not at fault for exiling Sita
Rajima: your generation of live in relationships and multiple partners and so on will never understand Rama and will keep blaming him
At that moment, I was confused and didn’t understand what she was saying.
Fast forward to today, a memory flashed across to me, I was in grade 6 or so and me and my friend were arguing that the embracing scenes between hero and heroine in a movie are shot without them embracing in front of the camera.
Meaning, one can argue that our back ground was conservative enough that we couldn’t comprehend a unknown male and female embrace even for acting.
Now, if I were to extrapolate to few thousand years backwards, I think I get my answer.
That said, I still don’t know if Rama was right.
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