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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

#093, Mother- I shall live like a sage eating roots and fruits and leaving meat

2-20-29, Sanskrit Verse
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 20
Caturdasha hi varshaan`i
vatsyaami vijanee vanee
madhu muula phalaihi jiivan
hitvaa munivad aamisham.


CONTEXT:
Rama went Kausalya's gynesium to seek her permission for the exile to the forest.
He was telling her, how he would live in the forest.

ENGLISH GIST
I shall live fourteen years in deserted forest like a sage, eating sweet roots and fruits and leaving meat.

BLOGGER'S VIEWS
*This promise was unnecessary. Dasaratha or Kaikeeyi did not ask him to live on roots and fruits.
*The very next day of entering the forest, Rama broke his promise.

CRITICAL REMARKS: Rama forgot his pledge to his mother. (Rama treats his mother as greater than the heaven). Where has gone his pledge?

2 comments:

ImmortalMan said...

Ok, he said that alrite, doesn't become a "pledge".

M G Hariharan said...

I am surprised at the comment Clear character of Rama is he does noy say untruth. Many people who think they are Rams Bhakthas think they can get away with such comments. 3 times in Ramayan Rama says he does not eat meat but immediately ,hardly 15 sloka away he kils and eats. Why did Valmiki writre so. Cannot be absentminded