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?
