Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Was Lord Rama, a Bad Husband?.


Ram Jethmalani had on Thursday called Ram, the protagonist in the epic 'Ramayana', a bad husband. Jethmalani was attending the release of a book on man-woman relationship when he made the remark. Responding to a query, Jethmalani said that Ram was a bad husband as he sent his wife Sita to exile for no specific reason. "Ram was a bad husband. I don't
like him at all. Just because some fisherman said something, he sent that poor woman (Sita) to vanvaas (exile).

Lakshman was even worse. When Sita was abducted, Ram asked him to go find her as she was abducted under his watch. Lakshman simply excused himself saying she was his sister-in-law and he never looked at her face, so he wouldn't be able to identify her."

In this regard, I would like to say that the whole of Ramayana teaches nothing but immorality, unethical practices, patriarchy at its worst. There is vrtually nothing we can learn from this holy text or epic. It just depicts a very low standard of culture and values so degraded as to send a pregnant lady to a forest, as to cut a nose of shurphanakha so on and so forth. He killed Shambuk without any reason.. His mistake was only  praying and doing meditation. As per Vaidik books, Shudra (Forth varna) should not have right to pray, meditate  and read the holy book. There is no such thing as gallantry or chivalry in ramayana, Ramayana is Indian hypocrisy at its best…

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