My Questions on Lord Rama

Before typing out my questions, let me make it clear, kindly don't tag me as an anti-hindu, anti-Ram or any such things as that. This is a post just to clear out my views and if anybody have a clear explanations please do mail me. I'm not onto any intentions of hurting anybodies belief or sentiments. And I'm not ready to get or start any arguments, incite anger, or irritate any individuals.

The questions that I'm going to ask probably not the one that risen suddenly or just by myself, but would have been asked and talked and discussed by many other peoples. I have read a few books related to Ramayanan, e.i ; Amar Chitra Katha, Ramayan, Sita and The Story of Rama by Devadutt Pattanaik. And yes I have not read the sanskrit one. I would be happy if you can point out any books or links for further explanations.

I have been watching the Ramayanam - Tamil dub versions on Jaya Tv and Seethaiyin Raman on Star Vijay. Sitting in office after finishing all my month end and beginning works, and having some quality time on my hands, I thought why not blog out this topic.

Seems like Sita has gone through only a misery life after being the kulavathu of the Raghu clan. More so her sister Urmila, who married to Lakshmana, (but that will be a different story).

The comeback of Sita, Ram and Lakshmana, to their kingdom Ayodhya, after completing her agnipariksha to which Ram thought was a necessary to prove Sita's purity and pativrta to the world and not for his sake. Rama and Sita becomes the Kings and Queen. There pop up this one famous poet or washerman ( some books says washerman and a tele-serial shows a poet ) who said to have sent of his wife away saying "I'm not Rama to take back a wife who has lived in another house". Ram was informed of this and he decides, in the interest of his kingdom and Rajya Dharma as a ruler, he have to banish Sita away from Ayodhya to forest, who is carrying his child.

When I asked the questions I wanted to blog over here to my officer, he says before sleep look at the statues or a picture of Rama and ask him these questions. He will come in your dream and answer your questions if he is willing or he will murder you brain with his bow and arrow. Lol. I know Rama will never be this cruel. I know he is the karunaiyin maruvadivam and I have a huge respect and bhaya bhakti upon this Purana Purushar Shri Rama. But these questions are just a doubt or maybe can say I'm quite curious to know more details about Ram and Sita.

1. Apart being a ruler of Kingdom, as a husband of Sita, who was blameless, and peerless, the pativrta, who went 14 years of vanavaasam along with Rama, was sent again to forest by Rama without telling her what her crime was, She accept the punishment but he doesn't bother that it is necessary to tell her himself what has wrought this situation.

2. Lakshmana was ordered to drop her in the forest. Just drop and return, that's it. She was not invested in the care of any rishis or ashram. She is not offered a decent dwelling to take care of herself and her unborn child. She was left high and dry. According to the books, Rishi Valmiki finds her who was faints and fell on ground, and takes her to the hermitage where laterly Luv and Kush was born.

3. Apart from this, when Rama plans to send her away to forest, none of the Rajyamatha's ( mothers of Ram, Bharat, Lakshman and Shahtrughan) attempt to stop this. And none of Ram's brothers and their wives, (Sita's sisters) object this baseless punishment. Everyone stays silent. Yes, I read somewhere, that Urmila defend her sister, but Rama finds his Rajyadharma is more important than being a true lovely husband.

4. Rama - later doesn't even bother to find out whether Sita is alive, safe and his children are safe or not. Or even if they are born or not. But just desert, because a washerman/poet questioned her chastity.

5. Even the parents of Sita - King Janaka and Queen Sunaina never bother to find out what happen to their loving daughter. Either they never want to find out or they must have thought she is living happily in her kingdom with Rama.

6. Finally there was a fight between Rama and Luv & Kush. Both Luv and Kush not knowing Rama is their father and so Rama too. Till Sita comes in between these two parties and stop the exchange of arrows. Rama was introduce to his sons but still he hesitate ( or refuse will be the right word ) to take Sita back, but then OKAY with taking his sons to his kingdom. And when some prajas questioned about the sons birth, Sita was asked to do another pariksha. And this time she chose to go back to her mother Bhoomi Devi, because she can't bear seeing she is been questioning by others.

7. Somehow I feel, even being husband is another part, but as a ruler, if he had to suddenly remove Sita from the status of Queen, did he not fail in his duty to provide a safe haven for his subject?

If there are any reasons apart from ;

1. Rama sacrificed
2. Sita sacrificed
3. Sita chose to suffer
4. Rama the all knowner

please do let me know. :)

If you can give me a suitable answer, I would be happy.

PS : I am not an ANTI HINDU or an Atheist. I believe in Gods and yes I pray to Lord Rama and Sita Devi everyday. Vishnu is my favourite god and I believe on all the mythological stories of him and his nine avatars that he have took. And I still do believe that someday soon he will appear before us in Kalki Avatar. So kindly don't put me into all those "ANTI" tags.

Thank you,

Rubini.

"WISH FOR SOMETHING STRONG ENOUGH AND THE UNIVERSE CONSPIRES TO MAKE IT HAPPEN" - ALCHEMIST

Days back, had a Twitter private conversation with a friend regarding a movie and the caste. It was a conversation of how culture (of coarse not all) have been formed by torturing people into submission or attempting to vanquish entire peoples.

What culture are proud of? What are we going to give for the next generation children's in our society? A culture and a history of which several parts are not being tolerate of? A crazy cultures, that still prevalent in this days and ages with honor killings? And this unpleasant behaviour of untouchability, treating another human who made of with the same flesh and blood as like ourselves in a terrible manner.

I just wonder, what do the people who sit on the seats of power actually does? What is their pressure and why aren't they allowed to bring a change? It's not possible, that they don't felt an iota for the country that they belong to. Love for our motherland is somethin that will automatically pulsate through our nerves. But what is so difficult for the ministers to bring a change in our society? When they are able to invest millions of dollars for some unwanted projects which is not even a 1 percentage useful for the citizens of nation, why can't they stop this rape, honor killing and other humanly behavior? To a common civilian and a citizen these will remain a mere questions.

Perhaps like some says, politicians and ministers are not the masters of their dept. It's someone else who makes the decisions for them which they are forced to obey it. If someone tells me, all this mere talk and nothing changes going to happen. I know that someday that humans will find humanity within them. And I wish it will happen in this life itself. 

Happy Birthday Laddooooosh

Happy birthday you absolutely amazing piece of adorable rasberry cutie chweety laddhoooooosh.. Okay IDK what the hell I'm actually typing now but no offense intended because we all know we love each other and there's only peace, love, happy and finally being stupid and ended up complaining and wailing and crying each other to "G" anna because he means a lot to us! (This G alphabet got so much of power inside us anna) Well, how old are you now? 26, right? Woaaaah... I still remember when I wished you for your 24th birthday and honestly I can't believe I'm still friends with you. You know, how easily I earn and loss peoples just like that. But believe me, you were and are one amazing and the most nicest girl I've known ever since your 24th birthday. And clearly only our asses have grown up but not our brains, but yeah I'm quite proud of that too!!! We still talk like the way we used to when we started talking. Remember our own calm down yoga courses and a twitter strike with pappukka when anna's both YY film release and VRV audio got delayed. Please don't ask how I remember that, I was twitter searching our convos and died with embarrassment. I can never forget how much we embarrassed each other in front of our followers on twitter and also how we earned a few and lost a lot of followers on twitter. 

Anyways you berry cherry cutie ruck crab (oops) okay I think its time I should start respecting you since it's your birthday today. You're one of the cutest, sweetest, darlingest, dearest, and crabbiest (sorry can't help it though) people I've known. I can be myself with you and I know you wouldn't judge. 24...25...26.... Three years of friendship and for heaven sake, I still don't believe this... Wowwwww.. Divyaaaaaa... I'm so proud of you for keeping this relationship strong and yes Thank you Gautham Na for that... You're one of the few people with whom I'm absolutely random with (it's mutual with G anna too.. I know) Cherryboo pengicake thanks for always being there for me when I needed you and thanks for being yourself. Well wait.. it haven't finished yet!!! As you always says, it just got geared up and we still do have many trillions of kilometers to go and we all really sure about it that this craziness will never come to an end. Well yeah, there's no end but we will continue this forever and ever and even after that. I think I share most of my bestest, hardest and even stupidest moments with you. When I'd no one to turn up with, thank god I had Anna, You and Tharmy.... For EVERYTHING!!!! 

Okay you punkchit cake the bestest friend of mine, remember this. I WILL NEVER EVER WILL RUNAWAY WITH YOUR CRAZINESS. And you're my chocolate, gulab jamoon, peanut butter, sakkara uppuma, masalavada, thayir saadham, latte, frappucino, and the yummiest blueberry cheese cake..... Yeeuuuuwwww... You sounds like a restaurants menu card now!!! :'P :'D And yeah as you told me earlier, let's keep this spirit of bashing peoples with the unknown bad words that we created for ourselves. Thosekuruvivadai, kazhuguroti, mayilubajji. Off course you holds the copyrights.. :) :) OMG!! I can't stop laughing. 24/7 we have talked endlessly, midlessly and brainlessly. But all those happy crazy, sad, angry and romantic (well only you knows from where and to whom we discuss this romantic romantic part - SCRIPT) too.. anna you will get to know about this when the right time comes... lollll...rofl... :'D But these all made us the dearest besties for life, and of course made us to hold up each other when the craziness exceeds its limit (it has crossed that limit line long time back already)... Okay I think I shall back to the track rather than writing our three years of history.. hee hee

Divya - the strongest girl that I've known. Well today I smile, and its because of you. You have made me to forget about most of the worst things. Without you, I think I wouldn't be talking and laughing like this. I wish may the god grant you all the happiness and love that you deserve. Wishing you a many more happiest returns of the day tum mera pyaari bhoori gulabi... Have a great lovely year. Keep smiling always... And keep up your craziness with me. Because that's my only drug that keeps me smiling at first place. I love you so much.. And yeah we all loves you so dearly.. Oh wait!!! This is our third year friendship day too.. :):):) Happy friendship day too babe.. Have a great day.. Love you baby ma... muaaah :):*:D

PS: This blog wish was posted an half day earlier upon the request of the pre birthday baby Divya Darling aka Shilpa

The readers species!

What would books be without readers? Will books still be written if there are no one to read them? Still, imagine a world where no one reads, what's the important of writing then? When there are no any way to received, will man still seek to express? Beyond such a metaphysical questions, it's fascinating how the concept of reading has been changed since over the last decades.

A while ago, we had that exquisite time to curl up on sofa with a book just be lost in a new world that brings to us. There was no mobile ringing near your heart. There was no need of updating a status message on whatsapp. No profile photos to upload on facebook for likes and comments. And there was any absolute reason to tweet saying "Brilliant.. #Adultery... #NowReading." You were content with your inner "you" interacting silently with the character from the book you read. It was just between only you and your book. Yes, at time, you might hear you mom shouts at you "Adiye neraaa utkarnthu padi deee". And at most of the time, you didn't know what the food you ate and what it tasted like, caught in conversation between your beloved character.Well, that was a greatest pleasure you had the privilege of enjoying. Personally, I'm grateful for that. This has given me the power of understand the emotion, complicated and contradictory. The layers to what a person thinks, says and does, all revealed in beautiful writing, which I had the time to delve into.

Fast forwarding to this era now, every minute, there seems to be an overload of matters to be catch up on Twitter, Facebook, Quora. One seems to be in an urgent need to digest the information that bombard from multiple directions. In many ways, I see the similarities with the reading and listening. Once upon a time, we know how to keep quite and be completely silent, when the speaker do his talking. We learn this technique from the long hours with our books. Now it seems so hard for someone to listen to a long talks. The pressing need to comment, critique and opine instantly, exert tremendous pressure on your head.  

A hurried world, indeed! From 1000 pages novel to 1000 words short stories to 144 characters of tweets. Our attention spans have shrunk to XSS size. Perhaps, a day will come when future humans will consider even those tweet readers have a phenomenal patience. Perhaps, they will use more short words and emoticons. I will never be surprise if emoji is the years word in Oxford Dictionary, and it isn't too hard to imagine the future. Still, what a loss! Everything seems to be superficial and transient, no matter how much information I received in a day, and how much we are updated. Deep reflections are fading too fast. I miss those days where i could attach myself with one book and forget the world I'm in now, and observing another one, creating a landscape and mindscape in my own mind.

A Way of Learning

Imagine yourself as a student living in the era of thousand years ago. How would you further your knowledge? You would go out of your home for years, seek a guru, live with him under kurukulum, eat with him, wash his cloths, and clean his home and in return of your service he shares you the knowledge. This knowledges were sealed tight in a cryptogram of classical languages, that it would never reach to a common man. When talking about a cryptogram, do we all still remember the Q.E.D we writes at the end of our geometry theorems. I wonder if we have any idea about what it meant actually but we manage to plugged into it anyways. But those all was like we were sitting in some ancient Rome and learning under a Latin philosopher. Coming back to our own learning scene, as in the case lie Ekalavya, a Guru can easily ignore/refuse a student, no matter how sincere he/she was. Out there we have many Ekalavyas' today too. Lets consider how many young and old peoples aspiring to learn today? Consider how many learning centers, colleges and universities are out there. If so, no wonder the overburdened professors, teachers and lecturers says more no to yeses. Even though a passion burnt inside them, many a students has been turned away from their doors. These heartbroken souls would be mourn at first, but should soon realize that the centres of learning are now just right in front of them in the form of their laptops and smartphones. Whatever it is you wants to learn everything is there, let it be a apple pie recipe or the significance of mathematical pi, one needs to look no further. These education portals do have a way of bringing the world as one. One learns just not about a course but also about oneself and the globe. Just the way like Ekalavya made a mud statue of Guru Dronacharya, who refused to teach him and went on to teach himself and become a master of that art, you too definitely can do the same with your metal university. There are no any need to break down yourself with tears when they find reason to not to open the ivory gates. Why years for wall, when you have the world in your hands?

A long overdue post

Sometimes I forget that my blog is my favourite space for me to write. The effect haven't faded in me even after a decade of blogging. Six years of blogging and I'm still successfully maintaining this site as the way I always wanted it to be. I still remember those years where I come this portal whenever I feel so down or happy. And I have neglected to write over here since last August. Last year wasn't really a good year for me and my family. Yes, I lost my mom on last September 17th, early morning 2.16am. This is a biggest tragedy that I have faced in my life. Well at times, I know, one day we all have to die. But sometimes, we ourselves can't help it when our dear and lovely ones left us alone and goes for their next journey But yeah, I know my mother is at better place now after suffering from all the problems and sicks and medicines and treatments that she has gone through. 

Her only wish was to hand over me to a good men who can take care of me and let me to pursue my dream. But that didn't happen.And i doubt even that will ever happen or not. Because we both are a way too different on views.  And yes, I don't want to fulfill my dream as somebodies daughter-in-law but as the daughter of my parents and sister of my sister and brother. But thankful to god, after my mom's demise somehow my family is being a great support system to me. Especially my brother. He wants me to do the best and get the best even. Apart from family, I definitely have to mention about Gautham and Divya for being my biggest strength during those days when I was all alone after I loss my mom. Divya basically keeps me so busy with the FC stuffs such as edits and designs et all. And Gautham, despite his tight schedule during Rangoon shooting he still manage to do a voice text for me and send it to me via facebook and through by Rohit. 

I seriously have to mention about Rohit over here, I have never seen any celebrity photographer down to earth like him. After seeing my post regarding my mother on facebook, he got my contact number, and made Priya, Chinmayi akka and Rahul athimber to pray for my mom and send a voice notes on whatsapp. And yest my mother listened to all of your messages and she smiles at me. This is something so extremely sweet, and I just can't wait to land in Chennai this November and meet them personally. I got lots of stuffs to talk with them. Especially Padmhasini amma and Gautham!

Well you see, sometime we ourselves wouldn't know what good we had done to earn such good peoples in our life. Each time whenever I jumped with them into a conversation, I always thinks okay, I'm blessed!! I'm a blessed kid for few things..

1. Bharathanatyam

2. My parents & siblings

3. My mom as my guru *bharathanatyam

4. Friends *Shruti/Divya/Tharmy/Trisha/Ridhima/Subbhu/Harish/Bavani/Lekshmipriya/Karthik/Arun anna

5. Gautham *when he says I can think him as my own big brother talk/message to him anytime

6.Padmhasini *another mommy - I always call her mommy

As a girl child who born in a middle class family, what else do I need? Well, the one thing as a students, I my sis and brother didn't do for my mom was a kanakaabhishekam. We have planned about it a year before mom's demise, but due to our own busy schedules of work and traveling we forget about it and we never do it. Well when this dream will come true? Ermm, yeah I'm going to Chennai, this November to pursue my bharathanatyam training under guru Uma Dandayuthapani Pillai ( daughter of Natyakala Chakravarthy K.N.Dandayuthapani Pillai & he is my mom's guru as well ) . 

All I wanted is, to be a known classical performer. And I miss you amma.