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swanvai • March 21, 2003 


From: "swanvai"  
Date: Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:58pm 
Subject: WOMEN's FREEDOM IN RAMAYAN  


Many in the earth have said the women are not treated properly and 
their rights should be given and many acts are to be passed.  All 
these are said in our country for the sake of women.  You can see one 
thing ramayan that the major rights were enjoyed by women.


1.	Who wanted Lord rama to go to exile.  -   It is women only 
ie., Mantra.

2.	Who wanted to go alongwith rama  -  Mother Sita and here u 
can see one thing Guru Vaishta and all the elders of the family said 
that Mother sita should not go, but mother sita insisted that she 
will go alongwith rama. Whose words was successful.  Whether it was 
of rama or sita. ?
3.	Who was disturbing the sacrifice of Vishwamitra – It was 
tadaki women.
4.	Whose desire was to have golden deer – It was mother sita's 
desire for which rama went and he has to forgoe sita for one year.
5.	Whose desire was to have rama in the forest – It was 
shurpanaka for which misinterpreation was given by her to ravan and 
created the fight.

Like this u can see many interesting character for which men have 
been used and got their life's in trouble.  Also I would like to 
mention u know one thing who has given curse to Dasrathaji.  It was 
only mother of Sravan kumar not the father.  One more thing u can in 
sita syamvaram that men should break the bow and get married. So here 
there was more preference given to women in the past and also now in 
the present so their rights were always safeguarded.  

Mahatma Gandhiji said that women are the weaker sections of the 
society. It is wrong .  You can also see that when Sage Yagnavalki 
wants to go then he distributed his property to both the wife's but 
one of his wife wants knowledge did  he not imparted he very well 
gave the brahma vidya .


So no where u can find that women were ill treated.  It is in the 
movies they have projected like that.  Also I would like to say one 
more interesting fact in ramayan.

Many say that Mother sita was facing lot of difficulties in the 
earth .  Can anybody say what are the difficulties she was facing?


I would like to explain the things with examples.  See for vegeterian 
people eating meat and other things are difficult , but they can stay 
without foot .  It is not difficult for them . Is is right or wrong.  
If I think that without food is difficult I will very well eat the 
meat and quench my hunger.

In the same way Mother sita staying in Lanka was not difficult 
because if she thought that was difficult she would very well agreed 
to the words of ravan and stayed with her in palace.  But it was 
difficult to stay in palace not in ashoka vatika. Is is right or 
wrong.

Mother sita desire was to accompany rama in forest she did not feet 
it as difficult that is why she accompanied him to forest.  Also she 
did not feel difficult in ashoka vatia that is why she stayed there 
only.

I would not like to keep silent in the most interesting thing that 
why did rama sent sita to  forest after the exile of 14 years .  I 
would like to explain as follows as per my reading the books.

See one thing that already people at  ayodhya were talking that sita 
stayed in lanka and they were suspecting her purity.   Sita itself is 
purity and people who talk ill of sita has no place in hell also 
please note it this is said in ramayan.  But Lord rama was so kind 
hearted he gave the place at vaikuntam for all the ayodhaya wasi.  
See if rama could not have sent sita to forest  people would have 
labeled more worst on sita (say they would  have even used most dirty 
words on her) so to avoid those words lord rama sent sita to forest 
and by sending her to forest people had sympathy on her and rama was 
ready to bear the ill talk of him.  Now only people are having 
sympathy on sita and they are questioning why rama sent sita to 
forest.  You tell me has anybody have pleasure in sending owns' wife 
to forest. Not yet only to avoid the dirty talks of the people in 
ayodhya he sent sita and diverted the issue.

In my next writings I will write something about sita vivaha and sita 
haran. 

With due respects to all .

v.anjaneyulu
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