Jodha's Unshaken Trust

Rashmi asked me a question in the morning. She wants to know how Jodha could possibly claim that she would stop breathing the moment something happened to Jalal when, in reality, Jodha outlived Akbar by several years.

I'll try to answer this question but, all of you are also welcome to comment on this fascinating query. 😊

The first thing to remember is that Jodha and Jalal are joined together at the soul level. When two souls become one, if anything happens to one, the other soul feels it instinctively. To give an example from the show, when Jodha was at Amer and Jalal was sleeping in her hojra in the separation track, Jodha woke up with a start from a dream-like state in which she had felt as if Jalal was calling her. This is neither "filmy" nor unbelievable. It happens very often in real life, when our "sixth sense" tells us something is wrong with a loved one, no matter how far that person might be.

So, it is natural that if Jodha feels no inner voice rousing her to panic then she is entitled to be fully confident that Jalal is still alive, though he may be in danger.

Love is a strange thing. It makes us weak and yet, it is what makes us strong too. Jodha's love has made her so strong at the moment that no external sign can make her waver from her belief in her husband's word that he will return to her. The last aadab they exchanged was not a farewell; it was a promise they made each other that they would be united pretty soon and till then, they would remain strong and trust the other to take care of themselves.

When we are young and newly in love, we say many passionate things, such as that we will not be able to live without each other. (Jodha and Jalal are really young at the time of this incident. 😊) Jalal believed that he would not be able to survive without her when Jodha was about to die after the "vish-pan" incident. But didn't he survive separation from Jodha later?

So was he lying then? No, not at all. Was it the whole truth? Depends on how we look at it.

If we love someone intensely, we feel so dependent on that person emotionally and mentally that we feel we would not be able to survive without them. It could be anyone, our parents, our spouse/lover, children, even close friends. We cannot think of a moment without them with us. Yet, do we die with them? We don't. Life must go on and it does. At the same time, a part of our soul dies with them. There is always in our hearts a vacuum where the departed soul lived. No matter who else comes into our life later, this emptiness is never filled.

Another way to look at it is to look at how men and women deal with the loss of a partner. It may be a stereotype and not really hold water any longer. But my mother used to tell me that a man cannot live without a wife and a mother for his kids for more than six months. But a woman can single-handedly raise her family if anything were to happen to her husband. In other words, the so-called weaker sex is "emotionally stronger and more resilient" than men.

Rashmi mentioned how things were very difficult when Akbar passed away. The succession battle had begun. Jodha could not afford the luxury of mourning for her husband in private because, as the Queen of Hindustan, she had the responsibility of ensuring the stability and advance of the Mughal Sultanat.

She had been Akbar's shadow while he was alive and she had to do justice to his legacy when he was no longer there.

Please feel free to share your own views on Rashmi's query and my response. 😊

Originally posted by: RadhikaS0

Rashmi asked me a question in the morning. She wants to know how Jodha could possibly claim that she would stop breathing the moment something happened to Jalal when, in reality, Jodha outlived Akbar by several years.

I'll try to answer this question but, all of you are also welcome to comment on this fascinating query. 😊

The first thing to remember is that Jodha and Jalal are joined together at the soul level. When two souls become one, if anything happens to one, the other soul feels it instinctively. To give an example from the show, when Jodha was at Amer and Jalal was sleeping in her hojra in the separation track, Jodha woke up with a start from a dream-like state in which she had felt as if Jalal was calling her. This is neither "filmy" nor unbelievable. It happens very often in real life, when our "sixth sense" tells us something is wrong with a loved one, no matter how far that person might be.

So, it is natural that if Jodha feels no inner voice rousing her to panic then she is entitled to be fully confident that Jalal is still alive, though he may be in danger.

Love is a strange thing. It makes us weak and yet, it is what makes us strong too. Jodha's love has made her so strong at the moment that no external sign can make her waver from her belief in her husband's word that he will return to her. The last aadab they exchanged was not a farewell; it was a promise they made each other that they would be united pretty soon and till then, they would remain strong and trust the other to take care of themselves.

When we are young and newly in love, we say many passionate things, such as that we will not be able to live without each other. (Jodha and Jalal are really young at the time of this incident. 😊) Jalal believed that he would not be able to survive without her when Jodha was about to die after the "vish-pan" incident. But didn't he survive separation from Jodha later?

So was he lying then? No, not at all. Was it the whole truth? Depends on how we look at it.

If we love someone intensely, we feel so dependent on that person emotionally and mentally that we feel we would not be able to survive without them. It could be anyone, our parents, our spouse/lover, children, even close friends. We cannot think of a moment without them with us. Yet, do we die with them? We don't. Life must go on and it does. At the same time, a part of our soul dies with them. There is always in our hearts a vacuum where the departed soul lived. No matter who else comes into our life later, this emptiness is never filled.

Another way to look at it is to look at how men and women deal with the loss of a partner. It may be a stereotype and not really hold water any longer. But my mother used to tell me that a man cannot live without a wife and a mother for his kids for more than six months. But a woman can single-handedly raise her family if anything were to happen to her husband. In other words, the so-called weaker sex is "emotionally stronger and more resilient" than men.

Rashmi mentioned how things were very difficult when Akbar passed away. The succession battle had begun. Jodha could not afford the luxury of mourning for her husband in private because, as the Queen of Hindustan, she had the responsibility of ensuring the stability and advance of the Mughal Sultanat.

She had been Akbar's shadow while he was alive and she had to do justice to his legacy when he was no longer there.

Please feel free to share your own views on Rashmi's query and my response. 😊

Originally posted by: AntaresVega

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This is what. I felt too! So much trust in him. It was wonderful! And his trust in his begums! What a scene! Jodha is standing strong on her concrete foundation, her unshakeable faith in her husband. He promised her he would return. And he will, he will return to rescue her from the clutches of that monster.