Theories - Foreshadowing Raavan's death & Vibhishan's wrath - Pg 2 - Page 2

Pursuant to emerging victorious in various wars, Raavan decided to refurbish his palace. He came across an astrologer (Raj-Jyotish) - Nemetik, who was supposedly very accurate with his predictions. Raavan decided to utilize his knowledge for his own benefit and asked him a life changing question -

"What would be the cause of my death?"

Nemetik responded - "The son of Raja Dashrath and the daughter of Ram Janak would bring your downfall and death!"

Raavan was shaken and restless with the revelation. He was numb over the same. Vibishan, who was in the vicinity, could not control himself, since he was extremely fond of his brother. He took it upon himself to rewrite the future, change the course of destiny and save his brother from death.

He obtained knowledge about happenings of Dashrath and Janak and he was informed that both at that point were childless and without an heir to the throne. He scoffed! He decided that this is it! He will kill both the kings right away!

Raavan, at first remained oblivious to the same, but later, due to fear of death and wish to live longer, relented and permitted Vibhishan to carry out the said operation.

At the end of the day, our love for our own being, our name, our body, our brain, our heart, far outweighs the love for anyone else! The infamous anecdote for the same by Birbal to Akbar is mother monkey throwing off her own child to save her ownself.

Coming back to Vibhishan, his indignation knew no bounds and he proclaimed his decision of defeating and executing Dashrath and Janak to the ministers and the army. On the other hand, Narad Muni who travelled about and around came to know about Vibhishan's intentions and warned Dashrath and Janak individually about the same.

Dashrath and Janak were aware of the might of Lanka Sena and it wasnt in practical benefit to go ahead with the war. The ministers of Dashrath decided to take a smart route instead of indulging in a one to one fight. They sent both the kings undercover and underground.

Meanwhile Vibhishan arrived with his mighty army at Ayodhya. In turn, the army of Ayodhya faked chaos and ran hither thither to confuse and manipulate Vibhishan.

The Senapati, Army chieftan pleaded to Vibhishan to leave Ayodhya alone and forgive Dashrath. However he proceeded straight to the room of Dashrath inside the palace and found him sleeping on his bed and right then, slashed his neck with his sword.

The queens of Dashrath starting wailing and crying bitterly. Vibhishan roared and laughed away! He thought he had succeeded in disarming and overturning the prediction of Nemetik. He decided that since he had already killed Dashrath, there was no further need to execute Janak and left for Lanka.

Little did he know that the entire drama was scripted by the Ministers to make him believe that he had indeed killed Dashrath. He had not slashed the real Dashrath (who was not in Ayodhya at all then) but his brilliantly created life size sculpture and everyone contributed to making him believe otherwise.

As said in Siya ke Ram today, mental strength is as important as physical strength in war and the Ministers of Ayodhya used the former to the fullest!