SKR- Of Loops and Symbolisms Thread #6 - Page 9

Originally posted by: Cluny13

Di but how is shatrughn anger against manthra and lakshman against shoorpanakha something against Prakriti.

Lakshman had done only defending right while shatrughn was clearly angry.

What more in the palace Di. What more leela? What sort of adharm remains?

'Head scratching'😆

I swear I have ignored this part of ramayan not even thought about it and see my state😆😆. Maybe the uttarkhand is something we get to know at a later age and somehow BP held my interest I hadn't thought about the aftermath😆😆

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

1/11/2016

I loved the contrast today. Rishi Durvasavu in his anger telling if he is not allowed inside he will curse the prosperity, name and fame of Raghukul. All the brother's asking him to leave the anger, trying to explain things. All 3 of them forget what all they did in anger. They forget already a lot of what was there for Raghukul has gone in anger. Rishi Durvasavu has come to take what is remaining. Who can forget anger of Shatrughnan who drives Manthara to the street or the beserk Bharath decimating Kaikeyi. Last but not least Lakshman in anger and impulse cutting the nose of Surpi. Has any of these men faced a man who is in anger. Could they do something about it. All 3 of them had faced woman in their anger. Yes they were woman who had to be punished. But did one of them think about punishing a man on their own. When Ram took the astra to destroy earth none of the brothers could do anything. Neither could they do anything for Durvasavu.

Yes they were all men who were fine when finger is pointed at Prakriti, couldn't do anything when finger was pointed at Sanskriti. Sita had to sacrifice herself to change Sanskriti through Ram. Today also Urmila comes running. Telling he cannot take decision of his death alone. She is his wife. He had to think about her. Why did that choice become important. See if it is a natural death she wouldn't have questioned. She knows. But then he chose death for the so called reeti, neeti and parampara of Raghukul without thinking about her. As a wife she feel cheated, heartbroken. She doesn't understand the dharma that makes a man choose the death.

She has already seen her sister choosing death because of Raghukul, now her husband chooses death.

Ram he is once again at crossroads. Yes Ram calls Lakshman today his reflection, though I had always called him Ram's shadow. Even Urmila tells he is Ram's shadow. Like Ram, yet unlike him. It has to be shadow only.

Why I felt Ram called Lakshman his reflection is because how can you kill reflection. If you kill reflection you are killing yourself. Because reflection exists as you exists. The point is what is Ram going to kill. As Lakshman says let my sacrifice not go in vain. What is the greatest among those born in Raghukul going to do with this tough choice. What is he going to achieve. There is something more. Some adharma is remaining which Narayan has to take before his last journey. He started his war on adharma by removing the unwanted elements from his house and killing the ego of his father and mahatwakamsha of his mother. So his journey also has to end killing something in that palace finally. I am waiting. Will CVs give me what I expect.

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@aditi I was quite happy like you that they didnt show surpi being exchanged between 2 men. Actually I had not liked that part in Ramayana. Why would Ram mess around with a woman as you rightly said those days men had more than one wife. If not wife they were allowed to keep relations with woman also. No one questioned as long as the woman consented.

Here they beautifully showed Ram's dilemma of getting pursued by a woman😃😃 and the way they closed the track was also good.

Yes you are right on what I meant. When men are in anger, why you need to bow, beg. You can take definite stand right. But men wont do it.

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@aditi jeena please understand the last 2 episodes opened up a can of questions for me which previously didn't exist. As I had not once dwelled upon them. Manthara had to be punished. So was Kaikeyi's Mahatwakamsha. But something else needed punishment in Raghukul 😆😆 which no one was looking. Laku has repented many times. But Laku does action. Only in the last part he thinks before he acts. That is his maturity for sure