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| Dec 14, 2005 12:49 pm |
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re: re: re: re: sandAna DarmA |
Ganesh Ram
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Raam,
thanks for the story of vyAsA. This is the time my mind itches me to write in "Tamglish" but I will restrain.
Let us take the examples in all the stories(epics) that we know.
1. VyasA - born out of premarital sex.
2. Rama and brothers - probably artificial insemination.Also a kshatriya(AryA) being dark
3. PandavAs and KauravAs and others in that epic - a mixture of premarital, extramarital, out of wedlock
4. Muruga or kArthikeyA - foster moms, assuming that shiva was married to parvathi at that time
5. KrishnA - only person born to mortals with no gimmicks
6. Ganesha - Cloning
7. Ayappa - born to two males
8. Janaki/Sita - orphaned girl brought up by a single father
9. vAlmiki - a bandit turned storyteller
Now, pray tell me what is the deeper meaning that you want me to understand. All I see is the fact that as a common denominator our stories(epics) never said what is wrong and what is correct. They just gave a historical perspective of what was prevailing\possible in those period.
And the epics are just stories, why because I have heard that, for instance in RamAyaNA, rAvaNA was the father of Sita and because he was told that she will bring down his empire she let her off.But still could not stand her living in a forest and therefore brought her to lanka.(ManOhar's drama cites this).Similar is the case of duruyOdhanA.
As I said earlier in one of my prev posts, langauge and communication allow one to extrapolate and explain things to suit their needs at a particular time period. If it is convinicing for a mass, they accept it as the fact.
Gods in religion are just that. They are the tool to make a society conform to certain rules. Either suited to the upliftment of the society at that time or to force the commoners to follow them thus creating a "forced" harmony in a society.Private Reply to Ganesh Ram (new win) |
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