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So, for this reading I have a bit of a rant. Once Ravana had been killed and Sita was safe Rama refused to take her home with him. REFUSED. Your wife was KIDNAPPED by someone and she spent the entire time entrusting you with all her faith, hope, and expectations, yet all you can do is refuse to take her home.I have always had a problem with this part of the Ramayana. It just doesn't make any sense to my why Sita was the one who had to prove her purity through the fire. She never asks Rama to give her any clarifications or prove his innocence. She TRUSTS him, yet still she felt the need to prove her purity and Rama even goes as far as to say that the test was necessary. I suppose being a woman of the 21st century I just cannot fathom the fact that he needed this test to convince himself. In all honesty, had it been me I would have just said goodbye and left. Trust is incredibly important to me, and clearly that was not present in this relationship. I do understand that this was a different time period and is written according to the culture of that time, but it still seems unfair to me.
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Other than that, I thought the story was a good read. It had numerous lessons and wisdom to bestow upon us, and I always love learning from books and cultures. I do understand today why this wonderful piece of literature is still relevant in today's day and age, and I find it endearing that people have such a fond attachment to this literature. I wish that my culture had such an interesting story as well that I could learn from. I wonder what it would be about?....
All information has come from Narayan's Ramayana, (link to Reading Guide A).
Sita had to go through the test because of not her husband, but the gossip of the people that her husband ruled over. They were gossiping that she shouldn't be accepted because she had been living with someone else for so long, so to prove her innocent, Lord Rama had her go through this test.
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