How people decide what is good and what is bad I never understand the concept. How come abducting someone’s wife is bad (Ravana did to Sita), while asking the same women to go through AGNI (fire) just to prove her chastity and later banishing her on public opinion which led her to ask her mother (Earth) to again prove her innocence (which Rama did as per Ramayana) and take her along, is correct.
How a thing looks correct to one person while wrong to someone else is still a question. I think it all actually depend on how we look up at things. So do occurred with our mythology writers, they favoured Rama may be because they were from northern India where Rama used to live and they considered the abduction was bad while skipped Rama’s behaviour at many points considering it was to save dharma and provided us with two role models. They did their work so splendidly that even after 5000 yrs apprx one of the two main characters involved in the story is considered as deity (Rama) and symbol of righteousness hope light success truth, while the other is considered as demon (Ravana) and symbol of darkness failure, and more over every year we celebrate Dussera to celebrate Rama’s victory over Ravana by burning his effigy (many of us still do the burning part).
A person looking in south will say that east is in my left and person looking towards north will say that east in right and they may even start to fight over this, as simple as that it all depends on how we look on situations matters etc etc.
Anyways this (Bad was never bad and good was never good) discussion has actually got end no end. Enjoy Indian mythology as it is having a lot to read and every time something new rolled over the pseudo-real one. Welcome Dussera, if not for anything then at least for providing one business day holiday for employed one and around a dozen for school going.
