Thread by @PoojaPophale

A lot of today's girls under western influence of American scholars like Wendy Doniger and Audrey Truschke who do not have dharmik values think that Ramayana is misogynistic because Sita was made to do agnipariksha.Can Ramayana be understood by adharmiks? Let's imagine instead1/n

of Sitaji, Rama's wife is some adharmik woman. Would such a woman even be loyal to Rama in the presence of the rich and muscular King of golden city Lanka i.e. Ravan?In fact, a typical adharmik woman who does hypergamy at the smallest pretext would have ditched Rama and 2/n

married Ravan in a jiffy! An adharmik woman won't even have to be kidnapped. She herself would have left the good and righteous Rama on her own accord and given full consent to bad boy 10-headed Ravana. An adharmik woman won't have come back to Ayodhya. Instead the adharmik 3/n

would have ruled Lanka as the queen of Lanka. Coming to think of it, an adharmik woman won't have even accompanied her husband on the dreadful 14 years of exile in a forest. Why would anyone brought up in wealth and luxury even want to do that? Yet out of deep devotion for 4/n

her husband, Sita accompanies him on his exile-although no one asked her to do so. She stays loyal to him throughout her ordeal with Ravana despite the various temptations she is subjected to. Ravan does not force himself on Sita and is loyal to his wife Mandodari. Why? 5/n

He would have tried to molest the lady in the pushpak vimana itself.Ofcourse, it is not possible to actually molest and abduct a goddess.This is nothing but Sita and Ramji's maya(illusion) which they created for us human beings so that we can understand some values. However in6/n

this maya universe,Ravan was a Hindu and a Shiv Bhakt. So despite being a bad character(he abducted Sita) he maintained a certain level of self-restraint and discipline. Rama had no need to go to Lanka. He did not even have the capacity to mobilize an army as he was in exile 7/n

when Sita ma got abducted. He could easily have taken another wife after returning to Ayodhya. There was no need to fight the risky war with Ravan. Yet because as a husband, it was his duty to protect his wife and he mobilized a powerful army with the help of Hanuman & vanaras8/n

, he went to Lanka and defeated Ravan. He brought back Sita with all honour to Ayodhya. Now let's imagine instead of Rama, there is some adharmik man. He would have disobeyed his father and refused to give up the throne to his brother, Bharat. He would have not gone to exile.9/n

He would have disrespected his step-mother Kaikeyi. He would have even killed her for inciting the mischief which she did. He would have killed his brothers which were his rivals to the throne. However Rama went for 14 years to a forest. Even Lakshman followed him out of deep10/n

love and devotion-although there was no need for Lakshman to give up his rich, luxurious life and go after Rama. In the time being, Bharat refused to sit on the throne. He said only Rama can sit on the throne; he is merely doing administration till Rama returns back.
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These episodes teach us obedience to parents and the bond of brotherhood. Even after returning to Ayodhya, Sita went back to the forest despite being pregnant just to satisfy the query of a simple washerman. Any other queen would have executed the washerman for daring to 12/n

make such an allegation. Here Sita ma shows that the queen's duty is also to show compassion and understanding towards her subjects. Just a simple reading of Ramayan makes us realize the very fine values of Sanatana Dharma. Ram, Sita, Ravan and all other characters in Ramayan13/n

are exemplary and operate from a higher level of consciousness. Ramayan has a sublime beauty which fills people's minds with joy, beauty, bliss and other forms of sattvik and rajasik energies. In today's world of tamas; sattva and rajas is required and it is Hindu itihasa 14/n

which provide us with such nectar.
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