Great books had always been sharing lessons which can be red and followed by different people from different culture. For example, Ramayana, Bible, Quran, and Mahabharata all consist of stories which best exemplifies the right and meaningful ways a person should live their life. By narrowing down, the Ramayana has a lot of small stories which enlightens with at least one moral. This response paper will be particularly discussing the chapters Ahalya and Thataka and how these two episodes connect to the Ramayana. To begin with, Ahalya was a created by Brahma, (creator of knowledge and the universe) and was handed over to sage Gautama in Ahalya’s upbringing. At the age, where Ahalya reached a certain age, Gautama handed her back to Brahma. Understanding
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But the wrong deed could not have lived a long life, and sage found the truth and cursed Indra, who assumed the form of a cat and slipped. But in this entire misunderstanding, the one person who was generally affected was Ahalya. Gautama looked at his wife and said, “You have sinned with your body. May that body harden into a shapeless piece of granite, just where you are….” (Narayan, this episode relates very well to the main context of Ramayana as the Sage finally understood the Ahalya’s innocence and said that “Your redemption will come when the son of Dasaratha, Rama, passes this way at some future date….” (Narayan). In fact, Rama was a great follower of the dharma and has lived in rightful ways, and also goes back to the actual meaning of a karma, (which is that if you do right, it will come back to you in some time). The main motive that was the most effective ways to show Karma. After Ahalya remarkable story, the next one is a complete …show more content…
Ram who was a great follower of Dharma, was hesitant about killing Thataka as she was a woman. But this teacher, made him realize that this is will benefit for everyone because “A woman of demoniac tendencies loses all considered to be treated as a woman.”(Narayan,) These stories had some commonalities which include the fact that they both are women based and can be relatable to Sita 's last episodes, where even she had to go through a lot. Ahalya and Thataka were cursed, but one restored from it because the purity and one decided to seek revenge and took the wrong path. The stories foreshadow with some kind of sufferings, as Ahalya suffered because of misunderstanding, Thataka sufferings of husband and finally, the life lasting suffering for Sita captivated by Ravana. In a more literature based context, these stories, and the entire Ramayana follows a consist function of the Five-Fold Evil section which is lust, anger, miserliness, egoism and envy). Every single person in this world is born with some motives which need to be performed for a betterment of the
But the wrong deed could not have lived a long life, and sage found the truth and cursed Indra, who assumed the form of a cat and slipped. But in this entire misunderstanding, the one person who was generally affected was Ahalya. Gautama looked at his wife and said, “You have sinned with your body. May that body harden into a shapeless piece of granite, just where you are….” (Narayan, this episode relates very well to the main context of Ramayana as the Sage finally understood the Ahalya’s innocence and said that “Your redemption will come when the son of Dasaratha, Rama, passes this way at some future date….” (Narayan). In fact, Rama was a great follower of the dharma and has lived in rightful ways, and also goes back to the actual meaning of a karma, (which is that if you do right, it will come back to you in some time). The main motive that was the most effective ways to show Karma. After Ahalya remarkable story, the next one is a complete …show more content…
Ram who was a great follower of Dharma, was hesitant about killing Thataka as she was a woman. But this teacher, made him realize that this is will benefit for everyone because “A woman of demoniac tendencies loses all considered to be treated as a woman.”(Narayan,) These stories had some commonalities which include the fact that they both are women based and can be relatable to Sita 's last episodes, where even she had to go through a lot. Ahalya and Thataka were cursed, but one restored from it because the purity and one decided to seek revenge and took the wrong path. The stories foreshadow with some kind of sufferings, as Ahalya suffered because of misunderstanding, Thataka sufferings of husband and finally, the life lasting suffering for Sita captivated by Ravana. In a more literature based context, these stories, and the entire Ramayana follows a consist function of the Five-Fold Evil section which is lust, anger, miserliness, egoism and envy). Every single person in this world is born with some motives which need to be performed for a betterment of the