Twisted Love
Triangle Ending Could
Have Been Prevented
Late
last night the Karma
Watchers got a report of the death
of Ravana, the evil demon king of Lanka. This came as a very big
shock
to some because Ravana was invincible, or at least that's what everyone
thought. It turns out, however, that he overlooked the fact that
a
mere human being could kill him. He, being the arrogant demon he
was,
assumed it was just not possible. To understand why Ravana's
death
could have been prevented, I will explain to you how he has lived his
life in the past few years. I want you to keep karma in mind when
you
read the rest of this story.
It all started on a
warm fall day when
Ravana was taking his daily
walk through the woods. He stopped suddenly when he heard the
soft hum
of someone singing through the trees. He saw a beautiful woman
picking
berries from a nearby bush and jumped behind a tree so she would not
see him. He instantly fell in love with her and followed her home
that
night.
Once he followed
her home he realized
that this was not just any
woman, but the wife of the famous hero, Rama. From that moment
on, he
knew that gaining possession of Sita would be a little more
difficult
than he had thought. He decided to go home.
That night he sat
and contemplated for
hours and hours about how
to get Rama away from Sita long enough to kidnap her for himself.
Then, it hit him. The next day he went back to the house in the
trees
disguised as a golden eagle. Sita saw him and was amazed.
His
feathers seemed to be made of diamonds. She asked Rama to capture
the
eagle for her. Rama did not want to spend his day chasing a
golden
eagle, so he said no. When Sita began to cry he decided that he
would
catch the eagle for her. Lakshmana, Rama's brother, thought that
there
was something very fishy going on, but he couldn't quite put his finger
on it. He urged Sita not to make Rama go catch the golden eagle
or
something bad might happen. Sita did not care what Lakshmana had
to
say, though, and still made Rama go catch the eagle. Therefore,
Rama
went on a great hunt for the golden eagle. Once Rama started to
chase
the eagle he realized that it was a lot harder than he had
thought. He
chased the eagle for days and still could not catch it.
Meanwhile, back at
the house in the
trees, Sita sat awaiting
Rama's return. When he did not return, she set out looking for
him.
Ravana, still disguised as the eagle, found her and lured her to Lanka
where he then turned back into his true form and imprisoned her.
When Rama found out
that he had been
tricked, he was very enraged
and looked everywhere for Sita. After a few years he finally
found out
where she was and went into battle with Ravana. After the
battle had
gone on for several months, it finally ended in Ravana's
death. That
is a little background to get you ready for my explanation about why
Ravana's death could have been prevented. First of all, Sita
brought
being kidnapped on herself by being selfish and not listening to
what Rama or Lakshmana had to say. She wanted the
golden eagle and was
not going to be happy until she got it. Had Sita been less
selfish,
then she would not have been kidnapped, Rama never would have gone into
battle with Ravana, and Ravana would not be dead.
There is also a
little bit to blame
Rama for. Rama is an
incarnatation of Vishnu, who had killed the wife of Brahmin in a
previous lifetime. In Vishnu's later
reincarnation as Rama, Rama has
to suffer the consequences of his actions and therefore loses Sita,
which leads to him having to find her and going into battle with
Ravana, which also ends in Ravana's death.
The
final person to blame for Ravana's
death is Ravana himself.
Had Ravana not become obsessed with Sita from the second he saw her,
then he never would have kidnapped her, which never would have sparked
a battle with Rama and therefore he would not be dead. He brought
his
death upon himself and it was one hundred percent preventable.
Author's Note:
I made some big changes to the traditional story of Ravana
kidnapping Sita. In terms of the plot, my story is the same as
the
traditional version: Sita is kidnapped, Rama tries to find her, Ravana
and Rama have a battle, Ravana dies. My version is very
different. In
the original version, Ravan's sister Surpanaka provokes him into taking
Sita as part of her own plot to get Rama. In my story I just made
it
so Ravana found Sita in the woods and wanted her from the time he saw
her. I did this in order to focus the attention more on Ravana
than Surpanaka. In the original story Ravana forced his
demon relative,
Maricha, to disquise himself as a golden deer with jewels
all over his
body. I wanted Ravana to be a golden eagle because I wanted to
take
Maricha out of the story, again to focus on Ravana. I also
made Ravana
a golden eagle because when I picture him I picture him flying
through
the air like an eagle. In the original story Sita did not go out
into
the woods to find Rama and get lured into Lanka. Instead, she
made
Lakshmana go into the woods to find Rama and was taken from her house
to Lanka. I left a lot of details out of the original story in
order
to keep the story short and to focus mainly on Rama, Sita,
and Ravana.
Ravana abducting Sita. Web Source:
Exotic Indian Art
Bibliography:
Buck, William. (1976). Ramayana. California: University of
California Press.
Narayan, R. K. (1972). The Ramayana. New York: Penguin
Group.
