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Mein aa gai😛
And first the DISCLAIMER: I have absolutely miniscule knowledge of the scriptures and my post may be ignored as the blabber of an ignorant person😛 Me MUDHMATI😳
So finally, after so many weeks I caught up with an episode and as the whole of the forum is raving about, me too happy shappy with Mata Sati finally emerging in her true form!!
But somehow this reminded me of an similarly epic incident, the incident which changed and wrote the fate of Mahabharat!!
Sati addresssing the assembly in general and the whole assembly, sitting helplessly and hopelessly reminded me how Draupadi had addressed a similarly helpless and hopeless assembly...
And it was then I started drawing parellals...!!!
Sati and Draupadi were 'boon' daughters...Daksh had done many yagyas for having Aadishakti as his daughter, So had Drupad, he had performed Yagya...although his yagya was for a son, Draupadi was born out of the same yagnya.
Sati emolated herself in the Yagna fire where as Draupadi was born out of one.
Sati was brought into this world for the reunion of the eternal lovers...as in Shiva and his Aadishakti...whereas Draupadi was brought into this world for taking a life, Drupad wanted to kill Drona and it was that wish that had given birth to Draupadi...
Both women chose their husbands in a Swamwar and it was there they invited the wrath of their wrong doers. Sati invited the wrath of Daksha and Draupadi had injured the mega ego of Duryodhana and Karna...
It was Sati's pride and 'streehath' which made her go to Daksh's yagnya and set loose the whole chain of events...where as it was Draupadi's pride and hateful words which had set lose the chain of events which had led to the dyutkreeda...
The most interesting part for me was their address to the assemblies...Those were powerful addresses...showing us the true face of society and drawing strong parellals between the then and today's society...the silence of the people who could have stopped this...when in the end the woman gets blamed for every war and every bad thing, is it not the responsibility of every man who sat on the throne and had authority in hands to stop the calamity, when they could...Was Pitamah Brahma right in saying that he could not have done anything to Daksha as he had delegated the responsibilities and he now only had advisory powers?? can Dhitrashtra plead that he has no power over his son as he was blind?? Can Vishnu not do anything nothing because he had pledged his alliance to protect Dakhsa...Was Pitahmah Bhishma right in saying that he had his loyalties towards the throne and hence he cannot say anything against the throne...??
we had both women fighting for their honour...putting and questioning th society on their ridiculous rituals...can Shiv be insulted in this manner and can Sati be punished for marrying Shiv? Can Draupadi be insulted in this manner and can she be put to gamble in this manner??
the address and the questions but before them were actually reflecting the fate of the women in a society..eventhough they were more respected then, than the medieval ages, it was apparent that these women stood out and made the world realize that a woman scorned can invite the wrath of the Gods, ON the Gods...
Sati's self immolation resulted into the biggest destruction of the age, destroying the biggest Yagnya to have taken place...Killing of hundreds of Gods and Demi Gods and beheading of the Prajapti himself...Draupadi's insult resulted into the biggest war of the history...killing lacs and all hundred sons of Dhutrashtra ...and crippling (and later death) of Duryodhan himself...
Such sad but learning history we have...but am proud of these women..who did not take it head down...but set an example...of what excess of Arrogance (Daksha) and Excess of greed (Duryodhana) can do!!!
Interestingly, Both women started a ritual which was unique in their own way...Sati pratha is known by Sati' self immolation act and Draupadi actually was probably the rare woman in history to have more than one husbands...
P.s. I repeat the disclaimer😛😆
And first the DISCLAIMER: I have absolutely miniscule knowledge of the scriptures and my post may be ignored as the blabber of an ignorant person😛 Me MUDHMATI😳
So finally, after so many weeks I caught up with an episode and as the whole of the forum is raving about, me too happy shappy with Mata Sati finally emerging in her true form!!
But somehow this reminded me of an similarly epic incident, the incident which changed and wrote the fate of Mahabharat!!
Sati addresssing the assembly in general and the whole assembly, sitting helplessly and hopelessly reminded me how Draupadi had addressed a similarly helpless and hopeless assembly...
And it was then I started drawing parellals...!!!
Sati and Draupadi were 'boon' daughters...Daksh had done many yagyas for having Aadishakti as his daughter, So had Drupad, he had performed Yagya...although his yagya was for a son, Draupadi was born out of the same yagnya.
Sati emolated herself in the Yagna fire where as Draupadi was born out of one.
Sati was brought into this world for the reunion of the eternal lovers...as in Shiva and his Aadishakti...whereas Draupadi was brought into this world for taking a life, Drupad wanted to kill Drona and it was that wish that had given birth to Draupadi...
Both women chose their husbands in a Swamwar and it was there they invited the wrath of their wrong doers. Sati invited the wrath of Daksha and Draupadi had injured the mega ego of Duryodhana and Karna...
It was Sati's pride and 'streehath' which made her go to Daksh's yagnya and set loose the whole chain of events...where as it was Draupadi's pride and hateful words which had set lose the chain of events which had led to the dyutkreeda...
The most interesting part for me was their address to the assemblies...Those were powerful addresses...showing us the true face of society and drawing strong parellals between the then and today's society...the silence of the people who could have stopped this...when in the end the woman gets blamed for every war and every bad thing, is it not the responsibility of every man who sat on the throne and had authority in hands to stop the calamity, when they could...Was Pitamah Brahma right in saying that he could not have done anything to Daksha as he had delegated the responsibilities and he now only had advisory powers?? can Dhitrashtra plead that he has no power over his son as he was blind?? Can Vishnu not do anything nothing because he had pledged his alliance to protect Dakhsa...Was Pitahmah Bhishma right in saying that he had his loyalties towards the throne and hence he cannot say anything against the throne...??
we had both women fighting for their honour...putting and questioning th society on their ridiculous rituals...can Shiv be insulted in this manner and can Sati be punished for marrying Shiv? Can Draupadi be insulted in this manner and can she be put to gamble in this manner??
the address and the questions but before them were actually reflecting the fate of the women in a society..eventhough they were more respected then, than the medieval ages, it was apparent that these women stood out and made the world realize that a woman scorned can invite the wrath of the Gods, ON the Gods...
Sati's self immolation resulted into the biggest destruction of the age, destroying the biggest Yagnya to have taken place...Killing of hundreds of Gods and Demi Gods and beheading of the Prajapti himself...Draupadi's insult resulted into the biggest war of the history...killing lacs and all hundred sons of Dhutrashtra ...and crippling (and later death) of Duryodhan himself...
Such sad but learning history we have...but am proud of these women..who did not take it head down...but set an example...of what excess of Arrogance (Daksha) and Excess of greed (Duryodhana) can do!!!
Interestingly, Both women started a ritual which was unique in their own way...Sati pratha is known by Sati' self immolation act and Draupadi actually was probably the rare woman in history to have more than one husbands...
P.s. I repeat the disclaimer😛😆
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