[Advaita-l] Did Shri Rama really abandon Sita?

[Sanju Nath]

नमस्कार:,

Wonderful.  Love to hear more - don’t have an आचार्य though.  If possible, please share website or point to youtube where some semblance of traditional रामायण teaching could be showered in.

धन्यवाद,
संजू नाथ

> On Dec 18, 2017, at 12:46 PM, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> .....Although I am not sure if tragedy leads to vairagya or sadness/depression..
> 
> My AchAryA’s words :
> ………….
> क्रौञ्चीं उद्दिश्य वाल्मीकिः यद अवोचत, तत्र करुणावाचक पदानि क्रौञ्चीं उद्दिश्य संबोधनं न भवति । 
> किन्तु क्रौञ्चीं विषये तेन अनुभूतः शोकः तस्य हृदयं द्रवीकृतं । द्रतहृदयः आदिकविः व्याधं शपति । 
> व्याधविषये तस्य क्रोधः क्रौञ्चीविषये करुणः संजातः । तस्मात व्यञ्जना वृत्या अत्र करुणरस्य स्थायिभावः 
> "शोकः" इति स्वीकरणीयः । अत्र अभिधायाः / लक्षणाया वा गतिः नास्ति । 
> एतेन श्लोकेन श्रीमद्रामायणस्य विशादान्तं निर्णीतम् ।
> ……………
> The curse that was uttered by the Sage Valmiki out of anger has suggestive sense 
> (vyanjanA vritti) that has 2 emotions viz., one in the form of anger directed towards the 
> hunter and the other in the form of compassion directed towards the birds. 
> Thus, the base of compassion rests on ‘sorrow’ (sthAyi bhAva).  In order to evoke this 
> sthAyi-bhAva, the tragedy has to be maintained all throughout the 7 cantos in the form 
> of विषाद.  आत्यन्तिक वियोग (extreme separation) evokes विषाद.  Hence, क्रौञ्च वध, राज्यभ्रष्टत्व, 
> दशरथमरण, अयोध्यापरित्याग, सीतापहरण, वालिवध (separation from sugriva), 
> रावणवध (separation from mandodari), सीतापरित्याग has to be enacted. 
> 
> And, this विषाद, if maintained through out the study, gradually leads to 
> वैराग्य because it transforms into विषादयोग. 
> 
> And this is the purpose of आदिकाव्यं.
> 
> Rgs,
> Sriram 
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