[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Sita from a Shakta perspective | Ramayana Kalpavrksam

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear Subbuji,

We can also have a parallel look at the following aspevcs :

There is also the story that Mother Sita was the daughter of Ravana and
Mandodari. Ravana was a great Jyotishi and he found from the Janma-muhurta
of his daughter, that she would bring disaster to his reign, and that is
why he told Mandodari to kill Sita immediately after her birth. Mandodari
did not have the heart to kill her daughter, so she took her daughetr to
King Janaka's place and left her where king Janaka, who had no daughetr,
will find her during his morning walk. That is how king Janaka could adopt
Sita.

Secondly, when Hanumanji went to Lanka, in search of Sita, he first saw
queen Mandodari and he (Hanumanji) was shocked to see that she (Mandodari)
matched all the descriptions of Sita, which Lord Ram gave him and Hanuman
was very confused for sometime.

Thirdly, Sita was very different from her childhood. Before Lord Ram lifted
the Shiva-dhanu, it was only Sita, who could lift the Shiva-dhanu, and she
used to play with that dhanu.

Fourthly, in the Adbhuta Ramayana, there is the story that after the
ten-headed Ravana was killed by Lord Ram, there was another thousand-headed
Ravana, who defeated Lord Ram, Lakshmana and his army. It was Mother Sita,
who took her weapon and killed that more powerful Ravana.  In Ramayana Lord
Ram told Hanuman  that Sita was the Adi Shakti, who created the Universe.

Fifthly, the Saundaryalahari was not by Adi Shankara. it was by Abhinava
Shankara in the 8th century BCE.

My 2 cents
Sunil KB





On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:01 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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> A very sublime experience.  So nicely narrated such a never-heard-before
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