u/Silkyvagina

Bear with me guys, not a hater but I seek to understand this better.

What is the point of blessing young couples with Ram Sita as a basis when that couple has faced some incredible hardships on earth only to be separated in the end?

When one reads the Ramayan, the happiest moment of the epic occurs at Sita's wedding. I am referencing Thyagaraja's composition - "Sita Kalyana Vaibhogame" when it comes to the incredible joy and blessings given to the divine couple (Ram and Sita).

That's quite literally where the joy ride ends.

After this, we are privy to Rama getting exiled, Sita arguing with Rama to accompany him (Love that portion BTW), them going into the forest, Shurpanakha's encounter, Sita's abduction, all the way to the events that unfold until Rama's coronation 14 years later. Even then after the coronotation, Sita goes to the forest again, bears Luv and Kush and refuses to come back to Rama and goes back to mother earth. There is no question of proof their love in all this, it is very evident.

There is incredible fortitude borne by the couple and they exhibit extraordinary virtue but don't you think blessing couples with Ram Sita invites the divine to put the worst possible fate onto the young couple?

Like why would you wish the worst possible circumstances on young couples just starting in life? Why not Shiva Gauri or Lakshmi Narayan?

Does Ram Sita really hold weight since despite being gods they faced really bad odds as humans?

Shouldn't we aspire to be the gods themselves in such cases?

Hello folks. Long time lurker.

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I am a keen enthusiastic about all things dharmic however this one question really bothers me.

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How do I synthesize our epics (Itihasas) to have actually happened in modern times?

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This isn't to say that it is not an account of that which has happened but come on now, I want to know how I can coherently believe in a grounded history of our epics, sans extreme magical elements.

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When Vishnu is born here on earth, he is not exempt from the rules of nature. He too has fallen and gotten hurt when he was a child playing on earth. When the laws of physics bend to no particular man, how am I supposed to believe in the miraculous nature of his activities?

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This is not to say I don't believe Krishna/Rama exists. I do. I also do believe that the events that happened are real however, I am unable to reconcile how a child can actually beat many monsters or even how adult Krishna can show Vishwaroopam in the court at Hastinapur (I reconcile this by understanding that Krishna talks about the true nature of the universe via quantum Mechanics pointing to infinite realities thus logically expounding on the true nature of the universe). Another bizarre account would be Arjuna duelling with Mahadev and Arjuna getting cursed by Urvasi. How does that even happen or come to pass?

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It just as bizarre in the Ramayan when you say Hanuman was a monkey who flew all the way to Lanka through great hardship. If Hanuman is not a monkey and a representative from the monkey clan, isn't it morally wrong to worship a monkey and not the human behind it? Isn't that cognitively dissonant? How on earth do you claim monkeys exist as intelligible beings let alone fly out in the sky. There are a lot of technical elements that I am just unable to synthesize to reality. Like how does one even bring a mountain overnight to cure someone injured??? How does Fire not burn Sita when she voluntarily sits in the pyre???

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All I ask is, for a more coherent working of the tale. Help a rational girlie out. It's not like you can derive gandharvas and Nagas through mathematical equations so help me understand, how I must interpret diverse non human characters in the verses. Are they just no vedic? Unassimilated to the scriptures who exist independently?? Did also how did Hastinapur economically care for a 105 children? Isn't nobility expensive???