Imagine a situation when a girl of 21st
century decided to organize a swayamvara for her marriage. Her parents decided
that she will marry a person who would be able to lift the bow and string it.
All the grooms present there try their hands at it in vain but they were forced
to admit defeat. But, finally one guy lifted the bow with remarkable ease and
strings it. Thereafter, she chooses her groom. After their marriage when her
husband was decided to be crowned, his step mother demanded to banish him and
send him to a forest exile for 14 years. As an ideal wife she also joined him
in his vanvasa. After getting abducted by someone and when she was rescued after a
long period of captivity. She has to go through the ‘agni pariksha’, the test
of fire in order to prove her chastity. After going through this- again to
prove her character, she has to undergo another cruel ordeal and she was sent
into an exile.
Ohh yes, you guessed it right, this was a
story of none other than our goddess
Sita whose life was full of problems and challenges. But, if this
situation comes in front of any girl of this generation. Will anyone do these
things that she did and the reply will be a big NO.
But, if we talk about today’s scenario.
Will anyone like to marry a person by just taking a test of his strength? Will
anyone easily accept a vanvasa? Will anyone go through the agni pariksha just
for the sake of people to prove her character? Will anyone accept the offer of
going into an exile again to prove her chastity once more?
If I am asked to play her role. I will not
be able to do any of the things that she did and even no one can do in this
century. For my reasons, how can a girl is satisfied just by taking a test of
his strength no matter how a person he is and especially for marriage. She is
choosing a guy or a wrestler? In this rat-race, how can a person easily accept
the exile leaving his whole kingdom for others and when he was decided to be
crowned? I think no such kind hearted people are present today. And if in case
my husband will accept this, I will not at all go along with him. He can be so
kind hearted but I can’t. I will never leave my property and everything and go
into an exile.
After tolerating all these pains of being
exiled, living in forest and even after being abducted. How can anyone go
through these cruel tests like ‘agni pariksha’ just for the sake of others to
prove their chastity? If anyhow, I have to face this situation. Firstly, I’ll
ask my husband to go through this test. As in my absence, he might have also
lost his character. If a girl needs to prove her chastity so why not guys? When
a girl looses her character. Why only she has to face so many questions? And,
if a guy did this, it will be like – IT’S OK.
For the
people of 21st century, this is not at all possible for them to be
soo kind hearted or can be an ideal women or an ideal wife.
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