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18. The Soul’s Sorrows
Sitaji’s greatness is evident from this incident. Her amazing
answer is really worth appreciation.
On such an instance, an ordinary woman would reply, ‘‘You
may go ahead if you wish. My blessings are with you.
But make sure you do not hurt either your father or your
uncle.”
An ordinary woman may reply in this manner. But she
was extraordinary. She did not recollect her past trials and
tribulations. Even today, she did not blame her husband Rama
for her troubles. She did not harbor any hard feelings for him.
Then why would she support any talks which were against
him ? You may feel that –
Q. It is possible that she did not harbor ill feelings towards
her husband but how is it possible that she forgot the
immense troubles that she had to undergo ?
A. She made it possible because she very well understood that
there was no point in remembering the past troubles and
thus taxing the mind. Instead, she remembered the living
beings in hell who were continuously being tortured and
punished without a single gleam of happiness and hope.
Compared to that, she considered her trouble of being
thrown in the forest to be meager.
The sorrows of hell :
(1) Like iron is beaten, a creature in hell is also beaten with
iron weapons.
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