Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Justified - Rama killing Vali

Rama killed valli in  hiding is that right? The protector of Dharma itself does not walk the path of Dharma !! How can it be true , how come Rama with all his prowess kill some one in hiding

Below are the various justification
Rajaji's view

Owing to the protective virtue of Indra's necklace, Rama could not have met Vali face to face and vanquished him, just as Ravana could not be conquered by the gods. Rama could kill Vali only when himself unseen. And still the question stands, why should Vali have been killed at all?

Perhaps the answer is to be found in what Kabandha said to Rama in gratitude for being released from his curse. "Through Sugriva's friendship you will recover Sita," Sugriva's help not Vali's. And so Rama went in search of Sugriva, found him and pledged his friendship and consecrated it by fire. Sugriva had committed no unforgivable offence against Vali. Yet Vali, with his supernatural strength, persecuted his brother. Hearing the latter's complaint, Rama had pledged his word to kill Vali and restore to Sugriva his wife and make him king as his part of the contract of alliance. Thereafter, Rama had no alternative. To kill Vali from cover became an inevitable necessity. Rama erred in running after the magic deer to please his wife.

Consequent on this, difficulties and sorrows and conflicts of duty pursued him. If we keep in mind that when God takes a lower and limited form by His own ordinance, limitations follow and we should not be confused thereby. This is my humble view as against other explanations propounded by the pious.

Valmiki Ramayana View

In valmiki ramayana when valli after being hit by rama arrow goes on a spree of quesstions and questioning rama on how he can kill some one who is faced away in battle ie( killing someone from the back) and that he has done no harm to rama and he is monkey eating fruits and living in forests and he also tells rama that he would have brought ravana by his neck if he had asked him and goes on on but rama replies to him saying that valli acted unjustly and abused sugreeva's wife and that the law of the manu dictates if the king punishes the guilty the guilty will enter heaven absolved from sin but if the king does not punish the guilty , the king will bear the bolt of the sin comitted by the guilty at that time Bharata was the king and rama his brother was doing only what the king should do plus valli is just an animal and when u hunt u kill animals in hiding and its the nature of hunt and hence Rama justifies killing Valli


COORG WILDLIFE SOCIETY

The last time i visited coorg was in March and i was captivated and wat captivated me more was the coorg logo than the scenery and i have a big  one in the back of my car and when i went to coorg i went in a hired cab which had a sticker of an elephant with jungle beat return below and the driver explained me that thats a mysore sticker and there was some healthy competion between coorg and mysore but i have got both the stickers on my car as i love both the places both has its own charm and both are covered by forest

The other thing capivated me is my Jawa was originally a coorg regestired vehicle and the prev owner used to work in the coffee plantations and i imagine the good old days riding jawa in the twisties in the cold weather must have been amazing but gone are those days and now my jawa is in sunny chennai reminicing the age gone by

The best thing about coorg or mysore is that u have national park every within100km and free flowing river and the people are polite the food is funny but its good  but the worst part is though coffee is from coorg coorgies make horrible coffee its unpallable but noting beats Madras for its coffee any way if its adventure u want then coorg and mysore it is