Reading Notes: Ramayana, Sita Sings the Blues, Part B

Reading Notes: Ramayana, Sita Sings the Blues, Part B

Sita in Exile from Wikipedia

• -         Sita breaks the news to Rama that she is pregnant

• -         There were suspicious that she wasn’t pregnant with Rama’s child, and Rama                       heard them and being to be suspicious

• -         The laundromat said that he is not like Rama who will take back his wife after her               being in another man’s house  

• -         The laundromat kicked his wife out of his life for being with another man

• -         Seeing this Rama decided to also take Sita out of his life

• -         Lakshmana tells Sita to get ready for a trip

• -         Rama tells Lakshmana to send her away to the forests

• -         To be a king he must send Sita away to be like the common man

• -         Rama must have had doubts that Sita was impure

• -         Sita is sent to the forest while she is pregnant

• -         She suspects that it must be her karma from a past life that she has been given                    such a punishment

• -         Sita wonders if she even deserves this treatment by Rama

• -         While in the forest she meets Valmiki, who supports her and guides her

• -         Sita gives birth to twin boys – Luv and Kush

• -         Valmiki teaches the twins Luv and Kush songs that praise Rama

• -         Luv and Kush sang in the forest with Valmiki

• -         Sita kept doing pooja everyday even though Rama sent her away

• -         Yet Sita keeps praying for him because of her undying, unconditional love for him

• -         Rama heard Luv and Kush singing in the forest and asked his two sons to come to              Ayodhya with him to rule for eterntiy with their father (Rama)

• -         Sita also asked to come back and Rama told her to prove her purity

• -         Sita proves her innocence as mother earth takes her back into her womb

• -         Sita leaves Rama while she remembers all her moments with Rama

BiBibliography: Nina Paley's 2008 Sita Sings the Blues

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