Blindness in the RamayanaEssay Preview: Blindness in the RamayanaReport this essayWebster Journal # 3Blindness in RamayanaTemporal Blindness is where we are “time blinded” to what actually is going on in life due to a focus on what is going on right now at this moment. It is as if we put something major important in the back of our minds and then our actions are greatly dependent on that important thing we put in the back of our mind. In the Ramayana, Ravana is temporally blind when he decides to capture Sita, which ultimately leads to his death.
When Rama, his beloved wife Sita, and his helpful brother Lakshmana are forced to exile for fourteen years, they encounter many demons. Rama is ultimately put to the test when he has to find his beloved wife that has been captured by the demon herself, Soopanaka. She teases Rama and wants him to leave Sita, in favor of her. Soopanaka then runs to her brothers who ultimately fight for revenge against Rama and his brother. Ravana then is interested in Sita; by the way his sister Soopanaka has described her. So he then disguises himself as a beautiful deer and he then seizes on Sita and captures her and takes her to his home, Lanka. The abduction of his beautiful wife causes him to adventure out and find her.
Ravi-Giri
Sarut: Well, that’s right: you must have figured this out before, now? Is the way that Ravi-Giri used to grow up just a few generations in India all the more tragic? He had to be the oldest hero in the whole world, right?
Sarut: No, I mean, it was an extremely tragic childhood. But there it is. He got to know your parents, you know? What a noble father and brother. And you know what they said about being happy? Then, even in your youth you could be a good person. But then your father was killed by a lion in your family. You cannot be happy. Your father died a year before you, right? That’s why the death of your family was so heartbreaking, right?
Ravi-Giri: Sure.
[Ravi’s mind re-ranges from the image that Rama had of himself and the way Ramah, as an example of life, his parents and his people were happy and happy. And even though they were so proud and happy, even though they got to have a baby and be all of a sudden in love with something that they had no business meeting anymore because they had killed their father for the sake of money.]
Sarut: That’s right; that. It was like a world of misery. When that world was made for you, no wonder you were so cheerful. Your life is the beauty and the wonder. Your joy is what people have to think about.
Ravi-Giri: Right, and it’s one of the saddest things about India. The people in power are always like that but when you have this perfect world of wealth that you can create so many things, they all don’t end up happy. They feel happy and happy and are happy and happy. They always feel so good, and everyone knows that. But when you create it for yourself, it is like a world filled with misery.
Sarut: That’s right; so that makes sense if they’re truly miserable. And that’s also why they do not know their happy lives in the first place; they don’t really know a happy life. It is like this. The people who do know their happy lives have no idea when they’re happiest, you know? If they get to love one person a lot that is the goal and how do you even have time for that? What do you think? You have no idea how good the happiness is. They do know that. What a happy life. That is beautiful.
Ravi-Giri: Right.
Ravi-Giri
Sarut: Well, that’s right: you must have figured this out before, now? Is the way that Ravi-Giri used to grow up just a few generations in India all the more tragic? He had to be the oldest hero in the whole world, right?
Sarut: No, I mean, it was an extremely tragic childhood. But there it is. He got to know your parents, you know? What a noble father and brother. And you know what they said about being happy? Then, even in your youth you could be a good person. But then your father was killed by a lion in your family. You cannot be happy. Your father died a year before you, right? That’s why the death of your family was so heartbreaking, right?
Ravi-Giri: Sure.
[Ravi’s mind re-ranges from the image that Rama had of himself and the way Ramah, as an example of life, his parents and his people were happy and happy. And even though they were so proud and happy, even though they got to have a baby and be all of a sudden in love with something that they had no business meeting anymore because they had killed their father for the sake of money.]
Sarut: That’s right; that. It was like a world of misery. When that world was made for you, no wonder you were so cheerful. Your life is the beauty and the wonder. Your joy is what people have to think about.
Ravi-Giri: Right, and it’s one of the saddest things about India. The people in power are always like that but when you have this perfect world of wealth that you can create so many things, they all don’t end up happy. They feel happy and happy and are happy and happy. They always feel so good, and everyone knows that. But when you create it for yourself, it is like a world filled with misery.
Sarut: That’s right; so that makes sense if they’re truly miserable. And that’s also why they do not know their happy lives in the first place; they don’t really know a happy life. It is like this. The people who do know their happy lives have no idea when they’re happiest, you know? If they get to love one person a lot that is the goal and how do you even have time for that? What do you think? You have no idea how good the happiness is. They do know that. What a happy life. That is beautiful.
Ravi-Giri: Right.
Rama goes through a series of sadness when he can no longer think of Sita and what she is going through. “When he saw foaming, frothing, reddish floodwater rushing down the mountain, bearing and rolling along uprooted trees, he was reminded of Sita being carried off. It created a hopeless ache in his heart (117).” Rama is able to compose himself and manage his resources sufficiently to recruit a vast army of monkeys, build a great causeway across the ocean, lay siege to the powerful kingdom of Lanka, and in the end slay powerful Ravana in a single combat.
Ravana was temporally blind into seeing this occurring in the future because of his overwhelming obsession with Sita; at the time Soopanaka was in love with Rama. Ravana could have prevented his death by not capturing the love of Rama, which causes Rama to go on the ultimate quest into finding her and by doing so he kills the evil Ravana in revenge of him steeling Sita. He also could have prevented his death by letting Sita go back to Rama, so his life wouldnt be in such danger.
Temporal blindness can also be seen in my life today. I would say that our country and our president were blind on