Sita Sings the Blues

                                                             Sita Sings The Blues 

                                           

The movie Sita Sings the blues is clearly a modern day description of the great epic Ramayana. It clearly gives insight to the people those who have don’t have much knowledge about Ramayana. In the movie it cleverly explains about the different characters of the epic. The story tells the different incidents of the Ramayana and deeply explains about its aspects. Moreover it makes us understand real meaning and virtue of the epic. Also  as in the movie there are different questions asked it becomes more easy and clear view of Ramayana  and can be understood properly. Ramayana has remained a vital story through the present time in India, and is widely accepted as a religious text among Hindus.Ramayana is an epic which makes us inspire by the moral, social, spiritual values,  virtues, respect and many more good qualities.

 Also in the epic it describes about the love towards their beloved and respect of the elders which is necessary in life. The story of Rama teaches us the threefold Dharma pertaining to the individual, the family and the society. The story of the Ramayana reveals the ideal relationship that should exist between brothers. Lakshmana and Satrughna served Rama and Bharata respectively with utmost devotion and sincerity. When Lakshmana fainted in the battlefield, Rama lamented, "In this world I might find another mother like Kausalya, a wife like Sita, but definitely not a brother like Lakshmana." A brother should be like this - one who respects elders and brings name and fame to the whole family. It is the unity amongst the brothers that brought reputation to the whole family.Also from the Ramayana we can know how to live one’s life and various other virtues. In it we can take the lesson of Lord Rama who respected his parents and used to agree with the decisions taken by their parents although it was not in his favour which showed the importance of parent and respect towards them. It also describes us about how he followed the order given by his parents for 14 years vanvaas which showed the courtesy towards the elders. It shows our culture, our traditions and heritage of pure ethics and hallowed principles. As Rama had gone for vanvaas during which Sita was kidnapped by Ravana and then the whole story about love, envy, faith arrived. Ravana took Sita to his palace but the great part of it was that he did not even touched Sita and just requested her to marry him. But Sita remained very loyal to his husband Rama and had faith in Rama that he would surely come to save him.Although the place was very far Rama sent Hanuman to bring Sita back but Sita  refused to come and told Rama itself should come. So Rama decided to bring Sita and for that he had to cross  the ocean which was very large. So Hanuman decided to help him and he made a bridge connecting the palace of Ravan. Rama asserts his dedication to dharma when he undertakes to offer Ravana a final chance to make peace, despite his heinous actions and patronage of evil, by immediately returning Sita and apologizing to both Rama and Sita, but Ravana refuses. In the war, Rama slays the most powerful rakshasa commanders, including Prahasta, Atikaya , etc. He outfights Ravana in their first battle, destroying his chariot and weapons, and severely injuring him, but due to this, he allows him to live and return to fight another day. Atlast Rama engages Ravana, who through the devastation of losing his sons, his brothers and friends and millions of his warriors, arouses his awesome and magical powers and makes full use of the boons of Siva and Brahma, and the magical knowledge of warfare possessed by the greatest of rakshasas. Rama and Ravana compete fiercely, inflicting severe injuries on one another with the most powerful weapons that could destroy the universe. After a long and arduous battle, Rama successfully decapitates Ravana's central head, but an ugly head, symbolic of all of Ravana's evil powers arises in its place. Rama worships Lord Aditya, the Sun, with the famous Aditya Hridayam prayer and then invokes Prasvapna. Rama fires the great arrow that enters Ravana's chest/stomach and evaporates the store of amrit, finally killing him.

Thus by this epic we can know that our ethics are really important in one’s life and by understanding them properly we can win the race of life.Hence Ramayan is famous all over the world due to the ethics and the great virtues hidden in it.