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So if you or your family is from India, you’d know who Rama was. Hindus worship him as a God and believe him to be their savior. But looking at Rama’s whole life, we’d see that his life was filled with FAILURE at every phase.
- Rama was born a prince, married a beautiful princess, Sita, then became king upon his father’s death. So far so good.
- But then, one of his stepmoms [he had 3] exiled him to 14 years in a forest. [In those days, kids listened to their parents, no matter how wrong, irrational, illogical, and emotional they were, lol, and even if they were “step” parents]. The stepmom did so to ensure that her own son, and not her stepson, could ascend the throne.
- So Rama and his princess bride went to the forest. One of his brothers followed too. [He was a prince too, so not sure why he thought he could be of any more help to the prince & princess, lol. But his is a story of brotherly love so no judgment here.]
- Anyway, during their exile, Rama’s wife gets kidnapped — [It’s another long story that is not relevant here, so we’ll skip it.]
- Rama walked over 100 miles a day for ~20 days to find his wife. [Remember, there were no cars or planes then and not sure how he could walk that many miles, but again, that’s a story for another day.]
- He fought Ravan and retrieved his bride. Unfortunately for him and his bride, the world judged her to be “not pure” since she’d spend 20 some days with the kidnapper. Sigh!
