Why did the sages who told the Puraanas involve themselves in such difficulties?
Their aim was to awaken people to a sense of the dangers of adharma. Else, the sages need
not have deliberately attributed sinful acts to their own heroes and created difficulties
for themselves.
Some persons take pleasure in jumping to
wrong conclusions from the incidents in the Puranas. They argue: "Raavana was a very
good king. Vaalmeeki has falsely accused him of wicked deeds." They ask: "Did
not Raama act unjustly on a certain occasion? Did not Seeta utter a lie?" and the
like. Vaalmeeki could well have omitted incidents which are not edifying. Both Raama
and Raavana were first presented to us by the poet Vaalmeeki. |
