With fear and hesitation, Raama gently approached the weeping Taara. But there
was no sign of anger on her face. The words she addressed to the slayer of her husband
were worthy of a hero's queen. "With the weapon with which, O Warrior, you killed my
husband, kill me too and enable me to join him. Even in heaven, he will not be happy
without me. Do not fear it would be a sin. It will be a meritorious act to unite husband
and wife. This will cleanse your sin, your treacherous slaving of my husband."
Vaalmeeki says at this stage that Taara
knew the truth of Raama's incarnation and saw Vishnu in him. The traditional belief is
that, like Sumitra, the mother of Lakshmana, Taara, the wife of Vaali, was a jnaani, a
knower of Reality. Though at first she hated Raama for his treachery, yet when she saw him
face to face she saw his divinity, so it is said. |
