Saturday, January 31, 2015

Ramayana and Anthropic Principle

It was sleep time and I was trying to make my son sleep by telling Ramayana story. The story reached Dandakaranya forest. Seetha saw the golden deer and she sent Rama to bring it to her. Finally Rama realized it was not deer but Mareecha and sent his arrow to kill Mareecha. Then Mareecha started crying in Rama's voice to misguide Lakshmana and Seetha. By listening Rama's voice Seetha got worried and argued with Lakshmana and convinced him to go for helping Rama. Lakshmana drew the famous Lakshmana-rekha and went to help Rama leaving Seetha alone...

At this point, my Son stopped me and asked. "Father, why Seetha didn't go along-with Lakshmana to help her Husband?"

I managed by telling something. But actually what is the reason? May be there were many Seethas who went along-with Lakshmana. But none of them are known to us. Only when Seetha decided to stay alone, the story became Ramayana.