Significantly, the moment Rama kicks Sita out for the second time, comes directly after a long passage in which Rama makes love to Sita passionately, drinks wine with her, for many days on end the banishment comes as a direct reaction against the sensual indulgence.“ The banishment of a pregnant Sita by Rama in the Ramayana remains the most troubling and perplexing event for many Indian people. Rama banishes Sita as Dasharatha has banished Rama. “Rama thinks that sex is putting him in political danger (keeping his allegedly unchaste wife will make the people revolt), but in fact he has it backward: Politics is driving Rama to make a sexual and religious mistake public concerns make him banish the wife he loves. How “scholars” on Hinduism are propagating their “interpretation on banishment of Sita” to banish Ram from our lives.īelow is a sample from the best-selling book by Wendy Doigner, acclaimed scholar on Hinduism:
