DEBATABLE EVENTS
With reference to my dissertation work I have
studied the view of Mr.C.Ramanathan on some debatable events which I would like
to mention here to clear the concept of ethics in the Ramayana such as Ethics
of Promise Keeping, Ethics in killing without enmity, Virtues of devotion and
loyalty, Morality of killing Vali, Morality of Rama’s treatment of Sita, Ethics
of abandonment of Sita, The Socially depressed, Varna hierarchy, Varna and the
ashrama system, Purusarthas, Emotional ethics of Lakshman, Surrender of
Vibhishana, Ethics of war,Truth, Fatalism. Events of the Ramayana are purported to the value
of dharma, artha and kama which have social ethical valuation. Character of
Rama’s emphasizing as an ethical hero. Aurobindo has also said that the
Ramayana gives us the picture of an entirely moralized civilization containing
indeed vast material development and immense intellectual power, but both
moralized and subordinated to the purity of temperament and delicate
idealization of action. It is fact that the Ramayana was written with the
purpose of propagating the social and cultural value of the society. According
to the Ramayana we should behave like Rama and not as Ravana which
distinguished dharma and adharma. Events of the Ramayana narrated more
practical ethics as every character’s related with purusarthas and their wish
to achieve goals of dharma, artha, kama and moksa. 
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