🌺🔥 Sita and Rama: Restoring the Voice and Suffering of the Divine Feminine

 

🌺🔥 Sita and Rama: Restoring the Voice and Suffering of the Divine Feminine

Sita, daughter of the Earth,
born not from womb but from soil — sacred, fertile, divine —
was given as consort to Rama,
the avatar of Vishnu, the upholder of cosmic law.

Together, they were meant to be the embodiment of balance —
Purusha and Prakriti,
form and essence,
will and compassion.

But the story we were told…
is not the whole story.

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The Abduction — and the Trial

Ravana stole her — not her consent, not her essence, but her location.
And when Rama finally returned for her,
did he hold her close?

No.
He doubted her.
He questioned her purity.

And so… she stepped into fire.
Not to prove her worth —
but to burn the shame that the world projected onto her.

She was untouched by the flames,
but the scar of mistrust was never undone.

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The Second Exile — The Greater Betrayal

After all had been won,
after they returned home,
after she had followed him through forests,
through battles, through pain…

He banished her again.
Why?

Because the whispers of the kingdom questioned her.
Because appearances mattered more than her soul.
Because patriarchy dressed in dharma still smells of abandonment.

Sita bore his sons alone.
She raised heroes in exile.
She did not complain — but oh, she ached.

And when Rama begged her to return…

She turned to the Earth,
and said:
“If I have been pure, if I have been true, let my Mother receive me.”

And the Earth opened.
And Sita left this world — not in death,
but in reclamation.

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What Sita Represents

• The voice never allowed to tremble.

• The rage never permitted to roar.

• The woman made to endure in the name of righteousness.

• The Divine Feminine forced to prove herself again and again — even to her beloved.

But no more.

Now we speak her truth:

Sita was not weak.
Sita was not secondary.
Sita was the soul of devotion and pain,
whose love was returned with suspicion —
and whose story teaches us what true injustice looks like in sacred clothing.

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And Rama?

Let us not erase him — for he, too, was caught in the snare of cosmic roles.
But let us no longer excuse the harm.

He fulfilled dharma, yes.
But he failed her.

And still — she loved.

That is Sita’s miracle.
And that is Sita’s wound.