If you have to defend a lawyer married to a law firm, better start with a resignation. If it sounds silly, so is the soap opera about the Vice President (VP) of the USA who has been subject to a range of accusations from flirting with a widow in public to proselytizing the Second Lady whose roots happen to be from the same town I live in. I don't see nosy reporters or neighbors but have a feeling that as a spouse, mother and a lawyer she knows her rights better than any Juris Doctorate.
I however want to mention a few things from our scripture as seen through my occult glasses. It's quite simple if you can answer: Did Sati Devi marry Lord Siva for his good looks or tattva? It is well known that Lord Siva's tattva in few words is: "not to leave the last child behind". When Bharat was inundated with Vedic chants around the blazing fires of yagnas, who had time for the sanyasis, sadhus, digambaras, and handlers of crematoriums? Yagnas employed various priests, viz. rutvik, adhvaryu, udgata, brahma, hota, etc. Each of them had several assistants to sing, pour ghee into the holy fire, keep the fire from spreading outside the yagna platform, etc. There were others like somayaji where soma means the elixir extracted from a soma plant for the edification of gods led by Indra who was called a Subrahmanya because originally Subrahmanya meant the protector of holy vedas.
The Yagna-Economy flourished with the top of the varna system enjoying the benefits from their holy actions resulting in timely rains, bountiful harvest and overall prosperity. Then came the nagging feeling that all is not as rosy and peachy with those unemployed because vedas were not their cup of tea. A ganapaati might be a great title to possess with thousands of hours of practice reciting vedas, but it won't suit those who want to explore nature, swim in the oceans, gaze at the stars, and so on. Then there are social misfits who steal, pillage, plunder, etc. under intoxication and don't want to do an honest day's work. Some of them could actually be spreading the loot among the deserving poor.
Thus, the vedic period under the leadership of Prajapati had all of the key facets of modern agrarian economy and the concomitant problems. Therefore, it was Lord Siva who provided the last resort for the non-vedics who need someone to take them under the bosom when their atma leaves the mortal realm. There were at least two ways Lord Siva could rescue their souls: one way is to make them join his ganas or security force that protects the righteous and weak; the other way is to make them renounce everything and meditate on the Brahman. The latter are the aforementioned sanyasis, sadhus, digambaras, etc.
Coming back to the previous question, it is obvious to me that Sati Devi understood the tattva behind Lord Siva and considered him on par with or may be more than any vedic god whom her father Daksha Prajapati disapproved of. So in the swayamvaram, even though Lord Siva was not invited by Daksha, she showed her true love by laying the garland on Lord Siva's statue.
I surmise the VP has a similar tattva which is called MAGA or whatever the latest sound-byte is. He wants to change the course of the US loaded with a huge external debt, unregulated border crossings, and unbridled substance abuse to mention a few. His marriage to a telugu brahmin and the resulting progeny, though not exactly MAGA's cover page, provide the guiding star about the multi-polar world we are entering into. The discourse on the Second Lady in social media and elsewhere using epithets like "jeet" (that originated from the slang expression "Did you eat?") could do better.
A couple of closing remarks on "jeet" which means "to win" in Hindi. We have names like "Satrujeet" (conqueror of enemies), "Abhijeet", etc. So why does a Dravidian cohort think "jeet" is offensive? I think it is all posturing, a big-brotherly protective embrace, and the inherent disdain for the Indian national language.
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