Recall how SItA was drawn outside LakShmaNa rekhA by rAvaNa in the guise of a sAdhu.
[rAma is the mind immersed in Brahman. sItA is shakti, the active form of rAma just as shakti is the active form of shiva. Taking the form of manas, sItA was entranced by the golden deer. Even though possessing it was not an adhArmic desire, it led to the abandonment of buddhi, which is symbolized by rAma being asked to leave the Ashrama and go get the deer. LakShmaNa plays the part of residual buddhi, that still warns manas to not cross the line or LakShmaNa rekhA.
Nevertheless, knowingly or unknowingly (depending on whether one conceives of sItA as shakti or manas), sItA performs dharma by giving alms to the sAdhu. So she is faultless. But even this sAttvic act seems to lead to great distress because rAma as a man is puruSha ensnared by the guNas and consequently appears to suffer.]
Yet, in this play, enact dharma, actorless action for purifying the mind. Even knowing rAvaNA's true intentions sItA went out to satisfy dharma so mind could be purified. What is all of life if not this? Yet the mind does not learn and on account of ignorance pursues the passions gets deluded and suffers.
[This is an injunction to the mind to enact dharma in this play called life.]
Actorless action is also the essence of the bhagavad gItA in the mahAbhArata.
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