From the Sacred India Tarot, the Ten of Staves; from the Land Sky Oracle, Ahimsa:
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
― Robert Jordan
King Rama had already asked his wife Sita to walk through fire to prove her purity to others after she returned from being kidnapped. Yet his subjects didn't truly believe that she was undefiled; when Rama needed her for an important ceremony, he asked her to go through another fire ceremony. Sita, however, was not a people pleaser. Being the daughter of Mother Earth, she requested to return to Nature, where she no longer had to deal with the rules and judgments of men. Sita understood that Ahimsa, the moral restraint that encourages nonharm and compassion, applies not only to how we treat others, but also oneself. She knew that false obligation (expectations that are not promised) and wanting to be liked were invalid reasons to cause harm to herself. Rama could have learned a thing or two from her.
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