Core Insight:
According to Osho, Valmiki’s “writing” Rama’s life beforehand is a profound joke: Rama, as a man of maryada—strict code and restraint—was so predictable that his script could be drafted in advance. It wasn’t literal foreknowledge, but a metaphor for a fixed, serial existence where each response—Sita’s abduction, agnipariksha, banishment—was predetermined. Krishna contrasts as unpredictable.