RAMAYANA SHOULD FIND IT PLACE IN HISTORY AND NOT MYTHOLOGY

This aberration has been pervading since time immemorial in various references to the epic event in India, supposedly the place where the Ramayana took place. On one side we see people fighting for construction of temple at the birth place of Lord Rama whereas on the other side there are innumerable books and statements where Ramayana is referred to as a mythological epic. Researchers and archeologists at various times have found subtle evidences of true happening of the event, but still nobody took half as much pain to remove Ramayana from the list of Mythological stories and place it in the list of historic events, as they have been doing to construct a temple for Lord Rama.

I am not sure when exactly they published it, but NASA have published the latest and may be by far the strongest evidence that Ramayana as an event did happen in Indian history. The NASA satellites have captured digital pictures of an ancient bridge made up of shoals between India and Sri Lanka, about 30 kms long in the Pak Straits. The composition of the bridge and its shape made them believe that it is man made. As per archeological studies, the first inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to about 17,50,000 years and the experts at NASA state that the bridge may be equally old. This goes a long way in proving the existence of the bridge built by the monkeys lead by Lord Hanuman to help his army reach Ravana in Sri Lanka.

So it is of utmost importance that at least we in India, try to link of all these evidences and put all efforts in establishment of the fact that Ramayana was in fact a historic event, rather than a mythological story. This is because for ages now we have been narrating the story of Ramayana to children to teach them about how a true devotee should be, who is a righteous king, power of women, true love of a wife, what is brotherly love and sacrifice and that the brother’s wife is a mother too, among many other morals contained in the story. But at the same time we also teach them that Ramayana is one of the greatest mythological stories in India. So as the children grow they are given to understand that all idealistic personalities live only in mythology and one can never emulate them in real life. The result is the depleting human values that we see all around the world.

So the establishing of Ramayana as a major event that in fact happened in the Indian history would be real confidence booster for generations to come that God had truly incarnated in the earth in the form of Rama and that people did live a life of righteousness with great ideals and true devotees where there and instill a belief in them that history can definitely be repeated.