DEAR READERS,
"GREED ARISES FROM ATTACHMENT TO THE SENSES AND CATERING TO THEM. PUT THEM IN THEIR PROPER PLACE ; THEY ARE WINDOWS FOR KNOWLEDGE, NO CHANNELS OF CONTAMINATION"------ THE TEACHER SAYS TO THE STUDENT.
HERE, THE STUDENT IS LAXMAN--- BROTHER OF LORD RAMA AND THE
TEACHER IS RAVANA ---- THE DEVIL OF RAMAYANA. THIS WOULD BE THE LAST THING THAT YOU ALL WANT TO HEAR IN YOUR LIFETIME.
BUT WAS RAVANA A REAL DEVIL OR THERE ARE SOME CARDS WHICH ARE STILL UNTURNED ????? WHAT WAS HIS REAL IDENTITY ???
DUSSEHRA MIGHT BE A FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE THE TRIUMPH OF GOOD OVER THE EVIL. BUT IT IS THE SMALLER PART OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY. RAVANA'S LIFE WAS EVEN MORE BROADER THAN THAT--- AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN THESE SCHEME OF THINGS. HE IS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST SCHOLARS THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. TECHNICALLY, HE WAS THE GREAT GRANDSON OF LORD BRAHMA -- THE CREATOR. RAVANA WAS BORN TO RISHI VISHRAVA WHO WAS THE SON OF PRAJAPATI PULASTYA---- ON OF BRAHMA'S TEN MIND BORN SONS.
HE WAS A MASTER IN ASTROLOGY AND WAS THE AUTHOR OF SATYA SAMHITA WHICH IS STILL NOW REFERED BY ASTROLOGERS. HE WAS SO PROFICIENT IN HIS WORK THAT WHEN HIS SON MEGHNAAD WAS BORN HE INSTRUCTED THE PLANETS TO BE IN THE 11TH HOUSE OF CHILD TO GRANT HIM IMMORTALITY. BUT, SHANI (SATURN) MOVED INTO 12TH HOUSE AND HENCE IRKING RAVANA TO IMPRISON HIM.
IT WAS IN HIS FATE THAT HE WAS TO BE KILLED BY LORD RAMA AS PER THE CURSE GIVEN BY THE MIND BORNS OF BRAHMA. HE AND HIS BROTHER KUMBHAKARNA WERE THE GATE KEEPERS OF LORD VISHNU WHEN THEY MISTOOK THE MIND BORNS OF BRAHMA AS NAKED CHILDREN. THEY WERE CURSED TO GET IMPARTED FROM THEIR LORD AND SPEND 3 LIFETIMES AS LORD VISHNU'S ENEMIES. THIS RESULTED IN BECOMING RAVANA AND KUMBHAKARNA IN ONE SUCH LIFETIME.
THE ONLY FACTOR THAT MADE HIM DEVIL WAS THE ABDUCTION OF SITA. IT WAS A PURE VENGEANCE OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH HIS SISTER WHEN SHE TRIED TU LURE LORD RAMA AND LAXMAN CUT HER NOSE. BUT, SOME OF THE TEXT OF RAMAYANA SAYS THAT SITA WAS RAVANA'S DAUGHTER NAMED VEDAVATI WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS FATHER'S DEATH. RAVANA THREW HER AND SHE WAS THEN HANDED TO JANAK AS HER DAUGHTER BY BHOOMIDEVI. THIS WAS THE REAL REASON WHY RAVANA NEVER TOUCHED SITA AFTER ABDUCTING HER. HE NEVER THOUGHT OF HER IN THE OTHER SENSE AND WAS TAKING THE REVENGE FROM RAM.
HE ALSO PERFORMED A POWERFUL YAGNA OF SHIVA TO TURNED THE TIDE OF WAR ON HIS SIDE. EVERYBODY WAS WELL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THIS YAGNA WOULD MAKE HIM POWERFUL AND TO SOME EXTENT EVEN IMMORTAL. AFTER ALL SORTS OF TRIES OF DISRUPTION , ANGAD ON THE ADVICE OF LORD RAMA MERCILESSLY DRAGGED HIS WIFE MANDODARI TO BREAK HIS MEDITATION. IT ALSO DIDN'T AFFECT RAVANA AND FINALLY WHEN MANDODARI SCREAMED AND SHOUTED ON RAVANA, HE FINALLY BROKE HIS MEDITATION TO SAVE HER.
WAS THAT A RIGHT THING DONE BY LORD RAM AND HIS ARMY ???
VALMIKI HAS STATED IN RAMAYANA THAT "RAVANA WAS THE GREATEST DEVOTEE OF SHIVA" AND WAS THE PERSON WHO COMPOSED RUDRA-SHASTRA TO IMPRESS HIM. IN ONE OF HIS ACT HE REQUESTED SHIVA TO LEAVE KAILASH AND COME TO LANKA. WHEN HE REFUSED HE ANGRILY TRIED TO LIFT MOUNT KAILASH AND BRING IT TO LANKA. LORD SHIVA BEING WHO HE HIS, PUT DOWN HIS ONE TOE AND PRESSED HIS FINGER. HE ROARED IN AGONY AND CHANTED THE RUDRA-STOTRA OR WHAT WE KNOW AS SHIVATANDAVSTOTRA PLEADING HIM TO EXCUSE. THE ROAR OF AGONY AND THE CHANTS WERE SO POWERFUL THAT IT GIVE A SHIVERING EFFECT TO THE UNIVERSE. HENCE, LORD SHIVA NAMED HIM "RAVANA" WHICH MEANS "THE KING WHO ROARS ".
THE COIN HAS TWO SIDES AND THAT IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO HUMAN BEINGS. IF ONE SIDE IS BAD , THE OTHER IS GOOD. IF YOU LOOK AT THE BAD SIDE THEN HAVE A LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE ALSO. OBVIOUSLY, THE INDIAN MYTHOLOGY IS BEYOND IMAGINATION. IT IS NOT JUST GOOD VS BAD OR LIGHT VS DARK. DIG DEEPER TO UNDERSTAND BETTER. I ALWAYS SAY THAT THEY FACED THIS SCENARIO ALL BECAUSE OF THE FATE AND DESTINY. IF RAVANA WOULD HAVE COMPLETED THE YAGNA , THE STORY WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. IF JAYA-VIJAYA THE GATEKEEPERS WOULDN'T HAVE MOCKED THE MIND BORNS, THEIR WOULDN'T HAVE ANYBODY WITH THE NAME RAVANA AND KUMBHAKARNA.
EVEN LORD RAMA KNEW ABOUT THE INTELLIGENCE OF RAVANA, ALTHOUGH HE WAS A DEVIL IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE , LAXMAN SAT AT THE FEET OF RAVANA TO LEARN THE LESSONS ON LIFE, DIPLOMACY. ASTROLOGY. RAVANA PLAYED THE ROLE OF VILLIAN BUT IT WAS NECESSARY TO BALANCE THE EQUATION WITH THAT OF THE HERO --- LORD RAMA. IT SAYS THAT HE MIGHT BE A VILLIAN FOR PEOPLE BUT A GREAT FATHER , HUSBAND AND ABOVE ALL THE SUPREME DEVOTEE.
YOU LIVE THE LIFE AS PER YOUR WISH AND RELISH IT --- TRIUMPH OVER LIFE.
BUT.........
YOU DO WHAT IS DESTINED --- TRIUMPH OF DESTINY OVER YOU.
"GREED ARISES FROM ATTACHMENT TO THE SENSES AND CATERING TO THEM. PUT THEM IN THEIR PROPER PLACE ; THEY ARE WINDOWS FOR KNOWLEDGE, NO CHANNELS OF CONTAMINATION"------ THE TEACHER SAYS TO THE STUDENT.
HERE, THE STUDENT IS LAXMAN--- BROTHER OF LORD RAMA AND THE
TEACHER IS RAVANA ---- THE DEVIL OF RAMAYANA. THIS WOULD BE THE LAST THING THAT YOU ALL WANT TO HEAR IN YOUR LIFETIME.
BUT WAS RAVANA A REAL DEVIL OR THERE ARE SOME CARDS WHICH ARE STILL UNTURNED ????? WHAT WAS HIS REAL IDENTITY ???
DUSSEHRA MIGHT BE A FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE THE TRIUMPH OF GOOD OVER THE EVIL. BUT IT IS THE SMALLER PART OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY. RAVANA'S LIFE WAS EVEN MORE BROADER THAN THAT--- AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN THESE SCHEME OF THINGS. HE IS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST SCHOLARS THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. TECHNICALLY, HE WAS THE GREAT GRANDSON OF LORD BRAHMA -- THE CREATOR. RAVANA WAS BORN TO RISHI VISHRAVA WHO WAS THE SON OF PRAJAPATI PULASTYA---- ON OF BRAHMA'S TEN MIND BORN SONS.
HE WAS A MASTER IN ASTROLOGY AND WAS THE AUTHOR OF SATYA SAMHITA WHICH IS STILL NOW REFERED BY ASTROLOGERS. HE WAS SO PROFICIENT IN HIS WORK THAT WHEN HIS SON MEGHNAAD WAS BORN HE INSTRUCTED THE PLANETS TO BE IN THE 11TH HOUSE OF CHILD TO GRANT HIM IMMORTALITY. BUT, SHANI (SATURN) MOVED INTO 12TH HOUSE AND HENCE IRKING RAVANA TO IMPRISON HIM.
IT WAS IN HIS FATE THAT HE WAS TO BE KILLED BY LORD RAMA AS PER THE CURSE GIVEN BY THE MIND BORNS OF BRAHMA. HE AND HIS BROTHER KUMBHAKARNA WERE THE GATE KEEPERS OF LORD VISHNU WHEN THEY MISTOOK THE MIND BORNS OF BRAHMA AS NAKED CHILDREN. THEY WERE CURSED TO GET IMPARTED FROM THEIR LORD AND SPEND 3 LIFETIMES AS LORD VISHNU'S ENEMIES. THIS RESULTED IN BECOMING RAVANA AND KUMBHAKARNA IN ONE SUCH LIFETIME.
THE ONLY FACTOR THAT MADE HIM DEVIL WAS THE ABDUCTION OF SITA. IT WAS A PURE VENGEANCE OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH HIS SISTER WHEN SHE TRIED TU LURE LORD RAMA AND LAXMAN CUT HER NOSE. BUT, SOME OF THE TEXT OF RAMAYANA SAYS THAT SITA WAS RAVANA'S DAUGHTER NAMED VEDAVATI WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS FATHER'S DEATH. RAVANA THREW HER AND SHE WAS THEN HANDED TO JANAK AS HER DAUGHTER BY BHOOMIDEVI. THIS WAS THE REAL REASON WHY RAVANA NEVER TOUCHED SITA AFTER ABDUCTING HER. HE NEVER THOUGHT OF HER IN THE OTHER SENSE AND WAS TAKING THE REVENGE FROM RAM.
HE ALSO PERFORMED A POWERFUL YAGNA OF SHIVA TO TURNED THE TIDE OF WAR ON HIS SIDE. EVERYBODY WAS WELL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THIS YAGNA WOULD MAKE HIM POWERFUL AND TO SOME EXTENT EVEN IMMORTAL. AFTER ALL SORTS OF TRIES OF DISRUPTION , ANGAD ON THE ADVICE OF LORD RAMA MERCILESSLY DRAGGED HIS WIFE MANDODARI TO BREAK HIS MEDITATION. IT ALSO DIDN'T AFFECT RAVANA AND FINALLY WHEN MANDODARI SCREAMED AND SHOUTED ON RAVANA, HE FINALLY BROKE HIS MEDITATION TO SAVE HER.
WAS THAT A RIGHT THING DONE BY LORD RAM AND HIS ARMY ???
VALMIKI HAS STATED IN RAMAYANA THAT "RAVANA WAS THE GREATEST DEVOTEE OF SHIVA" AND WAS THE PERSON WHO COMPOSED RUDRA-SHASTRA TO IMPRESS HIM. IN ONE OF HIS ACT HE REQUESTED SHIVA TO LEAVE KAILASH AND COME TO LANKA. WHEN HE REFUSED HE ANGRILY TRIED TO LIFT MOUNT KAILASH AND BRING IT TO LANKA. LORD SHIVA BEING WHO HE HIS, PUT DOWN HIS ONE TOE AND PRESSED HIS FINGER. HE ROARED IN AGONY AND CHANTED THE RUDRA-STOTRA OR WHAT WE KNOW AS SHIVATANDAVSTOTRA PLEADING HIM TO EXCUSE. THE ROAR OF AGONY AND THE CHANTS WERE SO POWERFUL THAT IT GIVE A SHIVERING EFFECT TO THE UNIVERSE. HENCE, LORD SHIVA NAMED HIM "RAVANA" WHICH MEANS "THE KING WHO ROARS ".
THE COIN HAS TWO SIDES AND THAT IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO HUMAN BEINGS. IF ONE SIDE IS BAD , THE OTHER IS GOOD. IF YOU LOOK AT THE BAD SIDE THEN HAVE A LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE ALSO. OBVIOUSLY, THE INDIAN MYTHOLOGY IS BEYOND IMAGINATION. IT IS NOT JUST GOOD VS BAD OR LIGHT VS DARK. DIG DEEPER TO UNDERSTAND BETTER. I ALWAYS SAY THAT THEY FACED THIS SCENARIO ALL BECAUSE OF THE FATE AND DESTINY. IF RAVANA WOULD HAVE COMPLETED THE YAGNA , THE STORY WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. IF JAYA-VIJAYA THE GATEKEEPERS WOULDN'T HAVE MOCKED THE MIND BORNS, THEIR WOULDN'T HAVE ANYBODY WITH THE NAME RAVANA AND KUMBHAKARNA.
EVEN LORD RAMA KNEW ABOUT THE INTELLIGENCE OF RAVANA, ALTHOUGH HE WAS A DEVIL IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE , LAXMAN SAT AT THE FEET OF RAVANA TO LEARN THE LESSONS ON LIFE, DIPLOMACY. ASTROLOGY. RAVANA PLAYED THE ROLE OF VILLIAN BUT IT WAS NECESSARY TO BALANCE THE EQUATION WITH THAT OF THE HERO --- LORD RAMA. IT SAYS THAT HE MIGHT BE A VILLIAN FOR PEOPLE BUT A GREAT FATHER , HUSBAND AND ABOVE ALL THE SUPREME DEVOTEE.
YOU LIVE THE LIFE AS PER YOUR WISH AND RELISH IT --- TRIUMPH OVER LIFE.
BUT.........
YOU DO WHAT IS DESTINED --- TRIUMPH OF DESTINY OVER YOU.
I guess u have misunderstood.. Indian scriptures are not mythology its science.. If u read bhagavad gita or bhagvatam u ll know that its not a mythology bt science in reality.
ReplyDeleteAnd the vedavati thing is completely wrong.. Vedavati was not ravana's daughter but maya sita. Who had cursed ravana in her previous birth because of which ravan did nor touch sita.
And lakshman never fell at the feet of ravan
I think u should give authenticated information.
http://induspupil.blogspot.in/2012/09/ravana-samhita-niti-shastra-of-ravana.html
Deletehttp://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/know-the-teachings-that-ravana-gave-to-laxman-on-his-deathbed-33488.html
http://motivateme.in/lessons-to-laxman-by-ravana/
http://www.speakingtree.in/blog/what-did-lakshman-learn-from-ravana
http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/sita-was-the-daughter-of-ravana
perceptions are different for each and every individual. if someone is pictured bad that doesn't me he/she doesn't have a positive side. i neither support or deny your fact.
DeleteTrue!!! He was a great devotee.. But according to scriptures the points i told are true.. U can read cantos of bhagvatam
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