KING OF AYODHYA

By Anil Shrivastava

The story of Ram is available in three hundred and fifty different languages of India and South East Asia. This book examines the different interpretations of the Ram Katha and attempts to go beyond the surface of the events mentioned to look at the deeper concept underlying it. The main subject i.e. the war between Ram and Rawan, is same but other descriptions vary greatly between the different versions. Due to lapse of thousands of years, difference in languages & areas such anomalies are quite natural. Therefore, Valmiki Ramayan has been taken as main base for this creation. The purpose of this creation, is not to justify the abandonment of Sita or slaying of Shambook, but only to analyze the life and character of Ram on the basis of available matter. Depending upon, available knowledge and capacity, I tried to clear the confusions regarding Ram. This creation is devoted to youth, who are fond of English and hate their own culture

• Language: English
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Release date: Aug 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9789384381820

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2013

PREFACE

Hindus always revered BHAGWAN Ram as seventh incarnation of bhagwan Vishnu and construed him as an ideal, obeying & practicing all rules and regulations as avowed in religion.

By the use of modern technology, birth of Lord Ram has been traced & established to 7000 years back.

Since then the legendry & charismatic personality, who was & is so popular and center of faith and worship among millions of people, is always reproached - by the blinkered followers, politicians, novice reserachers, sychophants in a manner which - not only hurts directly the sentiments of believers/ followersbut also refrains young generation from getting attracted towards the beauty and reality of Indian culture.

Incidents of recent past, where a renowned statesperson addressed to females in a meeting that Lord Ram is not a symbolic husband. To refute & as a matter of thought even Valmiki or Tulsidas or any other historian has ever claimed that Ram was a good husband.

I remember one more incident when a political party organized a procession abusing and insulting Ram’s idol on dashhara festival. Their argument was that Ram attacked on south India and killed the king and the day is celebrated in north India, so they will reply in the same manner.

Modern youth remains in confusion between contradictory sayings and grand festivals related to Ram.looking to the above problem, I decided myself to analyse the life and character of shri Ram, impartially and to put-up before youth and interested persons in simple language. This is the moto of this first creation with many mistakes being first effort, for which, I sincerely apologized before the authorities and devotees.Original Hindi version is already available on the website www.hinduwiki.in.

CONCEPT OF GOD

According to modern science, development of human being took place slowly slowly, such as homosapians, Neanderthal etc.after gradual development of brain, experience etc. when man started thinking, he saw and thought about the items existing before him. Such as air, land, cosmic bodies, fire, trees, snakes etc. In the very beginning, he started to worship all the items, which were essential for life or harmful for life.then he thought of some immortal and omnipotent power, which is the creator and cause of all the things. Thus god came into existence as supreme power, omni potent, omni present, omniscient, immortal who saves from all the crisis and fulfills all the desires.

Einstene also said in a reply to the question related to existence of god – In my view, god is great rule encompassing the whole universe. According to my belief godly truth is ultimate truth. Continual search of ultimate truth is net object of science. Time to time, scientists claimed that the ultimate particle, responsible for creation of world, had been obtained. For example, at the time of invention of molecule, then at the time of finding Atom, then at the time of disintegeration of atom in to electron, protron, nutron etc. Recently after an experiment in an underground Lab, Scientists felt presence of a very small particle which was not visible even by very powerful Microscopes. They immediately declared that god particle was obtained,which was named higsboson. But it could not be clearly stated, how this particle could be the cause of creation of so many lively creatures in different designs,colours and different behavior in water, in sky or in land. Actually science is only peeping into truth from remote, through its theories, inventions, apparataus etc. in view of science, truth is god. Thus search of truth could be accepted as worship of god and science could be accepted as theist.

According to hindu religion, in the beginning, there was only darkness all around, only ultimate being having no quality, no form was existing called super Soul (Brahm). The super soul thought to be many as he was only one and alone (Ekoaham Bahusyami). He opted qualitative form (Dwe Vov Brahmano Rupe Murtam Chaiwamurtam Cha), thus ultimate man took birth in Water, who was called Narayan being slept in water. The Brahma was born from naval lotus of Narayan and creation of universe started.

Keeping in view, history, geography, mythology and folk tales of india, probably a group of Aryans came to Uttarakhand (India) from Tibet crossing Himalaya in the leadership of Vishnu. This thought is based on a story, described in a book Badrinath Mahatmya and discussions with the monks of Badrinath. Vishnu liked this charming and beautiful place very much and decided to settledown there, but he was informed that the area was under control of a brave warrior, who could not be defeated, but he was very innocent, then by using his brain, Vishnu acquired this place, Badrinath and Shiv shifted to Kedarnath. Interesting short story, described in this book tells-when Shiv and parvati were going to river Alaknanda to take bath, Vishnu laid down on the way in form of a child and crying loudly. Mother Parvati ran towards child, Shiv cautioned her, saying she would be in trouble, but Parvati lifted the child and put him in her house, then Shiv and Parvati proceeded to Alaknanda. on return they found the door of their house, closed. After knocking, door opened and Vishnu was found enthroned. When asked by Parvati, Vishnu made Parvati responsible for his settlement there, then Shiv and Parvati proceeded to Kedarnath, leaving behind