RAMA AND KRISHNA NEVER LIVED :
These are not historical facts. Stories in Hindu purana to clarify self
realisation. No such persons really lived. Including Sree Rama and Sree
Krishna.
For example Ravana is the state of any human being
with all his ten senses thrust outward (ten heads) to the world to enjoy
the sensory pleasures. Sita is the mind in that human being. Rama is
the soul. When the senses are excited, the ten heads are alive. Sita,
the mind of that ten headed human being, gets lost in the material world
to grab pleasures and wealth. The mind, Sita is inseparable part of
Rama, the Soul and hence called Rama's wife. To retrieve Sita, kidnapped
by the sensory pleasure addict Ravan, Rama chops off each of Ravan's
ten heads, meaning, the ten senses are closed or silenced. Then Sita,
the mind loses addiction at the worldly pleasures and riches and returns
to Rama, the soul. This is the essence of Ramayan. The Ayan of Rama,
the journey of the soul or the journey to the soul. Characters and
places are irrelevant. The message is all that is worth.
For
example, the pilgrimage to Sabarimala. The path, the places on the way
and rituals are not that important. The climbing of the mountain and
chanting hymns are not important. The donations are not important. Even
sighting the idol is not important. What is important is the message
written prominently outside the temple "Tat Tvam Asi" (You are that
Brahman). Those who know it need to take the physical journey. Analyzing
the message in meditation will take you there. Similarly in Hindu
Purana stories, it is unnecessary to establish physical evidences to the
references in them. The message is what is important. Those who don't
get the message start arguing to establish the characters in the stories
really lived. The did not. And that is not important at all. It is
important to understand the message. Like in Ramayan, how to retrieve
the mind from the addiction of sensory pleasures.
Or in
Mahabharata, where Krishna, the soul advices Arjuna, the mind to kill
relatives to be free. Religions laugh at this weird God concept who
advice to kill father and teacher and brothers. Hindus try to find
evidence of the Mahabharata war at the place Kurukshetra, where, a
banyan tree is there under which Krishna reportedly advised Arjuna the
Bhagavad Gita. Hindus are happy that the story is true. But it is not
historically correct. There is no evidence that such a war happened.
Leave all this. What is important is the message that Krishna gave
Arjuna. Not the location on ground or the time it happened. But what was
the advice.
What did Krishna advise Arjuna? To kill relatives.
Who is Krishna. It is the representing character of the soul within
everyone of us. Who is Arjuna? Arjuna is the mind, which we all have.
Arjuna, the mind is confused and feeling weak against the powerful
relatives against him. Who or what can be the relatives of the mind? The
tendencies of mind, of course. Drona is the symbol of revenge. Dhrita
rashtra. the blind tendency to embrace property, Bheeshma, the fear in
mind, Duryodhan, the misuse of power,Dussasan, the male chauvinst,
Shakuni, cunningness, etc. Now these negative tendencies are the
relatives of any mind.
The soul, reflecting in mind as the
intellect, advises mind to eliminate or win over these tendencies. What
for? For a peaceful eternal life with the soul ! This is Mahabharata.
Where did the war happen? In our own minds. When did it happen? It keeps
on happening. Even today. In future also. The war in human minds will
keep happening for ever.
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