@supermaverick
I would like to know where you got the info of when the Ramayan and Mahabharat were written down, because they're not right.
Valmikiji wrote the Ramayana during the Luv Kush period when Sitaji was living in his ashram. He actually started it right before Sitaji was exiled and finished it after Luv Kush became kings. The Ramayana was written right after it happened, and what you gave doesn't make sense, because Valmiki and Vyasa were not people of 400 and 800 BC. Even if you do believe the Ramayana did not happen, Valmiki lived much much before the time you gave. Same for Vyasa Deva. He wrote the Mahabharata right after the War of Kurukshetra, and even if you discard the Mahabharata as history, Vyasa Deva lived much much before the time you gave.
One thing to note: Valmikiji and Vyasa Deva were Maha munis, godlike sages, who were not novelists. They had no need to waste their time writing fictional stories, or as you say, fairytales, because they were constantly devoted to the Supreme Lord, and working towards salvation. They only wrote down the Ramayana and Mahabharata for us, the later generations, so that history may never be lost, and these great epics will be preserved until the end of the world when Lord Kalki will come. What need did they have to write fairytales? To teach morals? The Vedas and Upanishads could easily do that. What then was the use of "writing fairytalkes"? That's because the Ramayana and Mahabharata were not fairytalkes, but true history, which happened just as World War 1 and World War 2 happened.
@Shyam: I have just a few questions for you. You say you believe in God and are religious, and I completely believe you, but who do you believe Lord Ram and Lord Krishna are? Do you pray to Ramji and Krishnaji? Because, if as you say, the Ramayana and Mahabharata are myths and nothing else, wouldn't Ram and Krishna be fictional characters only? What's the need of praying to fictional characters? Who prays to fictional characters? We have many other Gods like Vishnuji, Shivji, and Brahmaji to pray to, but why do we pray to Rama and Krishna? Why is Diwali celebrated? Why is Ram-Navami celebrated? Or Krishna Jayanti? Why to we pray to Mata Sita and Rama if they are purely fictional characters? I mean, come one, who prays to fictional characters?
You can't say Rama and Krishna are Gods only. I mean, they are, but they were incarnations of Gods, so in fact, they were humans. Ram and Krishna cannot be said to be only Gods. That doesn't make sense at all, because if we reject the Ramayana and Mahabharata as history, that would completely erase the stories of Rama and Krishna. They would not exist. There would be only Vishnuji, none of his incarnations would be real. So why do we pray to them? Because they really happened.
How many people do you know who pray to fictional characters? Why would all of our Hindu festivals exist if Rama and Krishna were not real? Don't say they were real, but the Ramayana and Mahabharat were not, because that does not make sense at all. Shri Ram came from the Ramayana, and Shri Krishna came from the Mahabharata. Without those epics, they don't exist. You can't see Rama and Krishna as you would see Vishnu, Shiva, or Brahma, because Rama and Krishna were incarnations born on Earth, and their whole story happened on Earth. If our epics are not real, neither are Rama and Krishna.
You say you pray to Shri Ram and Shri Krishna, but you don't believe the Ramayana and Mahabharata. I'm sorry, but I dont' quite comprehend that. If you truly believe in God, you must also believe in his story. If you believe in our two epics, you believe in Shri Ram and shri Krishna, but if you don't, then that means you don't believe in them. Ramji and Krishnaji were born from our epics. If you reject our epics as non-historical, that means you reject Ram and Krishna, because they cannot be real if our epics aren't.
If one truly believes in Shri Ram and Shri Krishna, then they truly believe in their story, without any doubt or suspicion, and regardless whether science prooves God or not.
Yet, if you still want proof about these epics, I'll try my best to find them for you, but it will take awhile, because I am very busy right now.
I hope I didn't offend you. I'm merely expressing my doubt about your explanation.đł
Edited by godisone - 16 years ago
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