I keep wondering about so many things when i am free,much to my
parents' irritation because obviously thinking is the brain's job and
the rest of my body just sits idle,so I look like a lazy person who
has got nothing to do.How do I tell my parents that while my body
might appear idle my brain is actually running at a really high
speed? True story right?I know!
Anyways, recently
I've been thinking more and more about our hindu epics,Mahabharata
and Ramayan ,thanks to the many attempts of various creative minds
that try to recreate these stories on television.The point is these
are all incredible stories with some great lessons and
morals,sure,but did they actually happen? Did sage Valmiki really
write ramayan? Did Maharishi Ved Vyasa actually witness
Mahabharata? A part of me knew it's just not possible for anybody to
imagine and write a story with such
accuracy(Topology,Locations,Astronomy almost every possible thing has
been mentioned in both the epics) and that part was totally willing
to believe in the occurrence of these epics.But the logical part of me
could' nt believe in the very existence of pandavas and events occurred
in a major part of mahabharata,about Hanuman carrying a mountain and
flying,Ravan having 10 heads and the list continues.
So i did a bit of
research.I googled,visited various sites,saw quite a many videos and
people's views.Boy did i find some mind blowing stuff.Although there
was not much i could find about ramayana there was loads of stuff
about mahabharata.So many passionate
people-astrologers,researchers,commoners discussing about these
epics.
Apart from the archaeological evidences about which most of us know(
ruins have been found underwater in gujarat similar to Dwarka also
verified to be around the time of mahabharata,the bridge of stones
from India to Sri lanka,etc ),there are astronomical evidences
too.Researchers such as Subhash
Kak have been researching on Mahabharata and Vedic civilization.
They dated Mahabharata to the same period and verified the
astronomical references.The astronomical references Mahabharata
mentions have been verified to have happened.,but some researchers
feel that this verification is biased.
Again some argue that all places mentioned in Mahabharata are all
identified as real places,For instance, Hastinapur
is in UP. Indraprastha
is the present day Delhi. Dwarka
is located in Gujarat coast.But a few disagree with the Indraprastha
part of the story.Some question on how anyone can create such a
massively complex, detailed and vivid descriptions that are so
accurate. Their argument- The hindu books in fact even give a
chronology of kings extending 150 generations, and all of this cant
be fiction given that a few in the lists are real.
While i was going
through all this i found a really interesting comment.According to
the girl these are just stories and it is very much possible to be
able to imagine to such an extent because J.K Rowling has clearly
done so! A few centuries from now Harry Potter might end up being an
epic and there might be people who would be arguing about whether
magic existed and whether people actually traveled via brooms if
they failed their apparition test! All I could think then ,about the
girl who wrote this was- way to go girl.It opened up an entirely new
viewpoint.
I really could' nt
bring myself to believe it all to be a myth blindly the way that girl
did,what with so many facts proving otherwise but all the
proof,arguments still could' nt exactly convince the logical part of
me.Although all this research did manage to convince it that it would
be unfair to rule out the possibility of its occurrence and declare it
a myth,unavailability of substantial evidence was dissatisfying..So
the conclusion that i have drawn is instead of mulling over the
existence/non-existence of the characters and the stories maybe we should just
learn all that they teach us which is – Everything! What if they
turn out to be just stories? All stories are based on some
facts.Maybe all of it actually happened,but not at such a large
scale.Maybe ramayana or Mahabharata was a story of a small family of
brothers ,sisters ,wives and neighbors exaggerated with imaginative
additions and changed over centuries by oral transfer of the
story.None of us know what exactly happened,but we do know the
stories and the morals and the lessons they teach.We do know that our
people created a masterpiece that we should be proud of!So we
probably should just learn from them and try to be a better human
being.The world could do with some what do you think?
