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| Mar 15, 2006 12:14 pm |
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re: re: Indians & Sanadana Darma |
Ganesh Ram
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Bharat, interesting indeed. I was watching a show late last night in our cable here. I do not if you get "comedy central" in India. Each night there is a world news show hosted by Jon Stewart. It is a satire of everyday world happening. Yesterday he interviewed an Author of a book titled "misquoting Jesus".
It seems , in this book the author claims, many side stories in today's bible were never there in the oldest known copy of the Bible.
That's brings me to today's point, which is,
Ramayana is more a story than anything else.
Probably valmiki did not portray Rama as an avatAr at all. These would have been later added by the Narayana and Vishu cults.
As years went by, we have been given the juice of valmiki ramayana, without knowing that the fiber in the fruit is also "good for life".
Just like how the vedas, were squeezed and the later scriptures came out of them, so did Ramayana and Mahabaratha.
As years went by, and the story travelled from place to place, some local events were added to the story to popularize it. Private Reply to Ganesh Ram (new win) |
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