THE TRUTH ABOUT RAMA

The truth about Rama

The issue of Ramsetu is in vogue.  Government filed an affidavit before Supreme Court stating that Rama has never existed on this earth. However, on strong opposition by other political parties and Hindu activist they withdrew the affidavit. Hindu organization like Vishwa Hindu Parishad etc claim that question relating to existence of Rama cannot be simply resolved by scientific or historical findings.  Existence of Rama is basically a question of faith for millions of people. Therefore no Government can deny existence of Rama.  Nevertheless, they got unexpected support from quarter i.e Hurriyat conference from Kashmir.Hurriayat also claimed that scientific or historical evidence are not yardstick to judge various issues related to religion. Hence, whether Rama existed or not cannot be decided on base of scientific or historical findings. This is basically associated with religious sentiments of millions of people therefore government interference is unwarranted.

In the mean time some of the scientists, based on astronomical data, have propounded that Rama existed around 5044 BC. In such a perplexing situation it becomes very difficult for common masses to arrive at any conclusive view regarding the existence of Rama.  Hence, before deriving any conlusions we have to first analyze various facts regarding Rama and his epic Ramayana.This article will put forth various facts which will help in resolving the issue of Rama‘s existence and will strongly conclude that Rama was an historical Mahanayaka and not any mythological character.