The Greatest Hindu Epic - Ramayana

The Ramayana is a Magnus opus that is an intense story that is interwoven with many characters and has the most amazing of stories of human nature and their follies. The conceptions that you will find in the Ramayana will surpass anything that you have ever read or come across before this.

The main story is interwoven around Lord Rama. He is the prince, who was also God. The Ramayana is told to be the greatest of epics to be ever written. It is a treasured epic as for several years it was passed down by word of mouth and later on written down. The Ramayana has been in vogue since the last 10,000 years and still its principles and what you read in it hold true even till now. The Ramayana goes on to tell you about the stories in such a manner that they have become timeless and the principles and values showcased to have passed the test of time.

The main part of Ramayana is about the lord Rama, who has all the ideals within him. He is an exemplary Hindu man and king, an excellent husband to Sita along with being a good son. The Ramayana is mainly around the abduction of Sita and the way she is brought back from Lanka by the killing of Ravana and with the help of Hanuman.

There was a 78 episode television show that gained ever so much popularity not only amongst the older generation but even had the youngsters hooked to it. This enabled young Indians to withdraw from the materialistic and selfish world that they were getting drawn to and touch base with their roots. This was, in fact, just the right time for the Ramayana to be launched in the world as the older generation was a real worried lot about the impact on the younger generation that the media and the materialistic pursuits were having.

The Ramayana served as a real right element to make the entire nation sit up and realize the amount of pride that they can take in their culture and what the Indian traditions stood for. The main crux around which the Ramayana is spun around is the victory of good over evil. Throughout the entire epic, it has been emphasized that whatever happens at the end it will be always the truth and the good that will prevail and come out the winner. There are several virtues that have been covered in the Ramayana that holds through at any time of the era. The serial and the way it was shown with the characters held the audience captivated. The most aesthetic of scenes were used to depict the Ramayana along with the most authentic of sets and costumes. The epic and serials gained such prominence that whenever the serial was aired not a soul stirred out of their homes as everyone was glued to the television.

The maker of this serial the Ramayana, Ramanand Sagar was once diagnosed with TB and given only a few months to live. However, he was able to overcome it and lived on to make this mammoth epic as though it was ordained by the Gods above. The time that he went about and made the Ramayana was just right, the times when society was actually degenerating and need something to show it the right path.

The entire epic of Ramayana is filled with the most educative of stories and poems, which are choc a block full of the most ideal situations and how one need to react when faced with them.

Although there are times when people who encounter the Indian gods and goddesses in this epic the Ramayana for the very first time might not believe in all this folklore and traditional superstition might not look at it from the point of religious beliefs and the spiritual truth that one will find hidden within.

If you look at it then you will find that the lord Vishnu is prayed to as an avatar or the incarnation of Rama and Krishna. These two are the main characters of the Ramayana. In the Ramayana God takes a human form to come to the earth and heal the woes of society. This allows the earth to become a far better place to live in. Thus, there is an establishment of a moral code of conduct that is followed by society even until this very day. This is just the right way to be able to maintain a relation between the mortals on this earth and the Gods above.

The things that have been written about by the most modern of human beings in support of the Ramayana are amazing. They have termed it as the most wonderful of modern miracles that they have had the fortune to encounter. It has been termed as a masterpiece that certainly can’t be replicated. However, hard one tries to do so.