Understanding Ramayan Logically

In the recent times there has been a lot of talk about the reality of Lord Ram. Most of it started because the UPA government decided to destroy the Ram-Setu, which the Hindus have revered for ages as the bridge built by Nal and Neel, the members of Sugreev's army, as has been described in Ramayan. The government's view has been that it will save money on transit of ships through that region as the ships, currently, need to take a longer route of going round Sri Lanka.

The Hindu society, in general, has rejected this idea on the grounds of their religous belief and sentiments. The Environmental community and Indian Navy have rejected this proposal on the basis of the harm it is expected to do to the fragile marine ecology and biodiversity.

The UPA government has gone to the extent of questioning the historical existence of Lord Ram. The opponents have placed a simple logic that most people cannot actually prove the existence of their ancestors even as early as 18th century, then why are we trying to prove the existence of Lord Ram who may have existed anywhere betwwen 1.7 mn to 7000 years back.

Between all this what misses the point is the larger lesson and, therefore, the centrality of Ramayan, Lord Ram and his deeds. A story that has inspired generations of Humans across India and southeast Asia over so many millenia to live a life of truthfulness and imbibing good habits.

Sometimes such softer, subtle issues are of a much larger importance than a mere commercial interest, however, large it may appear.

I am not a professional on this subject, however, this has been my area of interest since 2002-2003. Certain peculiar things about Ramayan have caught my imagination for a long time and I have not found any serious contentions from my friends and others with whom I have shared my views. Ofcourse, I have pursued this subject only in an off and on sense but have tried to amalgamate various aspects of scientific disciplines to come to my on conclusions. From understanding science fiction to scientific and engineering inventions and natural history of man, all subjects have been studied in bits and pieces and relationship has been established with various facets of Ramayan.

I am, therefore, taking this opportunity to share these views and attempt a presentation of a time that really seems to have existed. People may be fictional, their deeds are inspirational, but the places, objects and the natural history, all seem to be pointing towards a great Indian Civilization from a pre-historic time. How far back does it go is an extremely difficult question to answer, but people have attempted to do the same in the past and I will surely discuss that too.

I look forward to people sharing there views on this interesting subject and even bring some new facts and perspectives to unravel the mystery of this time.