The Ramayana and The Mahabharata -Ashish Kumar Pathak

 The Ramayana and The Mahabharata are definitely religious textbooks but not prescription as the Sacred Bible and the Sacred Quran are. But as incidents in these classics are stories of every individual and every nation of the world, so they are aptly considered as world classic. Ramayana and Mahabharata mushroomed in different languages not as matter of style but matter of fact and urge. each international writer and poet gave it a form although in a different way and language, keeping the basic ethos intact.Even Gita is a man, age and management treatise and forms the basis of how many can tackle his ongoing life so simple so wise, without treachery, deceit and lies. In fact "Gita has the unequal and unique powers to resolve many a human issues. Nations and people going to war against themselves or physically and mentally against their enemies can refer to it, prefer to it for early and permanent resolve. 

It is very rightly and aptly said what we read in Ramayana and Mahabharata, is what we see in the world, even thousands of years later, it is indeed a story of the world, a story for the world. Ramayana is indeed an idealistic story and Mahabharata is indeed a realistic story, relevant to the world even today. Mahabharata is a strategic warfare and state craft with traces of diplomacy and deep Loma in it, at one time or the other. Mahabharata has every character as Grey, with high degree of compromises, deviations and deliberations for wider and greater solutions. Such extreme venerations and juxtaposition is difficult to find in any other world literature, so laureates are drawn towards it, gets drown in it. Needless to say, these Indian classics have become bedrock of human ethos, emotions and endearing. 

Some consider them as factual history, but when we look them through today's lens and civilization, the author had never exaggerated, because civilization and technologies have vanished but these Indian classical beauties have stayed themselves as cytosine of all good and bad eyes. 

Science of today is trying to explore deep and down mysteries about human existence and potential, but these classic have given them a platform and a way out. In fact these Literatures are giving us solid answers to the questions which are troubling all of us as scientists, signposts, philosophers and commoners, thus these innate beauties should be considered as world's torch bearers of literature and religious texts, because they preach us to achieve solutions, salvation and perfection in our existence as human beings in this vast, wild, willed world. 

One can approach these classics from any perspective and benefit. There are so many laws in this literature, which are interpreted by pleaders and judges worldwide. In the end they teach you spirituality, conduct, valour, courage and devout essential and here, there is nothing religious about these values. Some of the world laureates consider these beauties as narratives of actual incidents that happened in ancient India, but has deep deep solutions for the modern wild wild world. In fact they consider it as epic literature which belongs to the whole humanity. Once Vivekananda said "no work is secular or religious, every work is worship". Whether these timeless beauties are religious texts or works of world literature lies in the perspective of the person who reads and how he or she treads or treats it. These books should be taught with an understanding that they are stories and pieces of historical fiction which are some times treated as religious texts and other times as world literature. When you are atheist, you can find it as superb work of world literature. Some think that incidents depicted in these time tested beauties were real and they got glorified, thus turned mythical and godly. 

Some consider it as thought which promotes the culture of entire universe being a single family. We should consider these Indian literatures not as religious books, but as literature for the world..... Which has the power to transform the way we see the world, approach the world and sustain the world. 

        Kind and warm regards

Ashish Kumar Pathak

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