of a bird´s killing
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,22-09-2007:This story of Ramayana
is meant to expose Mr.Lal Kishan Advani, India´s
cruelest politician of post independence era and
his followers, who indulge in killing their own
constituency, voters, by their unacknowledged
ignorance.
Ramayana is a creative poetical work inspired
by the sadness caused by the shooting down of
the male krauncha bird engaged in mating.The
first poet, sage Valmiki, could not contain his
anguish seeing the cruelty inflicted on the bird
by the hunter.
That caused him burst out:= Oh hunter, you will
remain infamous for long because you killed one
of the loving pair of krauncha birds=.
With his molten heart, the sage sang the 24,000
verses strong composition where sadness
and compassion shown by animals and birds are
key components.
One of the three wives of the king, hungry for
power, insists with her husband Dasharatha that
her son inherit the crown instead of the senior
most wife´s son, Rama.
In order to secure the throne of her son from the
rightful Rama, she imposed a condition that he be
banished to the woods for a period of fourteen
years. Thus begins the story of Ramayana,
=Rama´s road=.
Wearing birch tree bark as substitute clothing Rama
sets on his march in wilderness with his princess wife
Sita and his younger step brother, Lakshmana.
As the young prince arrives in the forest, Ravana,
the depraved brahmin king of Sri Lanka, adorned
with ten heads and insatiate lust, therefore with
twice the number of heads as that of god five headed
Brahma himself, finds the princess Sita irresistibly
attractive.
He persuades, his uncle Mareecha to dance as a
golden deer deceptively in front of the princess
with a view to separating her from the Prince
so he can kidnap her.
As prince Rama follows the dancing the deer to
capture and bring it as a pet to the princess,
Ravana kidnapped the young beauty appearing
before her as a brahmin beggar!
Sita got perplexed at the turn of events.She began
to cry in despair as she was being carried off
for help.
The cry melted even the hearts of birds. One
bird, a giant vulture used by nature eating
carcass, named Jatayu, challenged the monstrous
brahmin.
In a deceptive duel that followed Ravana got
Jatayu fatally wounded. It was this dying bird
which later gave the clue on who had kidnapped
the princess.
To trace her whereabouts Prince Rama was
helped by mere monkeys.One of them called
Hanuman was strong and clever who jumped
from India to Sri Lanka to locate the princess
imprisoned in a beautiful garden.
Later Rama invaded Sri Lanka with the
monkeys to destroy Ravana and his army to
liberate Sita.
A moving story of human lust for power
contrasted with animal compassion that
became so popular, it became a classic
literature, as the first poetic work.
Its various versions spread all through the
South and South East Asia for more than two
thousand two hundred years!
It is this great literary work of all times
being misused by the cruel politician
Lal Kishan Advani and his followers
to grab power in New Delhi. Beware
of his obscurantist mob.
(end)
by the sadness caused by the shooting down of
the male krauncha bird engaged in mating.The
first poet, sage Valmiki, could not contain his
anguish seeing the cruelty inflicted on the bird
by the hunter.
That caused him burst out:= Oh hunter, you will
remain infamous for long because you killed one
of the loving pair of krauncha birds=.
With his molten heart, the sage sang the 24,000
verses strong composition where sadness
and compassion shown by animals and birds are
key components.
One of the three wives of the king, hungry for
power, insists with her husband Dasharatha that
her son inherit the crown instead of the senior
most wife´s son, Rama.
In order to secure the throne of her son from the
rightful Rama, she imposed a condition that he be
banished to the woods for a period of fourteen
years. Thus begins the story of Ramayana,
=Rama´s road=.
Wearing birch tree bark as substitute clothing Rama
sets on his march in wilderness with his princess wife
Sita and his younger step brother, Lakshmana.
As the young prince arrives in the forest, Ravana,
the depraved brahmin king of Sri Lanka, adorned
with ten heads and insatiate lust, therefore with
twice the number of heads as that of god five headed
Brahma himself, finds the princess Sita irresistibly
attractive.
He persuades, his uncle Mareecha to dance as a
golden deer deceptively in front of the princess
with a view to separating her from the Prince
so he can kidnap her.
As prince Rama follows the dancing the deer to
capture and bring it as a pet to the princess,
Ravana kidnapped the young beauty appearing
before her as a brahmin beggar!
Sita got perplexed at the turn of events.She began
to cry in despair as she was being carried off
for help.
The cry melted even the hearts of birds. One
bird, a giant vulture used by nature eating
carcass, named Jatayu, challenged the monstrous
brahmin.
In a deceptive duel that followed Ravana got
Jatayu fatally wounded. It was this dying bird
which later gave the clue on who had kidnapped
the princess.
To trace her whereabouts Prince Rama was
helped by mere monkeys.One of them called
Hanuman was strong and clever who jumped
from India to Sri Lanka to locate the princess
imprisoned in a beautiful garden.
Later Rama invaded Sri Lanka with the
monkeys to destroy Ravana and his army to
liberate Sita.
A moving story of human lust for power
contrasted with animal compassion that
became so popular, it became a classic
literature, as the first poetic work.
Its various versions spread all through the
South and South East Asia for more than two
thousand two hundred years!
It is this great literary work of all times
being misused by the cruel politician
Lal Kishan Advani and his followers
to grab power in New Delhi. Beware
of his obscurantist mob.
(end)
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