Mythology and myths of India and their misinterpretations

[Note: - Dear Madhumita, its long since you’ve asked a question .Your questions are treat to answer .Thanks to your question I came up with couple of blogs/posts that was highly appreciated one on fear and the other on the explanation of Poornamedam….God bless you.]

The great epics of Ramayana, Mahabharata and any mythological stories of India have to be read, understood, digested and lived from a spiritual angle to benefit from it completely .The great truths have been beautifully interwoven in the story form so that it is easily remembered, passed on from one generation to another and made it easy to be applied in one’s life simply by following the actions of the “good characters” in their epics.

  Sage vyasa after completing writing Mahabharata stated with pride "what’s not here can never be. And all that’s in the universe is found here." Such confidence and yet so true. All the modern day stories are just a fragment of either Ramayana or Mahabharata nothing else.

So, it’s not only important but also our ‘Dharma’ duty to understand and see these scriptures from spiritual angle to benefit completely from them. When we read these stories from physical level or logically understand them there seems lot of scope for misinterpretations and many Questions to be raised .In the process, these have been used to malign the Vedic philosophy which is termed as ‘Hinduism’ by all those who don’t know or understand Hinduism but when we see them under the light of ‘Spiritual Reason’ or ‘Adhyatm’ then all the contradictions just vanish.

Few Parts of Ramayana are explained for tour understanding

S.No	Situation in Ramayana	How it is at Physical Level	What it means at spiritual level
1.	King Dasharath , father of Rama Has three wives kausalya, Sumitra and kaikeyi	You accept this situation as common with all Kings i.e. multiple wives	King Dasharath represents human life or existence filled or married to three wives which are three gunas viz Satvic , Rajasic and Tamasic
2.	Sita asking Rama to get “Golden deer” for herself and there by going away from Rama.	1. Wife should not ask for such wishes. 2. She let troubles enter her life because of greed. 3.Wife should be satisfied and should not be making lots of demands from her husband	Rama tries to explain Sita that Golden Deer is against nature and hence should not be persuaded yet she is adamant and demands it here Rama Represents  “Purusha” or the “Divine” and Sita “Atma” or the “Human soul” Golden deer represents all the tinsel  that’s found in the world in short attractions of this world which is “Maya” by seers .When the “soul” Desires things of the world, divine (Here husband Rama) goes to fulfill that wish but in the process, the soul is Left all alone in the forest of “Maya” where in lie the beasts of fear, ego, and anger etc .Forest represents life situation. Since “Husband” is not present we as a human soul are open to temptation and fall in the clutches of “Maya” represented by Ravana in this case and hence are separated from our husband, the divine.
3.	Sita is asked to test her purity by entering the pyre	This is widely found reason to talk vely of Rama	When the “Soul” stays in the proximity of “Ravana” Who is “demon” or temptation of this world then to return back to the divine we need to go through the purification process called as “Agni Pariksha” which is nothing but the situations of the life which we need to face with equipoise and come out of it unharmed. In short we need to reclaim our place with the divine by proving our purity (Which is called as healing of Karma.)

Note: - Madhumita this is in response to your query.