Thursday 27 March 2014

Parables in religious Scrtures. In India we donot have historical documents, though Mahabharata and Ramayana are referred as histories - the Sanskrit worth being इतिहास - the word which means इति - thus हास - happened. Mahabharata and Ramayana are more fashioned as parables, the temporal events used to point out some thing more nobler ethical, moral or spiritual principle than narrating actual temporal events. Therefore, whether a legend or an anecdote mentioned in these important sources of histories - इतिहास, have as a narrative have neither any beginning nor any end, the purpose being not to inform or narrate a temporal event but to point out something nobler ethical, moral or religious principle. Therefore it would be unfair and unwise to treat Mahabharata and Ramayana as narratives of temporal and historical events rather than collection of various parables pointing out some ethical, moral, religious principle. Therefore they are not considered on temporal level but on religious and spiritual level, pointing out some nobler ideal than the ordinary event in life. Consequently they did not cease to be dead material of events that happened in ancient, medieval or modern times but remained to be alive perennially, even in every ones to become resurgent being receptive, reflective and meditative on the parables narrated, without being concerned as practical reality in primordial world but as ethical, moral and religious possibility in spiritual world. The parables are not the record of the real events but point out and reveal the Real, Satya, the Prime Existence. Y the


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