Years ago you told me a lie. A lie, every night and I bow faithfully with belief. It was some mythical prince who walked into epical Hindu saga as ‘Ram’ and made bridge to rescue his wife. A panel of Indian scientists concluded that the bridge was “a geological formation, which took place about 17 million years ago”.
That ‘Dude’ walked into (credited by his besotted followers) the history book like my corporate colleague who recently take the Microsoft pie after I’ve strained myself. What next Momma? Are they going to tell us that monkeys who wore clothes and fought with weapons and constructed bridges across seas never existed? Or that Ravana really didn’t have ten heads? Or that Sita was not really swallowed up by the earth? And most importantly there never was a talking bear named Jambavana?
The recent political drama over Ram Sethu (aka Adam’s Bridge) tethered Hindu beliefs into right and left wings and an affidavit. Neither does any stone left by Ram, nor does any bone of Ram, exist. So, they ask, how could Ram has exist? Well…King Solomon built a wall at Jerusalem; does his bone or stone exists?
Whether Ram is a myth or a reality does that change my faith? Am I so unguarded?
Any way, it is new experience for Ram himself. Poor guy! He constructed a masterpiece without an engineering degree and forgets to pay the bribe. Once exiled for fourteen years only to return and rule now convicted by Indian legislation. Who said ‘judiciary system is fragile’?
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