CONCLUDED IDEAS ON THE RAMAYANA

To conclude a story like Ramayana is not only to give a brief of the content of the present work but also to integrate Ramayana into even a larger frame and try to explain it from a scientific point of view. A larger frame of integration of this story has to be within the Hindu philosophy framework itself, particularly the Advaita Vedanta philosophy that is focused primarily on the relationship between consciousness and matter. It is on this account that Ramayana as divine play as in Hindi 'lila' falls into the category of Advaita Vedanta way of thinking. Thus according to Advaita Vedanta, nothing really exists but consciousness and whatever seems to be created is just Maya, the illusory play that is unreal and without any consistency. Following such a vision of existence we might nevertheless ask who is real and what is the extent of the whole lack of reality, illusion as Maya as is pertinent to Ramayana story. Players like Rama, Sita, Dasharatha, Vasishtha and all the others, they do not exist as far as the material body is concerned but do exist at the conscious level as far as their individual consciousness is manifested. Advaita Vedanta philosophy points out in clear terms that the level of existence of anything is given by the level of consciousness. Thus Rama and Sita as embodiments of the divine itself have the most advanced level of consciousness although their bodies are as perishable as of any other human being. As the story tells, the two major incarnations of divinity gradually become awaken and able to understand their material condition, material bodies as shells constructed over the only reality that is the consciousness. The whole scenario unfolds as the conditions of the cosmic Karma are ripe and things have to happen in a certain way as you had done in your previous birth. The cosmic Karma is of utmost importance. Once the cosmic radiation has produced the necessary changes at the level of consciousness of humanity things start to manifest and actions evolve as such. Many questions arise. How are players selected? How do they become aware that they have a certain role to play? What is the degree of freewill and of determination? How various groups or communities manifest in such circumstances? First of all the cosmic influence occur at the level of the entire humanity and does not target any particular group. By group is understood not a certain community of people linked to a specific geographical area but any individual who shares the same values at spiritual level. As such, although we might say that Hindus live mainly in India, but people who share similar interests from another part of the world belong to the Hindu group.
 Thus the cosmic emission once manifested, affects all the people on earth with the same intensity, but any particular group reacts in a specific way according to own degree of maturity as far as the divine revelation is concerned. Certainly a story like Ramayana can be accomplished only by a community that is the custodian of the virtues of humanity at that time. Thus when the cosmic emission arrives, the necessary conditions for the fulfilment of such a story begin to materialize primarily in the area where that community form a majority and on other individuals of similar affinity that are dispersed all over the world. That community creates also conditions for the specific players to arrive. A man like Valmiki is born, other saints and sages incarnate in that environment in order to fulfil the cosmic Karma and as such to reinforce Dharma. As Ramayana tells, players awaken each other; they gather one by one and construct the circumstances for the divine play to start. High spiritual people descend from heaven in mortal bodies, gradually they become aware about what they are supposed to do and the play starts in full swing. Although there is a high determinism entrenched within the whole drama, there is free will as well. In so, all souls involved can acquire merit or can even be downgraded as far as their next incarnation is concerned. All souls descended except Rama, his brothers and Sita are subject to spiritual evolution if they play well or involution if not. Thus such a play is a serious game having deep consequences both on earth and the parallel world, the world of heaven. Today's  science  is  very  much  concerned  with  the  issue  of   parallel   worlds triggered at the  beginning of the 20th century by the advent of quantum physics. The   evolution of the concept of quantum physics has deepened   science   into a crisis   of   identity   especially in the last 20 years. The issues are of utmost importance as the very existence of the material world that was firmly entranced as being real before the emergence of quantum physics, is at stake. Experiments in  quantum  physics  point  out  without  doubt  that  the  world  at   atomic  and subatomic  level  are  non-existent  as far as having an independent reality but are dependent  on  the  observer.  In other words the consciousness of the observer is the main cause to produce a reality that is detectable with our senses. As the universe is made of atoms, the inescapable conclusion is that the universe is not real. Thus the material universe exists only as far as its inhabitants create it out of their consciousness. These findings create enormous implications; the Ramayana story itself can be seen from such a perspective. The entire game of Ramayana is a divine play (Lila) triggered by causes at level. But these cosmic causes have to create  a reality  on  earthly  ground  and  as such influence  the  consciousness  of people to create conditions and run the whole play. As only consciousness is able to create, the creation that follows is dependable on various minds to produce the   necessary   reality of the entire   game. Thus   some powerful minds  are necessary  in  the  beginning  in order  to start,  these  minds  being  able to create future  players  and   the   entire  material   configuration   necessary.  Once the conditions are properly done, the divine is determined to intervene and as the story tells in own words "the divine gives a boon" that is a blessing in a form that the Tapasvin ('one who performed austerities') asks for. These kinds of blessings are of a great variety as the Hindu spiritual literature is full of such stories, but the biggest blessing is when the divine is determined to come as incarnation that was the case of Lord Rama as 'Lila Avatar'.