Today's ravan!
How is ravan...???
Who is ravan ..??
Does he have 10 heads...?
Does he have a huge castle..?
Does he hv an army of monsters..??
No...no...no..
This is not that ravan,
This is modern Raven,
This made frm system ravan,
He beats his wife brutally
This ravan murders children
Rapes girls..
Does not see the age...!
Only sees the skin of girls..!!
Today's ravan is violent instinct ravan.
He is a heartless prsn.....
He has no sympathy for the injured man .. who falls on the road...
He is spreading. Poverty.unemployment. helplessness. Many more thng..s
This ravan is inside the ppl
Wht he will think...
We ppl didn't understand this...
This ravan is just around us...
Our society, our home, among our own ppl....!!
I think...??
That old ravan was good..!!
Bcz.. He liked only one lady
Bt today's ravan.....
We do not know when...and where he attack us..
Today's ravan will be bigger an bigger .. and more bigger.....
Today's ravan will be bigger an bigger .. and more bigger.....
Koneswaram Temple,Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
According to the ”Bhagavata Purana,” Jaya and Vijaya, Vishnu’s gatekeepers at Vaikuntha (“place of eternal bliss”) mistook the four Kumaras, the mind-born sons of Brahma, as naked children, who cursed them by depriving them of their immortality and be born as earthly mortals, but Vishnu intervened and allowed them to resume their former position but only after either spending seven lifetimes on Earth as his devotees or three as his enemies; choosing the second option they spent their second incarnations as Ravan (Ravana) and his brother Kumbhkaran., who were later slain by Rama, one of Vishnu’s avatars. (In their 1st incarnation they were killed by Vishnu in the form of the boar Varaha and the man-lion Narasimha; in the 3rd and final one they were killed by Vishnu’s avatar Krishna.) Ravan was the primary antagonist in the “Ramayana,” where he is depicted as a rakshasa (“maneater”) king of Lanka, an island fortress between three mountain peaks known as the Trikuta Mountains, probably in Sri Lanka. In “Ramakien,” the Thai version of the “Ramayana,” he was a yaksa (nature spirit) known variously as Rapanasur ("the asura Ravana"), Totsapak ("One with ten faces") and Totsakan ("One with ten necks"). He was also called Yawana or Datha-giri in the unofficial Burmese national epic “Yama Zatdaw.” He was a capable ruler, a maestro on the plucked stringed instrument known as a veena, the author of the “Ravana Samhita”(a book on Hindu astrology) and of the “Arka Prakasham”(a book on Siddha medicine and treatment), and the possessor of the nectar of immortality, which was stored inside his belly, thanks to a celestial boon by Brahma. He bade the planets to stay in his son’s 11th house at his birth in order to attain immortality for him, but Shani (Saturn) defied him by standing in the 12th house; Ravan attacked Shani with his mace and imprisoned him. Depicted as a Buddhist, he was also a major character in texts such as the “Lankavatara Sutra,” a dialogue between Gautama Buddha and a bodhisattva named Mahāmati ("Great Wisdom") that took place in Lanka and was especially important in the development of Chan (Zen) as well as Tibetan Buddhism. Jain accounts identified him as a Vidyadhara, an advanced human with magical powers. He is considered by some Hindus to be the most revered devotee of Shiva and is worshipped in some parts of India, Sri Lanka and Bali.
ReplyDeleteHis father was a rishi, Visravas, a son of Prajapati Pulastya, one of the Kumaras. His name meant “roaring,” in contrast to his half-brother Vaishravaṇa ("hear distinctly"), popularly known as Kubera. (Ravan wanted Shiva to relocate to Lanka and tried to lift a mountain as part of that effort, but Shiva put his foot on the mountain and crushed Ravan's finger with his single toe, causing him to roar in pain, but he also performed a song of praise for Shiva’s power and removed the nerves from his own hand to make veena strings to provide accompanying music; Shiva thus renamed him Ravan, the one who roars loudly). When Ravan usurped Kubera’s throne, the deposed monarch fled to Devaloka (Heaven) where Indra, the king of the devas, put him in charge of his treasury as the god of wealth; later he became the ruler of the semi-divine Yakshas (fairies). Their sister Shurpanakha (“she whose fingernails are like winnowing fans) was described by “Ramayana” author Valmiki as pot bellied, cross-eyed, with thinning brown hair, a grating voice, and oversized breasts (indicating a heart full of wickedness). She fell in love with Rama, the exiled prince of Ayodhya, who claimed that he could not be unfaithful to his wife Sita; she was also spurned by Rama’s younger brother Lakshmana. In retaliation, she attacked Sita, but Lakshmana cut off her ears and nose. At her instigation, Ravan abducted Sita, causing Rama to invade Lanka. When Ravan was the only one of his army still alive, to save the situation he tried to perform a rite that required him to remain in place; Angad the monkey prince dragged Ravan's wife Mandodari to the spot to disrupt the ceremony, but Ravan did not move; Mandodari scolded him, pointing out that Ram was fighting a war to get his wife back but Ravan wouldn’t even move to save his wife; this provocation caused Ravan to stir, leaving his yagya incomplete and leading to his final defeat. Rama slew Ravan and installed his ally, Ravan’s brother Vibhishana, as the new king, whose descendants continued to rule there until at least the time of the “Mahabharata.” Rama asked Lakshman to sit beside the dying demon-king and learn from him important lessons in statecraft and diplomacy. (According to the Jains, it was Lakshmana, not Rama, who killed Ravan, his fellow Jain.) The Sachora Brahmin caste in Gujarat claims descent from Ravan and sometimes have his name as their surname. Ravan’s 10 heads represented his knowledge of the 6 shastras (books of wisdom) and the 4 Vedas (the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda, and the Atharvaveda). Sometimes he was depicted with 9 heads because he sacrificed one to Shiva to demonstrate his devotion. In Javanese versions he cut off one head (symbolic of his desire) every year and presented it to Shiva; his last, remaining, head was revealed to be his true head, and Shiva accepted the worthiness of his sacrifices. Some versions alleged that his devotion caused each of his severed heads to spawn into another. In other accounts he did not actually have 10 heads, but it appeared so because his mother Kaikesi gave him a necklace of 9 pearls that created an optical illusion.
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