AWAKENINGS

These festivals are being celebrated to mark the victory of good over evil. These festivals are associated with great Epics of Ramayana and Mahabharatha . Dussehra is celebrated because Shri Ram killed the demon King Ten Headed Ravana after a 9 day battle with him and freed his wife Goddess Sita from Ravana’s captivity. And on this day, Goddess Durga killed the demon Mahishasur and hence this day is also celebrated as Vijayadasami (Victory). It is believed that Shri Ram had also prayed to Goddess Durga for strength and before granting Him his wish, Durga wanted to test Rama’s reverence towards her. For that Durga removed one lotus out the 108 lotus flowers with which Rama was praying Durga . When Ram reached the end of His prayers and on realizing that one Lotus was missing, Ram ventured to offer his own eye to Durga to complete His prayer. Durga immediately stopped Ram and granted Ram boon to win Ravana in the battle. Hence Dussehra symbolizes t...

Ram is the 7 th Avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu. Ramayana states that Ayodhya on the banks of the Sarayu river is Rama’s birth place. It is strange and tragic for Hindus to know that even Rama’s birth place viz. Ayodhya is being disputed and discussed by the so-called Ardent Muslims duly supported by pseudo secularists, liberals, leftists, rationalists and Congress along with SP, BSP etc. Hindus in their own Land of Dharma are continued to be treated as second class citizens – all due to disunity of Hindus in defending their religious rights and freedoms of worship and their votes being split on narrow castes’ lines as against en-bloc solid votes of other minorities’ sects – to press their unjust demands from the Government and even from Courts. In Buddha’s time (600 B.C.), the present day Ayodhya was called Saketa and only during the Gupta times, it was made their capital after which it was called Ayodhya . Kalidasa wrote Raghuvamsa here and Rama...