Sri Ramachandra

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Sri Ramachandra

The Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna assumed a human form as Sri

Ramachandra and appeared on the earth for the purpose of doing some

pleasing work for the demigods or the administrative personalities

to maintain the order of the universe. Sometimes great demons and

atheists like Ravana and Hiranyakasipu and many others become very

famous due to advancing material civilization by the help of

material science and other activities with a spirit of challenging

the established order of the Lord. For example, the attempt to fly

to other planets by material means is a challenge to the established

order. The conditions of each and every planet are different, and

different classes of human beings are accommodated there for

particular purposes mentioned in the codes of the Lord. But, puffed

up by tiny success in material advancement, sometimes the godless

materialists challenge the existence of God.

Ravana was one of them, and he wanted to deport ordinary men to the

planet of Indra (heaven) by material means without consideration of

the necessary qualifications. He wanted a staircase to be built up

directly reaching the heavenly planet so that people might not be

required to undergo the routine of pious work necessary to enter

that planet.

 

He also wanted to perform other acts against the established rule of

the Lord. He even challenged the authority of Sri Rama, the

Personality of Godhead, and kidnapped His wife, Sita. Of course Lord

Rama came to chastise this atheist, answering the prayer and desire

of the demigods. He therefore took up the challenge of Ravana, and

the complete activity is the subject matter of the Ramayana. Because

Lord Ramachandra was the Personality of Godhead, He exhibited

superhuman activities which no human being, including the materially

advanced Ravana, could perform.

 

Lord Ramachandra prepared a royal road on the Indian Ocean with

stones that floated on the water. The modern scientists have done

research in the area of weightlessness, but it is not possible to

bring in weightlessness anywhere and everywhere. But because

weightlessness is the creation of the Lord by which He can make the

gigantic planets fly and float in the air, He made the stones even

within this earth to be weightless and prepared a stone bridge on

the sea without any supporting pillar. That is the display of the

power of God.

- AC Bhaktivedanta Swami

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