Ravana's - Use and Throw Theory || HG Maha Vishnu Dasa
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- Ravana's - Use and Throw Theory || HG Maha Vishnu Dasa
In the Ramayana’s climactic battle between Rama’s monkey forces and Ravana’s demon forces, the odds heavily favored the demons. The monkeys had very few proper weapons, whereas the demons were armed with formidable weapons. The monkeys were in a foreign territory they had never seen before, whereas the demons were on home territory. The monkeys were far less organized for war than were the demons. And yet the monkeys won.
The demons had known Ravana for a long time; he had been their monarch for decades, many of them having known him throughout their life. And despite his atrocities elsewhere while plundering and conquering the universe, he seemed to have brought phenomenal prosperity to Lanka, earning for it the sobriquet “the golden city.” The demons had seen both Ravana’s power and his prosperity, the latter being shared abundantly with his citizens.
In contrast, Rama could provide nothing to the monkeys assisting Him. He was an exile with no wealth to share. Moreover, the monkeys hadn’t known Rama for long. For that matter, even their present king, Sugriva, who was Rama’s ally in their own ranks, hadn’t been their king for long. Yet the monkeys were ready to lay down their lives for Rama. Where did their dedication come from? It could partly be from the ethic of obedience to authority that is drummed deeply into soldiers. Additionally, the leading monkeys were great devotees; so, their devotion for Rama could have inspired similar devotion among the other monkeys. But beyond all such factors, the major cause of their devotion was the character of the object of their devotion: Rama.
The Ramayana brings out the contrast between Rama and Ravana graphically by describing what they did during the war at the end of each day’s battles. Each night, Ravana would tell his surviving soldiers to throw the corpses of the slain soldiers into the ocean, and throw them so deep into the ocean that they would not float back ashore. The reason? He didn’t want the monkeys to see any demons’ corpses on the shore. He wanted them to become disheartened by thinking that their fight the previous day had been largely ineffective with hardly any casualties among the demons. Ravana spared practically no thought for his martyrs; he exhibited a “use-and-throw” attitude towards them: Use them for his purposes as long as they could fight, and throw them away once they couldn’t fight.
In contrast, Rama, after each day’s battle, stayed awake late into the night performing the last rites of His martyrs. Whereas Ravana was always above his army in his majestic chariot and his magnificent palace, Rama was always with His army, living with them, eating with them, sleeping with them, fighting with them, and praying with them for the loss of their loved ones. He cared.
During the war, every day they saw how great a warrior He was - how He routed hordes of demons, wreaking havoc in their ranks. And every night they saw how great a person He was, commiserating with them in their sorrows. No wonder the monkeys were ready to lay down their life for Him.
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Very heart touching love of Rama to his devotees r so nice Prabhu,🙏🙏
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Hare Krishna Prabhuji. It is very nice to see you personally at HK hill Bangalore. It is unbelievable and thank you for the lecture that you gave on the importance of Hare Krishna Maha mantra, all grolries to Srila Prabhupad.
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