Dashera

The word comes from dush meaning 10 hara destroyed

Now many people have interpreted it in many different ways. Each person has a tendency to use their logic and inadequate intelligent to device what it means

I saw many postings on WhatsApp with people showing news that it means destruction of the ten vices in personality. Of course on face value it seems outstanding

However we should look back and see if we can understand it in the context Valmiki wrote it. Let us examine the facts

1. It comes after Navratri. I have not yet had an opportunity to explain that

2. In Ramayana it comes after the death of Ravana Ravana was a 10 headed tyrant who had kidnapped God Rama wife Sita. Rama killed him after a long battle. Beforehe killed Ravana , Indrajit was killed, Kumbha karana was killed and Ahi Ravana andMahi Ravana were killed.

Ravana was a total terror. A tyrant for Lanka ! Yet if you ask anyone – what evil did he do? He never touched Sita ! He never could. He did not kill anyone. He interfered in people doing Yagna but not much.

Inspire of all that , God had to take birth in the form of Rama to kill him

Now I can try to explain it to you , but it will not make sense. One has to have mastery in meditation to get a glimpse of this epic poem Ramayana. My explanation would sound insane – but it isn’t. Ravana refers to destruction of ego. However it is not ego like you understand it. If I said it is the ego in a stone – you will and you should – consider me crazy.

Anyway enough said. Both Ramayana and Mahabharata are poems describing the the art and technique of meditation.

However to grasp it , one has to get out of the first step of meditation – stop making comparison of words in the shastra and comparing it to the physical world.