A philosophical story to embrace ones mind The ancient Indian mathematicians were the first to discover the digit zero 0 and implement it in the formation of digits The whole world revolves like a cycle in the form of the digit zero The Britishers dicovered an ancient egg of Dinosaures in India What I mean to convey is that India is the land where Lord Rama or Lord Krishna were born Lord Rama was an example of a perfect ideal man on earth His life story is an example for an ideal man to follow Lord Rama Lord Lakshmana Lord Bharata and Lord Shatrughana were four sons of King Dhasratha of Ayodhya He was cursed to die from the pain of separation from his son by the blind parents of Shrawan Kumar Kaikeyi the mother of Bharata wishes to send Lord Rama on an exile for a period of 14 years and wishes her son Bharata to be the King of Ayodhya Lord Rama and his wife Sita and his brother Lord Lakshmana leave for forests outside the kingdom of Ayodhya Lord Rama s brother Lord Bharata persuades lord Rama to return back but lord Rama refuses to return to Ayodhya against the wishes of his step mother Kaikeyi But Lord Bharata returns to Ayodhya along with the sandals of lord Rama and places the sandals of his brother Lord Rama on the throne and rules the kingdom of Ayodhaya in the name of Rama This shows the example of love between an elder brother and his younger brother In the forest once a demon shurpanaka sister of King Ravana disuades Lord Rama to marry her but Lord Rama tells her that he is already married and points towards his brother Lord Lakshmana who cuts off her nose and ears to show her ugly nature and character Shurphanaka runs off and complains about Lord Rama and Lord Lakshamana to King Ravana of Lanka King Ravana somehow manages to kidnap Goddess Sita the wife of Lord Rama in revenge to Lanka Lord Rama grieves for his separation from his beloved wife Goddess Sita Here the feelings of an ideal person in the form of lord grieving from separation from his beloved wife are beautifully described by Sage Valmiki who wrote the whole Ramayana Sage Valmiki was a thief named Ratnakar who by the japam of Lord Sri Rama became a great sage named Valmiki and wrote a great epic called Ramanaya the story of King Rama and Sita Lord Rama and Lord Lakshamana move towards southern India where they meet the lord Hanuman the great son of Anjani and Kesari Lord Hanumanji is also known as Pavanputra or the great celibate bachelor and Lord Sugriva and with the help of vanara sena or Army of Monkeys they move into the kingdom of Lanka and kill the demon king Ravana Lord Rama rescues Goddesses Sita and with the help of Lord Hanuman they return back to Ayodhya A fourteen years had lapsed when lord Rama had left the kingdom of Ayodhya When lord Rama Goddesses Sita Lord Lakshmana and lord Hanuman return to Ayodhya the people of Ayodhya cheer up and lit up the whole Ayodhya with Diyas in order to celebrate the victory and return of their king Lord Rama The festival Dusherra is celebrated every year as a victory of good over evil as the demon Meghanad the son of King Ravana the demon Kumbhakarna the brother of king Ravana and the demon King Ravana of Lanka were killed by Lord Rama and Lord Lakshmana in order to rescue Goddesses Sita from her captivity in Lanka And on the occassion of their return to Ayodhya the festival Diwali is celebrated throughout India every year with great pomp and show of lights and crackers Whenever some troubled minds read this story of Ramayana their minds gain peace and the self confidence is restored as their spirits become calm pacified and brave in the troubled periods of time The Epic Ramayana denotes the greatness of Supreme God Lord Rama as an ideal human being on earth