Name: Are Ramayana and Mahabharata Myths? #UnplugWithSadhguru
Uploaded: 2022-09-16T09:39:30.000Z
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So, we know that Iliad was written by Homer, right?(Sadhguru laughs).

he wrote that there are fourteen thousand horses.

But since we know that he could not have  seen it for himself,

we believe that there is some sort of historical,

Would you say… but nowadays all the scriptures… religious scriptures are taken as gospel.

myth-making in the Ramayana, in the Mahabharata,

rather than just work of literature, is wrong?

Sadhguru: I…I don't see anybody taking Ramayan and Mahabharata as a gospel!

Moderator: There are certain factions which are…

Because there are all kinds of people in Mahabharat.

The best sort of men, the worst sort of men, in-between every kind of man and woman

is there, over hundred thousand characters.

if you've seen the by-line of Youth and Truth,

“Not the seriousness of gospel, but the playfulness of gossip,”

because gossip has always been reliable (Laughter).

No… at any time in history,  nobody went by the official version.

people asked around with their friends and relatives,

When five people said five different things,

people learnt out of their wisdom  to extract some truth out of the gossip.

But people always relied more on the gossip, than the official version. Isn't it so?

Moderator: However, given that this gossip  can lead to a transformation of this truth

Sadhguru: See, first of all, you are questioning did it actually happen, right?

is the argument which is usually  used these days to say that

buildings which were constructed by the Moghuls  were actually not Moghul structures.

Sadhguru: Oh, okay (Laughs). I get the point.  Moderator: However,

that's gossip being misinterpreted completely.

people are questioning  whether Rama existed or not, okay?

This is a just a question of poor memory.

When the entire nation is been talking about it  for thousands of years,

your trust in the printed word is  more than the spoken word,

But you must understand, this is a oral culture.

We always transmitted most significant things orally.

You may… You may think it's insignificant  because it's not written.

People have written it down now.  Now it's a printed word.

But now somebody questions did Rama exist or not.

when everybody is talking about the same story,

it could not have been just made up  by all the people, isn't it?

Moderator: I guess… I guess his point was also,  by bringing in the Iliad example, the same –

but the fact that Homer says that  fourteen thousand horses were there,

but are the facts which are the things which are …

Sadhguru: See, we are after all Indians.  We invented zero.

We have certain freedom in using number of zeros (Applause).

We are taking liberty with that (Applause).

see, see, whether six, seven thousand years ago,

whether hundred thousand men fought  or ten thousand men fought, doesn't make a difference.

The way the story is said in this country, is not for its facts, but for its truth.

You are trying to bring out a certain truth (Applause).

The fact of it – whether hundred thousand men fought,  ten thousand men fought – what does it matter?

what is there for me to learn from that? Alright?

If… If that's the question mark,  we can go ahead with that.

Moderator: I guess that was his point itself.

as you would learn from a piece of literature

Sadhguru: See, don't call them religious texts.

So let's say, if you look at another piece of literature,  you would derive learnings from it.

Sadhguru: No. Literature is different. History is different (Laughter/Applause). Moderator: Okay.

Sadhguru: Literature… Literature can be fiction.

History is written in a dialectical way,  so that it's always relevant for you.

whether a man existed or not, what's my problem,

unless he has something to contribute to my life today, isn't it?

Moderator: However, if history has been written, and the facts of the history are not clear.

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