SPOTLIGHTS ON THE RAMAYANAM -4. Sri Swami Premananda
07/08/2019. 4. Travel Diary of The Soul 4.1 Far from being tales and legends, they rise above the ground of mortal comprehension to the height of a majesty which can only be described as a travel diary of the sojourn of the soul in the cosmos. Written in tumultuously powerful styles and with a virility that can brook no comparison, the epics of the world are the depiction of the soul of man as the chief hero in the drama of creation. Who can read these masterpieces without an electrifying touch of the supernormal, felt within oneself? The epic poets are the messengers of eternity who speak in the language of man, charging it with the force that they receive from the depths they have plunged and the heights they have scaled. 4.2 Under such circumstances, it should look idle to cavil and carp at the messages of the epics as a grandmother’s story, amyth, a fable, a fantasy, something ‘unhistorical’. And what is history to the eye that can see all the details of creation with one sw...