SPOTLIGHTS ON THE RAMAYANAM -14. Sri Swami Premananda
----------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 15, 2020. 8 : 34. PM. IV. IN WORLD LITERATURE Post-14. --------------------------------------------------- 1. Before we go over to explain the esotericism of the Ramayana, let me say a few words about the prevailing criticism about the veracity of various events mentioned in the epic. *First, there is no doubt that early Indians had an approach to history which was rather different from the present day attitude. The word for literature in India is Sahitya, i.e. which will help in the progress and welfare of mankind. While writing history, maybe they kept the objective of human welfare uppermost. 2. *Secondly there may have been some intermingling of history and mythology. Although mythology is said to be based on what C.G. Jung has called the ‘race-unconscious’ and therefore projects the innate inhibited aspirations of a race; they did not draw any definite line of demarcation between mythology and history. It is, t