Are Ramayana and Mahabharata Myths?

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Sadhguru talks about the oral tradition in India, and how stories were told to bring out certain truths, not facts. At IIM Ahmedabad

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0:00.0	We want to be mythology.
0:10.6	So we know that Eliot was written by Homer, a blind guy.
0:17.1	He wrote that there are 14,000 horses.
0:20.1	But since we know that he could not
0:21.8	have seen it for himself, we believe
0:24.4	with some sort of historical storytelling going on there.
0:32.4	Would you say, but nowadays, all the scriptures,
0:36.0	religious scriptures are taken as gospel.
0:38.6	So should we also believe that there is
0:41.2	myth-making in Ramayana, in Mahabharata,
0:45.3	and that taking them as gospel rather than just
0:48.3	work of literature is wrong?
0:50.7	I don't see anybody taking Ramayana
0:53.0	in Mahabharata as a gospel.
0:55.2	There are certain factions which are...
0:57.2	No, no.
0:58.2	They cannot because they'll get freaked out with confusion.
1:02.6	Because there are all kinds of people in Mahabharata,
1:05.6	the best sort of man, the worst sort of man
1:07.8	in between every kind of man and woman,
1:10.2	is there over 100,000 characters?
1:12.0	How can you make a gospel out of it?
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