Sri Lanka Plans Ramayana Tourism Package, Seeks India's Help

Meenakshi, though the places sound all lush green with beaches on the side I have a dirty feeling that like our religious places in Sri Lanka too all these places must be heavily commercialized;)

If not Ram at least Ravan.Why go there only as tourists ?you all should settle there permanently

Kela # 2 what do u mean by `you'?

Doest it mean all Indians, or all Hindus or all Torists around the globe who want to visit India and ramayana route especially.

Even after 60 year of idependence many among us seems to be carrying a colonial baggage that tecahes us to hate everything associated with India.

World is changing my friends. let's be positive about our country its cultural and civilisational values even if we have converted to foreign religions and cultures.

Our mother will remian our mother no matter we has started calling neighbours mom as my mom.

Man Singh ,I am positive enough to realise this is just a scam started by the Sri Lankan Govt to boost their tourism economy.
Also christianity is as foreign to india as modern day hinduism or the moslem religion

Kela #4

There are two very serious issues here.

1. How do you know it is a scam. Any evidence?
2. Even if Srilanka wants to promote tourism through Ram and its history, what's wrong in it?

Hinduism is not foreign to any country. It is evolved in due course of time and almost whole earth contributed to it under active leadership of India. Indians are preservers and beholders of these eternal universal teachings and that's why I call it Native religion originated from soil of India. There is not single founder of it and not a single book can be attributed to it exactly the way mathematics or Physics or any other branch of knowledge were not started by one scinetist and can not be covered in one book.

It is foolish to say whole maths in one book n one mathematicians produced ultimate truth of maths.

Christianity and Islam originated at some `out of India' location and hence its foreign. In additiona to that these tow religions mainly spread along with `Invaders'activities(except few exceptions like Syrian Christians etc).

And its fine with me if somebody uses Indian or foreign religion for their spritual developement. Its a matter of individual choice altogather.

Only thing I expect is that people should not hate it, we should not attack it, we should not use money muscle and marriage to convert its people to these foreign religion.

Any type of duress (monetory, military or political) is unethical in religios matters and let the freedom of religion prevail.
Lord Krishan in 18th Chapter of Geeta says o Arjuna I have revealed the whole truth to you. Now its upto you if want to follow it or not? Chapter 18 verse 63

Krishna never terrorised Arjuna that if you do not follow my teachings , I'll put you in hell fire as Mohamemd or Jesus thretened.

Let's be happy at Srilankan efforts to popularise the original religion of the earth for whole humanity strated at the time of creation itself by God himself. We should learn to respect our mother/motherland even if she is ugly, illetral, ignorant, unclean and full of all vices because is Mother is Mother ultimately and we have born out of her. This single act of mother makes her worshippable dear Kela. We should respect neat clean beautiful educated rich mothers of foreigners as well. But we should noy dump our own no matter what?

Man Singh Bhai wrote:

""2. Even if Srilanka wants to promote tourism through Ram and its history, what's wrong in it?"

I totally agree with you on this one! What exactly is the problem if they promote tourism in this manner? Who is being victimized or vandalized? For a country reeling under so much pointless bloodshed, perhaps this might be a positive thing too...

And no, this is not a desperate attempt to stop you calling me "nonsense"! I like this nick and perhaps I will ask the editors if I can use it instead of commonsense...

Deepti- that is obvious- wanting tourist Rupaiyas! what interested me in the article was the presence of such sites in the first place- sort of validating the Epic story.

kela: You all- who all?! i was invited to Jaffna many years back to visit my friend there, before the Eelam and the government made that place inhospitable. being Tamizh, it is hard to go to Sri lanka.

Man singh: valid arguments. I wonder why we get this odd pleasure in denigrating anything of indic origin- interesting observation.

CS- LOL! NS?! U R fun! my only concern in this entire issue is the denial of the Tamil Nadu government of the ramSethu and planning on destroying it, in the name of building a canal that is useless for regular oceangoing ships/tankers.

MS - hinduism arrived with the invadng Aryans.Before that people were worshiping trees and rocks.You are right about Syrian Christians though,they're the most noble of the lot

Kela #11

It seems you are still living and beliveing colonial history of dive and rule out of which they propagated this `Aryan Invasion Theory'

Can you provide a single evidence to prove your point to prove your statement.

I am not a historian. But I am Indian and have India very closely.

I am puting here 15 arguments to support my point that Hinduism has South Indian roots. You please refute with solid argument and evidence.

1.Hindus Devas Ram, Krishna, Vinsnu are black in color curly hair like typical south India.
Why so called fair skinned Aryans from outside will worship black color Gods. they will prefer to impose their own like Muslim invaders and Christian agressors.
2. All Devis look like typical South Indian women.Why so called fair skinned Aryans from outside will worship black color Gods. they will prefer to impose their own like Muslim invaders and Christian agressors.

3.Vedas describe nature, flaura and fauna all of Indian and not of any foreign country. Invaders glorify their homeland as Muslims and Christian invaders did in last 1300 years.

4. Conch shell(Shanks) used in Hindu worship is found in south India.
5. Sandal used in worship found in South India .
6. Roli (Kumkum) produced in South India .
6. Supari, etc all south Indian and not North.
8. Rice (South India) used in prayers not wheat produced in North.
9. Coconut produced in South India and not in North.
10. Sanskrit has alphabet of 53 letter similar in all Indian languages including Tamil while European languages have only 24-26
11. English have only 400 words common with Sanskrit, Tamil have more then 4000.
12. `Arya' in Sanskrit means a noble person who does his/her duty professionally and smartly irrespective of cast creed color or way of worship and never a race?
13. All rivers described in Vedas are Indian rivers. If they were foreinegers they might have described foreign rivers as Muslim invaders always described `zam zam ka Paani'
14. All Mountains described in vedic Literature are Indian. If they were foreigners they might have described foreign mountains.
15. All atronomical descriptions match with star positions on India
16. All trees, plants medicines etc described are of Indian origin
17. Chapter 1 shloka 46 of SrimadBhagwat clearly says that Bhakti was born in Dravid Desh, grew up in Karnataka, respected in maharshtra harrased sometime in Gujraat and became old and fainted in Vrindavan clearly proving Hinduism to be religion of South Indian origin and hence Aryan Invasion is altogather false.

18. The most convincing and cross verifiable argument is Astronomical positions of various planets described in vedas. It can be easyly determined under if a palenet is in particular sign of zodiac, where and when on the earth such combination of planets occured. Studies on such palenetry positions also prove that they are very much in India and at the same time as described in ancinet scriptures.


Even BBC has included Indic viewpoint of Aryans in its website and a reasonable reader can easyly grasp the truth after reading both side of story in BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/history/history_4.shtml

Kela , calling Aryan as invaders and Hinduisma s foreign origin is nothing but gimmics of foreign invaders and their associates to justify their own crimes of ditching the motherland in crisis and converting to foreign religions.

However I dun care which way of worship somebody follows unless somebody try to demonise the native religions.