Evil Spreads

One day, while he was sitting in his assembly, Ravan eyed his huge family of warriors, children, grandchildren, family members, and the different tribes of rakshas' who were countless in number. Seeing his army, the proud Ravan incited the rakshas' to fight against the devtas, as they were their enemies. He told them to go and disrupt their religious ceremonies. When they got hungry and weak, the devtas will come and join them, and then, he would kill them all, or keep the devtas in his servitude forever.

Ravan summoned his son Meghnath and urged him to fight the devtas, tie up the brave ones and bring them back, to him. Getting the army prepared for war, got Ravan excited. With a mace in hand Ravan moved, the earth shook, and when he bellowed, women miscarried their unborn children. When the devtas heard Ravan was coming, they fled, to hide in the caves of the Sameru mountain.

Ravan was on a power trip. He went around in a drunken stupor, roaring like a lion, hurling curses at the devtas for their cowardice. Looking for a valiant warrior just like himself, Ravan traveled the world, but found no match. Meanwhile he struck terror in all the three Lokas amongst the devtas , humans, vegetation and the animal kingdom. Even the five elements, the sun and the moon were affected by him. He let nobody sit at ease, so much so that everybody was under his control. Due to his might, he won over all the other kingdoms and started ruling everybody with a tight grip.

Ravan married many beautiful women and daughters of devtas, humans and other species of the different Lokas. His son Meghnath was very dutiful to his father, and performed all tasks asked of him, even before he was asked. Meanwhile, the ugly, sinful rakshas' were harassing the devtas. No religious ceremony like yagyas, brahmin bhojan (feast), shrad (ceremony for the dead), etc. could be performed due to their interference. Religion was at it's lowest ebb. No one believed in devtas, brahmins, or gurus. Not even in their dreams, did anybody listen to Vedas or Puranas. Ravan made sure that there was no religious activity in the land. If he heard that some ceremony was going on, he personally went there to disrupt it, kill the devtas or throw them out of the country. Crime had reached it's prime, and the rakshas' had spread evil far and wide.

Surely the stage was being set for something. How would the earth get rid of all this evil. Of course we shall see! Until then live in Ram Rajya. JAI HO!