No disrespect to anyone who finds religious direction from this book, but this book literally had me laughing out loud at times. It reminds me somewhat of a comic strip story, or a story told by a small child. The spaceships, fighting vultures, flying mountains, and twenty-armed antagonists gave me a picture of something along the lines of a science fiction movie. What I found strange was that the first part of the book was actually pretty normal...until Rama got to the forest, then bizarre stuff started happening left and right. I don't know why the first part seemed fairly normal but as soon as the random stuff started happening, I kind of lost focus on the Ramayana and did not take the work seriously any longer. It was actually making me laugh...the part about the vulture fighting the golden amphibian spaceship...priceless. Oh and the fact that it goes through the whole fight scene, explaining how the vulture disarms the amphibian spaceship only to later say that the spaceship was somehow miraculously fixed and was able to fly Ravana and Sita away. Maybe its just me but I find no validity in this kind of story at all.
I do like to read and watch superhero/sci-fi movies but in order for me to take anything from a work that I can apply to my life, the setting has to be somewhat based in reality. It is understandable that people elevate the idea of Rama and dharma, but as far as this story actually happening, it is far from believable. I am not saying that this work is utterly ridiculous, it does have its place in literature but it is not a work that deserves to be taken too seriously. Anyways, I did find the story quite entertaining regardless if I was laughing or not.
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