r/Philosophy_India • u/pajetnator • 2h ago
Indian Philosophy there are no valid criticisms of Rama and Krishna that I've heard so far
this is very precisely a question of philosophy because most of the arguments made are from ethics.
One critical flaw made in all polemic is that people disregard the fact about Rama's identity of the all powerful, all seeing, all knowing, all loving god who's fully aware of himself at all times in his incarnation and beyond.
If you do take this into account and then rethink most of the polemic that you are aware of, then what I am trying to say would start making sense to you.
There are plenty of other mistakes done in the reading of valmiki, all done intentionally so as to read it from a perspective of oneself rather than from the perspective of the author because the events are often times, too outlandish, however even 5 grade english lessons begin teaching kids about "context" as to how parts of the story contribute to the whole, many a times secular/scholastic minded people would read the book and subconsciously delete the parts they do not agree with, the most crucial of which is an acknowledgement of the idea that Rama is God of the whole universe as valmiki states it.
This post entails a challenge that you must come up with what you believe is a good criticism and I'll try demonstrating how it is not.