Perhaps our modern lives find it difficult to even contemplate a time like that. The many facts are wrapped within one another. The text is a richly-layered one, with well-etched personalities, and the breathless victory of good over evil. Ramayana is indeed an ancient epic which is alive even today. This passage also emphasizes the deep and cyclical nature of time in Hindu cosmology over long ages, events tend to repeat themselves. Rama is alluding to his great destiny: to eradicate the evil of the age. Having arrived on the shores of Lanka, Rama speaks these words to Lakshmana as if in a trance.
Until time ends, and dharma and adharma with it.”
Which has been fought before on countless worlds, in forgotten ages.Įven after this battle of Lanka, the war shall be fought again and again Of timeless evil, and a battle older than the earth,
