Was there any specific reason behind the broadcast of the Ramayana in COVID time?

[Shri Jayesh Pandey asked: Dandvat Namaskaram Swamiji! Swami ji! During the COVID first wave, the broadcasting of Ramayana broke many records. People were extremely excited and curious to watch its episode daily in spite of such severe lockdown. Even the people who were not that religious, were eagerly waiting for the telecast of the Ramayana. A repeat telecast would severely disappoint everyone. What I personally experienced was that even for a short time, the ambience of my house was turned highly religious. People were trying to imitate their favourite characters in their daily life. Swami ji!, was there any specific reason, a specific plan, behind the broadcast of the Ramayana in COVID time? My humble salutations at Your feet and to Your devotees!]

Swami replied:- The main aim of preaching humanity through the Ramayanam was Pravrutti or worldly life as per the liking of God, which is the victory of justice and the defeat of injustice. Rama was an incarnation meant for the behaviour of an ideal human being (Ādarśa mānuṣa avatāra). Pravrutti is the foundation for Nivrutti. Every human being must try to imitate Rama and Sita. Then only, the society will be very peaceful. The incarnation of Krishna was mainly for Nivrutti to test Gopikas and to give total salvation to them. Even Krishna extended His activity to protect Pravrutti as we saw in His involvement in the affair of the Pandavas. He also killed several demonic people and also got several devilish people killed and this is sweeping the dirt to clean the house of earth. Covid or any other such serious virus is the result of the anger of God on humanity for their sins done due to the background of ego.

The Ramayanam could help humanity to develop liking for justice and hatred for injustice. Such development of good attitude is to certainly help humanity come out of the clutches of the dangerous virus because the slip of good attitudes itself is the reason for the birth of the virus. God always is positive towards humanity and always tries to help humanity. The rain falls from the sky all over the earth in an uniform way to help the earth generate food for the living beings. The intension of the sky is always good. The intention of earth is also good because the earth tries to generate food everywhere. But, some areas of the earth are rocky refusing to help the generation of food. Similarly, some devilish souls are always opposing God and doing sins secretly to make a good impression on the public. The theist will always fear for sin even though sometimes he/she practically fails in following justice. The atheist never fears for sin since he/she does not believe in the Divine punishment and he/she worries only about punishment by courts and if such punishment can be avoided, he/she will never bother about doing sin secretly, without being noticed by the public.

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