2.
When the monkeys and the deities
Joined their hands together
Constructed a massive edifice,
Became symbol of Indian culture
Wide bridge several kilometers long
Was Constructed using floating stones
Still stands today mighty and strong
Bewilders & surprises scientist of all zones
Above is the small poem, is composed for the
engineering masterpiece Ram setu. For those who
don’t know, Ram setu, also known as Adam Bridge,
was a bridge made of floating stones by Sons of
lord vishwakarma (Nal and Neel) under the
supervision of lord Rama.
Floating stones of shri ram setu
3.
Was Ram setu built by lord Rama?
According to epic Ramayana, this bridge was
built more than 1.75 million years ago to assist
lord Rama in crossing the Indian Ocean to reach
sri lanka where he fought the war with King
Ravana to free her wife ‘sita’ incarcerated by
king Ravana.
This bridge made of floating stones can still be
seen between India and sri lanka from
Rameshwaram, the place where Lord ram
prayed to lord Shiva and started the
construction of the bridge. Since this story is
very old and unproven, many historians,
scientists and archaeologists deny accepting this
bridge to be built by lord Rama but at the same
time they are unable to explain the concept of
floating stones found in rameshwaram.
4.
Strange floating stones of rameshwaram
Strange fact about these floating stones
is that they are found only on the
coastal regions of rameshwaram. These
stones are similar to any other stone
and possess the same features, physical
and chemical composition like the
stone you may find in your locality.
Seeing these stones from a far distance,
you may feel that this stone is made of
corals but on physical examination, it
is found that this is not a coral stone
and it has same 40 kind of chemical
compositions, like you find in a
normal stone
5.
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Scientist has been
claiming far and
wide that the stones
of ram setu are
actually coral
formation. Nasa
scientists even
release the photo
where they claims
the Ram setu
underwater bridge
to be coral
formation. Below is
the image release by
their space shuttle
‘endevaour’ in
February 2000.
6.
Coral stones don’t float on water
Even the scientist claim of floating coral stones is not true
since coral stones don’t float on water. Corals are marine
animals (class Anthozoa, phylum Cnidaria) who typically
lives in compact colonies called "polyps". Corals include
the reef builder who secretes calcium carbonate to
produce a hard Skelton which doesn’t float on water.
There is nothing like floating coral in this world
because coral is calcium carbonate, and its chemical
composition is too dense to float on water. Geologist
claims that after years of formation of layers on ocean bed,
coral stones are formed within the layer, but when they
were asked why these stones were formed only in
rameshwaram and nowhere else on other sea bed or
ocean bed then they were speechless and called it as the
act of nature. However, other geologist disagrees with
such views since coral stones doesn’t occur naturally in
the sea, they occur only on land/hard surface.
7.
One more false claim of comparing floating stones
with pumice
Some archeologist compared this floating stones with
pumice which is a kind of volcanic rock which floats on
water. This comparison is very foolish and juvenile. Pumice
is a kind of rock made from water and lava (of volcanoes)
and is very lightweight. There is no volcano near
rameshwaram nor is there any evidence which claims the
existence of volcano in the areas surrounding rameshwaram
over the last few millions of years. Also, floating stones of
rameshwarm are not light weighted like pumice rocks and
doesn’t have the chemical composition similar to pumice
rocks. It might be possible that this is some special kind of
heavy pumice rocks found only at rameshwaram but if this
would have been the case, then it would have been
confirmed by indian archealogists. According to visitors,
some of the stones do look like pumice but are extremely
heavy to be called as pumice. Also, color of the pumice rocks
is white or creamish in color but there are many black
floating stones in rameshwaram.
8. On immersing an object in a liquid, it displaces the liquid to occupy a small volume
of space, earlier occupied by the liquid. An object floats on a liquid only when the
weight of the liquid displaced by the object is equal or more than the Weight of
the object itself. This also means that the amount of object immersed on the water
depends upon the relative densities of the object and displaced liquid. Ex;only 90%
of the ice floats on water and remaining 10% can be seen floating outside the water.
This is why only stones which are very light weighted or are hollow or have air
inside floats on water. Since there are air cavities inside stone, the weight of the
water displaced by stone is more than the weight of the stones and hence, it allows
the stone to float on top of water.
A nice attempt but ,extremely difficult to believe. Also if they believed that there is
air cavities inside Ram setu floating stones then why didn’t they went there and
broke one of those stones to see if there are any air cavities inside. Moreover, it is
difficult to digest the fact that the weight of the water, displaced by a 15 kg stone in a
small tub, is greater than 15 kg.
Scientific explanation of Ram setu floating stones is
wrong
9.
On carefully examining one of the stones, one of the emerging scientist
(Student) made the following claim about this stones.
He said that on immersing the stone into the water, always the same part of the
stone stays on the top while the opposite part remains on bottom. This suggest
that the stone is not uniformly built and a part of the stone has higher
density compared to the opposite part and this is why, even when the stone
keeping the more denser part on top, the stones realigns itself and changes it
position to float with the less denser part on the top. This situation fits the law
of physics which states that stones would always float in a position where its
potential energy is minimum. He concluded by saying that the stones don’t
have uniform density and has air cavities located near the surface which makes
it floats on the water.
One more futile attempt by a scientist, but this was again refuted by Vikasa
Swami Maharaj, a devotee of iskcon. In the below image, Swami immerse a
stone weighing about 20-25 pounds from both sides at Rama Kund of
Rameswaram temple.
One more false claim of uniformity in density
11. Ramasethu is an engineering masterpiece which
was made of floating stones. If this stones were
coral then sage valmiki must have mentioned it as
corals since there is a precise word for corals in
Sanskrit. If any sage says it is made of stones then
by de facto, it is made of stones. From scientific
point of view, we can say that the technology once
existed to make stones float on water and the
architect like nal and neel were two advanced in
building a bridge from India to sri lanka within 5
days with the help of dedicated work force of
million Vanaras. Even in valmiki Ramayana, there
is a concept of civil engineering in building this
bridge. This bridge was not constructed just by
throwing stone with lord name but there were
many engineering methods used by nal and neel.
Ram setu was built by Lord Rama
12.
Valmiki Ramayan, Yuddha kanda, chapter 22, verse 53
te nagaan naga samkaashaaH shaakhaa mR^iga gaNa R^iSabhaaH
babhanjur vaanaraas tatra pracakarSuH ca saagaram |
Translation
Those army-chiefs of monkeys, who resembled mountains, broke the rocks and trees
there and dragged them away towards the sea.
Valmiki Ramayan, Yuddha kanda, chapter 22, verse 58
hastimaatraan mahaakaayaaH paaSaaNaamshca mahaabalaaH
parvataamshca samutpaaTya yantraiH parivahanti ca |
Translation
The huge bodied monkeys with mighty strength uprooted elephant-sized rocks and
mountains and transported them by mechanical contrivances.
Evidence : historical notes of valmiki from ramayana
13. Valmiki Ramayan, Yuddha kanda, chapter 22, verse 62 and 63
daNDananye pragR^ihNanti vicinvanti tathaapare ||
vaanaraiH shatashastatra raamasyajJNaapuraHsaraiH |
meghaabhaiH parvataabhashca tR^iNaiH kaaSThairbabandhare ||
Translation
Some monkeys were holding poles for measuring the bridge and some others collected
the material. Reeds and logs resembling clouds and mountains, brought by hundreds of
monkeys, lead by the command of Rama, fastened some parts of the bridge.
Valmiki Ramayan, Yuddha kanda, chapter 22, verse 60
samudram kshobhayaamaasurnipatantaH samantataH ||
suutraaNyanye pragR^ihNanti hyaayatam shatayojanam |
Translation
The rocks befalling on all sides perturbed the ocean. Some others drew up strings a
hundred Yojanas long.
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14. Every day, devotees in large numbers from all across
the country visit the ancient Rama temple of
rameshwaram to worship Lord Rama and to have a
glance on the so-called "floating stones". Four to five
floating stones, each weighing 10 to 20 kilograms have
been kept here since ages and can be seen at this temple
even today. Adjacent to this temple is the panchmukha
Hanuman Temple where you can find few more floating
stones used by 'Nal - Neil ' to build the stone bridge to
Sri Lanka .
A point to note about this city is that India greatest
nuclear scientist and Ex President Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
hails from Dhanushkodi area of Rameshwaram. In spite
of being an Indian Muslim and a scientist, APJ Abdul
kalam regards bhagavad gita with high respect and
encourage young scientist to research Vedas. This may
be because he has seen so much that internally, he also
feels the presence the god.
Thousands of devotees visit rameshwaram daily to see
floating stones
15. Nature is the biggest magical engineer. Our mind is very
limited in understanding the beauty and laws of nature (God).
Many scientists are of the idea that if all people start
believing in god then their theories and discoveries will not
be held in high regard as the people will treat their
discoveries as the act of god. Hence, many scientists try to
make scientific claims behind every event because they believe
whole foundation of science will be demolished if all people
start believing in god.
When the lord can create whole planets with oceans and
mountain to float in space, then why can’t stones float on
water? Scientist can only give you an explanation on how
things happen but not why things happen or why it was
created that way.
Even when scientist are finding it very difficult to explain the
mystery behind floating stones of Ram setu unfortunately,
without any research, our Indian government in their initiative
of constructing setu samundram bridge, said it very easily that
there is no evidences of ram setu being built by lord rama.
Scientist and government play politics
16. Above image shows the
evidences of lord ram. First
two are the floating stones of
lord Ram Bridge, exactly as
mentioned in Ramayana. Third
image shows the portion of
floating stone bridge and the
last one show the satellite
image of the bridge connecting
India and sri lanka.
Unfortunately, we believe in
scientific theories like
evolution even when there is
no solid evidence to prove
evolution and at the same
time, very easily, we discard
our religious theories like
reincarnation & karma by
terming it as a mythology.
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17.
conclusion
Being a secular country, our constitution doesn’t
allow government school to teach ancient religious
scriptures. Everything is the creation of nature (God).
There is an immediate cause and ultimate cause for
each action. Whether these stones float due to air
cavities or varying density, it just reveals the
greatness of God. Scientist can only make
assumptions but cannot perceive this vast creation
through their mundane mind because this
materialistic creation is beyond any logic and
explanation.
Only those who meditate and concentrate their mind
& senses on the divine soul can realize the supreme
and absolute truth.
