The epics narrate this event as the day when Lord Rama killed Ravana in a battle running for many days that sacrificed thousands of lives on both sides. Rama was accompanied by his brother Lakshman, Hanuman, Sugreev and Ravana’s younger brother Vibhishan.
It all started with Rama along with his brother Lakshman and wife Sita left Ayodhya to stay in jungles for 14 years to fulfil his father Dasratha’s promise given to Rama’s step mother.
On his stays at various places in different regions, his beautiful wife is seen by Ravana. Ravana though was very intelligent and brave but destined to be killed by Rama, got attracted to Sita. He moves Rama and Lakshman away from Sita by unfair means and takes away Sita with her to his kingdom in Lanka.
Dussehra is the day when Ravana got killed by Rama indicating that all evil thoughts and deeds meet this sort of ends.
Every year we build large sized effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkaran and Meghnad, fill them with crackers and burn them to celebrate Dussehra. But what do we achieve by this except spending lot of money.
Let us celebrate Dussehra in a different manner this year by burning Ravana living within us and making Rama win forever. If each one of us is able to do this, we definitely have lived and celebrated Dussehra in a real way.
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