2006-06-07 01:38:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
A power infatuated human who was a great scholar but lost his way somewhere along the line.
He was a worshipper of Lord Shiva not a god himself. He is called a demon because of his acts. After becoming a King he had started to use really dirty tricks to maintain his position.
2006-06-08 04:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by rian30 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ravan is a demon. The difference between hinduism and christianity is that Demons can be really great and good while gods can also be totally evil and awful. It's a totally different concept.
2006-06-07 05:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by xcornmuffinx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ravan is a demon
Rama is the God.
You need to make one god and the other demon for the story.
The character which made Ravan a great king , with enchanting charm to go down the history as demon is his idea of abducting sita wife of rama.
2006-06-07 01:42:21 · answer #3 · answered by krishna919885028008 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ravan come under the family of demons... but he was a Honest and Generous King who ruled at those age....
2006-06-07 01:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by Bharani 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ravan was not a god but a demon.
first ravan was a ordinary man who got all the mighty powers from lord shiva.then he felt proud of himself and begin to critisize some of the brahmins .then in that fury one of the sage punished him .thats the actual story of ravan.
2006-06-07 01:49:41 · answer #5 · answered by kyanam sunny 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
. Ravana became born to a brahmin sage vaisrava, and grandson of Pulastya (prajapathi) therefore comes lower than devagana gotra. Rama , a kshatriya had to finish aswamedha yaga, to pardon for killing a brahmin Ravana. Plus, Ravana and Kumbhakaran are none different the gate-keepers of vishnu. Ravan exiled his personal brother Kubera, who became an architect of Sri Lanka and the Prince of Sri Lanka. by ability of your common sense, If he's a dravidian, why is he evil adversarial to a distinct dravidian?? to that end, Dravidian delusion is pretend. Ravan dared to diminish off his head because he had the powers to get that back, an hassle-free common sense. do not you realize beheading is demonic, how can that be austerity?
2016-12-06 11:16:20 · answer #6 · answered by goni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Ravan was a demon . He was a devotee of LORD SHIVA and was so powerful that even the 9 planets called Navagrahas were over powered by him and rendered in active.The story goes that he was in the kingdom of the Lord but was cursed to take birth in the world and get killed in the hands of the Lord to attain salvation.
His action in carrying away SITA , wife of Sri RAMA, which resulted finally in his getting killed in the hands of Sri Rama, who was an AVATAR of Lord Vishnu but had to remain as a human being sans his supernatural powers.
2006-06-07 01:48:37 · answer #7 · answered by THATHA75 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ravan was a mortal with infinite devotion and spirituality but with knowledge comes a prize. EGO. what is evil but an unsatisfied ego. god or demon depends on which side of the ego line u r standing.
2006-06-07 01:44:38 · answer #8 · answered by nancy_sparkz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we're referring to Ravana, the antagonist of the Ramayana...he was truly neither - or both. Ravana's great-grandfather was Brahma, a deity. His grandmother was a demon. Ravana's father was a sage and his mother was a rakshasa - a type of demion So, he had both bloodlines, but was fully neither.
See the attached link for more information.
2006-06-07 01:51:36 · answer #9 · answered by Moth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually ravan was a god but b'coz of his one wrong deed he was cosidered a demon
2006-06-07 01:43:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋