By: Anushree Jeyakumar The Bridge to Sri Lanka By: Anushree Jeyakumar

Prayer To Gurudev Om Ajnana Timirandhasya Jnaanaanjana Salaakaya Caksur Unmilitam yena Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah ....... (Prema Bhakti Cantrika) [ O Gurudeva! I offer my humble pranams from my inner heart. With the torch light of divine knowledge you open my eyes blinded by darkness of ignorance.]

Why Is There A Bridge To Sri Lanka? In Treta Yuga, Ravana kidnapped Sita Devi (consort of Lord Rama) to Sri Lanka Lord Ram wanted a bridge to take all the vanaras to Sri- Lanka to fight. The Ramayana, one of the two Ithicasas describe about this in great details

How Did The Rocks Float? Vanaras wrote Rama’s holy name on the rocks They all floated because of the power of Lord Ram’s name. But when Lord Rama tried, they did not float.

Why Didn’t the rocks float when Lord Rama tried?

Is There Really A Bridge From India To Sri Lanka? Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge is made of chain of shoals,18 miles (30 km) long. The bridge’s unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to a very early age, about 1,750,000 years ago This age exactly lies in Treta Yuga when Lord Rama appeared.!

Satellite Image of The Bridge

What Do Scientists Say About ? Scientists say that it has a very clearly planned structure to build the bridge. The base was wood The second layer was stone The next two layers were flat rock This data coincides with the details from Ramayana

Quiz Time!!!!! 1. Why was the bridge built from India to Sri Lanka? 2. As per the scientists what is the first layer of the bridge? 3. As per the scientists what is the top layer of the bridge? 4. Who found satellite images of the bridge from Space? 5. How did the rocks float on water? 6. What holy text describes about this bridge and how it was built?

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