We are Indian, we are blessed.

 

Sometime back, I have heard a discussion about authenticity of Ramayana epic. Is Ramayana only an imagination of Valmiki? Was Valmiki a fiction novelist. I don't know the answer. It may be, we didn't see history. However, I went to botanic garden Chicago today. There I saw a squirrel as you can see in picture (left). According to Ramayana, Squirrel has been touched and blessed by Lord Rama for its hard work when they were constructing bridge to Lanka, and hence it got stripes. This squirrel (one in picture) doesn't contain the stripes, which normally Indian or SriLankan species of squirrel contains. (Wikipedia link) .

Now I don't mind, really, if you pray a stone, consider them as living, bath them with milk, and feed children Chinese milk powder, worship an animal and keep hundreds of human being malnourished. We are Indian, we are blessed.