Respected sir,
Myth plays an essential part in any culture therefore, it is century old debates that weather the myths are true stories or not. Like any other issue we also find here people believing in both the ways.
Whatever Aristotle and Plato had said about mythology that was according to their time and culture. But if we analyze the question that whether myths are only imaginary story or has any reality from the Indian point of view then mostly we find that all this stories are true. For example our great epics RAMAYAN and MAHABHARATA ,because still after this many years we have available so many places which are connected with lord RAMA and Krishna. for example ‘RAMSETU” .and if this stories are imaginary than it shouldn't have any connection in real life but it is not so. Those places which are described in this epics are still existing in the 21st century like DWARIKA in Gujarat, the battle field of KURUKSHETRA in Haryana, a place (village) where sri Krishna was married with Rukmini is still existing in MAHUVA TALUKA ,which was shown on TV 9 news few months ago. a place where sri Krishna breath his last (PRABHASPATAN) is also existing in Gujarat. This and many other like this shows that it is not only imaginary story.
But now the question arise that if all this stories are fact/truth does it becomes history?
We shouldn't forgot that this great epics were remain greatest source for the most of the authors and they have chosen their material from this and made necessary changes according to their needs. And we also not forgot that RAM is one and the RAMAYAN is also one but in every state of India they have their own RAMAYAN.
This suggests that truth is truth but it is writer’s imagination, creativity which creates god’s image in our mind.and perhaps this is the reason that PLATO was not agree in beleiving that myths are true story.at some extent he is right.
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