Ravana was a crook, although highest order. He had... His devotion towards God was not for enlightenment or God realization. It was a more conventional kind of religion. Let things go well for me. Let my empire get bigger and bigger. Let me get what I want, all by the grace of Shiva. That's the majority of religious people around the world. Temples, churches, mocks are full of people. Ravan did not want enlightenment. Then he wouldn't have done what he did. So, all that was fight up, good and evil, because the evil was there in Ravan and he directed it towards the world. Now, I'll do a
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 10 Verses 7-9 of the Bhagavad Gita. In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of the Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God).