How were Ikshvaku kings rulers of the earth when Ravana was in Lanka?

From Rupa Gaur Pr

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part and parcel Question from Rupa Gauraprabhu When kings of Ikshavaku dynasty were considered emperors of the world, how is it that Ravana who was still on the same planet was beyond their rule? This question has been asked by others also about how Dashrath Maharaj was able to do the yajna for becoming the emperor of the world if Ravana was still there.
Answer Ravana did not live as a part of the earth. Sometimes the Lanka that is there below the Indian peninsula is equated with the Lanka of Ravana but geographically the two are significantly different so the distance between them, the distance between India and Lanka as we know it today is far smaller than the distance between India and Lanka as is mentioned in the Ramayana that’s why the Maharaj had to build a long bridge and Hanuman was the only person who could jump across that distance it was a large far far greater distance and not only that if we look at the geographical dimensions of Lanka let me describe there are many mountains on it and there are huge palaces and each of them had gigantic gardens and all the commanders of Ravana had their own palaces and there are thousands and thousands and thousands of Rakshasas and outside the city of Lanka also there was a huge forest with many mountains and that doesn’t match the geography of Lanka. Actually speaking what we call as Lanka is normally what we today call as Lanka was formally known as Ceylon in Marco Polo’s description it is called as Ceylon so now this does not necessarily mean that the Lanka which we have here is not connected with Ravana’s Lanka if we look at the Ramayana’s context it is clear that Lanka was Kubera’s kingdom and Ravana usurped it from him.
Now Kubera is the treasurer of the gods and the treasurer of the gods does not have to stay on the earth and certainly the treasurer of the gods doesn’t have to be the ruler of a tiny island that’s how Lanka is right now. So there may be some connection just as we have Vrindavan on this earth which is connected with the Vrindavan of the spiritual world or we have Kailash here which is connected with the Kailash in the higher Lokas. So in the Ramayana and Mahabharata it is described fairly well that actually there are areas in the universe which are connected with areas with other parts of the universe in non-ordinary ways so the Lanka of today in the south of India may be in some way connected with the Lanka of Ravana or Lanka of Kubera either way but the two are not exactly the same and because Lanka was Kubera’s kingdom and Ravana was the ruler of Kubera’s kingdom that did not come under the jurisdiction of the earth so that’s why when Dashrath Maharaj was told later on by Vishwamitra Muni that the Muni wanted Ram to fight with Ravana Dashrath Maharaj was horrified and he said that it’s impossible even I with my whole army cannot stop Ravana what to speak of my son who has not fought a single battle till now and there is also the story of Ravana long ago having defeated and killed Anaranya who was a ancestor of Dashrath and Anaranya had used his mystic power to impart a dying curse on Ravana that in the future a descendant of his family will kill Ravana and that was eventually fulfilled through the prediction of Lord Ram appearing in the Ikshvaku dynasty and killing Ravana so the point is that the Ikshvaku kings were rulers of the earth and Lanka was not considered a part of the earth and now whether it was how it was geographically connected with the Lanka of today that is something which we need access to the higher aspects of the universe to understand in another part of the in another answer I have explained about wormholes and I also talked about how the universe is a like a mainframe computer where we have access to whatever we need to have access to so that’s why we don’t know exactly the nature of the connection but the Lanka of today, the geographical Lanka of today is not entirely the same as the Lanka of Ravana and Ravana was not the ruler of one small island on earth he was the ruler after he had defeated Indra he would not settle on some small island on the earth he actually after defeating Indra he had conquered practically the whole universe when Yamaraja had gone away from his fighting with him not because he was defeated but Brahma told him not to fight with Ravana so after he had conquered the whole universe he had no interest in living on a small island on the earth he was ruling the kingdom of Kuvera that was the celestial Lanka