Is the bridge between India and Lanka Rama-setu?

From Rupa Gaura P

If that Lanka was on another plane as you told in your answer, how is it that we see the Rama setu still there in the sea, from Rameshwaram to Sri Lanka? Is it that just as size of people decrease in subsequent yugas, the earth itself shrinks, and so the distances too reduce?

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Hare Krishna question from Rupa Gaurav Prabhu this is a continuation of an earlier question the earlier question was how were Rikshabahu kings rulers of the earth when Ravana was in Lanka his question is that Lanka was another plane as you told in your answer and how is it that we see that the Ramasetu is still there in the sea from Ramaswaram to Sri Lanka is it that just as size of people decreases in subsequent yugas the earth itself shrinks and so the distance is to reduce answer the Ramasetu or what is called as Ramasetu between Rameshwaram and Sri Lanka is not necessarily the bridge that Lord Ram built in general devotees are very eager to try to find some empirical evidence to support whatever scriptural teachings that they have learned and we can always try to find pratyakshana naman sources which do not prove but they confirm shabda is higher authority pratyakshana naman are lower authorities so the lower doesn’t prove the higher but rather the lower confirms the higher so devotees can always do that but at the same time we have to be careful and adequately critical for example one of Shilaprabhupada’s prominent scientist disciples Uttakarma Prabhu has written a book called forbidden archaeology and gives a lot of evidences which contradict the theory of evolution but he says that all the evidences that he takes are from published places they are published by some scientists in some respectable source in some scientific journal and then he has compiled them together he has done original research that research also gets published in some scientific journal and then he publishes it in his book so the point here is that if the evidence that we are offering to support something which is given in shastra is itself shaky is itself not very strong then the effect of that will be that the shastric truth is sound but because the support for it which we are giving is weak people find faults in that supporting point and because of that they reject the original point also so therefore we have to be extremely cautious when we take any point from to support Shabda so now if we look at the Rama Setu it is very clearly mentioned in the Ramayan that that bridge was floating and that is considered to be one of the primary miracles that Lord Ram performed during his times that he built a bridge that floated, the stones floated and how did they float? Because the Vanaras wrote the name Ram on it by the mystical potency of Lord Ram. Now the bridge that is there today is definitely not floating it’s basically like a ridge that is coming from the bottom of the ocean bed up to a particular level and secondly it’s also mentioned that when Lord Ram returned after enthroning Vibhishana as the king, at that time Vibhishana requested Lord Ram that this bridge will pose a security threat to Lanka so can it be destroyed and then Lord Ram used his massive bow and disrupted the bridge he destroyed the bridge that was built by a single swing of his bow, that was his power so the point is that because that bridge was floating and because that bridge was said to have been destroyed so whether that today’s Ramasetu is actually, today what is called as Ramasetu is actually the bridge that Lord Ram built is questionable and we shouldn’t uncritically assume that the two are the same. So now I have discussed this with Dhritarashtra and several other devotee scientists, Dhritarashtra’s point was that if it can be, if the rocks, the stones that make the Ramasetu are investigated and if it is found that almost all the stones or majority of the stones that make the Ramasetu are not from the nearby area but they are not just from the ocean vicinity, it’s not just a ridge that has grown from the ocean that due to some natural geological movements but it has, stones have been brought from elsewhere, that kind of stones are not from the ocean then that could be a significant point in favor in support of the idea that this might be the Ramasetu so as of now we don’t have to uncritically identify the seeming bridge that is there between India and Lanka to be Ramasetu and then as far as the earth’s size is concerned the point is well known that people’s physical dimensions decrease now whether sizes of everything decreases, it’s possible because Kali Yuga is a place where everything shrinks so it’s possible that the physical dimensions of places may also shrink but till now we have not come across any specific reference for this point and it’s a theory that deserves research, Mr. Karmaprabhu, myself and several other devotees we are working on researching to see if there is any clear statement to this effect and that will also help us understand a lot about the differences in dimensions that we often see between what are described in the scriptures and what we find today so it is definitely possible and there are some references to that which are actually inferences so we won’t quote this at this stage as a authoritative answer but it is a possibility based on an inference from what we know about the characteristics of Kali Yuga to shrink physical dimensions Thank you Hare Krishna