Why are there fossils of dinosaurs but not of Rakshasas?

From: Gyanvardhan

Why do we not find the skeletons of demons slayed by krsna or rama though most of them existed in dwapar yuga only, we can find remains of dianosaurs easily then why not of demons.

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Why do we not find the skeletons of demons slayed by Krishna or Ram though most of them existed in Dwapar Yuga only? We can find remains of the dinosaurs easily then why not of demons? Answer, primarily because there cannot remain any skeletons when there is cremation by burning the fire.
Fossils remain either when there is natural death and body just decomposes and basically the bones get buried by some natural process that is how they get preserved but by cremation when there is burning of the body at that time there is no chance of even the bones remaining and we see that even the demons to some extent would follow this culture of burning the dead bodies for example when Putana was killed it is described in the 10th canto of Srimad Bhagavatam that when the Vrajvasis had to cremate her body they burned it and because her body had been touched by Krishna so that body gave a fragrant smell all around even when burning normally corpses do not give a fragrant smell. Now in the Ramayana it is described when the Rakshasas were killed in the battle Ravana specifically arranged that all the Rakshasas be thrown into the oceans that means the Rakshasas dead body be thrown into the ocean so that the enemies would not get encouraged by seeing the next morning how many corpses from the opposite party are lying dead so that he did not want the Vanaras to feel encouraged by seeing the slaughter of the Rakshasas that had happened on the previous day and this is actually described in the Ramayana as an evidence of Ravana’s heartlessness and ingratitude towards those who were rendering service by sacrificing their lives for him in marked contrast with Vibhishan when Ravana was killed at that time Vibhishan said that I don’t want to perform his last rites because he’s a demon and he doesn’t deserve an auspicious destination and so he doesn’t deserve honorable last rites so Lord Ram said no the soul is pure and whatever sins he had done by dying he has been cleansed and ultimately the soul is pure so you should not impute any of the contamination of Ravana’s sinful body on his soul and do whatever is your duty for the benefit of his soul of course in the Ramayana Lord Ram is not playing the role of the Supreme Lord directly explicitly so that’s why he doesn’t say over there that he has already become liberated but he emphasizes the point that so yes he was evil so he had to be punished and killed but now that he has been killed as a brother you should do the right duties and what are the right duty perform the last rites for him by burning his body similarly even when Vali was killed after that Sugriva arranged for a royal funeral ceremony and a royal last rites befitting a king for him so that was again because he was that means even whether it is Vanaras or Rakshasanas performing last rites by cremation which involves burning the body was the standard and actually speaking somehow in the western tradition the idea that the body and the soul are conflated together that means confused together because of which people in the Abrahamic religious traditions have the naive notion that at the time of resurrection the body itself will be resurrected as it happened with Jesus so that’s why they feel that we have to preserve the body and one way of preserving the body is burying the body so of course everybody knows by common sense that within a few weeks few days also the body starts decomposing and gets destroyed there’s no chance of that body getting resurrected but still that is their belief system which they have got this doesn’t come directly from the bible but it is a interpretation of the by of biblical ideas for subsequent subsequent people but anyway the point is that that is this is one of the primary reasons why we don’t find much archaeological remains in terms of fossils of the vedic civilization because the vedic civilization standard was burning and when there’s burning of the dead bodies then no fossils remain so on the other hand dinosaurs they they were wherever they were in the world they are much much lower beings on the scale of consciousness there is like reptiles practically speaking and there’s no cremation of them they don’t have that evolved consciousness so naturally the fossils of creatures like those can be found out dating back to ancient times so overall the idea of trying to trace history back to archaeology is extremely speculative first of all it is based on the assumption that life forms get preserved as fossils now not all life forms very few life forms get preserved as fossils and even so what gets preserved as fossils if they are in the topsoil then when the rains come and the topsoil gets washed away then that topsoil will go through the rivers and it can go either to the plains or it can go right to the bottom of the ocean and although there is some sort of marine archaeology but that is only looking at the surface of the ocean nobody can dig what is under the surface of the ocean so that’s why trying to get a picture of human history from archaeology itself highly speculative and again especially when it comes to human history through archaeology it’s a very western centric concept that if humans have existed in the past the remains we can know through their fossils now if from the vedic perspective the vedic civilization was there all over the world and when it was there all over the world at that time the standard was not to bury the bodies but to burn the bodies so by burning the soul is understand that okay this body is now over there’s no chance for me to stay to enter into this body and become engaged in the body once again for my worldly enjoyment so then the soul becomes ready relatively ready easily to go on to the next destination so based on a proper understanding of the soul and the body cremation is the most intelligent way to perform the last rites and that was what was performed and that’s and if that is the case then we really can’t find any any large number of human fossils dating back to ancient times of course there were always even when vedic civilization there there were tribals and outcasts who did not necessarily follow the vedic culture so they might still have performed a burial and especially when people were there were it is not that the whole vedic civilization was everywhere there were still hunters and gatherers also in other parts of the world it was not that everywhere there were varnashram communities which followed varnashram principles there were still tribals and there were people who lived in forests and even their bodies might have been killed in the course of nature and no last rites were performed so the bones were remaining and they could have become fossils so if we look at the fossil record then what does the fossil record say it certainly doesn’t support theory of evolution and dr michael cremo has documented in his book the hidden history of the human race of how there are fossils actually going back to very very ancient times and you can look at his website for more details about this the book is by the hidden history of the human race by dr michael cremo and he has given a lot of research reports about how there has been evidence of antiquity of human existence on earth for a long long time and this evidence has been sidelined by the mainstream because they wanted to fit it into a particular idea of history so even within the western lens if we look at history it is not that there are no ancient human fossils for example dr cremo describes how at a time when according to monkey according to evolution theory only monkeys are supposed to be present there’s a gold chain that has been found so what were monkeys doing with a gold chain they’re offering a gold chain marriage to their spouse when they would get married even older a metal a groove like a cricket ball has a sphere with grooves like a cricket ball has been found at a time even older so this is artifact and it clearly bears the evidence of design i have talked about this also in my book science and spirituality so the point is there is substantial evidence that even from the point of view of the western lens that the current story of human history is not supported by evidence so to summarize firstly because of cremation the most fossils would not remain especially supernatural fossils and vedic civilization if it was widespread all over the world then naturally that would mean anti-ancient human existence would not be apparent and the idea that we can find out through fossils of our ancient history is based on a western cultural imperialist notion universalizing western cultural notions that in the past people’s remains were buried or at least they just lay around so that is not always true and even within that filter there and there is enough evidence which seems to strongly call for an alternative explanation apart from the standard story of linear evolution that is proposed by the new darwinian synthesis