The Ramayana...in a moment of clarity

I think I'm a really slow chap...man, I also figure I belong to a sub specie of a kind of moron...I have been breaking my head for weeks now, trying to understand the significance of the Ramayana or why it was ever written or is used as a handbook to Hinduism...
Well initially I figured the epic has been altered to suit the needs of despots. So I went about trying to unravel the truth...I read the English translation of Valmiki's Sanskrit version...(done by a foreigner) I found I was partially right but more wrong.
I have come to a partial conclusion that the ramayana has been altered and misinterpreted in ways....but for some reason, I like to believe the ancients were better than us. Yes there are a lot of things in the Ramayana that need to be debated...his sita chastity test, his slaying of Vali for taking Tara (Sugreeva's wife), who went willingly and wept miserably when he died, Rama's finality in his decisions to end life or punish criminals without fair trial, there is not much mention about what Rama did to improve the society, building roads, law maintenance, transport, hospitals etc. Just because the Ramayana happened years ago does not mean these things had no right being there...We all know the superior social order of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Muppalla Ranganayakamma wrote ‘Ramayana Vishavriksham’ : Ramayana the Poisonous Tree , between November 1973 and October 1974. She says - The Ramayana supports all the features of an exploitative society. It defends the autocratic rule of kings against the people, their imperial expansion by invading other weak kingdoms, exploitation of the poor by the rich, oppression of lower castes, aggression of civilized non-tribal communities against primitive tribal communities, exploitation of women, superstitious beliefs against rational thinking, fathers' domination over sons, elder brother's superiority over younger brothers and so on.
According to me the Ramayana was not written to establish Dharma, the Ramayana is just an account of history. History that was written by the ancients in the only way they knew...Tyranny has eclipsed the human race for too long...except the anarchy of Neanderthal man...The ramayana was probably an account extolling the king at that time to protect the author and placate the King...because writing ill about kings and all powerful men have been known to have disastrous consequences. The ramayana is rife with meta or sub text, and is up to intelligent people to decipher. The ancients could not be seditious, so they wrote between the lines subtlety was used to a great extent.
It is well known that wars have been fought through time to serve man's ego to own women...Helen of Troy for one. And we know Helen was just the excuse that Agamemnon needed to invade Troy. Sita might have been the excuse here. The entire tale of the Ramayana could be a warning, a warning for future generations which described the fallacies of the time, the injustice, the prejudice and the basic social structure.
The Ramayana was written to tell us how not to go about life, how not to oppress, how not to treat women, how not to be a judge and executioner. Because what the Ramayana does is describe what happens when all the above mentioned are practised. It was left to us to read, become aware and avoid such things.
I have found more stuff now The Manu Smriti, mentioned in the Ramayana...will devote time to that, understand better and get back to the Ramayana.
Rama - This land, each hill and woody chase,
Belongs to old Ikshváku's race:
With bird and beast and man,
the wholeIs ours to cherish and control.
Ikshvaku is the first king to implement the Manusmriti, or the religious rules of Hindu living composed through divine inspiration and from the Vedas by his father. He is remembered in Hindu mythology as a righteous and glorious king.
The House of Ikshvaku reigns over Kosala, an ancient kingdom in the northeast river plains of India, in the modern state of UP, along the banks of the Sarayu. The capital is Ayodhya.
If Valmiki or any of the ancients were wrting what i suppose they were writing (sedition). Then the above verse must serve as some evidence to what Im saying.

My interpretations of the Ramayana (Religious Hindu's you may not be happy)

I have been reading a condensed version of the Ramayana. The one written by R K Narayan who used Kamban's version of the same..
I have come to the conclusion that the Ramayana is not just an epic relating the ultimate fight between good and evil. There is more to the Ramayana than just,

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(In a chicago accent...) Ladies and gentlemen, in the blue corner
the good, virtuous, handsome, powerful, merciful, strangely blue and
husband of the most beautiful woman in the world....RRRRRRRRRRRama
In the red corner the bad, big, strong, evil, despicable, dastardly,
diabolical, husband to many good-looking women and ten headed
Raaaaaaaaaaaaavanaa.
Then the two slug it out and Rama wins...the world is all fine...

I believe there is more to it...

I believe there were a lot of social messages in the Ramayana...atleast from what I have read.
Ravana cannot be thought as being born evil....all the powers vested in Ravana was gifted to him by the various gods...he became evil...he was corrupted.
Why?
he meditated and prayed to Shiva, Indira, Bhrama, Vishnu and scores of others...He led a very austere life dedicated to these gods...(He cannot be evil...he was a "god-man" he chanted and recited shlokas and how did they reward him for his chanting and reciting ..with unlimited power...
and what happened...tyranny followed.. this clearly shows just being a person of god does not make you any better than someone else. it shows God is not infallible, ubiquitous or omnipotent...Ravanas power surpassed even Indira's or Shiva's...the corruption for Power...the feeling of invincibility or invulnerability....Even the most austere man will succumb to power.
I believe, the ancients were warning us of the Bhramin supremacy, because they were the same...
On the contray, Vishwamitra and others who were equally austere etc..did not turn out the same...
so we cannot go by just the fact that a man is pious...the actions dictate this...

Now Rama...Rama is/was the human incarnate of the supreme god Mahavishnu. Why? If Mahavishnu was a supreme god, then why take on human form....(there are many messages embedded in the Ramayana...Im so excited). It emphasises on the potentials of humans. It shows that humans are capable of things they don't even know, they just have to look for it..
An orphan , overcomes his sorrow to open home for kids like him
A village student from a village who has made it to college against all opression (caste class etc)
A accident victim fights off a coma and opens a school for road safety
A doctor who charges no fees
In these people I see Rama....which means I see in them a capability that escapes us all who are stuck in a rut of ego inflated lives. they can go beyond what any of us are capable of...because they have to...because they do not want it to happen to others...they live not only for themselves...greed is absent.
A politician who regularly takes bribes and fakes elections, but has built 22 temples
A police officer who works for the above
An NGO worker who collects money to help others but buys a mercedes S class instead
These are people with power...In them I see Ravana...they have in them the power to help many but only help themselves in the process...they go beyond what we are capable of .. because they want money...they want power...they need hoisted egos to survive...they have become victims of theor own inanities...Greed has taken over.
I probably seem like a preacher, far from it...these are just some candid observations..