Final Battle

 what evidence is there that the final battle is a spiritual or psychological one, rather than a literal one.  Think about what clues are given, and how they connect with Hinduism.

I think that the final battle between Rama and Ravanna is spiritual and physchological. Rama recieves help from the gods during/before the batter which makes the battle spiritual. Also, Rama and Ravanna both use gifts that the gods have given them during the battle which also makes it a spiritual battle. It's a psychological battle because it uses a lot of planning and think about what you are going to do. You can't just beat your opponent physcially, you also have to beat them mentally. Ravanna easily could have on the battle because he was more prepared/stronger physically but Rama was more mentally strong. He had a reason why he was fighting and he was morally right in fighting the battle he was. He was also more mentally strong because he had more support nad he was more prepared. He had to be more prepared because he knew he had a rough battle ahead of him. Ravanna wasn't as mentally prepared because he had won almost every single battle he was in so he thought he didn't had to prepare to fight Rama. He thought it was going to be another easy battle. Also, with all the winnings that Rama had it was a big "ego" boost, in the sense that he felt better and better about fighting. Ravanna kept losing battles and he was just being torn down because this had never happened to him before.

The two ideas about the war being spiritual and pyschological relate back to hinduism because hinduism has to do with respecting your gods and there wishes. Also it has a lot to do with your dharma and your karma. Ravanna finally losing a battle has a lot to do with his karma because he had it coming. He took Rama's wife, without her wanting to go, and didn't give her back. Also, Ravanna had been so cruel to people and was stacking up bad karma that he was bound to come to the end and Rama was the person to do it. Lastly, since Ravanna was so bad in this life that dharma would cause him to be a snail or something in the next life.