Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.22
nara-devatvam āpannaḥ
sura-kārya-cikīrṣayā
samudra-nigrahādīni
cakre vīryāṇy ataḥ param
TRANSLATION
In the eighteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as
King Rāma. In order to perform some pleasing work for the demigods, He
exhibited superhuman powers by controlling the Indian Ocean and then killing
the atheist King Rāvaṇa, who was on the other side of the sea.
PURPORT
The Personality of Godhead Śrī Rāma assumed the form
of a human being and appeared on the earth for the purpose of doing some
pleasing work for the demigods or the administrative personalities to maintain
the order of the universe. Sometimes great demons and atheists like Rāvaṇa and
Hiraṇyakaśipu and many others become very famous due to advancing material
civilization by the help of material science and other activities with a spirit
of challenging the established order of the Lord. For example, the attempt to
fly to other planets by material means is a challenge to the established order.
The conditions of each and every planet are different, and different classes of
human beings are accommodated there for particular purposes mentioned in the
codes of the Lord. But, puffed up by tiny success in material advancement,
sometimes the godless materialists challenge the existence of God. Rāvaṇa was
one of them, and he wanted to deport ordinary men to the planet of Indra
(heaven) by material means without consideration of the necessary
qualifications. He wanted a staircase to be built up directly reaching the
heavenly planet so that people might not be required to undergo the routine of
pious work necessary to enter that planet. He also wanted to perform other acts
against the established rule of the Lord. He even challenged the authority of
Śrī Rāma, the Personality of Godhead, and kidnapped His wife, Sītā. Of course
Lord Rāma came to chastise this atheist, answering the prayer and desire of the
demigods. He therefore took up the challenge of Rāvaṇa, and the complete
activity is the subject matter of the Rāmāyaṇa. Because Lord Rāmacandra was the
Personality of Godhead, He exhibited superhuman activities which no human
being, including the materially advanced Rāvaṇa, could perform. Lord Rāmacandra
prepared a royal road on the Indian Ocean with stones that floated on the
water. The modern scientists have done research in the area of weightlessness,
but it is not possible to bring in weightlessness anywhere and everywhere. But
because weightlessness is the creation of the Lord by which He can make the
gigantic planets fly and float in the air, He made the stones even within this
earth to be weightless and prepared a stone bridge on the sea without any
supporting pillar. That is the display of the power of God.
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