He was sure that ultimately everybody, including the Gods and god men, conspired to pull down such rebels and crush them into the dust. That was what the history of this country had taught him. The rise and fall of men like Ravana, Bali, and Mahabali, were incontrovertible proof of this. Society was sanathana, eternal and unchanging. Rebels and reformers had only one place to go in such a country, and the Gods took on avatars to grind such rebels into the dust. That was dharma – to protect which, they took human birth.
