This article discusses those events that unfolded which lead to the celebrations of Dussehra. This day is celebrated with the two major reasons behind it. As we know that Dussehra is also called Vijayadashmi, because on this very day, Goddesses Durga defeated and killed demon Mahishasur who was creating troubles in heaven and on earth, so this is one reason for this. Secondly, Lord Rama Killed demon Ravana on this very day.
Now story behind this is as follows. King Dashrath had 4 sons, and they got married to four daughter of King Janak. Among the four sons he had, Lord Rama was among the elder one. But as the saying goes ‘Human mind are never stable’, so it does happened here also. King Dashrath was getting old, so he wanted to give all his responsibilities to his elder son Lord Rama. But Kaikye (Step mother of lord Rama) was not justified with this act of her Swami (husband) as she wanted his son Bharath to be the king. But initially she was also happy with her Swami (husband) decisions to make Rama king, and she used to love Rama more than Bharath, but then her own helper known as Manthra, brainwashed her mind and put in to his mind, that Bharath won’t get anything in the end.
This manipulation of Kaikye mind, led to asking of her two promises that King Dashrath held to her. In these two promises she demanded, making of Bharath as king and putting lord Rama in to 14 years of Exile. Lord Rama accepted this move with happiness and he was happy to see Bharath being the king. Mean while Bharath was not present at this time in Ayodhya, he was in his grandparents house. So lord Ram with his wife Mata Sita changed their attire like of saints and then started to move towards forest. Also when they were about to leave, his younger Laxman, decided not to live in the house and urged to join his elder brother of his services towards him. Three of them left their kingdom and started living in forest. Father of Lord Rama, King Dashrath passed away as he was not able to bear the pain of seeing his son leaving his home.
When Bharath came to know about this, he was totally shattered hearing this and was angry at his mother about her this heinous act. Bharath soon decided to callback his brother and went to the journey for the same. As he reached he asked Lord Rama to comeback. He also gave news to Lord Ram about passing of their father, hearing that left Lord Rama totally in grief and sorrow. But he refused to comeback as he told that, he would abide by the word of his mother to serve the exile for 14 years. But Bharath took the steps of Lord Rama and told that they will be placed on the seat of king, until he returns from the exile.
But during the exile, one day Demon Ravana used his power of changing forms and took away Ma Sita to a place called as ‘Lanka’, by deception. When Lord Rama and Laxman came back from the hunt of deer (Deer was sent by Ravana), they did not found Ma Sita in the hut. So the search for Ma Sita began. After months of searching, they came to know that Ravana took Maa Sita to Lanka. During this searching, Lord Rama met with various people like Lord Hanuman, Sugrib and many other people. Even after telling Ravana to leave Ma Sita, and he will be spared, he did not agreed upon this and Lord Rama finally decided to kill him.
A fierce battle took place and both of the sides lost people. Laxman was once badly hurt by Meghnath and to cure him, lord Hanuman brought a whole mountain from Himalayas that was full of curing herbs. Finally Ravana was left alone and Lord Rama used his arrow to kill Ravana.
So to celebrate this joyful day of triumph of good over evil, Dussehra is celebrated. A detailed story about this event can be read In Holy book called as ‘Ramayana’.