Why did Shri Rama deceive Bali?

Why did Shri Rama deceive
Bali?

There is an episode in Ramayana in which Shri Ram deceives Bali in order to killing and ends his tyrannical and corrupt reign.

This episode has been criticized by many (mainly the modern political motley crowd of Marxists, Socialists, Communists etc.) as immoral or at least not befitting the stature of Shri Ram. In fact this episode has been the whipping boy of its opponents.

But if we will think a little on the topic then we will understand its importance.

In that era, there was a clear distinction between dharma and adharma, good and evil. Nothing stood above dharma and nothing bad amounted to adharma. There was no confusion regarding what is what is dharma and what is adharma. Adharma had to be defeated by any means. There was no compunction in using even deceit to defeat dharma, as it was considered dharmic and nyayasangat to defeat adharma by any means.

So that is the reason why Shri Ram used deceit to defeat Bali.

This episode send a clear signal to us. It exhorts us to recognize and defeat adharma by any means possible.

However, in Kali Yuga we have lost the distinction of dharma and adharma. We can no longer differentiate between dharma and adharma. We are confused by the mindless slogans raised by opportunist politicians like Secularism, sarva-dharma sambhava, and half baked thinkers.

We have accepted the half-baked socio-political idea given to us by Mr. Gandhi, without even enquiring about it. We have lost our distinguishing powers. We do not realize that under this cover of sarva-dharma sambhava, there may be lurking adharma in order to overcome dharma.

We have lost our sense of duty towards dharma. We have forgotten what Shri Rama conveyed to us by defeating Bali.

Civilizations in particular like humans are mortal. Their continued existence cannot be taken as granted. We will have to strive hard in order to save it from degeneration.

We will have to stand again with dharma, against adharma to fulfill our duty to Shri Rama.