A video of Japanese reciting a Ram Sloka in India is shared falsely as a Ramayana recital in Japan. - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
January 17, 2024
A video of a few people singing the ‘Shuddah Brahma Paratpara Rama’ song is being shared on social media, claiming that it shows a recital/pravachanam of Ramayana in Japan. Let’s verify the truthfulness of this claim through this article.
Claim: The viral video shows a recital of Ramayana in Japan.
Fact: The video shows a Japanese family reciting a Ram Sloka in Manjakkudi Jnanapravaha, the Vedanta study centre in Tamil Nadu. Hence, the claim made in the viral post is Misleading.
Firstly, we performed a reverse image search on a few keyframes to learn more about the viral video, leading us to multiple old social media posts (here, here, and here) containing longer versions of the same video.
Japanese family have come to attend the camp for a week in Manjakkudi which is the birthplace of Pujya Dayananda Saraswathi Swamiji 🙏
Here they are learning Shlokas and Stotras…🙂🙏 pic.twitter.com/sRwPjDoslS
In a few of these posts, this video was identified as visuals of a few Japanese people singing a sloka of Lord Ram during a camp in Manjakkudi, Jnanapravaha,  the Vedanta study centre in Tamil Nadu, which the Swami Dayananda Educational Trust runs.
A further search on the internet to learn more about the camp led us to a video on the Facebook page of Swami Dayananda Educational Trust, which shows a few visitors from Japan being welcomed to the Jnanapravaha.
While going through the official website of Jnanapravaha, we found that an idol present in the viral video behind two Swamijis is the same one present inside the Vedanta study centre at Jnanapravaha.
To sum up, the viral video does not show a recital of Ramayana in Japan but a few Japanese singing a sloka of Lord Ram in Jnanapravaha, Manjakkudi.