Ramayanam : (18/07/2013 )

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Saturday, June 25,  2022. 06:00. AM. Post-3. ======================================================================== It was not at all given to Rama to proclaim Himself as Narayana. That was not the purpose of the Avatara at all. It was to defeat the purpose of Ravana who had a poor opinion of human beings. Being a demon, he thought that human beings and monkeys were only a morsel of food for him. On account of this, he deliberately omitted to include men and monkeys in the list of his possible future enemies, when he asked for boons from Brahma. “May I not have death from any one, Gods, Kinnaras, Kimpurushas, Daityas, Danavas, all superhuman beings” - was the boon he asked. But he never said anything about monkeys and men. He thought: “They are only food for me, what need to fear them.”  ------------------------------------...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Sunday, June 12, 2022. 06:00. AM. Post-2. ========================================================================= We have two Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These two parallel movements of Epic stories, known as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, give us a complete picture of the process of the advancement of the human soul towards its Perfection. It is not to be taken as a surprise that the culture of Bharatavarsha is a culture of the Spirit, so that anything that is said and done or believed in, is directly or indirectly connected with the march of the Spirit to the recognition of its Perfection. We have no other culture here except the culture of the Spirit. A connecting of the visible phenomena with what underlies the phenomena, is the significance of the Epics. And these two master-strokes of genius given to us by Valmik...