Ramayanam : (18/07/2013 )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, June 24, 2021. 6:29. AM. POST-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maharishi Valmiki, in order to guide the future generations, decided to write a historical epic that can help everyone follow a path of morality and righteousness. He ended up in a dilemma regarding this issue. Later on, he consulted Narada Muni, who in return suggested him to write about Rama, the son of Dasaratha, who was born in the clan of Raghu. Similarly, Mahakavi Kalidas wrote Raghuvansham. This book throws light on the lineage of Raghu, and also states various kings who ruled after Rama. So, now the point of the argument is that if Rama was a mythological character, then how did Valmiki provide the history of Rama’s forefathers? In Raghuvansham, how did Kalidasa provide details of Rama’s forefathers, and his various Santatis (successors) who ruled after him? In present tim...

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 27, 2021. 8:50. AM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POST-1. We present an insightful article by eminent scholar of Vedas and History – Sri Rajveer Arya written three years ago on the issue of Sri Raman being a myth or a historical legend. Its evident from the facts that Sir Rama was not only an Indian legend but a global phenomenon. There can be nothing more shameful than living in India and yet denigrating one of its greatest role models. Kindly read and circulate widely on eve of the Ayodhya judgement: Nowadays, the issue of Ramsetu is highly talked about by many people. The government filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court which clearly denies the historical existence of Shri Rama on this earth. However, the strong opposing political parties, and other Hindu activists forced that the government...

   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 02, 2021. 07:51.AM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------     In Ayodhya, (yudhdha means conflict, Ayodhya means where there is no conflict) to King Dasharatha was born the Supreme Lord, Shri Rama as a baby. Shri Rama grows up in Ayodhya and then goes out of Ayodhya with sage Vishwamitra to protect the yagnas. Shri Rama gets married to Sita. Janaka is her father. Janaka found her while ploughing the mother earth, the most improbable place to come out from. Ultimately, she goes back to mother earth. So here is someone who came from no-cause and goes back to no-cause, and this is called, in Vedanta, as ‘ Maaya’. Thus Shri Rama, the Atman, the Self, gets wedded to Maaya. Once ‘Self ‘ gets wedded to Maaya, the Ego, ‘I’ cannot remain in Ayodhya. Conflict must necessarily start. Thus Shri Rama goes to jungle with Sita. Jungle means th...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 29, 2021. 07:10.AM. Post-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There were some over-enthusiastic orientalists in the West particularly, and sometimes in the East also, who began to believe that the culture of India is in the Vedas and the Upanishads. But, if we bestow a little thought on the actual situation, it will become clear that if the Vedas and the Upanishads were the sole basis of the culture of India, the Indian culture would have been wiped out like the cultures of Egypt, Greece or Rome. These cultures are only names to us now. They do not actually exist now. They vanished from the process of time on account of their inflexibility, their rigidity of character and their emphasis on a particular aspect of human life. If, as people often believe, the dicta of the Vedas and Upanishads alone were to be taken as the foundation of Indian ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, February 06, 2021. 07:04.AM. Post-1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let us observe this auspicious occasion of Sri Ramanavami as a moment of contemplation on a special spark of Divinity that made its advent on the earth. Popularly speaking, in ancient historical times, to emphasise the historical advent of this great Divinity on earth has been the exoteric side of the Epics as people generally understand it. This popular emphasis on the incarnations of God on earth has taken the form of Epics like the Ramayana. We are told in the Ramayana of sage Valmiki, the earliest of these documents, that it was a history par excellence, a history of a chronological procession of divine exploits which is what we generally mean by a divine Epic. It is believed that the earliest record of the history of Rama, the Ramayana of Valmiki, ...

 ------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, January 20, 2021. 07 : 50. AM VII : RAMA GITA Post-19. ---------------------------------------------------. The inspiring and illuminating story of Lord Rama in several recensions is known the world over and is a part of life in every Hindu home in India. It is a vast ocean, very deep, and it is not possible for this humble sevak to discuss the sacred story in a little book like this. I have, therefore, touched upon some of the points and spots of the huge volume. My heart flows out to the modern man, whose scepticism about Ramayana is understandable due to the impact of science and distance of centuries between Lord Rama and us. No wonder, Einstien the greatest scientist of our times had recorded the life of Gandhiji in these words: “Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one in flesh and blood ever walked on the earth.” Before wisdom is able to achieve its goal of self-realisation it has to pass thr...

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Snday, January 10, 2021. 02:59. PM. ---------------------------------------------- One great truth that Rama learnt from Vashishta Maharshi was Life means Conscious thoughts. All experiences that affect us in life happens through thoughts.  Mind is the medium through which we connect , act and react in this world. We are all looking at experiences.... For eg. we have very recently seen the case of Cafe Coffee Day chairman Siddhartha’s suicide .His thoughts were regarding his shares, commitments , debts, his mistakes , failure and whatever else...How do you think all this affected him? Through his thoughts.  ----------------------------------------------------------------- Each of us too get affected through our Thoughts. Due to thoughts our ego, selfishness, all our positive and negative thoughts affect the life that we lead. Once we understand that thoughts are Life , then we get a better understanding of Li...