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Dear members who have been following the "agni-pravEsam" thread,

 

Thank you for your messages (special thanks to Srimathi.Andal & Sai

Sambaraju and Sri.Kalyan Raman). It came as more than a bit of a surprise

to me that the random musings of mine (jotted down over week-end

afternoons) struck such a deep chord in you all !!

 

Far from accruing any credit to myself (and believe me I am not being

insincerely modest here), it only proves how enduring and unfading is the

charm of the Ramayana tale. It does not matter how it is narrated .... in

the skillful manner of a deep Sanskrit pundit who can reel off Valmiki's

verses from memory or in the clumsy, laboured fashion of a rank amateur

like myself. As long as one approaches the epic with reverence and

affection for the central characters of Rama and Sita, one can be sure it

will work its unfailing magic on one's mind .... and tug at the

heart-strings too.

 

I consider it my privilege to share my own private enjoyment of the great

scenes of the Ramayana with you all ....if it gives you any sort of

happiness !!

 

Since there are about a dozen of you who wrote saying you are following the

thread, I found routing private e-mails to all of you individually would be

rather cumbersome. So I have Sri.Mani's kind permission to continue the

thread on the main bhakti-list itself .... even if it means hogging

list-space during the while it takes to push the discussion post-by-post

onto its logical end.

 

In the next post, we'll pick up again the thread which we left off at the

end of Musing#10 and see how it all goes. Sri.Rama will Himself steer the

proceedings.

 

adiyEn,

sudarshan