Guest guest Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 The scheme of Ramayana did not start with Rama and end with him.It is an eternal verity working subjectively in the minds of all souls struggling for self emulation.The glory of Ramayana consists in projecting objective personalities embodying the various forces at work in man.As akasa or space is the common background for all that exist,Paramatman or the Cosmic Reality herein called Rama is the innermost core and basis of man.Sita is the Jivatman or the individual self.What she is to Rama,the Jivatman is to Paramatman.She is eternally wedded to Rama.Even so the individual self has its being in Paramatman. It is Vishnu who incarnated as Rama,Bharatha,Lakshmana and Shatrughna. Though four in form they were one in spirit.Similarly one Cosmic Reality reveals Itself as Siva,Vishnu,Ambika,Ganesa,Kumara.Knowledge of any one of them amounts to the knowledge of the One Ultimate Reality.Vali and Sugreeva are the represntatives of earthly brothers.Sometimes misunderstanding separates them,but it is only a passing phase in their career.There are three dispositions in man termed as Satva,Rajas and Tamas.Satva promotes pure life,Rajas rouses up passion and lust and Tamas is given to sleep and inertia.Among the three brothers in Lanka Vibheeshana is constituted as Satva.He therefore opposes the evil ways of his brother Ravana.Kumbhakarna is made of Tamas.Therefore he is given to inordinate sleep and rapacious eating.Ravana is the embodiment of Rajas.He represents the licentious mind owning five organs of perception and five organs of action.These ten organs are allegorically called his ten heads. Ravana the wicked mind alienates Sita the Jivatman from Rama the Paramatman and tries to impose the impossible relationship with it.Whereas Sita the Jivatman ignores the evil mind of Ravana and pangs for reunion with Rama the Paramatman.Guru or the Spiritual master is the person who brings abt reunion between the Jivatman and the Paramatman.He is necessarily a person of sterling character irrespective of his origin.Hanuman is the personified Guru.He searches and finds out the pining Sita or the competent Jivatman and assures her reunion with the Lord.The Rama-Ravana warfare is the conflict between virtue and wickedness.The latter is very tenacious.Still the former prevails in the end.The Jivatman gains yoga with the Paramatman. In this manner Ramayana is enacted by all the Jivatmans wending towards Perfection.So we find that Ramayana may be a story but it teaches a lot abt the way of life one has to lead,avoidance of wickedness,practicing love,devotion,bhakthy,brotherhood,unity of all beings as the creation of God all combined and thus has become an epic which tests the time factor and can never be eradicated from the minds of people whatever may be the controversies here and there and acts as a beacon of hope for the humanity. Hare Krishna. India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on India Click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 Om Namo Narayanaya! Very good article indeed. This is another very good example of symbolism in Hindu scriptures. I was wondering if it is also possible to explain the event of Sita going to the forest following the corononation, under the same scheme? guruvayur , GANAPATHY RAMAN <agraman62 wrote: > > The scheme of Ramayana did not start with Rama and end with him.It is an eternal verity working subjectively in the minds of all souls struggling for self > emulation.The glory of Ramayana consists in projecting objective personalities > embodying the various forces at work in man.As akasa or space is the common background for all that exist,Paramatman or the Cosmic Reality herein > called Rama is the innermost core and basis of man.Sita is the Jivatman or the > individual self.What she is to Rama,the Jivatman is to Paramatman.She is > eternally wedded to Rama.Even so the individual self has its being in Paramatman. > > It is Vishnu who incarnated as Rama,Bharatha,Lakshmana and Shatrughna. > Though four in form they were one in spirit.Similarly one Cosmic Reality reveals > Itself as Siva,Vishnu,Ambika,Ganesa,Kumara.Knowledge of any one of them > amounts to the knowledge of the One Ultimate Reality.Vali and Sugreeva are > the represntatives of earthly brothers.Sometimes misunderstanding separates > them,but it is only a passing phase in their career.There are three dispositions in > man termed as Satva,Rajas and Tamas.Satva promotes pure life,Rajas rouses > up passion and lust and Tamas is given to sleep and inertia.Among the three > brothers in Lanka Vibheeshana is constituted as Satva.He therefore opposes the evil ways of his brother Ravana.Kumbhakarna is made of Tamas.Therefore he is given to inordinate sleep and rapacious eating.Ravana is the embodiment of Rajas.He represents the licentious mind owning five organs of perception and > five organs of action.These ten organs are allegorically called his ten heads. > > Ravana the wicked mind alienates Sita the Jivatman from Rama the Paramatman and tries to impose the impossible relationship with it.Whereas > Sita the Jivatman ignores the evil mind of Ravana and pangs for reunion with > Rama the Paramatman.Guru or the Spiritual master is the person who brings abt reunion between the Jivatman and the Paramatman.He is necessarily a > person of sterling character irrespective of his origin.Hanuman is the personified > Guru.He searches and finds out the pining Sita or the competent Jivatman and > assures her reunion with the Lord.The Rama-Ravana warfare is the conflict > between virtue and wickedness.The latter is very tenacious.Still the former > prevails in the end.The Jivatman gains yoga with the Paramatman. > > In this manner Ramayana is enacted by all the Jivatmans wending towards > Perfection.So we find that Ramayana may be a story but it teaches a lot abt > the way of life one has to lead,avoidance of wickedness,practicing love,devotion,bhakthy,brotherhood,unity of all beings as the creation of God > all combined and thus has become an epic which tests the time factor and can > never be eradicated from the minds of people whatever may be the controversies > here and there and acts as a beacon of hope for the humanity. > > Hare Krishna. > > > > > India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here > Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on India Click here > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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