[Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] Scheme of Ramayana.

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Dear sunitaji,

It is a very excellent spiritual interpretation of the entire

Ramayana. If you read Adhyatma Ramayanam (which, probably you must

have perhaps already done), you will find the essence of Ramayanam

enumerated as a dialogue between Siva and Parvati.

 

Nice and regards

KVG

 

 

 

rsunitaa wrote:

 

>

> 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 <guruvayur%40>,

> 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.

> >

> >

> >

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