Ramayana is the first and noblest of its kind as an epic.It uplifts a
person from a lower to the higher status of Life.The sublime principles
of life are glorified in it.The viles and virtues are given importance
in personal life and in social order.Dharmic discipline is established
in all walks of life.Strength and steadiness ,vigor and vitality, wit
and wisdom are taken as the instruments for the promotion of
Dharma.Dharma is accepted as the nucleus of life.The morals and values
of human life are always protected .The indiscipline of negative forces
of life is discouraged and defeated
The symbolism in Ramayana is very much attractive.Here the lower status of human mind is gradually lifted to the higher status of spiritual order for which the qualities of the human mind are transformed into the characters of Ramayana.The Heroes and heroines wear significance as symbols to suggest the qualities of the human mind .The viles and virtues are discussed through this brilliant technique The viles are defeated and virtues are promoted The negative forces are discouraged and positive values are encouraged .
Animate and inanimate are included as tools and instruments for the success of this noble venture.Brahma, Vishnu,Maheswara, Rishis, Rakshas, Devas and Asuras, Men and Monkeys Emperors and Empires,Mountains and Seas, Birds and Animals, Jungles and Beaches are effective participants in this mystical and mundane operation for which avatar is taken as a medium through which the sublimity is explained.
The concept of Avatar or Incarnation.
The symbolism in Ramayana is very much attractive.Here the lower status of human mind is gradually lifted to the higher status of spiritual order for which the qualities of the human mind are transformed into the characters of Ramayana.The Heroes and heroines wear significance as symbols to suggest the qualities of the human mind .The viles and virtues are discussed through this brilliant technique The viles are defeated and virtues are promoted The negative forces are discouraged and positive values are encouraged .
Animate and inanimate are included as tools and instruments for the success of this noble venture.Brahma, Vishnu,Maheswara, Rishis, Rakshas, Devas and Asuras, Men and Monkeys Emperors and Empires,Mountains and Seas, Birds and Animals, Jungles and Beaches are effective participants in this mystical and mundane operation for which avatar is taken as a medium through which the sublimity is explained.
The concept of Avatar or Incarnation.
The luminous of sublimity of
the great epic is Rama His superior personality leads us to higher
status of impersonality. Impersonality means an ethic which is visible
an all pervading power
which is invisible.which is explained through a person. Rama is the
nucleus and the central figure in the mystical science formed as a
epic.In all mystical poems the great sage poets have adopted a beautiful
method to explain the invisible truth. By explaining the visible media
they lead us to the unseen and unfelt truth. Incarnation is a function
with a word meaning that comes down from a higher stage to the
lower.
The higher truth has a no quality.It is beyond all qualities but
the lower is with qualities.The higher is formless,the lower is in all
forms.The higher is experience and the lower is experiment.The higher is
purusha and the lower is prakrithi.The higher is Nirguna but the lower
is saguna.Nirguna means having no quality which cannot be explained
through qualities Which cannot be visible through the qualities but the
lower is saguna Saguna means with qualities.Visibly having guna and by
other programs of organs it can be explained so it is called the
Saguna.The higher is Brahman the lower is Prakrithi The higher is
knowledge and the lower nescience.Nescience means ignorance The higher
is luminousness and the lower luminous. Luminousness is the status of
being illumined Lower is luminous means which is inspired or
instigated to shine or to glitter or to make anything active The higher
hiranyagrabha the other virat cosmic The higher is impersonal and the
lower personal .
Enlightened Gurus try to impart the knowledge of the
impersonal through the personal but being personal, formed into personal
,the latter never looses the capacity to transform himself into
luminousness.Here the meaning is, anything in the form with a name has
its own limitation.It will be never be all pervading.It will never be
omniscient or omnipresent which cannot do anything other than the law
of form and name.So here, the avatar is not like that Though the avatar
has a form and name it is not within the limitations of its form and
name but it goes beyond it, breaks all the limitations and then merges
with the impersonal. All the impersonal qualities are explained through
the personality,so Ram. the incarnation and Brahman are one and the
same.That means personal is equal to impersonal So service to Ram is a
service to ones own self. Why? because Self is the Brahman,Self is the
Soul and Self is the Ram.That is a sacred work to transform oneself into
Atma Ram .Atma Ram means by ones own contemplation and meditation the
upasaka is becoming with the qualities of the upasyam or if
somebody's is contemplating or meditating on Ram in the final end he
himself is transformed into Ram or with Ram;s qualities .Thus serving
Ram means lifting oneself to the status of Ram.
Essence of Ramayana taken from the speech of Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi Tiruvadikal. Listen to the concept in Swamiji's own words below. http://youtu.be/L_r0EgzX92M
Essence of Ramayana taken from the speech of Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi Tiruvadikal. Listen to the concept in Swamiji's own words below. http://youtu.be/L_r0EgzX92M
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