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Alok da, the story of Raja Harishchandra from the purans glorify the steadfastness of the raja to truth and integrity and in the end is blessed by lord Shiva for his chastity. However, in the process of living for his truth, he puts his wife and child through extreme perilous conditions. While the moral lesson as understood by masses is that benevolence should always be regarded as the ultimate dharma, are we missing out on any hidden aspects or probably lessons? Can the actions taken by Harishchandra be completely justified? [conti]๐Ÿ‘‘โš–๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿงน

We have to understand this story in the background of the Indian mind which lived extreme characters. The Western heroes are restless and aggrandised humans,

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As I read Sri Aurobindo, Heย emphasizes virtues and scriptural adherence are a way binding, withoutย  taking Man further towards liberation. So this question, How can we Catogrise The King SriRama as per Bhagavad Gita?ย Howย  should His emotions and actionsย  be describedย  as per BG?ย Sthitapragya!!?? ๐Ÿ›žโš–๏ธโ˜ธ๏ธ๐ŸŽ

Sri Rama is the Avatar who sets the supreme example of an idealized humanity, what it truly means to be a man, paurusham. Though he

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Sir, I would like to know from you about Karni Mata. Her temple is very popular, which is located in Deshnok near Bikaner city in Rajasthan. The temple is also famous in a way that there are lots of mice in the temple, which did not cause any disease to the people. I have seen people taking ‘Jyoth’ not only in this temple on even other temples in Rajasthan. what is the significance of taking ‘jyoth’?๐Ÿ›•๐Ÿ”ฑ๐ŸŒ…๐Ÿœ๏ธ

Karni Mata is one of the emanations of Maa Durga who was born in a family connected with the royal family. Among the many miracles

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Dear sir , why Sri Rama asked sugriva to fight with bali, poor fellow had no chance of winning , Rama could have killed bali without sending sugriva to fight. I think it was an example of active surrender. But in the case of vibhishan, it was different, he was not asked to fight ravana , may be because he was not a warrior, although vibhishan was passively engaged in the battlefield giving secrets and building strategies to help rama . Rama even took a giant hit which was meant for Vibhishan while sugriva was beaten mercilessly by bali . Please share your thoughts?

Vali had no personal enmity with Rama. Hence the only way his killing could have been justified according to the dharma of the Age was

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