No doubt what happened to Ahalya is unjust. Lord Rama in the Ramayana himself says so!! Then how does it becomes patriarchy when the male
Because he is supposed to embody all the 16 divine qualities. The other distinction is that a Purna Avatar is the full divine manifestation while
The modern mind evolved under the pressure of Reason. That is why it lost the Intuitive sense of the earlier ages of mankind. But this
The serpent in the neck of Shiva is the symbol of evolutionary force, the power that pushes us to come out of the ignorance and
That is the other side of the human evolutionary journey through the adventure of Time and Space that Sri Krishna points out when he speaks
But who said or where did you read that Pandavas did not go to swarg?
Perhaps you are referring to the last part where their
Sri Aurobindo has not explained it just as a code of conduct but much more. To quote from Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo writes.
Creation implies a dynamic process. That is Shakti. In the western world the term is nature. It is true that in itself Shakti explains everything.
This can be very clearly seen in the Ramayana if we care to find. But a word of caution is needed. We should be careful
The Ramayana, at the center of which we find Lord Rama, the seventh Avatara of Vishnu, and Mata Sita, the Divine Mother in her gracious
Well we cannot totally justify with Ravana as here he represents the retrogressive movement in nature. He wants to undo what has been done through
When Rama and Sita were exiled, they had to cross a river. A boatman took them across. Since they did not have anything else to
Those who call Rama a misogynist have surely not read the Ramayana. To call a person misogynist who thinks several times before shooting an arrow
The three Ram are the three aspects of the One Divine, the Universal, Immanent and the Transcendent (jagat pasara, ghat ghat vasi, sabse nyara). All
Rama and Sita are rightly the names that have governed the Hindu psyche for long. What Shiva and Parvati are on the subtle planes, Rama
This is the other angle of the story of Sita’s banishment. Painful as the story is, apparently ending on a tragic note, a closer look
Even though Rama’s Rajdharma compels him to abandon Sita to keep intact his people together as well as to set an unprecedented example of public
It’s a mistake to think that Rama is not relatable today as even today he is an example of a perfect man. Rama lays the
