Lord Rama came to teach us how to master the animal in us with a luminous and awakened intelligence. He taught us by personal example how to remain calm and strong in every situation and circumstance. He taught us what the ideal way is to deal with all who are connected with us in various ways in our life and what it means to keep the right measure and balance in all our dealings with the world of men and beasts and evil and goodness. Above all, Lord Rama teaches us to be fearless even against the strongest adversary and never to let go off one’s Dharma, whatever be the circumstances of life. He taught us true renunciation and equanimity, which comes by inner tyaga rather than outer sannyasa. Mankind is yet to fully assimilate his teachings. But surely his advent humanised the animal layer of humanity, eliminated the extreme forms of Raksha nature in man, laid the foundations of the first collective unit of life, the family and sowed the seeds of democracy and true brotherhood where the head of the State could be questioned by a commoner and he had to comply with the law of the land.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
