THE EPICS - MAHABHARATA & RAMAYANA
BEDTIME STORIES AS LIFE LESSONS
THE LIGHT WITHIN ME - THE ENERGY OF SOUL
The mythological epic of Ramayana can be interpreted for the modern troubled human beings as follows too.
‘Ra’ means light, ‘Ma’ means within me, in my heart. So, Rama means, the Light Within Me. This is the exact description of the energy of a SOUL - effulgent & luminous.
TAME YOUR WILD HORSES OF SENSES SKILLFULLY
Rama was born to King Dasharath & Queen Kousalya.
Dasharath means ‘Ten horse Chariot’ The ten horses symbolize the five sense organs for importing in - touch, smell, taste, hear, sight & five organs of action for exporting out - moving, grasping, speaking, reproducing, elimination. The chariot represents the human body as a disposable costume.
Kousalya means ‘Skill’ The skillful driver of the ten horse chariot only, can give birth to Rama, with a soul whose light always shines from within. Radiance is born within, when the ten wild horses are tamed skillfully with complete mastery of thought control.
ABSENCE OF ALL INNER CONFLICT - TOTAL HARMONY
Prince Rama was born in Ayodhya. Ayodhya means a place where no war can take place, not even a minor battle. It is implying to No Inner Conflict In the Mind. A harmonious, peaceful, lovefull, Blissful mind achieved through Contentment & Meditative living.
MORAL SCIENCE FOR THE GROWING CHILD - UNFORGETTABLE STORY
The Ramayana is not just a story which happened long ago. It has deep philosophical, spiritual significance & an eternal TRUTH revealed through it. Ramayana is happening in everyone's lives. In reality Ramayana is a constant phenomenon of the Copper & Iron Ages. There was no need for Ramayana in the Silver Age of Rama & his beautiful, devoted wife Sita.
RESCUING YOUR MIND FROM YOUR OWN EGO
Your Soul is Rama & Your Mind is Sita. Your Breath or Life-Force (Prana) is Hanuman & your Awareness is Laxmana. Your Ego is Ravana.
When the Mind (Sita), is abducted, overpowered & imprisoned by the Ego (Ravana), then the Soul (Rama) gets lonely & restless. Now the Soul (Rama) cannot reach the Mind (Sita) on its own & rescue it from Ravana. It has to take the help of the Breath – the Prana (Hanuman, Rama's brother & monkey God) by Being In Awareness(Laxmana, Rama's brother too).
THE REUNITING OF THE ABDUCTED MIND WITH THE SOUL
The Mind (Sita) can be reunited with The Soul (Rama) with the help of constant Awareness of the Intellect & by maintaining Breath control in meditative state. These two agencies Hanuman & Laxmana help vanquish & kill the devil of Ego (Ravana) thus freeing the Mind & help unite with the Soul. And they lived happily, there after, as every story goes/ends.
MAHABHARATA WAR - TO FIGHT OR NOT TO FIGHT PREDICAMENT
The Pandavas were in two minds before the start of the war. Arjuna did not want to fight & kill his own cousins. There were no Gods, no incarnations of Vishnu, neither Krishna, nor Rama during this degraded period of Dwapar Yuga. Therefore the depiction & presence of Godly Krishna as Arjuna's Charioteer & adviser is a concocted fantasy by the writers of this Epic. The so called sermon which contains the essence of Hinduism has been inserted on purpose & forms the GITA portion of the Epic.
However the Original Bhagvad GITA was spoken, never written, by Supreme Soul, Shiva during the Confluence Age to HIS student Brahmins, the Brahma Kumaris & kumars at Mt. Abu . This faint memory of God like Shiva speaking the teachings of GITA has been reenacted / borrowed for the benefit of the mankind in the Epic. Stories were then written to create Ideals & inspire the people to follow them.
THE CORE OF BHAGVAD GITA
The key elements contained in the GITA are summarized for your benefit.
Do your duty / Karam joyfully by detaching from its outcome.
Detach yourself from all luxuries & desires to perform activities as HIS instrument.
The eternal soul changes its perishable costume / body upon death. Therefore be flexible & adaptable in this temporary world.
Manage your anger which has a downward chain reaction to delusion, confused memory, destruction of reason leading to your annihilation.
Knowledge is wrapped in several layers of desires. Rip open the wrappers to get to the core of Gyan.
FACTUAL HISTORY OR FANTASY FOR POSTERITY
At this time period of Golden & Silver Ages the technology of ink & paper did not exist. There were no books or libraries for the rulers & public. Instead they had professional STORY TELLERS. Therefore every thing important was framed up in Sanskrit language as Shlokas, two lined verses / poems. They are also called by another name - MNEMONIC RECITALS. These poems were recited & retold hundreds of times like our modern Nursery Rhymes & passed on to the next generations till the era of ink & paper arrived. They fell into the category of LISTENING & RECITING, which is labeled as language SPEAKING proficiency. Now these professional story tellers collectively sat down & attempted to write down the memorized poems / verses in bits & pieces, half truth half fantasy. At this point they had to elevate themselves to fully honed language proficiency of READING & WRITING, which did not happen over night. The daring ones would take a calculated risk to alter the history by adding his-story, and who would know the right from the wrong, the truth from the false. This is how our Epics evolved, from Oral compositions in the head for many many centuries, to the final piece meal written down versions, by half literate apprentices. God help the posterity.
THE ESSENCE OF THE GYATRI MANTRA FOR ALL SOULS
The life force Prana, is the destroyer of all mishaps & miseries,
It provides bliss & amenities,
God almighty is self effulgent, the Creator, who inspires us.
Therefore cultivate complete trust in Him & become worthy of His adoption.
Take refuge in Him by seeking full surrender.
Direct your speech & actions towards Self & be in constant communion with Him
Banish all your ignorance, sins & imbibe all His aspects very deeply.
You were born to achieve Super Consciousness so Help yourself & not the usual scape-goat phrase HELP ME GOD.
THE WHOLE TRUTH, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
The fact of the matter is, that the actual chronological order of the HISTORY is as follows. SHIVA, UGLY KRISHNA AS LEKH RAJ KRIPLANI - a diamond merchant, transformed into BRAHMA, BRAHMIN CLAN, the BKs of Mt. ABU, VISHNU, BEAUTIFUL KRISHNA, DESTRUCTION OF OLD WORLD, DYNASTY OF NARAYAN & LAKSHMI, DYNASTY OF RAMA & SITA, FOLLOWED BY RAVANA & MAYA & rest of the humanity. Go figure, how Rama & Ravana got together in the same time period in the story. Rama dynasty flourished in the Silver Age while Ravana ruled in the Copper Age. The purpose of such stories was to convey a strong unforgettable message to the public gone astray from their original path of purity & righteousness, as is happening today. See you again in the next cycle dear Soul.
Rohit Khanna - IN-VISIBLE & IN-CARNATE
