Lord Rama has been the symbol of virtue and chivalry and the most preached God among the Hindus. He is the most famous incarnation of Lord Sri Vishnu. Lord Ram is said to have taken birth on this earth in human form to obliterate the evil forces from here. It is believed that Sri Rama took birth in the kingdom of Kosala in Ayodhya to King Dashratha and his Queen Kaushalya. An ideal son and king, a man of virtues and morals he is popularly referred to as 'Maryada Puroshottam' literally meaning the perfect man. Lord Rama throughout his life stuck to Dharma to perform any action despite the many hardships as a result of this he had to face.
Lord Rama, said Maharshi Valmiki in Ayondhya Kanda 2.31,32 in praise of his virtues ‘…. is well versed in the tenets of Dharma, firm in his commitments, an epitome of propriety, uncritical, forgiving, compassionate to the poor and miserable, soft-spoken, grateful, in control of His senses, kind-hearted, endowed with a steady intellect, ever engaged in universal good, non-calumnious, agreeable in His speech to all beings and truthful.’
To Sri Rama bhaktas, He is not simply a good and a great person, but God Himself. He is also the divine omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient God. The destruction of the ten-headed Ravana signifies the annihilation of the mind or the ten senses. Worship of Lord Rama is worship of the all-pervading Godhead Himself. In the Yuddha Kanda of the Ramayana, Mandothari and Brahma refer to Rama as the one Creator of the universe, the God of all, the Ruler of the universe.
Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
Lord Rama, said Maharshi Valmiki in Ayondhya Kanda 2.31,32 in praise of his virtues ‘…. is well versed in the tenets of Dharma, firm in his commitments, an epitome of propriety, uncritical, forgiving, compassionate to the poor and miserable, soft-spoken, grateful, in control of His senses, kind-hearted, endowed with a steady intellect, ever engaged in universal good, non-calumnious, agreeable in His speech to all beings and truthful.’
To Sri Rama bhaktas, He is not simply a good and a great person, but God Himself. He is also the divine omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient God. The destruction of the ten-headed Ravana signifies the annihilation of the mind or the ten senses. Worship of Lord Rama is worship of the all-pervading Godhead Himself. In the Yuddha Kanda of the Ramayana, Mandothari and Brahma refer to Rama as the one Creator of the universe, the God of all, the Ruler of the universe.
Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
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