What is the Vedantic message of the Ramayanam? : Swami Chinmayananda
27/07/2019 RAMAYANAM : WONDER EPIC : THIS GREAT HOLY BOOK FOR ALL TO READ, ASSIMILATE THE TATWAM, AND FOLLOW IN OWN LIFE ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Ayodhya, (yudhdha means conflict, Ayodhya means where there is no conflict) to King Dasharatha was born the Supreme Lord, Shri Rama as a baby. Shri Rama grows up in Ayodhya and then goes out of Ayodhya with sage Vishwamitra to protect the yagnaas. Shri Rama gets married to Sita. Janaka is her father. Janaka found her while ploughing the mother earth, the most improbable place to come out from. Ultimately, she goes back to mother earth. So here is someone who came from no-cause and goes back to no-cause, and this is called, in Vedanta, as ‘ Maaya’. Thus Shri Rama, the Atman, the Self, gets wedded to Maaya. Once ‘Self ‘ gets wedded to Maaya, the Ego, ‘I’ cannot remain in Ayodhya. Conflict must necessarily ...