A four-part article by Dr Alok Pandey
...the advice of the wise ones has always been to approach the life of a sage, seer, yogi, even of a vibhuti, but most of all of an Avatara with all humility and caution.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
A four-part article by Dr Alok Pandey
In the single persona and figure of Rama we see a perfect symbol of the high and noble Aryan type, the heroic humanity that shrinks not from any battle whether it be inner or outer. But his battles are never for the ostentatious expansion of ambition but for the expansion of dharma.
The Rakshasa and Asura is clearly not a surname or decided by birth but something into which man can grow so much so that even a deva type can degenerate into an Asura even as an Asura can evolve into a deva type.
It is important to re-establish the truth of the ancient Aryan world lest with the sinking of India the hope sinks and the world deprived of its psychic nourishment goes down into abysses of lust and greed after material power and money and immediate success.
An essay in English (TEXT)
If Rama embodies the strength born out of a spiritual manhood, Sita embodies the strength born out of true love.
An essay in English (TEXT)
Ramayana is not just about the killing of an Asura but trying and converting him back to his origin.
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 aspect of goddess Lakshmi, is essentially a story of love rather than of war.