Video in English
The question on historicity of Lord Rama and Sri Krishna.
At the Feet of The Mother
Rama
An Article in English
It is India that can show the world the way to the future but for that it is important that Indians must first recover their own lost wisdom and strength.
Video in English
In this talk we see how Rama is the Idea that Humanity needs, an example to follow and learn from.
Video in English
Deepawali is generally celebrated as the return of Lord Rama after vanquishing Ravana. But there is another mystic dimension to the story that we discover here.
VIDEO IN ENGLISH
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Van Niwas), Nainital.
Video in Hindi
A short reflection by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Van Niwas), Nainital.
Video in English
This English talk is part of an interaction with children of an integral school in Yalavatti, Karnataka.
Video in English
We look at life and greatness of Lord Rama in whom Sri Aurobindo saw the Avatar of the Illumined Mind.
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.
The epics reveal to us the road that man must take in his evolutionary journey. It is conjured in that one word, dharma which has fascinated the Indian mind since the Aryan forefathers moved through the mountains and plains and rivers flowing through the subcontinent we know today as India.
A Talk in Hindi (video)
This brief talk by Dr Alok Pandey in Hindi is on the the ideal of dharma set forth by Rama and Sita as depicted in the epic Ramayana.
An article by Dr Alok Pandey
Sri Rama and Sri Krishna are fulfilled in Sri Aurobindo, as with this New Force is the power to transform the animal in us into a vehicle of the Divine Force and convert the Asura in us through the one and only all-powerful agency of the Divine Mother’s Love.