Video in English
In this talk we see how Rama is the Idea that Humanity needs, an example to follow and learn from.
At the Feet of The Mother
Rama
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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.
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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.
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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.