Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
That is the whole essence of The Bhagavat Gita. Be calm from the inside and act whenever required. You should stand up and fight if necessary; but don’t keep the fight inside yourself. Usually we fight inside and keep quiet outside. We should do the opposite. With meditation, it becomes easy to bring about this change. The power of satva and the power of meditation make it easy.Today is Shri Ramanavami (Lord Rama’s Birthday). Ra means radiance, Ma means myself. Rama means ‘the light inside me’. Rama was born to Dasharath and Kousalya. Dasharath means ‘Ten Chariots’. The ten chariots symbolize the five organs of perception (the five senses) and five organs of knowledge and action (For instance: reproduction, legs, hands and so on). Kousalya means ‘skill’, Ayodhya means ‘a society in which there is no violence’.
If you skillfully observe what goes on inside the body, light dawns
inside you. That is meditation. You need some skill to relax the tension. Then
you start expanding. You know, you are here now, yet you are not. With this
realization, there is a certain lightness that comes spontaneously.
Rama is
when the inner light shines through. Sita the mind/intellect was robbed by the
ego, Ravana. Ravana had ten heads. Ravana (ego) was one who wouldn’t listen to others.
He was too much in the head. Hanuman means breath. With the help of Hanuman
(the breath), Sita (the mind) was able to go back to Rama (the source).
Ramayana happened around 7,500 years ago. It had an impact on Germany and many
other countries in Europe and Far East. Thousands of cities are named after
Rama. Cities like Rambaugh in Germany have their roots in the word Ram.
Indonesia, Bali and Japan were all influenced by Ramayana.
Though Ramayana is history, it is also an eternal phenomenon happening all the time.
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