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Let us embrace the cause of Dharma on earth and give up the conflict and
duality caused by adharma.
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The following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by DailyO.

Sri Rama is the ideal ruler whose image has dominated the history of India. He is the avatar of Dharma,
which is right action, holding to truth and duty as supreme. The Ramayana is the most famous story and Archives
performed drama, not only in India, but in Asia overall.

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The epic account of Rama and Sita has embedded itself in the local art and culture of the entire region. And
this is over a period of more than 2,000 years, with the coming and going of many kingdoms, and radical January 2017
changes in civilisation.
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Ramas defeat of Ravana, which is colourfully celebrated on Dussehra with both fervour and fascination, is November 2016
the most dramatic event in Indias vast literature, the supreme conflict of Dharma versus adharma. The
Buddhist poet Ashwaghosha, who composed the life of the Buddha, lauded Valmikis Ramayana as the
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greatest Sanskrit poem. September 2016

Yet Ravana was not merely a wicked demon as commonly portrayed. He was originally a great king, a August 2016
follower of Lord Shiva, a master of the Sama Veda and of Brahmin lineage. Yet he suffered from the July 2016
ultimate human defect, which is pride and arrogance.
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He wanted to possess Ramas wife Sita as a trophy for his power, a sign that he was greater than all the April 2016
kings of the day, notably Rama. Yet our Ravanas today are much worse not representing a precipitous fall
like Ravana, but an inability to rise up in the first place. March 2016

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A new vision of Dharma
January 2016
Many leaders of Indias Independence movement, including Mahatma Gandhi, used the term Ram Rajya to
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describe their vision for modern India. While secular politicians have tried to reduce Ram Rajya to a mere
metaphor, its spiritual and yogic connotation cannot be forgotten. November 2015

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Ram Rajya is the land of Dharma, poetically described as a realm of peace, harmony and happiness for
young and old, high and low, all creatures and the earth itself, in recognition of a shared universal September 2015
consciousness.
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Ram Rajya is not simply an ideal of the past but of all time, and reminds us of the glory of ancient India and July 2015
its noble traditions.
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The message of the Ramayana is the need to hold to Dharma, karma yoga and respect for the sacred May 2015
nature of all life, even when it may cause personal loss or require self-abnegation. If we do so, as in the case
of Lord Rama, even all the forces of nature will come to our defence. April 2015

March 2015
Today our culture seems to promote opposite values to Dharma, not renunciation of the ego-self but its
unbridled expansion. Our personal rights reign supreme, behind which hides a plethora of commercially February 2015
stimulated wants, appetites and impulses.
January 2015

Duty to family, community, country and humanity is looked upon as a violation of our personal December 2014
independence, our right to first satisfy our own urges, whose origins we may neither know or question.
November 2014

Ours is not a culture of self-sacrifice but of self-assertion. We have forgotten our karmic responsibility for October 2014
ourselves and for the whole of life.
September 2014

Our society has become expansive outwardly without a corresponding inner dimension of service and August 2014
spirituality. We spend our time trying to fulfil artificial desires and unnecessary cravings that limits creating
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the proper resources for all.
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Rising to the challenge
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We certainly need a new ideal of Ram Rajya to fight the many new Ravanas of corruption, manipulation February 2014
and materialism that seem to have a thousand heads these days.
January 2014

Yet to find Rama we must first find Sita, which is to honour the earth and emulate its receptive and caring October 2013
nature. To defeat Ravana we must gain Hanuman as an ally, meaning a life purpose dedicated to the Divine,
not to the separate self. June 2013

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Rama rules in the eternal realm. The question is when we will embrace the cause of Dharma on earth and
give up the conflict and duality caused by adharma. February 2013

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This may require tremendous effort given the ominous gathering of hostile forces on the world stage
today, but it remains our true goal that we should never forget. If we arouse Sri Rama within ourselves, we October 2012
can make an important contribution to that eventual Ram Rajya everywhere.
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