Gandhi and RAM - The inseperable

Gandhi and RAM the inseparable duo.

Its become a Great fashion these days to bash Gandhi and gain cheap publicity..As minority among people make great effort to separate Gandhi and Ram..Is it really possibly??…Lets examine Gandhi’s own words & thoughts on the RAM..

In the end it will be as Rama commands me. Thus I dance as He pulls the strings. I am in His hands and so I am experiencing ineffable peace.” Gandhi had often expressed a desire to die with the words “He Ram!” on his lips..”

In his prayer meetings he often described “Ramanama“, or the constant invocation of the name of Ram, as the “best medicine”


His favorite Bhajan was “Raghupathi Raghava Raja Ram”

Since at least 1924 Gandhi had been recommending the practice of Ramanama to his friends and acquaintances, but for nearly two years before his death, he had taken to advocating it enthusiastically to a wider public as an “unfailing remedy.”

Gandhi always cautioned against uttering the name of Rama except as part of a process of self-realization or as an effort to call forth the divinity within oneself

He even likened Ramanama to a “mathematical formula”, thereby suggesting that its efficacy extended from well beyond the individual to society as a whole, transcending the barriers of space and time alike.

On 20 January 1948, Nathuram, Gopal, and a handful of others had engineered a bomb explosion at Birla House with the hope of killing Gandhi, but the attempt was a resounding failure; two days later, Gandhi took Manu aside and told her: “I wish I might face the assassin’s bullets while lying on your lap and repeating the name of Rama with a smile on my face. But whether the world says it or not — for the world has a double face .I tell you that you should regard me as your true mother.

On the evening before his death, Manu has written, Gandhi suggested that the moment, and manner, of his death would reveal to the world whether he was a real Mahatma or not: if he were to die of a “lingering disease, or even from a pimple”, she was to shout from the rooftops to the whole world that he was a “false or hypocritical Mahatma.” Yet if an explosion took place, as it had last week, “or if someone shot at me”, Gandhi told Manu, “and I received his bullet in my bare chest without a sigh and with Rama’s name on my lips, only then should you say that I was a true Mahatma.” That is precisely the manner in which Gandhi appears to have died, judging from the overwhelming consensus among his biographers.

The Secular Critics have not fully understood him they think that Gandhi’s “Ram Rajya” had no necessary reference to any historical Ram, or to the kingdom over which the Ram of the Ramayana is said to have presided.. Gandhi writes shortly before his death, “Sometimes we tread a dangerous path in believing that Rama and Krishna were historical entities and we are compelled to take recourse to all manner of arguments to prove that”

You can separate Gandhi from Mahatma and but you can never something that is in his Soul “RAM”..

In the END it was A RAM that shot Gandhi..although Gandhi was very principled..he wasn’t Ram..look at GODSE Nathuram’s name..it is as though

Places Connected to Ramayan

These are the places connected to Ramayan

Structure of Valmiki Ramayan

Here you can find how the Sacred Ramayan is organised in the Valmiki Ramayan

1. Bala Kanda
Book of the young Rama which details the miraculous birth of Rama, his early life in Ayodhya, his slaying of the demons of the forest at the request of Vishvamitra and his wedding with Sita.

2. Ayodhya Kanda
Book of Ayodhya in which Dasharath comes to grief over his promise to Kaikeyi and the start of Rama's exile.

3. Aranya Kanda
Book of the Forest which describes Rama's life in the forest and the abduction of Sita by Ravana.

4. Kishkindya Kanda
Book of Kishkinda, the Vanara kingdom in which Rama befriends Sugriva and the Vanara army and begins the search
for Sita.

5. Sundar Kanda
Book of Sundar (Hanuman) in which Hanuman travels to Lanka and finds Sita imprisoned there and brings back the good news to Raam.

6. Yuddha Kanda
Book of the War, which narrates the Rama-Ravana war and the return of the successful Rama to Ayodhya and his coronation.

7. Uttar Kanda
Epilogue, which details the life of Rama and Sita after their return to Ayodhya, Sita's banishment and how Sita and Rama pass on to the next world.

Rama Dynasty and fore fathers

Ramayana's Dynasty
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Lord Brahma created 10 prajapatis — one of whom was Marichi.
Kashyapa is the son of Marichi and Kala.Kashyapa is regarded as the father of humanity.

Vivasvan or Surya is the son of Kashyapa and Aditi.
Manu or Vaivaswatha Manu is the son of Vivasvan. He is regarded as the first ruler belonging to the Ikshvaku dynasty.
Ikshvaku is the son of Manu and established his kingdom in Ayodhya.
Kukshi is the son of Ikshavaku.
Vikukshi is the son of Kukshi.
Bana is the son of Vikukshi.
Anaranya is the son of Bana.
Prithu is the son of Anaranya.
Trisanku is the son of Prithu.
Dhundhumara is the son of Trisanku.
Yuvanaswa is the son of Dhundhumara.
Mandhata is the son of Yuvanaswa.
Susandhi is the son of Mandhata.
Daivasandhi and Presenjit are the sons of Susandhi.
Bharatha is the son of Presenjit.
Asita is the son of Bharatha.
Sagara is the son of Asitha.
Asamanja is the son of Sagara.
Amsumantha (Ansuman) is the son of Asamanja.
Dileepa is the son of Amsumantha.
Bhagiratha is the son of Dileepa. (The River Ganga is also called Bhagirathi because it is Sage Bhagiratha who sent her to the earth and Lord Shiva broke her ego by controlling her entire flow in his head through his hair locks ( Jadai ). And so she is also called Shivani.)
Kakustha is the son of Bhagiratha.
Raghu is the son of Kakushta. (The clan of Raghuvamsha started with Raghu.)
Pravardha is the son of Raghu.
Sankhana is the son of Pravardha.
Sudarsana is the son of Sankhana.
Agnivarna is the son of Sudarsana.
Seeghraga is the son of Agnivarna.
Maru is the son of Seeghraga.
Prasusruka is the son of Maru.
Ambarisha is the son of Prasusruka.
Nahusha is the son of Ambarisha.
Yayathi is the son of Nahusha.
Nabhaga is the son of Yayathi.
Aja is the son of Nabhaga.

Dasaratha is the son of Aja.

Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha and Shatrughana are the sons of Dasaratha.

Lava and Kusha are the sons of Rama.

Ramayana and Management

The Advise by Lord Rama to Bharatha regarding management:

In the Sarga 100 of Valmiki Ramayan, Bharatha approaches Rama to come to Ayodhya, But Rama refues and advices the duty of king and efficient management.

It starts from Sarga 100 , Verse 11 – Verse 76.

It say various aspects of management, some are given below

I hope that the preceptor ; who is rich in humility, a son of a noble family, who has a knowledge of many scriptures an unenvious person and who is full of insight, is duly honoured by you.

The source of victory for kings indeed comes from a concealed counsel by ministers, who are well-versed in political sciences and who can hide their thoughts within themselves.

I hope you do not fall a prey to excess of sleep and do wake up at appropriate time. I hope you contemplate during the later half of the night, about the adroitness of an action.

I hope that you do not deliberate alone nor indeed with numerous men. I hope your decision arrived at by you through such deliberation does not flow to the public (even before it is carried out)".

O, Bharata! I hope considering your interest fully, you lanuch an undertaking, which has maximum benefit with minimum coast and indeed do not delay it further.

My darling! I hope that others are not knowing, by their enquiries or strategies or by any other approaches not mentioned, the details of discussions you make with your ministers.

I hope you solicit for one wise man rather than for a thousand stupids for, a wise man can be of a great help to you in difficult matters.

Even one wise, valiant sagacious and efficient minister alone can cause to secure a great prosperity to the king or to one who enjoys royal authority.

I hope an army-chief, who is cheerful, wise, courageous, valiant, well-behaved, born in a good family, who is beloved by his subordinates and efficient, is selected by you."

I hope you are regularly giving your army, the daily provisions and the suitable salary to them, without any delay.

When there is delay in giving bread and wages, the servants become incensed against their master and become corrupt; and that is said to be a great unfortunate occurrence.

I hope that a knowledgeable man, living in your own country, a wise man a skilled person endowed with presence of mind and the one who knows how to speak to the point, is selected as an ambassador by you.

Are you cherishing all those who live by agriculture and cattle-rearing, O, dear borhter! The people living on agriculture and cattle-rearing indeed prosper well."

I hope you are pacifying the women well. Are they protected by you? I hope you are not believing the words of these women and not telling them the secrets.

Are you supervising the woods inhabited by elephants? I hope female elephants are there to you in good number. I hope you are not simply satisfied with the existing population of female elephants, horses and male-elephants.

O, Prince! Do you, regally adorned, appear before the people on rising each morning, on the great high way?

I hope your income is abundant and expenditure, minimum. I hope your treasure does not reach undeserving people, O, Bharata!"

I hope that your expenditure goes for the cause of divinity, manes, brahmins, unexpected visitors, soldiers and hosts of friends.

O, Bharata! I hope that your well-educated ministers examine a case dispassionately when a contention occurs between a rich man and a poor man, after studying the situation carefully.

I hope you greet your teachers, the elderly, the ascetics, the deities; the unexpected visitors, the trees standing at cross roads and all the brahmins of auspicious life and conduct."

I hope you do not abrogate virtue by your excessive devotion to wealth or your excessive devotion to wealth or your earthly interests by your over-emphasis on religion or both your religious and secular interests by your self-indulgence in pleasure, greed and gratification of the senses."

Do you eschew the following fourteen for of kings -viz. atheism, falsehood, anger carelessness, procrastination, disregard of the wise, sloth, bondage to the five senses, himself alone devoting thought to the affairs of the state (without consulting the ministers); taking counsel with those of perverted insight; failure to undertake the projects already decided, failure to keep secrets, failure to utter auspicious words (at the beginning of an undertaking); and rising from one's seat (indiscriminately) to receive all.

If our ruler can have altleat any one among these, we can see a bright future for our country..