RAM CHARIT MANAS 02

Tales from India's most popular epic told in a way that they seem interesting and engrossing for the youth.
The Ram Charit Manas[RCM ] is one of the most popular epics of the land. The tired farmer sings it to the accompaniment of the simple drum. The savants, to bring forth the acme of human behavior sing it. It is studied by the erudite for its faultless meter and lofty philosophy. It is quoted as a gospel, both by the good and the cunning. It is a textbook that is being taught to the young in school and the same is the source material for him, who seeks a doctorate in literature.
There is magic in its pages. When studied as a social science, it helps a sincere student to grasp the acme of human behavior. It has the most wonderful description of the nature presented in poetic form.
The stories of the RCM contain in their suggestive depth the highest knowledge available to the mind of the mankind - the knowledge that the German philosopher Schopenhauer called the highest reach of the human intellect.
RCM is the excellent piece of work in Hindi literature. RCM of Goswami Tulasidas enjoys a unique place among the classics of the world literature. It is one of the best Epic - Poems of the world.
RCM bestows upon its readers the gifts of Devotion (bhakti), Divine Knowledge (Gyan)
As a person, Shri Rama personifies the characteristics of an ideal person[THE BEST AMONG MEN ] who is to be emulated. He had within him all the desirable virtues that any individual would seek to aspire. For example, he gave up his rightful claim to the throne, and agreed to go into exile (vanvas) for fourteen years, to fulfil the vow that his father had given to Kaikeyi, one of King Dashratha's wives. This is in spite of the fact that Kaikeyi's son, Bharat, begged him to return back to Ayodhya and said that he did not want to rule in place of Shri Rama. But Shri Rama considered his dharma as a son above that of his own birthright and his life's ambition. For such supreme sacrifices, and many other qualities, Shri Rama is considered a maryada purushottam. [THE BEST AMONG MEN .]

RAM CHARIT MANAS

'' Since its inception in 1923, Gita Press has published more than 45.45 crore copies of various books, including 8.10 crore copies of the Bhagwad Gita and 7.5 crore copies of Ram Charit Manas - the rendition of the Ramayan by 16th century poet Tulsidas. However, Ram Charita Manas has become the best-selling title of the Press with a surge in demand, especially from Non-Resident Indians. It accounts for 35 per cent of total sales, while the Bhagwad Gita 20-25 per cent.

Every year, Ram Charit Manas copies worth Rs 3-4 lakh are sent to the US as there is strong demand for them from NRIs, Agarwal(OWNER OF GITA PRESS GORAKHPUR ) said. -[news by PTI}
** but we Indian do not read RAM CHARIT MANAS and look after America .
'' Dharamu na doosar satya samaana | Aagam nigam puraan bakhaana ||
Param dharm shruti bidit ahinsa | Par ninda sama agha na gareesa ||''

There is no virtue equal to truthfulness |
so declare the Agamas, Vedas and Purans ||
A vow of non-violence is the highest religious merit known to the vedas |
and there is no sin as heinous (horrible, evil, hateful) as speaking ill of others||
The Priciples written in RAM CHARIT MANAS were followed by Mahatma Gandhi throughout in his life and action . we respect and revere Gandhi but do not read RAM CHARIT MANAS .

SCRAPS SENT TO FRIENDS

Whoever sees all beings in the soul and the soul in all beings...
What delusion or sorrow is there for one who sees unity?
It has filled all. It is radiant, incorporeal, invulnerable...
Wise, intelligent, encompassing, self-existent,
It organizes objects throughout eternity. ( Ishopanishad verses 6,7 &8 )
THX . God is not a person ; we have personified IT to make our poor understanding follow IT . IT is a power/energy /all-pervading element / super power present in all living -nonliving . IT is within u . IT is outside also . if u pray outside it guide u as u want ; and see within yourself ,IT is there and guides u in each n every action and tells RIGHT / WRONG . IT is not matter of your faith or belief . IT does nothing with u /for u /neither help nor check . IT ONLY LOOKS ON .......what r u doing and result comes to u as yr work / action ( Universal Rule )GOD by prayer or God within u can only motivate /direct /give u insight TO MAKE RIGHT CHOICE OF ACTION . good action > good result AND bad > bad . that's all . end up . ok .GOD is equally distributed in whole CREATION in all time ; all place with supreme wit and wisdom. (read GITA )
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"Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation." "SELF is the nature of Pure Consciousness ; always the same to beings, one alone; the highest Brahman, which, like the sky, is all-pervading, imperishable, auspicious, uninterrupted, undivided and devoid of action ; does not belong to anything since free from attachment ; ever-shining, unborn, one alone, imperishable, stainless, all-pervading, and nondual-That forever released."The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
There is sorrow infinitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

CONVOCATION ADDRESS IN UPNISHAD

ॐ सह नाववतु . सह नौ भुनक्तु . सह वीर्यं करवावहै .
तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै . ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः .

( English version ) 

Om ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;
May we work conjointly with great energy,
May our study be vigorous and effective;
May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).
Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
Let there be Peace in my environment !
Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !
( Original Text  in Samskrit from Taittriya Upnishad )
वेदमनूच्याचार्योन्तेवासिनमनुशास्ति . सत्यं वद . धर्मं चर . स्वाध्यायान्मा प्रमदः . आचार्याय प्रियं धनमाहृत्य प्रजातन्तुं मा व्यवच्छेत्सीः . सत्यान्न प्रमदितव्यम् . धर्मान्न प्रमदितव्यम् . कुशलान्न प्रमदितव्यम् . भूत्यै न प्रमदितव्यम् . स्वाध्यायप्रवचनाभ्यां न प्रमदितव्यम् .. १.. देवपितृकार्याभ्यां न प्रमदितव्यम् . मातृदेवो भव . पितृदेवो भव . आचार्यदेवो भव . अतिथिदेवो भव . यान्यनवद्यानि कर्माणि . तानि सेवितव्यानि . नो इतराणि . यान्यस्माकँ सुचरितानि . तानि त्वयोपास्यानि .. २.. नो इतराणि . ये के चारुमच्छ्रेयाँसो ब्राह्मणाः . तेषां त्वयाऽऽसनेन प्रश्वसितव्यम् . श्रद्धया देयम् . अश्रद्धयाऽदेयम् . श्रिया देयम् . ह्रिया देयम् . भिया देयम् . संविदा देयम् . अथ यदि ते कर्मविचिकित्सा वा वृत्तविचिकित्सा वा स्यात् .. ३.. ये तत्र ब्राह्मणाः संमर्शिनः . युक्ता आयुक्ताः . अलूक्षा धर्मकामाः स्युः . यथा ते तत्र वर्तेरन् . तथा तत्र वर्तेथाः . अथाभ्याख्यातेषु . ये तत्र ब्राह्मणाः संमर्शिनः . युक्ता आयुक्ताः . अलूक्षा धर्मकामाः स्युः . यथा ते तेषु वर्तेरन् . तथा तेषु वर्तेथाः . एष आदेशः . एष उपदेशः .( Taittriya  Upnishad)
( Hindi version )
स्नातक को भलीभांति अध्ययन कराकर आचार्य उसे गृहस्थ आश्रम को भेजते हुए संबोधित करता है ---- **सत्य बोलना । धर्म पर चलना । स्वाध्याय में प्रमाद (आलस्य या अवहेलना ) न करना । आचार्य को यथाशक्ति दक्षिणा देना। संतान की परम्परा कायम रखना । सत्य से कभी मत डिगाना । धर्मं से कभी मत डिगाना । शुभ कर्मों से न हटना । पढ़ने-पढाने में प्रमाद मत करना । देव कार्य ,पित्रिकार्य में प्रमाद न करना ।
माता ,पिता, आचार्य और अतिथि में देवता का भाव रखना । निर्दोष कर्म करना ,दोषयुक्त आचरण न करना .यथाशक्ति दान देना । दान आर्थिक क्षमता के अनुसार देना । दान श्रद्धा से देना । दान उचित पात्रको ही देना । दान लज्जा और विनय पूर्बकदेना चाहिए । कर्म करने के निर्णय में अथवा सदाचरण में कोई शंका आ जाए तो उत्तम विचार वाले तथा जो परामर्श देने में कुशल हों ,उनसे सलाह लें । उस परिस्थिति में जिसमे आप हैं ,जैसा बुद्धिमानजन करते हों वैसा ही करिए । यही उपदेश है ,यही निर्देश है ,यही शिक्षा है । यही वेदों का मत है।
( English version )
Convocation address by teacher at the end of education in Ashram -
Speak always the Truth ;be righteous ; do not be inadvertent in your studies ;help your teacher as much you can  ;continue the progeny ;deviate ,never from Truth ,Righteousness and Good work; be not inadvertent in learning- teaching ; nor in paying due honour to your parents and grand parents . Have  feel equal to God in your mother , father ,teacher and guests. act rightly not wrong. Go to charity as you can  with honour  and to needful  with all humility. In action if have any doubt ,  take the advice of those wise and competent .  the circumstances ,that you are in  , act as wise people act .this is preaching and direction and final lesson . this is what Vedas say .

THE BEST OF IMMANUEL KANT

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
• "All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
  
• "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
  
• "By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man."
  
• "Do what is right, though the world may perish."
  
• "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
  
• "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
  
• "If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
  
• "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
  
• "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
  
• "It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience."
  
• "May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
  
• "Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
  
• "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
  
• "Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
  
• "Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
  - Immanuel Kant
  

ACTION AND INACTION .

Action may not always bring happiness,success and achievements but there is none of these without action. it is only good action that is important and action is the result .dream then pass into reality by action that allows you to dream again and then action and thus you go to the TOP .if you can be of any service to the needful . useful to yourself and moral to society ; your actions are fruitful and peace to your mind and Soul . good ACTIONS make the life meaningful , beautiful , loving and WORTH-LIVING , as it is . LIFE is life ; small or big BUT beautiful . we are born once and die for ever. THE ONLY ONCE , makes it most beautiful .'' सुन्दर हैं विहग, सुमन सुन्दर ; मानव तुम सबसे सुन्दरतम '' so try to live to the BEST .
'' किम कर्मम किम अकरमम इति , कवयः अपि अत्र मोहिता ''- गीता में कृष्ण .
Even wise confuse between action and inaction . only those who are detached and have no envy ; free from their sense lures can decide between right and wrong action . these type of people , very rare, are called stable in their minds ( sthitiprjna ) who have realized the Truth about right action. actions according to the circumstances , your ability and resources that goes to the benefit of whole society are recommended . for this you will have to follow the teaching of Krishna and that is to do your duty with all your might , skill and sincerity . every one of us has got one field of action with abilities and to do it is perfection . '' They serve Him best, who bear His mild yoke '' - Milton in ' On His Blindness ' any action should be that includes - morals , benefit of all and truth . PERFECTION IN ACTION IS YOGA = '' योगः कर्मसु कौशलम '' - गीता में श्री कृष्ण . 
'' नीति प्रीति परमारथ स्वारथ . कोऊ न राम सन जान जथारथ - राम चरित मानस में तुलसी दास '' Moral- Laws , love and maintaining of relations , welfare of the people and society and sublimation of the individual-self , all these are best known to Lord Ram . it is said , ' Ram speaks but once , acts the same and proves to be the best . He sublimated Himself to the mark that even God of Gods obeyed Him . all Nature / Creation ; each and everyone made pace with Him .He elated Him so great that is regarded greatest among Gods and men of all time . it was because of His actions . if you want to know of His , these actions , read RAM CHARIT MANAS BY Tulasidas ji .

'' The good will is the only good without qualification. The good will is a will that acts for the sake of duty, as a "good-in-itself." If the purpose of life were just to achieve happiness, then we would all seek pleasure and gratification and hope that it would lead to happiness. The problem is that happiness is not totally within our power to achieve; The class of actions in accordance with duty must be distinguished from the class of actions performed for the sake of duty. Kant believes only actions performed for the sake of duty have moral worth. He seems to suggest that the greater one's disinclination to act for the sake of duty, the greater the moral worth of the action.
If one performs an action by inclination, then that action has no moral worth
Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness." Immanuel kant .

SCRAPS SENT TO FRIENDS .

** Thoughts , words , pictures , books , movies , talks , debates , discussions , friends , people and actions what and how small may be , GOOD OR BAD put on your mid an impression that goes very long way and edit your personality i.e. GOOD OR BAD . we think that , that was very small , ineffective and very minute but the effect of these do not die till we live and come-out whenever these get favourable time ,place and situation in form of body -illness , mental-ill-health and mal-adjustment that devour our personality , our life and history. a simple figure , word or event on paper or street is deleted in course of time but not that imprint in our mind's plate / slate , goes longer and longer and asks for payment not in double but many times we could expect . REGULAR , UNFAILING AWARENESS is the only key to keep you not regret for irreparable loss you might have caused to yourself unknowingly .
Thousand years back The great science of mind( called Psychology )was discovered by great RISHI PATANJALI N FORMULATED THIS SCIENCE AS YOGA- SUTRA . this says - GOOD MIND GOOD FIND . if you want to change the world around you ; you must change yourself ( THE ONLY WAY ) .some are - do not think to harm other and no one can harm you ; do not steal , you will remain rich ; do not envy and be happy ; love others and all will love you . AS YOU THINK SO IT ALL AROUND , BECOMES . be united with all , feel one with many and  that is Yoga . LEAVE NO SPACE between the two thought &; word :: word & action :: you & the   other :: you & the   work and so on and so forth . THE FEELING OF ONENESS IS YOGA . AS YOU THINK , SO IS THE  WORLD / OTHERS / THOUGHTS / PERSONS / THINGS TO YOU.
जाकी रही भावना जैसी . हरि मूरति देखी तिन तैसी - राम चरित मानस
हिंसा तन्निरोधे वैरत्यागः - योग-सूत्र
विस्तार के लिए पतंजलि - योग सूत्र पढ़ें.
WHEN I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least He returning chide,
Does God exact day-labour, light denied
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God does not need
Either man's work or His own gifts, who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best, His State
Is Kingly. Thousands at His bidding , speed
And post over Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait. - Milton (On His Blindness)