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The book is chiefly a record of the activities of Shri Rama, the eldest son of King Dasaratha of Ayodhya (Oudh) in North India in the Treta-yuga. It is commonly believed that Shri Rama incarnated as such with the objective of getting the world rid of the menace of Demon King Ravana of Lanka (Ceylon).
In reality Shri Rama's long fourteen years of exile from Ayodhya, Capital of king Dasaratha's Kingdom (Oudh), was not only for the extermination of Demon King Ravana ...
The story of the Mahabharata is not only of the Great War between the Kouravas and Pandavas for a period of eighteen days in the battlefield of Kurukshetra near Delhi. As a matter of fact the supreme lesson held out by the great Epic is the one with which Vyasa Deva, the author, starts-viz. When men live together as one family they not only thrive, but they exist as a great community or race. As long as the Pandavas and Kauravas lived together they not only ...
Bhagabata was composed by Vyasa Deva, son of sage Parasar, on the advice of the great sage Narada. Vyasa Deva compiled all the eighteen Puranas and the great epic Mahabharata. But even so he did not gain mental satisfaction from them. Sage Narada advised him to write something for the guidance of the common man, to live a stainless life on earth, to earn mental peace. That was what brought about the great scripture Bhagabata. We know how popular Bhagabata became ...
The fifteenth century saint-poet Kabir’s extempore outpourings of songs and couplets numbering thousands have been hailed widely for their deep spiritual fervour and poetic quality. They are widely read with rapture and regard by old and young alike in India. Some of his poems were translated into English by Tagore in 1915 and later by a couple of others. These have been popular among the English-speaking people at home and abroad. Kabir’s couplets which are ...
Saint Poet Kabir was illiterate by choice. He was of the firm view that if one realises the value of the two letters of the alphabet R and M which make the name of Shri Rama there was no need to bother about the rest of the fifty-four alphabets which might as well be washed down the river as being of no value. But Kabir also emphasised that the true value of Shri Rama should be realised which will help man to realise the intrinsic value of God and ingrain true ...
The scriptures have recorded that Vidur in his previous birth was Dharma Deva the God of Justice himself. Once the great ancient sage Mandavya was wrongly apprehended by the then king’s officers as leader of a robber gang who had concealed themselves in his hermitage. He was impaled to a spear by the king’s order. When the sage went to Dharma Raj after two days the sage was released from the punishment still alive on the strength of his great spiritual merit. ...
The book is chiefly a record of the activities of Shri Rama, the eldest son of King Dasaratha of Ayodhya (Oudh) in North India in the Treta-yuga. It is commonly believed that Shri Rama incarnated as such with the objective of getting the world rid of the menace of Demon King Ravana of Lanka (Ceylon). In reality Shri Rama`s long fourteen years of exile from Ayodhya, Capital of King Dasaratha`s Kingdom (Oudh), was not only for the extermination of Demon King Ravana ...