Rama: The Human Expression of the Divine

Chandrika Of Lord Rama, Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore had said, “In The Ramayana, a God has not cut himself down to the size of a man; a man has become God by the virtue of his many qualities.” It is a fascinating dichotomy which, as the story reveals, eventually merges into a harmony. How Rama straddles both worlds, how Rama the God morphs into Rama the man and how Rama as man grows to become divine – that is the essence of this book. It talks of the varied places he inhabits, the numerous relationships he nourishes, the changeless values he cherishes, the eternal vision that shapes his kingdom of Ramrajya. It charts the growth of this great avatara from a confused Ramachandra, Dasharata’s favourite son to Maryada Purushottama Sri Rama.