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Reading the Valmiki Ramayana
Indian Society and Ramayana Thirty years ago, I joined a group of immigrants in Boston assisting in their effort to create an Indian cultural school offering Sunday classes. The individuals came from the State of Gujarat in India, which deserves … Continue reading
Reading the Valmiki Ramayana
Indian Aesthetics and Ramayana The foundational characteristic of “mana” we spoke earlier is creativity. It is a design process how to create, maintain and develop the large entity we call “the universe.” We have fire to burn things and cook … Continue reading
Reading the Valmiki Ramayana
Indian Literature and Ramayana Indian thinkers distinguished themselves in the olden times by an important empirical realization that the universe must be run by a cosmic concept, which they called “mana”, in English we translate as “mind”. But “mind” as … Continue reading
Reading the Valmiki Ramayana
Background Strange stories are told about the origin of Poet Valmiki. It is taught in the school that the poet began his life as a violent robber, killing men for robbing them and killing animals for food. He went by … Continue reading
Reading the Valmiki Ramayana
Introduction I start this blog on July 10, 2013, to record my experiences of the experiment I am doing by taking the task of reading the complete text of Valmiki’s Ramayana with a group of associates at the Sai Temple … Continue reading
Valmiki's Ramayana 