‎rama And Sita: ‎The Eternal Soul Poem by Prabir Gayen

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‎RAMA AND SITA:
‎THE ETERNAL SOUL
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‎          Prabir Gayen
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‎After creation and dissolution,
‎thousands of enlightened souls
‎walked upon this planet.
‎
‎From the vast emptiness
‎came vibration,
‎and from deep vibration
‎came light and sound,
‎or perhaps the other way around.
‎
‎Creation happened,
‎from the formless
‎into form.
‎No soul,
‎or the Infinite Soul,
‎as cause or without cause,
‎creation emerged
‎as creation itself.
‎
‎Mythology moves
‎with a deep scientific vision.
‎From the womb
‎of the great Abyss,
‎light emerged,
‎and from light
‎creation followed,
‎one after another.
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‎No one stood
‎as the creator.
‎Whatever name
‎we give to that mystery,
‎Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh,
‎or the deep musical emptiness,
‎the mystery remains.
‎
‎From Manu,
‎the first man of creation,
‎humanity came into existence,
‎worldly and otherworldly.
‎
‎Perhaps there were many Manus,
‎perhaps thousands of Manus.
‎Beyond time,
‎what remains
‎is a deep mystery.
‎
‎From then onward,
‎millions of divine incarnations
‎may have appeared
‎beyond human consciousness.
‎
‎From that long ladder
‎came Rama,
‎the first human incarnation
‎in the true sense.
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‎Millions may have come
‎before Rama,
‎yet Rama is remembered
‎as the first
‎in the human social order.
‎
‎Rama came
‎to establish social order,
‎to establish principles
‎through which humanity
‎could evolve.
‎
‎He heralded Dharma.
‎He became the first man
‎to fight darkness,
‎the first great symbol
‎of the eternal struggle
‎between good and evil.
‎That struggle lives
‎within every human mind.
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‎Rama is the soul.
‎Ravana is the ego of the mind.
‎It is the perennial struggle
‎between mind and no-mind.
‎
‎Rama was born
‎to Dasharath.
‎Dasharath means
‎the one who controls
‎the ten senses,
‎the one who becomes
‎truly victorious.
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‎Rama married Sita.
‎Sita stands for
‎Mother Nature.
‎Lakshmana, the brother,
‎stands for awareness.
‎Hanuman is the devotee,
‎the son of the Wind God,
‎the eternal life-force
‎that moves within us.
‎
‎Rama is the soul
‎within every human being.
‎Rama is the essence of life.
‎The Ramayana is happening
‎within every human mind.
‎
‎Ravana abducted Sita,
‎captivated her,
‎and fought a great battle.
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‎Ravana is the ego
‎of the human mind.
‎Sita, like Nature,
‎is sometimes captivated
‎by the ego.
‎But with a little awareness,
‎the battle begins.
‎And when awareness awakens,
‎the ego dissolves
‎and disappears.
‎
‎We see Ravana disappear
‎at the feet of Rama,
‎like a cloud disappearing
‎in the blue sky.
‎
‎Rama is the aim of life.
‎Rama is the soul
‎within the soul.
‎He is absolute nothingness
‎and absolute wholeness,
‎He is the isness
‎of existence.
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‎After Sita returned
‎from the palace of Ravana,
‎she passed through
‎the Agni Pariksha.
‎Yet Sita remained untouched.
‎
‎Fire cannot burn
‎the purity of the soul.
‎Nature itself
‎cannot be destroyed
‎by the fire of illusion.
‎Rama and Sita
‎were never truly separated.
‎
‎Sometimes ego comes,
‎and separation appears.
‎But it remains
‎only on the periphery.
‎
‎Deep within,
‎the soul is ever fresh.
‎The mind is only a wave
‎upon the ocean.
‎
‎Lava and Kusha,
‎the beloved sons
‎of Rama and Sita,
‎were born in the forest.
‎They were nurtured
‎under the guidance
‎of the enlightened sage
‎Valmiki,
‎the great seer
‎who became their teacher.
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‎It was a divine design.
‎The two sons grew
‎under supreme guidance,
‎learning Dharma,
‎truth and courage.
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‎Then comes the mystery
‎of Sita.
‎The Ramayana speaks
‎of Rama, Lakshmana, Ravana,
‎and Hanuman-
‎the great devotee
‎and incarnation of Shiva.
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‎But where is Sita?
‎She appears
‎as a silent character,
‎the beloved wife of Rama.
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‎Yet without
‎the Agni Pariksha,
‎without her suffering,
‎without being forsaken
‎while pregnant,
‎Sita might have remained
‎a silent figure in the story.
‎
‎Rama took
‎the hardest decision
‎to make Sita
‎an eternal example
‎for humanity.
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‎Through suffering,
‎Sita became
‎the highest symbol
‎of purity.
‎She became
‎the Mother of the Universe,
‎the eternal Brahma-Shakti,
‎the very power of existence.
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‎Sita walked through fire
‎like Mother Kali.
‎She entered the forest
‎like Mother Earth.
‎She suffered,
‎yet remained pure.
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‎Rama is Sita
‎and Sita is Rama.
‎They were never separate.
‎They are inseparable
‎like body and soul,
‎like ocean and wave,
‎like silence and sound.
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‎Rama is the soul.
‎Sita is Nature.
‎Rama is consciousness.
‎Sita is its eternal expression.
‎And together
‎they are one mystery,
‎one existence, one truth,
‎one eternal love.
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‎@Prabir Gayen
‎14/08/26
‎7: 12 PM.
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