| Author's Note |
Page vii |
| Key to Phonetic Spellings
of Hindi Words |
Page ix |
| Arrangement of the
Book |
Page xi |
|
SECTION I
A Tribute to Mahatma
Gandhi
Introduction.
The Story of the
Incarnation of God in Shree Raamacharita Maanasa
SECTION II
The Philosophy
of Shree Raamacharita Maanasa
|
|
| Introduction
|
Paragraphs
1-12 |
| Historical
Background |
13-20 |
| Origins
of Sanaatan Dharma |
21-23 |
| Ancient
Thinkers - The Problem and the Solution |
24-31 |
| Ancient Indian
Scriptures |
32-40 |
| Guru |
41-42 |
| Systems of
Philosophy |
43 |
| The Reach of
the Mind |
44-47 |
| ShreeRaamacharitMaanasa-
a Guide Book |
48-50 |
| Society - a
Mirror of Religion! |
51-60 |
| Religion,
State and Secularism |
61-72 |
| Sanaatana
Dharma and Religion |
73-78 |
| Who is a man
of Ancient Indian Tradition or Heritage? |
79-86 |
| Some Beliefs
in Sanaatana Dharma and Its Philosophy |
87 |
| God - His
Personal and Impersonal Aspects |
88-94 |
| God is All.
All Forms are His |
95-104 |
| Three Schools
of Vedanta |
105-115 |
| Incarnation of
God |
116-117 |
| God Must be
Experienced |
118 |
| Karma |
119-120 |
| Our Three
Bodies in One and Our Jeevaatmaa(Soul) - Their Role in
Karma |
121-126 |
| Man's
Unnatural Karma |
127-128 |
| Who Bears
Consequences of Karma? |
129-133 |
| Karma and the
Devil and Satan |
134-139 |
| Karma and
Injustice of Fate |
140-142 |
| Good Karma
Does Not Cancel Out Bad Karma |
143 |
| Faith in Karma
Advances a Man |
144-147 |
| What is Right
Karma or Concise Geetaa for Daily Practice? |
148-150 |
| Karma and
the <> |
151-161 |
| Caste System
in India |
162-165 |
| A
Self-Regulated Society Without
Rights |
166-169 |
| A Noble
Capitalistic Society |
170 |
| The Path of
Karma or Karmayoga |
171-173 |
| Seeking God's
Refuge - Total Surrender |
174-175 |
| Karma and
Rebirth on Earth |
176-177 |
| God's Will
Supreme Over Karma |
178 |
| Rebirth or the
Transmigration of
the Human Being but not of jeevaatmaa
or
Soul |
179-182 |
| A Man's Aim in
Life - Continual Happiness |
183-194 |
| What is Maya? |
195-200 |
| Paths for
Bliss |
201-217 |
| Tapping the
Reservoir of Power Within for Others' Good |
218-230 |
| Of What use is
Religion and Its Philosophy? |
231-254 |
| An Alien Mind-Set |
255 |
| The Greatest Massive Conversion in
India |
256 |
| Proselytizing of the Indian Mind |
257-259 |
| A Perfect Administrative Ser Up |
261-262 |
| Treachery of Indian Pillars of the British
Steel Frame. |
264 |
| The Worst of the West |
265 |
| Slavery of the Poor after Independence
|
266-267 |
| A Just and Crime-free British Empire of
India |
268 |
| Hindu Muslim Unity - A British
Nightmare |
269-270 |
| Treachery of the Alien Mind-set |
271 |
| Diehard Aversion to the Poor and
His Problems. |
272 |
| A New Thinking |
273-274 |
| The Courage of the Indian Mind |
275 |
| Partition a Loss to Muslims and a Greater
Loss to India |
276 |
| Rejection of Mahatma Gandhi, of the Best in
Islam and Treachery |
277 |
| An Incongruency |
278 |
| Congress and Secularists Accept Two Nation
Theory |
279 |
| Britain’s Brilliant Lasting Contribution to
India |
279 |
| Muslims Scared from Muslims |
280 |
| A Backlash - The Second Partition of the
Nation |
281 |
| India Denied the Right to Teach Values |
282 |
| Education - Ignorance of Ethos and Dwelling
in Aberrations |
283-284 |
| Suicide of Liberalism |
285 |
| Only in India - A Remedy Through
Knowledge |
286 |
| A Challenge |
287 |
| It is For All |
288-289 |
| Freedom from Experts to Dwindli the Power of
Money |
290 |
| The Inhuman Limit of Practicality |
291 |
| Parents Snatched from Children |
292 |
| The Illiterate Heros of India |
293 |
| Conclusion - A Hopeful Solution |
294-297 |
|
SECTION III
Selections from
the ShreeRaamacharitMaanasa - Topics
|
|
| Baalakaandda
|
Couplets |
| |
|
| Invocations |
(1,2,2A,3,4,5,6, 7,13)
|
| Blind Trust and
Enlightened Faith |
(2) |
| Good and Bad |
(8-12,13,14,15,16 18) |
| Mobile place of Pilgrimage
|
(9) |
| An Interdependent Pattern |
(10) |
| Alchemist's Stone |
(11) |
| Basic Knowledge |
(17) |
| Secret of Continual
Happiness |
(18) |
| Benefits
from ShreeRaamacharitaMaanasa |
(19,20,21,35-39) |
| God's Name, Its
significance |
(19, 24-33,104) |
| God, Formless and With
Form |
(21,29, 41, 43, 53,58,60,61, 68-72 80,82,84,85) |
| Test for Goodness |
(22) |
| Hanumaan's Greatness |
(23) |
| Duty to Family Precedes
God's Worship |
(24) |
| Name and Form |
(25) |
| Light Inside and Outside |
(26) |
| Kinds of God's Devotees |
(27,28) |
| Greater Than Formless and
With-form Aspects of God |
(29,31) |
| Why Suffering? |
(30) |
| Four Paths for Four Ages |
(32) |
| Where Intent is Immaterial
|
(33) |
| God Ignores Sin |
(34) |
| Mention of Good Deeds
Destroys Their Merit |
(34) |
| Narrative and Its
Narrators |
(35) |
| Innumerable and Unlimited |
(36) & (80)
|
| Tulaseedaasa Begins The
Story |
(37) |
| Strange Sanctity of a
Birthday |
(38) |
| A River of Blessings |
(39) |
| Double-mindedness |
(40) |
| A Basic Question |
(41,58-63) |
| God's Will and Tapping a
Reservoir of Cosmic Power Within |
(42,75) |
| An Incarnation and
Miracles |
(43) |
| Guru and Brahmin |
(44, 52, 87) |
| What Does God's Will Mean
for Our Use? |
(42,44, 75, 86) |
| Pride of Power and
Authority |
(45) |
| A House to Avoid |
(46) |
| What Makes our
Present? |
(47) |
| Fate is Alterable |
(47, 50, 72,) |
| God can be Attained,
Experienced
and Seen |
(48, 83, 89,90,97) |
| A Sanctifying Union |
(49) |
| Maya Affects Gods |
(51) |
| The Doubting Disciple |
(52) |
| Devotion to One's Fancy |
(53) |
| What is the Highest
Religion? |
(54) |
| An Inexperienced Adviser |
(55) |
| God, His Incarnation and
Gods |
(56,58, 65, 73, 85, 93,94, 108) |
| Happiness not for a
Dependant |
(57) |
| An Unusual Relationship |
(58) |
| A Wish-Fulfilling Tree |
(59) |
| Dear to a Devotee |
(62) |
| A Live Corpse |
(64) |
| A Distinctive Belief |
(65) |
| What is Man's Ignorance |
(66, 76) |
| The Real in the Unreal -
Unreliability of the Tangible |
(67) |
| Brahman |
(68,69,70,71, 82) |
| Can Sin be
Destroyed? |
(72) |
| Reason for An Incarnation
of God |
(73) |
| God's Own Fool |
(74) |
| Why Ignorance? |
(76) |
| The Wrong Medicine |
(77) |
| Expiation |
(78) |
| Life of Universe |
(79) |
| Maya |
(81) |
| Who Exerts Pull on the
Formless to Assume Form |
(83, 94) |
| A Cosmic Magnet |
(86) |
| Guru |
(87) |
| Sign of Greatness |
(88) |
| He is as We Think |
(89) |
| Essence
of ShreeRaamacharitMaanasa |
(89, 101) |
| Around and In All |
(90) |
| Brahmaa's Hymn |
(91-92) |
| Kaushlyaa's Hymn |
(93) |
| ShreeRaama's Name Defines
God |
(95) |
| God's Grace - Sweet in
Bitter |
(96) |
| A Poet's Limitation |
(98) |
| Sign of Nobility |
(99) |
| Seetaa's Prayer
to Paarvatee for Worldly Happiness |
(100) |
| ShreeRaama's Marriage
with Seetaa |
(101,106) |
| Seetaa'sSplendour |
(102,) |
| Despondemcy of a Jnaanee
|
(103,) |
| Mantra |
(104) |
| Power to Materialize
Thought |
(105) |
| Prosperity Without Asking |
(107) |
| Manifestation of a Mystery
|
(108) |
| Irresistible Desire |
(109) |
| Duty and No Rights for
Elders |
(110) |
| Ayodhyaakaandda
|
Couplets
|
| |
|
| |
|
| Four Precious
Objects |
(111, 181) |
| Who is Above the Law of
Karma? |
(112) |
| Kaikayee
and ShreeRaama's Exile |
(112- 127) |
| God's Nature |
(112, 182,184, 185,186, 202,205) |
| Devotion as Servant of God
|
(113) |
| Bad Company |
(114) |
| A Famous Royal Tradition |
(115-17, 139) |
| No Greater Sin |
(116) |
| Truth and Straw |
(117) |
| Who is a Fortunate
Son? |
(118-119) |
| Woman's nature |
(120, 143, 172) |
| Mother's Status and Ideal
Motherhood |
(121,124, 126, 197) |
| Mother-in-law's Role |
(121-122) |
| Religion and Custom |
(123) |
| Distinction Between Love
and Attachment |
(124) |
| A Jnaanee
Mother |
(125) |
| Glory of Motherhood |
(126) |
| One Sows Another Reaps |
(127) |
| Ganga |
(128) |
| Heartless Royalty |
(129) |
| Sanaatana Dharma Confers
No Rights |
(130) |
| LakshmanaGeetaa |
(130- 138) |
| What is Birth and
Death? |
(131) |
| Expectations, From
Whom? |
(132) |
| Dream - a Wise Man's
Teacher |
(133-134) |
| Who Sleeps and Who is
Awake? |
(134- 135) |
| Husk and Grain |
(136) |
| Formless Has a Form |
(137-138) |
| Duty Within a Duty |
(139) |
| Intellectual Attainments
and Spiritual Level |
(140-141) |
| Pre-requisite for
Happiness |
(142) |
| The Only Worthwhile
Feminine Jewel |
(143) |
| A View of Divinity |
(144) |
| Dreams and Their Meaning |
(145) |
| ShreeRaama's Question
and Vaalmikee's Famous Reply Begins |
(146) |
| God's Secret |
(147) |
| Salvation of Five Forms |
(148) |
| God is Questioned |
(149) |
| God Searches for Us |
(150- 168) |
| Single-Minded Devotion |
(155) |
| Guru |
(157, 190) |
| We Can Do without God |
(159,162,164) |
| A Close Relationship |
(163) |
| Computerised Fate |
(165) |
| A Security or A Burden
- Varna or Caste |
(166) |
| Maya and the Wise |
(170-171,173, 201) |
| God's Earthly Home |
(169) |
| Karma - Slave of God's
Grace |
(170-171,173, 179, 185, 197) |
| Woman a Mystery |
(172) |
| Karma is not Supreme to
Hurt Us |
(173, 185, 197) |
| A Meeting in a Forest |
(173- 175 189- 200,202-08) |
| Communication and its
Ingredients |
(174) |
| Necessity for
Communication |
(174, 192- 193,207) |
| Intent and Consequence |
(175) |
| Hypocrisy |
(176) |
| Sinless Prospect With
Power |
(177) |
| Greatness of God's Name |
(177-178,183) |
| Doubt About an Incarnation
of God |
(179) |
| An Ideal Brother |
(180-181, 188,191- 195,209) |
| Most Difficult Duty |
(180) |
| A Special Credit |
(182) |
| A
Poetic Licence! |
(183) |
| God's Anger! |
(184) |
| God's Devotee Defined |
(187) |
| Traditional Indian Wisdom |
(188) |
| Love for Step-mother |
(189) |
| Guru's Defeat |
(190) |
| An Example for History |
(191) |
| Knowledge and Devotion |
(196,202,210) |
| Wronged Step-Mother's Love
|
(197-198) |
| Greatness of a Master |
(199) |
| The Meanest Calling |
(200) |
| Tiny and Overpowering Maya
|
(201) |
| Masterr and Slave |
(203-205) |
| Doubting Thomas |
(206) |
| Man Supporting the Earth |
(207) |
| Uneasy Head |
(208) |
| A Self-imposed Test |
(209) |
| Picture of Symbols |
(210) |
| |
|
| Aranyakaandda
|
Couplets |
| |
|
| Anti-God |
(211) |
| Salvation More Easy for
Women |
(213-223) |
| Unasked Advice |
(213) |
| Kinds of Women |
(217-22) |
| A Power We Choose to
Miss |
(222) |
| Strength of a Nation
|
(223) |
| If God Be With Us |
(224) |
| Difficulties Today |
(225) |
| Sacrifice of
Life's Labour |
(226) |
| An Invaluable
Assurance |
(227) |
| Smaller Than the
Smallest |
(228) |
| Grow Faster Than
Weed |
(229) |
| An Ignorance Preferable to
Knowledge |
(230) |
| What Not to Forget |
(231) |
| Pick and Choose With
God |
(232) |
| Assurance For the
Fickle |
(233) |
| Devotees' Common
Prayer |
(226,229-231,233)
|
| Devotion Superior to
Knowledge |
(230,232,234) |
| Manners and
Etiquette |
(235) |
| ShreeRaamaGeetaa |
(235- 245) |
| What is Maya? |
(236-239) |
| Knowledge, Psychic Powers,
Modes
and Mark of Wisdom |
(240) |
| Vedanta -Advaita, Vishishttaadvaitaand Dvaita
|
(241) |
| What is Dharma? |
(242,244) |
| Path for Vedanta |
(243) |
| Devotion to God |
(244-248) |
| Sign of Nearness to
God |
(247) |
| Lust |
(249) |
| Shoorpanakhaa
and Raavana's Animosity |
(249,253-255) |
| Worldly Wisdom |
(250-252,257,271) |
| Aphorisms |
(251) |
| Sin |
(252) |
| Wisdom and Folly |
(253-255) |
| Residence in Fire |
(256) |
| Animosities to Avoid
|
(257) |
| Power Greater Than God's
Grace and His Vision |
(258-259) |
| We Can Do Without
God |
(259,267) |
| Grace Needs No Cause
|
(261) |
| ShreeRaama's Hymn to
Tribeswoman Shabaree |
(262-269) |
| Karmayoga - Karma
without Consequences |
(265) |
| Evolution and Simultaneous
Creation |
(267) |
| The Greatest Achiever |
(268) |
| Vision of God |
(269) |
| The Dharma We Can Give
Up |
(270) |
| Holy Scriptures and Their
Limit |
(271) |
| Three Enemies of Man
|
(272-273) |
| The Last Word in
Spirituality |
(275) |
| Signs of Spiritual
Advancement |
(276-282) |
| Economy for
Excellence |
(277) |
| Yoga |
(280) |
| Sign of Good Fortune
|
(283) |
| Moth and the Flame |
(284) |
| |
|
|
Kishkindhaakaandda
|
Couplets
|
| |
|
| Spirituality Recognizes an
Incarnation of God |
(285-288) |
| Definition of A
Friend |
(289) |
| True Greatness and
Opprobrium |
(290-292) |
| Man A Marionette |
(293) |
| Proverbial
Selfishness |
(294) |
| Wisdom from Nature |
(295-297) |
| God's Anger! |
(298) |
| Relief from Maya |
(299-300) |
| Our Master Plan |
(301) |
| |
|
|
Sundarakaandda
|
Couplets
|
| |
|
| Satyasanga |
(302) |
| Change for the Good |
(303) |
| Holy Company Needs God's
Grace |
(304) |
| Ill Omen |
(305,317) |
| Refuge in God |
(306,318,320,322-327) |
| The Distressed Dearest to
God |
(307-309) |
| Reputation of A Guardian
at Stake |
(308) |
| God as A Debtor |
(310) |
| Disaster of the
'Practical' |
(311) |
| A Strange Kind of
Security |
(312) |
| Gates for Hell |
(313, 322) |
| Counsel - Wise and
Foolish |
(314) |
| Test of the Holy |
(315) |
| The Holy and We |
(316) |
| Men of Ill Omen |
(317) |
| What is A Pure Mind and
Heart? |
(318,322) |
| Fear and Its Remedy |
(319) |
| Freedom From Common
Fears |
(318-320,325-327) |
| Worse Than Hell |
(321) |
| Good Fortune Not the
Monopoly of
the Meritorious |
(323-324) |
| Refuge or Surrender |
(325-227) |
| Loved by Family Yet Not of
It |
(325-329) |
| Cowards |
(330) |
| Proverbial Wisdom |
(331-333) |
| Crossing the Ocean Without
A Boat |
(335) |
| Lessons in Conduct |
(311-312,314,317,321,331-334) |
| |
|
|
Lankaakaandda
|
Couplets
|
| |
|
| ShreeRaama's Relationship
with Shiva |
(336-338) |
| Worldly Wisdom Followed by
Disaster |
(339) |
| Invisible Faults |
(340) |
| A Fool's Fate |
(341) |
| Conduct Towards an Enemy |
(342) |
| A Home for Evil |
(343) |
| Living Corpses |
(344) |
| The Educated and the
Illiterate |
(345) |
| Shackles of
Tradition |
(345) |
| Psychic Signs of
Approaching Death |
(346) |
| How Can Demons Deserve
Salvation? |
(347,349,359) |
| The Irretrievable |
(348) |
| Precept and Practice
|
(350) |
| Weapons for Victory in
Life |
(351-356) |
| Brahmaa's Hymn |
(357) |
| The Easier Choice |
(358) |
| The Best Practical
Way |
(360) |
| |
|
| Uttarakaandda
|
Couplets |
| |
|
| Shiva's Hymn |
(361) |
| Benefit of Reading or
Listening to ShreeRaamacharitaMaanasa |
(362-365,402-403,461-462,464-471) |
| Desires Worth
Pursuing |
(363) |
| The Glorious Slave |
(366, 415) |
| RaamaRaj |
(367-368) |
| God's Humility |
(369) |
| Mark of Spiritually
Advanced Persons and Benefit from Their Company |
(370-375,394,404,459-460) |
| Mark of the Wicked |
(376-385,432-433) |
| The Highest Religion and
the Greatest Sin |
(386) |
| Self-destructive
Role |
(387) |
| ShreeRaama's Declaration
of Being God |
(388) |
| Vivayka is
Non-discrimination |
(389,431) |
| The Greatest Good
Fortune |
(390-393,423) |
| An Independent Path |
(394) |
| ShreeRaama Without
Shiva |
(395) |
| Devotion and Its
Path |
(394,396-398,404,415-416,421, 437,439,443-445) |
| Knowledge, Its Path and
Experience |
(396,400,437-438,441-442) |
| Liberality
of Sanaatana Dharma |
(398) |
| Parents' Selfish
Interest |
(399) |
| Good Deeds Do not Cancel
Out Bad
Deeds |
(400) |
| The Most Fortunate |
(401) |
| The Dancer and the
Entranced |
(405-408) |
| Actor and Acting |
(409) |
| Somebody Has to Be
Blamed |
(410) |
| Can We believe What We
See? |
(411,435) |
| Pain of Death of
Pride |
(412-413) |
| `The One Knowledge |
(414) |
| Warrant of
Precedence |
(415) |
| Guru |
(417,420) |
| Trust Whom? |
(418-419) |
| One Path to God or
Many? |
(421) |
| True Self-Interest |
(422) |
| Body's Best Use |
(423) |
| Characteristics ofKaliyuga
|
(424-430,471) |
| The Mind Does Not
Sin |
(428) |
| The Best Age |
(429) |
| Four Pillars in One |
(430) |
| Role or Quality |
(431) |
| More Beastly Than A
Beast |
(432) |
| Friend or Foe |
(433) |
| A Prayer of
Intercession |
(434) |
| Four Major Concepts |
(435) |
| Profit and Loss |
(436) |
| Devotion Built on
Rock |
(437) |
| Knowledge - Dry or
Sweet? |
(438) |
| A Jealousy for Our
Fortune |
(439) |
| A Knot to Untie |
(440) |
| A Double-Edged Sword
|
(441-442) |
| A Base for Knowledge
|
(443) |
| What Comprises Service of
God? |
(444) |
| A Jewel for Sale |
(445) |
| Greater Than God! |
(446) |
| Seven Vital
Questions |
(447- 458) |
| Diseases of the Mind
|
(449) |
| My body. Mind, Soul, Aatmaa
and 'I' |
(450) |
| Greatest Suffering and
Greatest Happiness |
(451) |
| A Self-destructive
Objective |
(452) |
| Greatest Sin |
(453) |
| Prevention and Cure of
Diseases |
(454-458) |
| A Cure Beyond Many Noble
Remedies |
(455) |
| A Cure by
Circumstances |
(456) |
| The Life-Saver |
(457) |
| Unusual Symptoms of
Health |
(458) |
| Satyasanga |
(459-460) |
| Shiva's Discourse
to Paarvatee |
(460-470) |
| A Family Twice
Blessed |
(463) |
| A Wise Prohibition |
(464) |
| A Philosopher's Stone |
(465-470) |
| Tulaseedaasa -A True
Devotee |
(471-473) |
|
SECTION IV
Topical Index
Glossary
Proper Names
Bibliography
Acknowledgement
Appendix
World leadership of the Indian Subcontinent
Appendix 2
Sanaatana Heritage in India Today
Appendix 3
Vivekananda
Appendix
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