Valmiki

It is only when the divinity and the world, the positive and the negative come together that in this world we will be able to get peace and happiness.

Sukhadeva, Valmiki, Vyasudu, all these great names are coming from ancient times.

Even if they change many times, there is no chance for their names to change.

What is the reason? It is because of divinity.

It is in this context of the negative and the positive being together or recognizing the aspect of the divine as well as the worldly aspects that people like Jayadeva, like Kabir, like Ramadas, like Tulasi, like Valmiki, like Vyasa, so many people like that have their names engraved eternally on our memory because They had also taken the divine aspect while dealing with the worldly aspects Therefore, you must serve the world, simultaneously earn the grace of God.

This is very necessary in the service of the world to do it in the name of God and earn the grace of God.

For youth, this is most essential.

Swami continues speaking about the importance of gaining a name and reputation that stays on.

In today's episode, the seed of the story is already before us.

Narada has given Valmiki a compressed account of Rama's life.

Grief beside the Tamsa has taken metrical form.

and Brahma has directed the sage toward composing Rama's story.

Balakand Sarg 3 now brings us to a different question.

The issue is no longer where the story begins, but how a life of such enormous range can be known fully enough to become a poem.

Valmiki touches water, composes himself, sits with joined palms and seeks the course of the story in accordance with Dharma.

The Sarga opens the field before him.

I'm your storyteller.

Today, we return to Valmiki at the moment after he has heard the outline of Rama's life from Narada.

Exile, the abduction of Sita, the fall of Ravan, Rama's return.

Narada has already given Valmiki a glimpse of the immense story that lies ahead.

But hearing a story and giving it the form of poetry are not the same thing.

In the previous episode, the question was, is there a person in this world in whom so many great qualities exist together? Narada's answer was Rama.

How did the story of Rama become poetry? The answer does not come from a royal court or a battlefield.

It comes beside a river between two birds and in a moment of grief so powerful that words suddenly take on a new form.

We will begin with a question.

A question that the sage Valmiki puts before Narada.

Is there in this world a human being in whom many extraordinary qualities can exist together? And in answer to that question, a name enters our journey for the first time.

Rama.

The opening chapter of the Balakanda is more than an introduction.

Before the vast narrative begins to unfold, it establishes the qualities through which Rama is first presented to us.

Valmiki asks Narada one question after another.

Is there someone who is virtuous and powerful? Someone who understands dharma, that is, who understands what is right and what duty requires? Someone who remembers the good done to him.

There, but there is a future which is there beyond the mind which is attracting us, drawing us, carrying us, and that's why there is hope.

That's why every Ratnakar has the possibility of becoming a Valmiki, and every Angulimal can become Anand.

"And coins it continually into the present." So what do we do? We coin these into the pre- [laughs] it's a coin.

That's why we should make the most of every moment mintage, because that's what we are going to carry.

And it enters-- So it's always there.

Just like, as a more spiritual example, Lord Ram, when he was present, the Ramayan had already been written by Valmiki.

He'd already taught Lord Ram his children, who didn't know Ram was their father because they were raised in Valmiki's ashram by...

Sita was there with, with her children, with Lava and Kusha.

Um, uh, Vash- Vashishtha Muni's ashram, but Valmiki is the writer of Ramayan.

Anyway, and there- reciting Ramayan to Lord Ram.

It was known before he came.

The story of Ravana is told in the Ramayana, which with the Mahabharata form the two great epic poems of the Hindus.

The latter was written by Vaisya, and the former by Valmiki.

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The story of Ravana is told in the Ramayana, which with the Mahabharata form the two great epic poems of the Hindus.

The latter was written by Vaisya and the former by Valmiki.

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