Rama
The exemplary king, seventh avatar of VishnuThe seventh descent of Vishnu and prince of Ayodhya, Rama is revered as the perfect man, the one who keeps dharma at every ruinous cost. His story is at once an adventure and the tradition's deepest meditation on what it costs to be good.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Guides and journal
- Who is Rama? Deities
Narada gives one. There is such a man, he says, and his name is Rama.
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
It ends in a birth. On the ninth night, the navami , the festival is Rama Navami .
- The First Poem Treatise
… and commissions him to compose, in this new metre, the whole life of Rama.
- What is Diwali? Worship
… falls in October or November. Ask in Ayodhya and you will hear about Rama.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The poem is the Ramayana , "the going of Rama," or "Rama's journey." Whether the river and the cranes are history is a separate question, one we will come back to.
- Who is Hanuman? Deities
This is real and dear to many, and it is a later devotional identification rather than a teaching of Valmiki, whose Hanuman is the wind's son and Rama's servant.
- Is Ram Setu man-made? What the geology actually says Journal
And the caption said: NASA has photographed an ancient man-made bridge, thousands of years old, exactly where the Ramayana says Rama's army built one to cross to Lanka.
- The city of Rama Treatise
It is the city of Shiva. It is also, and just as deeply, the city of Rama.