The ways of Lord Rām

Hiya! I was wondering how Lord Rām had lived his life. His actions, problems and bad luck. This is why I bought a book named "The Scion of Ikshvaku". Ikshvaku was the descendant of the sun and thus the descendents of Ikshvaku were called Suryavanshis or the descendants of the solar dynasty. Without getting much deep into dynasties and mythology, let's start our journey to understand Lord Rām as a man!

5114 B.C. 

Ayodhya, The "unbeaten land". The land ruled by King Dashratha, The Samraat of Whole Sapt Sindu Country ( North India till Pakistan). The Golden Rule, slowly deteriorating by the merchants of Lanka and King-merchant Kuber. Kuber was believed to have a huge tresure collected by evil businesses. Due to Kuber's evil business, Dashratha tried to solve his problems with Kuber but a young commander-in-chief sitting near Kuber, Hit his hand on the table and declined to Dashratha's orders. Kuber, the king, looked at the commander in fear thinking of his mountain like ego. Dashratha was now in fierce anger, told to wage a war with them. The commander answered back by saying that it will be fun dethroning fools. Yes, the commander was ravana! 

Dashratha, with no prince, went to wage a war as his ego as a samraat was hurt, came with a defeat! He was badly injured and luckily lived. The unbeaten land was now beaten! After a few months a news came, Dashratha's first wife, Kaushalya gave birth to a baby. The head sages had made a prophecy that if the baby borns before 12, he will be a famous warrior, devotee of his morals and a great ruler. If he borns after 12, he will suffer his whole life. Nothing will go his way. Guess what? He was welcomed exactly on 12 noon!

Rumours spread all across ayodhya that he is a cursed child. He was born on Kings defeat and also the 5114 BC was considered an unlucky year! He was named after 6th Vishu Parshu Rām.

None talked with him, none accepted him as a prince and soon he and his three brothers Lakshman, Bharat and Shatrugna were sent to Sage Vashishtha's Gurukul. 

You know the further story! But him as a man never thought bad of anyone. He was bound to his principles. He kept his mind always calm, nothing anxious. Even when he used a daivi astra to defeat ravana's sudden attack on Mithila, he self-punished himself to go 14 years exile. 

He was a man of rules. Lord rudra had banned the use of daivi astras and thus gave 14 years exile punishment for those who uses it. No one would dare to punish a prince but he self punished himself. He thought that if the prince will follow the rules, then the citizens will. He never feared the future nor did he ever blamed his past. For him, past was gone as an illusion and future was never predictable. Thus he was always concerned of present. The reality. He had never overflowen his emotions. When whole ayodhya considered him a curse, he was not sad. When he first met sita, he was not overwhelmed. His head was automatically bowed when he first saw sita. 

When whole India saw him like a God there after, he was still a humble man, a man who has total control over his senses, as still, as quiet and as formless as water!  He never thought of himself, he was just aware. For him, rules are the foremost. Rules are beyond freedom, beyond people and even beyond gods. That is why he is reffered as a Marayada Purushottam, a man of morals! 

It was hard to fit the whole character of Lord Rām here. Ofcourse he was beyond the things I've mentioned in my blog. For me, he is my role model of discipline, morals and duties. 

With the hope of a Peaceful world,

Daksh Parekh.