The Egoic Mind

To attempt, to write about this ancient Hindu epic the Ramayana, or the Ram Charitra Manas by Tulsi Das is a daunting task. I have spent a long time reading, and then studying this tome for 30 years and then some. In this same time period I was also trying to discover myself. Their was this urge within me to find out what I was good at, and what was the purpose of my gift of life on this earth. The more I thought about it, the more confused I got. In many ways I would say, this journey of befuddlement, took me further away from the truth. I guess what I am saying here, is, that sometimes, truth stares you in the face but you are a million miles away and cannot see it. I will talk about my revelation in more detail another time. The point however, that I want to make is simply this. Even when one knows what to do with one's life and one starts making inroads, the mind still takes you in different directions.

In my recent wanderings of the mind, I did some readings and discovered that I have to harness the thought process and not keep listening to the ramblings of the mind. For the mind loves to chatter, and keep one in the past or in the future. That is how it keeps us identified with our egos so that we cannot stay in the present and never discover our true selves. The ego gets it's feed and therefore inflation from the past. The present though, is where we can be, but, we live in it, for short periods, because, the ego cannot survive in it. Thus, the importance of the past, and the hope for the future, is, what we are constantly being fed by our minds.

In this battle between me and myself, I find, that, I have wandered away from the true calling of my Ram Rajya. Maybe, Lord Ram tests me from time to time, whether, I will ever finish this enormous task, of completing His saga, as I understand it, for the present times. I am no expert, the only thing going for me, is my love for this epic. I think, we can create a Ram Rajya today, just as it was in His reign.

So as the famous line in the Tao Te Ching " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" I will endeavour to sing the glories of Ram Rajya, to you my beautiful readers, one day at a time. We shall surely be in Ram Rajya then. JAI HO!!!!!!