A Special Message On Dussehra (Part 2)
In the Bhagwat Gita, it is said that lust, anger and greed are gates to hell. Thus, the soul under the influence of body consciousness or Ravandivorced itself from Ram, as a result of which it opened the gates of hell for itself and experienced sorrow and pain. Ravan literally means one who makes you cry. Today every soul or Sita trapped in the chains of the five vices, which are the roots of all emotional sufferings, tensions and sorrows; cries out to Ram for liberation.
Ram is just one of the symbolic names of the non-physical Supreme Father of all souls who is eternally bodiless and stays in the soul world orShantidham, free from the cycle of birth and rebirth and constantly peaceful, pure, blissful and loveful. The whole comparison, in fact, relates to the coming of the Supreme Soul at the end of Kaliyugonto the physical world to free all the Sitas from sorrow. According to his sacred promise, the Supreme Being comes at such an important time of human history when souls have become slaves to impure pleasures and desires. He transforms and re-moulds spiritually weakened souls and purifies their intellects by pure spiritual knowledge to them. He teaches them simple Rajyogameditation (Rajyoga can be broken up into Raja + yoga which means king of unions) by which the souls can connect their minds and intellects to him and spiritually re-empower themselves.
The word Dussehra comes from the word Dasa-Hara, Dasa meaning Ten and Hara meaning destroy. Only when we kill the ten-headed demon of Ravan in our nature, with the arrow of spiritual knowledge and burn his huge effigy with the divine fire of intense meditation or yoga with the Supreme, can we truly celebrate Dussehra and experience permanent joy.
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