Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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narrated the Ramayana in Avadhi, his language, so the language today is that of film. To express Ramayana through the medium of film, a man was trained for fifty years. (I consider my fifty years of producing films as my training periods.) When the opportunity arose - well, I cannot deliver discourses because I have neither the knowledge nor am I an adept who can tell you the techniques. I am an insignificant person walking on the pavement. Whatever I met with on the way, I shall narrate as one does to his fellow companions. I will tell you what I am doing; how useful it is, is for you to decide.
Once a professor from Allahabad came and gathered a few of my friends and started giving lectures on the Ramayana every Sunday. In the beginning, I attended more out of fashion, but then I started getting the taste for it, and for twenty years I listened to his lectures every Sunday. The Ramayana would be finished in six months, and he would start again. This went on and on. What I think was happening was that the messengers of the Lord above were drenching me in this, immersing me completely because my field of work is an art which requires a lot of charisma, and unless one is himself overflowing with and relishing the sentiments, how can he communicate them to others? So, I was being immersed in the Ramayana again and again.
One day I was struck with an idea: Ramayana is such a nice tale, why not make it a movie? But I felt that if I tried to express the story within three hours, it would be something like what Valmiki said:
Ram janmam, Sita kalyanam, van gamanam Sita haranam, sindhu setu bandhanam Lankaadahnam
Ravana marnam iti Ramayanam “Rama was born, Sita is blessed, they go into exile, Sita is abducted, the bridge is fixed, Lanka is destroyed, Ravana is killed, so ends Ramayana."
So, this is basically what Ramayana is. When our great ancestors wrote down these epics, they had a purpose. This purpose was to impart the knowledge, the science, to make people aware of their spiritual heritage. The Vedas were diluted a bit and the Shastras were created, which were again explained as Srutis or Smritis. Then came the Puranas, so that common people read them and through them understand the real truth.
When Ramayana was being played on television, I remember that a lot of pressure was exerted on me by Doordarshan
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