Seeking Answers
The best way to learn is to ask questions. The second best is to listen to what others are asking. The magic is in the listening.
Kaikeyi and the Emotive Power: Why the Ramayana is Needed to Teach Inner Truths?
Kaikeyi personifies the emotive/will faculty of the mind. The Ramayana’s characters are inner qualities; the forest represents our inner depths. For many readers the epic functions as a living pedagogy: it translates terse Upanishadic truths into images and scenes that lodge in the heart, making subtle spiritual knowledge teachable — even to children.
Maya, Attraction, and Ignorance: Are They Different or the Same?
In this Q&A, a seeker asks whether attraction comes from maya or maya comes from attraction. The answer clarifies that maya has no independent existence; our own ignorance of our true Self is what we call maya, avidya, or delusion. Through examples like mirage (mrig-marichika) and references to Krishna’s use of the word mudha in the Gita, it shows that terms like maya, ignorance, and illusion all point to the same fundamental inner unawareness.
Ram, Bharat, Lakshman, and Shatrughna - what do they symbolise?
In this Q&A, the speaker explains that Dasharatha’s four sons are not just historical figures but symbols of inner awakening. Ram represents Self-knowledge; Bharat the bliss and love that arise from it; Lakshman the awareness that “I create my own thoughts”; and Shatrughna the power to dissolve them. The Ramayana is revealed as a story of our inner spiritual journey.
Ram, Lakshman, and Sita - what do they symbolise?
In this Q&A, the discussion explores the symbolic meaning of Ram, Lakshman, and Sita in the Ramayana. Ram represents Self-knowledge, Lakshman the ever-awake power of discrimination, and Sita our pure thinking. When thinking becomes captivated by illusion (moh), even awakened intellect can only recognize but not act—showing how awareness must arise before attachment takes hold.
Is Deceit Part of Moh?
In this Q&A, a seeker asks whether deceit and trickery are separate vikaras or part of moh, which is usually understood as attachment or ignorance. Through the example of Ravana, Maricha, and Sita in the Ramayana, the answer explains how moh is attachment to “mine”, and how ego uses moh to make us act deceitfully, subtly distorting pure thinking through attractive forms.