THE RAMAYANA HAS BEEN INSPIRING INDIAN CULTURE FOR AGES

THE RAMAYANA HAS BEEN INSPIRING INDIAN CULTURE FOR AGES

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RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

PATNA--------------------------The divinity of Rama's personality and the Ramayana have been inspiring Indian culture for ages. Not only Rama's character, but every character in the Ramayana is a role model for human life. The Ramayana and the Ramcharitmanas are such texts whose creation transformed bipedal creatures into humans. These epics are a boon for global humanity.

Dr. Anil Sulabh, President of the Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, stated this while presiding over a gathering of scholars on the fourth day of the five-day "National Ramayana Fair," held annually in Chitrakoot Dham for the past 53 years. He stated that the Ramayana is not a fabricated story, but a highly inspiring history of Eastern India. Rama's character itself is a center of attraction, like a beautiful poem. Whether one is a theist or an atheist, the Ramayana offers ample subject matter for people of all faiths. This story not only touches upon every aspect of human life, but also elaborates upon them. It contains answers to all the questions that arise in the mind of the inquisitive and solutions to all the problems of life. It is a beacon of light on the path of life.

Describing this 'Ramayana Mela', which began in 1973 under the inspiration of the great socialist thinker Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, as a great endeavor to spread the Ramayana and Indian culture to the masses, Dr. Sulabh praised the work of the fair organizers, including the General Secretary of the Mela Committee, Dr. Karuna Shankar Dwivedi, the Karvariya family, and Dr. Chandrika Prasad Dixit 'Lalit'.

In this scholarly gathering, dozens of Sultanpur scholars, including renowned Manas scholars and learned writers Dr. Sushil Pandey 'Sahityaendu', Dr. Hari Prasad Dubey, Prof. Jang Bahadur Pandey, Acharya Ramlal Dwivedi, Ram Lochan Tiwari, Dr. Sanjay Pankaj, Dr. Chhedilal Bronzekar, Ram Pratap Shukla, Surendra Singh, Dr. Vimal Kumar Parimal, etc., expressed their scholarly views on various aspects of the Ramayana. The stage was gracefully hosted by the learned literary figure Dr. Chandrika Prasad Dixit 'Lalit', who has been organizing the Ramayana Fair since its inception, and the vote of thanks was delivered by the veteran General Secretary of the Fair Committee, Dr. Karuna Shankar Dwivedi. The committee's young acting president, Prashant Karawaria, whose grandfather, the late Gopal Krishna Karawaria, and father, the late Rajesh Karawaria, had been performing this duty since the Fair's inception, welcomed the learned guests and the hundreds of Ramayana lovers who had come from far and wide. On this occasion, Dr. Kiran Tripathi, former head of the Hindi department of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Divyang Vishwavidyalaya, poet Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra, Dr. Ghanshyam Awasthi, Rajababu Pandey, Dr. Vinod Shankar Singh, Dr. Shant Kumar Chaturvedi, Dr. Anupam, Rajesh Dubey, Manoj Garg, Satyendra Pandey, Mo. Yusuf, Mo. Imtiaz, Rajendra Mohan Tripathi, Natthu Prasad Sonkar, Daddu Maharaj and other officials and members of the fair committee were present. In the evening, there were grand cultural presentations, in which the 'Krishna dance drama' presented by Vrajbhan Foundation of Delhi under the direction of renowned dancer Dr. Anu Sinha received special love and enthusiasm from the audience.