Who is Shri Rama?
During this period, we celebrate Shri Rama’s birthday (Navami).
Shri Rama was the 7th Incarnation of Shri Vishnu who took His incarnation about 10,000 years ago.
Shri Rama, and His wife Shri Sita, rule the right side of the heart. Shri Rama was the ideal human being, perfect king, son, father, brother, husband and man. He was an example of truthfulness and sacrifice. Shri Sita was also an incarnation of the Adi Shakti.
In Sahaja Yoga, we recognise that Her Holiness Shri Mataji embodies all the deities within Her Divine being. Hence, when we worship Shri Mataji and do Puja to Her as Shri Rama, vibrations are emitted from Shri Mataji that clear and strengthen our right heart, and then, Shri Rama’s qualities manifest within us.
More about Shri Rama and the Right Heart
- Deities: Shri Sita, Shri Rama
- Country: Germany, Japan
- Location on the hands: Little Finger on the right hand
- Qualities: Responsible behaviour
- Causes of obstructions: Arrogant behavior, Emotional aggression
- Clearing: “Shri Mataji, you are the responsibility in me. “
- Give vibrations to your right heart and put an icepack on your liver to cool down.
About Navami and Lord Rama
(Quotes from a talk offered by the founder of Sahaja Yoga, in London, 1982)
“Today is Rama’s birthday. Now, his coming on this earth gave us the development of the right side. .. People had just started realizing that there is something higher and you have to worship that higher Self. .. Because first of all when human beings came on this earth they were frightened of all the animals who would invade them and all kinds of horrible Rakshasas (demons) and all those people, and negative forces would trouble them. In that state they needed to create a King, a Ruler, who was an Ideal King and who would rule according to the laws of Dharma. So He (Lord Rama) was the one in charge of that.”
The story of Rama
But the story of Rama they say was written before He was born. Even before there was any inkling of it the seer, Valmiki, wrote the whole story of Shri Rama. Shri Rama’s birth and all that are brought forth by the Agni, the fire, and He was born in the Dynasty of the Surya, is the sun. So with all that, born out of the blessings of the Agni, that is fire, and also was born in the dynasty of Surya, He was one of the mildest avataras you have ever had. …..He Himself is called as Mariada Purushottama, means He was the one who knew how far to go with someone, Mariadas, how to talk to someone, how to approach someone, while we find people who misbehave, even with their husbands, with their wives, with their children, with everyone and also outside they are about to jump on others – that’s absolutely against Rama. It’s like Ravana. Even Ravana was not like this, he was also of not that nature because he had certain dharmas within him. He was a realized soul but he had become a rakshasa because he became arrogant, but even his arrogance cannot be matched with many modern people and modern girls and men that I hear and see, that it is surprising they have really surpassed Ravana. Ravana only had ten heads but sometimes I feel that the modern men might have, or the women specially, might have hundred and eight heads. ….
His qualities, if you have to imbibe, first of all we have to understand the innate situation of Shri Rama. Shri Rama is placed on the right hand side of your heart, right hand side, right heart. He’s placed there. …In our Sahaja Yoga* we have three hearts: one is the left, another is the right, and one is the center. Now the right heart is a very important thing. The right heart looks after the whole lungs, both the lungs, all the throat, the trachea, the nose, the inner part. The outer side is looked after, we can say, the features are given by Shri Krishna but the inner part of it is all done by Shri Rama. They are the same, but one acts as an inner part, another as the outer part. It gives you the ears, from the inner part, Shri Rama does. He gives you the eyes, in the inner part of the eyes. Now, it’s so important to have the inner side all right than the outer side. Is an example of Shri Rama, He never cared for the outer side or the outward looks of a person.
Because He came before Shri Krishna, He tried to build up the inner side of a human being. So we can say, though He is on the right heart, He acts through your Hamsa Chakra and partly through your Vishuddhi Chakra in the inner side of it. Because Shri Krishna, in the inner side of it is Shri Rama, is Shri Vishnu….Shri Rama stands for the pranavai, is for the vital air that we take in. For the vital air, and that vital air when it gets heated up, we have to know that we are not any more with Shri Ram. It has to be the cool air to blow through your nose and your mouth. I don’t know about you people, it happens with Me all the time. When you are angry the nostrils go up, swell up, and the hot air, the hot words, and everything hot, the heated eyes, and everything goes up like that, curled up, and you become ferocious Ravana because you have forgotten the beauty of the nature of Shri Rama….
(An extract from talk of H H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on Shri Rama Puja, Les Avants, Switzerland, 4th October 1987.)
Shri Rama’s Birthplace
In this talk, Shri Mataji Talks about Shri Rama’s Birthplace which is in Ayodha, India.
