Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda blends the rare qualities of a spiritual Master with visionary leadership. Imbued with devotion and humility, he is dedicated to living and propagating the exalted vision of his Guru, Swami Chinmayananda. An outstanding teacher of Vedanta, he conveys the profound knowledge of the scriptures with lucidity, wit and humour.
An erudite scholar, Pujya Guruji has to his credit commentaries on several Vedantika texts. A versatile writer, he is also the author of several life-transforming compositions in both poetry and prose.
The immensely popular and much loved Sri Rama katha has been sung by numerous rais, saint-devotees as well as the most reputed literary poets in Sanskrit and in many different languages. All these renditions are beautiful among the various versions of the Ramayana, however, the Set Ramacaritamanasa of Gosvami Tulasidasa occupies a unique place. The poet himself describes this composition as 'Sambhu prasada', a blessing from Lord Siva. The Rama katha while entertaining and educating the masses, has also been successful in bringing rest and repose to scholarly minds. Gosvami Tulasidasa composed this epic poem to purify his own speech, to enlighten his own mind and for his personal joy. Through this, by the Grace of Sri Rama, he attained supreme peace. For him, love for Sri Rama is the essence of life, and this he expresses not just in the Ramacaritamanasa, but in his other compositions as well. We, too, should bear in mind the sentiments and objectives of the poet while studying this Ramayana. By doing so we will derive the greatest benefit; there is no doubt about that.
By the Grace of God and the blessings of Pujya Gurudev, I had the good fortune of holding discourses in Hindi on the Complete Tulasi Ramayana at a spiritual camp organized in January 2019 at the Chinmaya Vibhooti Ashram. To bring out these discourses in the form of a book, the challenging task of Hitting them has been accomplished with great assiduity and devotion by the couple Sri Arun Mehrotra and Srimati Rashmi Mehrotra with important inputs from Swamini Amitananda. Alongside, the faithful and beautiful translation into English of these Hindi discourses has been rendered by Srimati Anita Raina Thapan. I felicitate all of them whole-heartedly. May Sri Rama's Grace and Pujya Gurudev's blessings always be upon all of them. That is my prayer.
Publisher's Note
Shri Rama Charita Manas is the immortal work of Goswami Tulasidasa, the sixteenth century saint from Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a text brimming with love for Lord Shri Rama. The essence of this love is encapsulated into 18 beautiful aphorisms by Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda, the Head of the Chinmaya Mission.
In October 2003, in a camp at Sandeepany-Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, India (The Samadhi-sthala of the founder of the Chinmaya Mission, Param Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda), Pujya Guruji delivered discourses on these sutras. He explains them in his own unique, simple and endearing style taking us back and forth on a tour of the Rama Charita Manas, proving how the sutras give the essence of devotion according to Goswami Tulasidasa.
We take great pleasure in bringing out this creative work which will surely fill all those who read it with devotion and joy. This book also contains a life story of Goswami Tulasidasa and thoughts of Pujya Gurudev on Tulasi Ramayana.
We wish to record out gratitude to Smt. Radhika Krishnakumar for editing the text. Our thanks to Shri Krishnamurthy and Shri Ramesh of Mayapuri Graphics for designing the cover page.
Back of the Book
Love makes the world go round. It is love that unites, sustains and delights us.
Rama Charita Manas of Goswami Tulasidasa exemplifies all that is true love/devotion. Devotion as envisaged in this immortal work has been sensitively and creatively capsulated by Pujya Guruji Swami tejomayananda in Manas Bhakti Sutras Aphorisms on love.
The reader is sure to love these simple and deep aphorisms on devotion and their endearing explanations.
The Bharatiya Vidya Bahavan-that Institute of Indian Culture in Bombay-needed a Book University, a series of books which, if read would serve the purpose of providing higher education. Particular emphasis, however, was to be put on such literature as revealed the deeper impulsions of India. As a first step, it was decided to bring out in English 100 book, 50 of which were to be taken in hand almost at once. Each book was to contain from 200 to 250 pages.
It is our intention to publish the books we select, not only in English, but also in the following Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
This Scheme, involving the publication of 900 volumes, requires ample funds and an all-an India organization. The Bhavan is exerting itself to the utmost to supply them.
The objectives for which the Bhavan stands are the reintegration of the Indian culture in the light of modern knowledge and to suit our present-day needs and the resuscitation of its fundamental values in their pristine vigor.
Let me make out goal explicit ;
We seek the dignity of man, which necessarily implies the creation of social conditions which would allow him freedom to evolve along the lines of his own temperament and capacities; we seek the harmony of individual efforts and social relations, not in any makeshift way, but within the frame-work of the Moral Order; we seek the creative art of life, by the alchemy of which human limitations are progressively transmuted, so that man may become the instrument of God, and is able to see Him in all and all in him.
The world, we feel, is too much with us. Nothing would uplift or inspire us so much as the beauty and aspiration which such books can teach.
In this series, therefore, the literature of India, ancient and modern, will be published in a form easily accessible to all. Book in other literature of the world, if they illustrate the principles we stand for, will also be included.
This common pool of literature, it is hoped, will enable the reader, eastern or western, to understand and appreciate currents of world thought, as also the movements of the mind in India, which, though they flow through different linguistic channels, have a common urge and aspiration.
Fittingly, the Book University’s first venture is the Mahabharata, summarized by one of the greatest living Indians, C. Rajagopalachari; the second work is on a section of it, the Gita by H.V. Divatia, an eminent jurist and a student of philosophy. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: “What is not in it, is nowhere.” After twenty-five centuries, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life.
The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival; but, above all, it has for its core the Gita, which is, as the world is beginning to find out, the noblest of scriptures and the grandest of sagas in which the climax is reached in the wondrous Apocalypse in the Eleventh Canto.
Through such books alone the harmonies underlying true culture, I am convinced will one day reconcile the disorders of modern life.
I thank all those who have helped to make this new branch of the Bhavan’s activity successful.
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