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About the Book: The Greatest Ode to Lord Ram: Tulsidass Ramcharitmanas Selections and Commentaries

An Easy-to-understand but Layered Introduction to Lord Ram as a God and as a Man

The Ramcharitmanas is undoubtedly one of the greatest lyrical compositions in Hindi literature. Writing in the sixteenth century, Tulsidas chose to pen verses in Awadhi rather than Sanskrit, thus breaking with literary tradition and importantly making Lord Ram more relatable to the layperson. Pavan K. Varma, author of the best-selling Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduisms Greatest Thinker has selected some of the most evocative stanzasoffering a succinct commentary for eachthat capture the very core of the original.

While centring the philosophical aspect of the Ramcharitmanasthe immutability of the soul over the merely corporeal; the transience of worldly pleasures; the placing of wisdom above knowledgeThe Greatest Ode to Lord Ram describes a devoted son, a loving sibling, a committed lover, an ideal ruler and also a human, almost bereft of divinity. Indeed, Ram is a god and a man; h...