Lessons from Ramayana in the context of modern-day Science
India is blessed to have such profound scriptures like Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Bhagwat Gita that we can keep learning their significance even today in the context of modern-day Science. Here is my attempt to understand the essence of Ramayana in the context of the present-day understanding of Science in a nutshell. Ram is the symbol of divine or Universal Consciousness, the ultimate reality, the God or quantum observer of our lives that pervades the quantum field with universal intelligence. Sita symbolizes us, our Soul, our being, the individual Consciousness. Although an integral component of Universal Consciousness, it is seized by the ego-oriented mind because of the forgetfulness of the Self. Her journey is a metaphor for the individual journey toward self-realization, which involves overcoming various challenges and obstacles. Laxman Rekha represents Conscious Awareness, a built-in program in our forebrain to observe our thoughts. It has the power of metacognition, ...