Shri Ram rajya

What better day to speak on this than Gandhi jayanthi. Well what Gandhi really meant by ramrajya. Through Gandhi we get to have a bit more insight on ramrajya. It is the perfect land but how it really functioned is something I always wanted to know.
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To quote Mahatma Gandhi on Ram Rajya, he said and wrote on February 26, 1947, "Let no one commit the mistake of thinking that Ramrajya means a rule of Hindus. My Ram is another name for Khuda or God. I want Khuda Raj which is the same thing as the Kingdom of God on Earth." Obviously this meant an ideal society where everybody follows a code of righteous living and more or less happy, meeting all their essential needs.
Rama Rajya was based on truth. Dharma was its foundation. Shastras were the guiding principles. Rishis, Yogis, Munis and Brahma Jnanis were the guiding lights. The Vedas were respected and followed. Therefore, Rama Rajya endured and prospered. And it is even now spoken of as the most perfect form of government.

The government of Sri Rama was an ideal one. Rama's kingdom was free from evil-doers, thieves and dacoits. People did not put locks to the doors, nor bars to their windows. A bag of gold could be kept quite safe even in the highways. No calamity ever befell anyone. The aged people never performed the funeral rites of the young. No one injured another. Everyone was devoted to Dharma, righteousness or duty. All the people always narrated Sri Rama's stories. They always uttered Rama, Rama. The whole world reverberated with the Name of Rama.

In due season, rain and shine came. The air was fresh and cool. The trees were laden with plenty of fruits. There were abundant flowers of sweet fragrance. There were plenty of crops in the fields.

All the people were hale and hearty. They were rich, contented and virtuous. They were free from disease, greed and sorrow. They were truthful, righteous and self-controlled. They led a pure and taintless life.

The Brahmins were well-versed in the Vedas. They were virtuous. They stuck to their own duties. The Kshatriyas were brave. The Vaishyas and Sudras did their Svadharma. They were free from passion, greed and envy. The twice-born were faithful to the rites and scriptures. They were truthful in their words and deeds. They had God-fearing nature. Poverty was unknown to Rams kingdom.

Lord Rams legacy continues to rule the hearts of Indian people and politicians alike. Last year Nitin Gadkari, the President of India's largest opposition party, the BJP, asked his party workers to bring back the glory of Ram Rajya in the 21st century

Ram rajya it is an historic truth of it times and for the time to come. It is not a proletysing concept and not a dystopian relic.People anywhere in the world wants good governance and with the heritage of Lord Ram that we have, the name of Lord Ram becomes a rubber stamp for anything associated with the good governance. Just recently the India's Law and Justice Minister Dr. M Veerappa Moily was awarded the Bharatiya Jnanpith's prestigious 21st Moortidevi Award for his outstanding five-volume magnum opus Shri Ramayana Mahanveshanam'. According to Mr.Moily, what present day India has to learn from the Ramayana is to build a nation out of many voices, many cultures and many peoples. To quote Mr. Moily from his acceptance speech that ''At the heart of the epic there are three distinct cultures: the Lankan culture of acquisition, pleasure and power; the Ayodhya culture of artistic and academic progress and the culture of Kiskindha... mostly tribal and backward in terms of development in the modern sense. Initially, there is friction among these three cultures. However, when Vibhishana, the Rakshasa King, and Hanuman, the Vaanara noble, become allies of Rama, the King of Ayodhya, all the three cultures come together and fuse into one great culture-- the culture of Rama rajya
''Unless the rulers, administrators, experience the pain and suffering of the poorest and weakest, they cannot be good in their jobs,'' he summed up.

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In this context, Gandhi was deeply influenced by the example of Rama, the legendary hero of Hindu mythology. Rama honoured public opinion at great cost to himself. The conduct of the ruler had to be exemplary, reflecting the ideals of social justice and moral principles. "Even a dog", Gandhi writes, could not be harmed in that state because Rama felt that all living beings were part of himself. There would be no licentious conduct, no hypocrisy, no falsehood in such a state.

Shruthi Di and jeena Di this is the thread.

Shruthi Di, I think no hypocrisy is contradictory. What's your take on gandhijis views?

@Sanju like everyone Gandhiji has also looked at Ram from the perspective of Sanskriti, not from the perspective of Prakriti. See you can always talk about all the virtues of a bygone era. But do we understand how it was maintained. What were the principles that were used.