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TARA: WOMAN OF ENTITY

Aruna Jadeja — 2022-07-27

The Ramayana Mahakavya describes Rama’s Journey with his wife Seeta. Journey portrays pictures from birth of Rama to wedding of Lord Rama and Seeta, his banished life from kingdom, Ravana carries Seeta to Shrilanka. Numerous adventures Lord Rama did to get his beloved Devi Seeta back. Life of every human being is a journey. That journey is of birth and rebirth. Incarnation or avatar of saints or Gods is same the birth and rebirth cycle. In the same way Ramayana is “Rama’s Journey”. Ramayan and Mahabharta (Great Epic of the Bharata Dynast) epic poems (Mahakavya) of India. The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit, probably not before 300 BCE, by the poet Valmiki and in its present form consists of some 24,000 couplets divided into seven books.

MANDODARI: VEERANGANA OF IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE

Anita Tanna — 2022-07-28

Ramayana and Mahabharata are two great epics of India. As both these texts touch on the ideal values of Indian culture and consciousness, even after thousands of years, the masses of India are truly inspired from them. Along with Lord Shree Rama as the lead character of Ramayana, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, King Dasharatha and other crucial characters also drawm our attention. OR not only Lord shree Rama, but Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, King Dasharatha and many other important characters draw our attention in the fafamous epic.

For instance, through the characters of Ravana’s wife Mandodari. Valmiki has tried to explain us the importance of Dharma and Adharma. Even in the other epic, the Mahabharta, the war happens between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, depicting Adharma and Dharma respectively. In the end, Pandavas win, which is eventually the triumph of Dharma. Similarly, even in the Ramayana, the victory of Rama to Ravana describes the same. Where there is Dharma there is Rama or God. This was Mandodari’s exposition to Ravana that Lord Rama is the supreme being, the Dharma.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MIND SOUND RESONANCE TECHNIQUE (MSRT) AND MINDFUL BASE COGNITIVE THERAPY (MBCT) ON ANXIETY

Shveni Mehta — 2022-07-28

Since many times many scholars have read and researched on many of our ancient traditional scriptures and texts. Yogis have given many asanas, pranayama and mudras to us. Furthermore, there are many other breathing and chanting techniques for various ailments. Mind sound resonance technique(MSRT) is one of the sound techniques derived from yoga which involves prayer, breathing and chanting in proper sequence. MBCT Mindful based cognitive therapy is one of the psychological therapy which involves mindful and bodily relaxing techniques as per the sequences. Similarly, psychotherapies have worked on people’s thoughts, emotions and behavior to deal with various anxiety and mood disorders. This paper compares similarity and differences from MSRT and MBCT on anxiety.