Rama Navami

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    HI FRIENDS AS EVERY ONE KNOW 2MR IS SRI RAMA NAVAMI. SO I JUST WANNA POST SOME INFORMATION ABOUT SRI RAMA NAVAMI

    SRI RAMA NAVAMI IS CELEBRATED ON THE BIRTH DAY AND THE MARRIAGE DAY OF SRI SITHA RAMA ( BIRTH DAY N MARRIAGE ARE HELD ON SAME DAY IN EPICS). RAMA NAVAMI IS TEH DAY ON WHICH LORD RAMA, TEH SEVENTH INCAMATIO OF LORD VISHNU, INCAMATED IN HUMAN FORM IN THE LAND OF AYODHYA.

    ABOUT SEETHA RAMA
    IN THE EPIC RAMAYANA. DASARATHA WAS EMPEROR FROM AYODHYA HAD HAD THREE WIVES KAUSALYA, SUMITHRA AND KAIKEYI IN TREATA YUGA ( WHICH FOLLOWS TEH SATYA YUGA AND SUCCEDED BY THE DWAPARA YUGA).

    RAMA IS BORN TO KAUSALYA, LAKSHMANA AND SHATRUGNA TO SUMITHRA AND BARATHA TO KAIKEYI. RAMA IS KNOWN AS "MARYADHA PURUSHOTHAM" WHICH MEANS IDEL , GREAT OR PERFECT HUMAN BEING. HE IS BEST SON, BROTHER, HUSBAND AND FATHER. RAMA WHO TAKES BIRTH BY HIS OWN WILL ON EARTH WHEN ADHARMA RULES OVER DHARMA. HE PROTECTS DEVOTIES BY VANQUISHING THE ROOTS OF ADHARMA. RAMA WAS THE LORD HAT HIMSELF, INCAMATE ON EARTH FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF RAVANA.

    SEETHA IS DESCRIBED AS TEH DAUGHTER OF THE EARTH GODDESS BHUMI AND ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF KING JANAKA OF MITHILA AND QUEEN SUNAYNA . IN HER YOUTH, SHE MARRIES RAMA, THE PRICE OF AYODHYA.
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    MARRIAGE AND STORY OF SEETHA RAMA
    WHEN SEETHA REACHES ADULTHOOD, JANAKA ORGANISES A SWAYAMWARA IN JANAKPURDHAM WITH THE CONDITION THAT SITA WOULD MARRY ONLY THAT PERSON WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO STRING PINAKA, THE BOW OF THE GOD SHIVA. JANAKA KNEW THE BOW OF SHIVA WAS NOT EVEN LIFTED LET ALONE
    STRINGABLE FOR ORDINARY MORTALS, AND FOR SELFISH PEOPLE IT WAS NOT EVEN APPROACHABLE. THUS JANAKA TRIES TO FIND TEH BEST HUSBAND FOR SEETHA.
    AT THIS TIME, VISHVAMITRA HAD BROUGHT RAMA AND HIS BROTHERS LAKSHMANA TO THE FOREST FOR THE PROTECTION OF SCRIFICE. HEARING ABOUT THIS
    SWAYAMWARA. VISHVAMITRA ASKS RAMA TO PARTICIPATE IN IT AND TAKES RAMA AND LAKSHMANA TO TEH PALACE OF JANAKA IN JANAKPUR. JANAKA IS GREATLY PLEASED TO LERN TAHT RAMA AND LAKSHMANA ARE SONS OF DASHARATHA. NEXT MORNING, IN TEH MIDDLE OF THE HALL, RAMA LIFTS UP THE BOW
    OF SHIVA WITH HIS LEFT HAND FASTENS TEH STRING TIGHTLY AND FINALLLY BREAKS TEH BOW. RAMA FULFILLS JANAKA'S CONDITION TO MARRY SEETHA. LATER ON VIVAHA PANCHAMI, A MARRIAGE CEREMONY IS CONDUCTED UNDER TEH GUIDANCE OF SATANANDA. RAMA MARRIES SEETHA. BHARATA MARRIES MANDAVI, LAKSHMANA MARRIES URMILA AND SHATRUGNA MARRIES SHRUTAKIRTI IN NEPAL.

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    AFETR 12 YEARS OF HER MARRIAGE, SHE GOES EXILE WITH HER HUSBAND AND BROTHER IN- LAW LAKSMANA. WHILE IN EXILE, THE TRIO SETTLE IN THE DANDAKA FOREST, FROM WHERE SHE IS ADBUCTED BY RAVANA RAKSHASA KING OF LANKA. SHE IMPRISONED IN THE ASHOKA VARIKA OF LANKA BY RAVANA SEETHA IS FINALLY RESCUED BY RAMA IN THE CLIMATIC WAR WHERE RAMA SLAYS RAVANA. SEEHA GOES INTO FIRE FOR HUMAN BODY TO COME OUT OF FIRE GOD'S PROTECTION AND HER IMITATION, ABDUCTED BY RAVAN GETS BACK IN TEH FIRE. THEREAFTER RAMA SITA RETURN TO AYODHYA WHERE TEHY ARE CROWNED AS KING AND QUEEN. HOWEVER, KING RAMA SUBJECTED TO THE KINDLY DUTY AND PRESSURE ABANDONS A PREGNANT SEETHA WHEN ONE OF HIS SUBJECTS CASTS SOUBT OVER HER CHASTITY. IN THE REFUGE OF SAGE VALMIKI'S HERMITAGE SITA GIVE SBIRTH TO TWINS LAVA AND KUSHA. AFTER HER SONS GROW UP AND UNITE WITH THEIR FATHER, SEETHA RETURNS TO HER MOTHER, TEH EAST'S WOMB, FOR THE RELEASE FROM A CRUEL WORLD AS A TESTIMONY OF HER PURITY. HER OTEHR NAMES ARE BHUMIJA AND JANAKI.

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    CELABRATION OF SRI RAMA NAVAMI
    Followers of Hinduism in south India normally performs kalyanotsavam( marriage celebration0 with small deties of rama and seethe in their homes, and at the end of the day the deity is taken to procession on the streets. this day also marks the end of the nine- day utsav called chaitra navaratri or vasanthothsva which starts with ugadhi.
    kalyanam is ceremonial wedding performed by temple priests in most of the temple.
    vadapappu , panakam is prepared as naivedhaym on dis day. procession of murtis in the evening accomparied by playing with water and colours.


    in this year rama navami came on 15th april 2016 and muhurtha is 11:01 to 13:30 and mangalyadhara moment is 12:16.

    In badhachalam kalyanam is performed in huge I mean grandly.


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    WORSHIP OF SEETHA RAMA
    Let sri rama be your idel. idels are remembered and adored for the purpose of adopting them in your own life. The tama navami celebration or the vasanat navaratri every year is an opportune period for us to saturate ourselves with the sprit of lord rama. we love and adore our idels because we express threby our yeaming to unite with them. in our worship of god it is implied that we should bevietuous, good and perfect even as godis. on should become divine in order to be able to worship god. one cannot be be a real worshipper of lord rama unless one makes as honest attempt to grow in the virtues that the lord represents.



    SLOKAS
    Hare krishan hare Krishna Krishna Krishna hare hare
    hare rama hare rama rama rama hare har

    sri rama rama rameythi
    ramey rama mano ramey
    sahasra nama thathyulyam
    rama nama vara nanay ( if u preform this sloka for 3tiems it is equal of reading Vishnu sahasra namam

    sri dhasaradhaya dheemahey
    seethe vallabhaya vidhmahey
    thano rama prachodhayath


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    JAI SRI RAM

    Ramachandraya janaka rajaja manharaya,
    maamaka abheeshta shayamahitha mangalam
    kosalesaya manda hasa dasa poshanaaya,
    vasavadhi vinatha sadwaraya mangalam,

    charu megha roopaya chandanadhi charchithaya,
    bhanakataka shobithaya bhoori mangalam
    lalitha rathna kundalaya. tulasi vana malikaya,
    jala jagataka dehaya charu mangalam,
    devaki suputhraya, deva devo dathamaya,
    pavana guru varaya sarva mangalam
    pundariakshaya pooma Chandra vadanaya,
    andaja vahanaya, athulya mangalam

    vimala roopaya vividha vedhantha vedhayaya,
    suukha chitha mi subhaga mangalam,
    rama dasa murudula hrudyavasaya,
    swami bhadragiri varaya divya mangalam
    divya mangalam divya mangalam.......

     
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    HEY THESE ARE COIN OF SRI RAMA TIME

    THIS IS THE COIN OF SRI RAMA WHERE HE GAVE TO THANISHA FOR SRI RAMADASU
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    THIS IS THE COIN OF SRI RAMA
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    IN ADVANCE HAPPY SRI RAMA NAVAMI TO ALL
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    SARVEY JAN SUKHINO BHAVATHU

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    Hi Vani,

    Thanks for sharing the coins. Feeling blessed!!

    Happy Sree Rama Navami to you too!!
     
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    U'r welcome yar.

    Same to u
     
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    Thanks for sharing the coins
     
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    U r welcome divya
     
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    Thanks for sharing the coins.
    Happy sri rama navami !!!
     
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    Tq same to u
     

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