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“Tadaka subscribes to no rules, Ahalya breaks a rule while Sita follows all rules.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, The Book of Ram (Book Of...

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“Teachers can teach only when students want to learn. No one can help a student who does not want to learn just”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Saraswati's Secret River

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“Sita is domestic and chaste because Ram pays her attention. Ahalya is unfaithful because Gautam neglects her. Tadaka is wild because her husband is dead and she is attached to no single man. Thus the onus of maintaining a field falls squarely on a farmer. In”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, The Book of Ram (Book Of...

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“At a symbolic level, the forest and field are metaphors for the mind. The forest is the untamed mind. The field is the domesticated mind. The consciousness is the farmer. If one is conscious like Ram, faithful and attentive, the mind will be like Sita. When one is conscious like Gautam, ignoring the mind, the mind will be seduced by temptation. In the absence of awareness, the mind will be wild with no direction.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, The Book of Ram (Book Of...

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“In the Ramayana, Rakshasas represent a way of life where all behaviour is instinctual and self-indulgent, governed by fear and insecurity. Rishis represent the opposite way of life, where all instincts, be they sexual or violent, are regulated for the benefit of the world. Ram”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, The Book of Ram (Book Of...

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