Noble souls come once in a millennium & when they depart their mortal bodies, they leave behind a rich legacy of their works & memoirs which serve multitude of generations to come!

Saint poet Tulsidasa was one such super luminary, worlds immortal poet, a star in the firmament of medieval Indian poetry, the composer of the literary masterpiece "Shri Ramcharitmanas" a lyrical epic which is the epitome of our eternal religion & culture.

"Shri Ramcharit Manas" is an album of human life in all its phases & perspectives & in this respect Tulsidas has surpassed the greatest English dramatist Shakespeare (a virtual fact which many may find difficult to digest, I feign to compare) but Shakespeare who has depicted varieties of human character in his thirty seven plays, Goswami Tulsidasji has painted them all, in one single book, an impossible task which has no parallel in world literature!

In order to apprehend the beauty, profundity & depth of Shri Ramcharit Manas, one requires an insight, one needs to wear the lens of the poets' perceptive envision. Just as it is not possible to visualize, microscopic as well as extremely distant objects by our limited sense of perception – without the aid of a microscope or a telescope, identically it is inconceivable to appreciate the poetical genius of Tulsi's lyric, without imbibing the visionary lens of philosophy of the universally recognised prescient seer His Holiness Maharajshree Ramkinkerji!

Pujya Maharajshree believes that Shri Ramcharitmanas is not just a poem, to be read like we relish Milton & Shelley, but an epic song, which has to be savoured aesthetically. Being the greatest, versatile, consummate, critic & appraiser of Tulsidas's work in the last five centuries (undisputedly accepted by all expounders of Manas with unanimity), he has made a declaration & authenticated it in his expositions that "Like the Vedas, Puranas & Smritis, Shri Ramcharitmanas is a fountainhead of pure, effulgent knowledge, a treatise of philosophy, theosophy, psychology besides being a great reservoir of myth, folk wisdom & devotional expression on which people can constantly draw for all ages to come."

An erudite scholar, a prolific writer, an integrated poet & an unequivocal orator of International renown, His Holiness Maharajshree has carved a distinct dignified identification for himself as the – "Living Embodiment of the sublime culture of Shri Ramcharitmanas".

His contention is that Shri Ramcharti Manas is not merely sacrosanct history, a picture of the past, a marvellous painting on the canvas of life, but it is a "Mirror for the world" which reflects the present, Therefore, unlike a painting, it shall never become old & outdated, but shall always remain contemporary to the onlooker whose picture it will reflect for all ages to come!

This perception of His Holiness Maharajshree of "Manas as a mirror" can only be compared to that of the Greek Philosopher Plato in the long history of western thought, who once wrote that "Holy Scripture is a mirror. In it one sees the picture one should reproduce, As one reads one can compare oneself with what one is & what one ought to be".

Maharajshree holds that the reflexivity of the scripture is a clue to the dynamic & living nature of Manas, one that presents a different picture to each onlooker, who gazes into it, to each interpreter & to each age. As a painting it would be a static fossilized thing restricted to the stands of museums or libraries of antedated antique value.

Manas therefore has become a "point of view" a way of looking at life & the world - a "Darshan shastra" the sanskrit term we commonly render as "philosophy". Through its lens the world is recreated. Therefore Maharajshri firmly believes that Manas is a means of reflection, contemplation & introspection and a very good medium of critical self – assessment & he justifies with logical agreements & examples from the manas that the one who makes use of this mirror becomes Dashrath (father of Divine manifestation of supreme – Lord Ram & gains gratification) and one who does not use the mirror he is innately provided with, becomes Dashmukh (Ravana the villain character opposed to Divinity).

Maharajshree claims that every word of Shri Ramcharit Manas is a "Mantra"- a spiritually efficacious word, charged with power & therefore it is a living manifestation of eternal wisdom, which conveys deep, hidden concealed messages which need to be unfolded to be assimilated by the human intellect – Therefore it calls for elaboration, explanation & commentary.

Inspite of all his glittering literary merits, the uncountable feathers in his cap, achievements, recognitions, laurels with no single peer among galaxy of literates, not even for a flip of a second, even in his unconscious, does he take the credit for pioneering a renaissance movement in reflective psychosis and spirituality.

"Knowledge is eternal", a keyword & essence of our evolved culture – For your admiration I am gratified, but I am only instrumental, every individual is finite! Where there is beauty, there is light"? Such are the frank admissions of this modest messiah & master to many!

I am sure that you will be a recipient of the benign incessant grace of the Divine Lord Shree Ram for this thoughtful deed of merit.

May the Lord Bless.
Jai Siyaram!