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Thirty-Day Recitation of the entire Ramcharitmanas

Thirty-Day Recitation of the entire Ramcharitmanas

Date: 2012-10-25
The Tulsi Cultural Institute in association with local temples, organisations and individuals is arranging a public recital of the entire Ramacharitmanas (also known as the Tulsikrit Ramayan) in daily sequence over thirty days from the 8th December 2012 to the 6th January 2013.

There has been an unbroken tradition of oral recitation of scripture since the Vedic period continued through the Puranic and epic cycles up to the present time. This is not simply a convention, but a reflection of an ancient belief in the efficacy of hearing, reciting, and memorizing the sacred words of scripture. This belief is reflected in the traditional categories of literature, which are conceptualized not merely as read but rather as "heard" (sruti) and "remembered" (smrti).

In principle, texts for recitation can be drawn from a vast field of sacred literature, much of it in Sanskrit: the Vedas, Upanishads, epics, eighteen major and countless minor Puranas, and numerous sectarian works. But in practice, access to Sanskrit literature is restricted to a small segment of the Hindu population, and most recital selections of any length tend to be taken from vernacular religious works, of which the most popular is the Ramcharitmanas.

The Ramcharitmanas grows out of a religious milieu in which oral performance is both the basic medium for the transmission of religious truths and a ritual act and discipline possessing inherent virtue and power.

For millions of Hindus the Ramcharitmanas is both an epic poem to be savored aesthetically and a sacred text that plays an important role in everyday life.

A sequential recital of the entire Ramcharitmanas from beginning to end is referred to as parayan. Because the text is of epic proportions and the amount of time most people can devote to daily recitation is limited, it becomes necessary to divide the book into segments that can be conveniently covered in daily installments. This is most traditionally done in India in one of two methods so that the whole work may be completed in either nine or thirty days (navah parayan or maas parayan).

Interested persons may please contact Dharam Ramkissoon on 031 2692555 for further details.