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Adhyatma Ramayana (Devanāgarī: अध्यात्म रामायण, literally "Spiritual Ramayana") is an ancient Sanskrit work extolling the spiritual virtues of the story of Ramayana. It comprises around 4200 double verses embedded in the latter portion of Brahmānda Purana and is traditionally believed to be authored by Vyasa. Taking the form of a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati, it contains the ideal characteristics of Lord Rama and the precepts related to devotion, knowledge, dispassion, adoration and good conduct. It is also considered a treatise of Vedantic philosophy. It is supposed to have inspired several later versions of the Ramayana story in languages like Awadhi (Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas), Oriya, Bengali and Malayalam. ==Significance== Adhyatma Ramayana represents the story of Rama in a spiritual context. In this version everything is preordained, and Rama being the Brahman himself, doesn't kill or destroy, but rather offers salvation to those he kills. Thus this act is called ''Uddhar''. () It also provides several valuable insights into the various seeming anomalies in the popular versions of the Ramayana, like: The provocation of the Queen Kaikeyi by her maid Manthara, was not an evil act of her choice as presented in Valmiki's version of the Ramayana, but mastered by the Goddess of Knowledge, Saraswati, thus Manthara appears only to be playing her character in the larger drama of destiny, which leads to the killing of Ravana, the sole reason Lord Vishnu incarnated as Rama. Similarly, according to this text, the real Sita was never really abducted by Ravana. Rama, being the all-knower in this version, has a premonition about the abduction, and thus instructs Sita to invoke Agni, the God of Fire, and creates an illusory self, or Maya Sita. Thus, when Ravana finally appears, Sita plays along, and the illusory Sita is abducted, and is regained after the fire ordeal, once Ravana is killed. () It makes us aware of the larger-than-life aspects of Lord Ram, and the fact that he, being the Brahman (Supreme Creator) incarnate, acts to instruct. Adhyatma Ramayana raises every mundane activity of Rama to a spiritual or transcendent level, thus instructing the seeker to view his or her own life through the symbolic vision for his soul, where the external life is but a metaphor for the eternal journey of the soul. The book is aimed to be used as a guide and a ready source of instruction for a spiritual seeker, as it presents the Ramayana as a divine allegory, where an exiled king, a man out of his element, gets beguiled by the lure of maya or the illusions, maya mrigya, and hence loses his Beloved (Sita), to the demon or dark forces (Ravana). Later when he repents and asks for divine grace, he is given the strength and friends (Hanuman) to help him reclaim his divinity (his Beloved). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adhyatma Ramayana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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