Living a Better Life Guidelines from Ramcharitmanas

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Ramcharitmanas is a great masterpiece of the Vernacular Renaissance. The writing of Ramcharitmanas in Hindi heralded many cultural traditions, most significantly that of the tradition of Raamleela, the dramatic enactment of the text. Ramcharitmanas, for the first time in the history of India, made the story of Raam available to sing, meditate on, and perform. It has now become a popular subject for films and TV serials. Ramcharitmanas is considered the best and most trustworthy guide to the living faith of the Indian people. This book is a compilation of a few verses of Ramcharitmanas with their explanations to enhance human life.

SHRI M.C. SHARMA was born in 1931 in Ajmer, the holy city of Rajasthan. He passed his M.Sc. in Physics and Electronics with first division from Agra University in 1953. In 1955, he was appointed as a Scientist in the Central Government of India. He took voluntary retirement in 1986 from the post of Deputy Director in the Ministry of External Affairs. After that, he wrote several books in Hindi and English on Electronics and Computers, which were published by renowned publishers BPB Publications. His book "Desktop Publishing on PC" in Hindi was awarded the Bhartendu Harishchandra Award by the Govern-ment of India, and his book "कंम्युटर एक पूर्ण परिचय" received the first prize from the Council for Technical Education of the Government of India in 2003. His book "You Too Can be Cheated" in English was published by the well-known publishers Pustak Mahal. His books on Better Life in Hindi and English aim to improve people's lives.

Someone told me, "Life is good if you know how to live it". Raamcharitmaanas, the epic by Sant Goswaami Tulsidaas, gives guidelines to live a better life.

Raamcharitmaanas is life story of Shri Raam. As it happens in the case of every human being, several kinds of good, bad or difficult situations do appear in the journey of life of Shri Raam as well. Taking these as examples, Sant Goswaami Tulsidaas has given tips and guidelines for living a good and meaningful life for people in all walks of life. Mostly, they are statements of eternal truth and they are as relevant today as ever.

Many people remember and quote these dohas (couplets) and chaupaies (quatrains) to draw inspiration and to take a right decision, or to show right path to others when they happen to face a difficult-to-handle situation in their life.

This book describes these tips and guidelines for the benefit of everyone. The situations in which those tips were given by Sant Goswaami Tulsidaas are given as Context to make the described ideas more meaningful and better understandable.

In this book words like राम, सीता, हनुमान, रामचरितमानस and others are spelled in a way to ensure that the reader pronounces them exactly in the same way as they are pronounced in Hindi.