Sri RamaDass
As the years amass in my life and the questions on spirituality keep bubbling up, I keep looking up for answers. Sometimes from friends, at other times from dad and mom, and rarely (whenever I get a chance to speak) from my grandmoms. But Godliness and nature of God have remained elusive to the limited mind of mine and a mine of questions are still buried - unexplored and ready to explode.
What is the nature of devotion? Is it a religion-inspired-"knowledge" of the anthropomorphic form of God? Or is it just a blind acceptance of a superior power that holds all the threads of all destinities? Or is it a transcendental wisdom that defies any kind of limits on the nature of this "supremity" if I may call it, and just acheives the joy that is beyond reason, success, acheivement... joy beyond excitement, happiness and ecstacy...joy beyond life, death and illusions... hoy beyond transcience... joy beyond permanance...!!!
I would not know. But what do the lives of the devotees reflect? If their discovery of devotion led them to transcendental tranquility, is it possible for everyday people caught in the webs and tides of mundane everyday responsibilities and frailities to absorb their essense? Or all we can do is just imbibe their superficial joys, making them our train-stops in our own spiritual journey to enlightenment?
I wanted to find out some answers in the movie Sri RamaDasu. I am an ardent hater and un-fan of director Raghavendra Rao, and with all due respect to his anamolous Annamayya which I hear is a great movie (which I haven't watched), I didn't have high expectations from Sri RamaDasu.
Sadly, I didn;t find all the answers I was searching for. But I did start off on interesting questions though.
Everyone knows RamaDasus story. But what was its point? Does Sri RamaDasus devotion stem from Ramayana and end with Rama? Is the object of all devotion an anthropomorphic "object"? Where is the realization that the Universe itself is god!!! And do we still have to "name" that realization with a subjective nomenclature...? Or is subjectivity the only way to objectivity...? Only when you realise that your perception is relative, can you find that which is absolute...!!!
Lotsa questions... But hell, I'm only 25... I guess I can find some answers by the time I'm 52 (a total turnaround from now...?) lets see
