Valmiki Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Maharishi or Great Sage Valmiki is being celebrated on October 31 in 2020. He is regarded as the Adi Kavi who had composed the Ramayana in Sanskrit. His Ramayana, as an epic, is considered to be the original and authentic Ramayana since it was composed during the lifetime of Lord Ram himself.
The Phrase the 'Great Sage' is used for a person lives a frugal wise social life and spreads the message of living devotional and virtuous life. However, Valmiki Samaj has started deeming the sage as their God and he is called Bhagawan Valmiki.
It is believed that his Sanskrit poetry was born after a painful episode of a dove killed by a hunter and its companion going around the dead dove with grief. He had been a great advocate of social harmony, social justice and inclusion.
"His essential verses dwell on the greatness of penance, sublime spiritual life and message of self-realisation as the true aim of life while narrating Ramayana or the life of Lord Rama," informs the post on scratchmysoul.
Here are some Haiku:
Live like Lord Rama.
There won’t remain any fear,
Nor any failure.
~*~
Wash away your stains –
Of sins of bad words and deeds.
Be good, be a sage.
~*~
Wealth grips you in sin.
Adversity is fortune –
It makes you noble.
~*~
We get born and die,
To seek our own fulfilment
Lord Rama redeems.
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