Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: Rāma’s Monologue of Despondency

Greyscale devotional drawing of Śrī Rāma crowned and haloed, holding his bow, inside a floral border.

Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: Rāma’s Monologue of Despondency

Rāma's Great Dispassion The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha opens at a precise moment of crisis: Rāma has just returned from a pilgrimage — young, acclaimed, radiantly accomplished — and has stopped. Something has broken loose inside him. He will not speak of governance or duty or the future. He sits, and what comes from him is an avalanche of disillusionment that the…

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