{"id":4544,"date":"2004-09-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/12\/2004-09-12-ram-leela-reflects-the-human-condition\/"},"modified":"2004-09-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-12-ram-leela-reflects-the-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/12\/2004-09-12-ram-leela-reflects-the-human-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram Leela Reflects the Human Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paras Ramoutar<\/P><P>TRINIDAD, September 12, 2004: Ram Leela reflects the human condition in man&#8217;s journey to divinity, according to prominent Trinidad Hindu thinker, Ravji. The Indian-trained thinker and Hindu activist noted that Ram Leela is a ritual which attempts to stitch together the metaphor of our journey from animality to humanity and then on to divinity. &#8220;Ram Leela is an on-going yatra (pilgrimage) of the peoples of the Caribbean to experience, vision and shape ourselves,&#8221; he said. Ravji was giving the Eighth Lecture series on Indian Thought and Philosophy organized by the Indian High Commission. Shri Virendra Gupta hailed the lecture as, &#8220;another initiative aimed at educating the world of India&#8217;s rich cultural and religious and spiritual heritage.&#8221; Raviji said that Ram Leela, a theatrical experience, focuses on the Life and Times of Lord Rama on earth, but noted that it continues to be diluted from its rich spirituality. &#8220;Indian languages have encouraged, within the rather large cluster of classic variations of words and even scripts, new meanings. Such newly shaped words continue their original meanings,&#8221; Raviji noted. &#8220;Ram Leela in Trinidad and Tobago never remained disconnected from space and time.&#8221; He made reference to Nobel Laureate Derrick Walcott&#8217;s passage in one his books of Ram Leela in Felicity, Chaguanas. &#8220;We must resolve to make Ram Leela a priority project in every community spreading across the country,&#8221; Raviji said.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paras RamoutarTRINIDAD, September 12, 2004: Ram Leela reflects the human condition in man&#8217;s journey to divinity, according to prominent Trinidad,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}