Lord Rama is the 7th Avatar of Lord Vishnu. He embodies the flawless human being: the ideal son, ideal brother, ideal spouse and ideal ruler. The Ramayana, Lord Rama’s history, is packed with excellent conduct of the Lord and His friends, and they all serve as seamless models. The Ramayana is replete with ideal models for us to emulate, such as an ideal parent, ideal son, ideal wife, and so forth. His story is also told in the epic Mahabharata. He is shown in paintings with princely adornments and the kirita-makuta (tall conical hat) on his head, representing his royal rank. Lord Rama is shown in sculpture as a standing figure carrying an arrow in his right hand and a bow in his left. Lord Rama is a model of logic, right action, and desired values. He symbolizes righteousness in life, and the personification of chivalry and virtue.
Lord Rama symbolizes the pure form of the soul (consciousness) that resides in Ayodhya (the city without disputes), while Sita represents the Earth, the embodied Self, or the individual self. Sita illustrates the Mind in simple terms. When Rama married Sita, the Pure Light merged with the Mind, giving birth to the human body. Lord Rama, however, cannot dwell in the city of no disputes while he
is inextricably linked to the Mind (Ayodhya). Rama and Sita go into the dark jungle to dwell. The Dark Forest reflects our daily lives or the world we live in, which
is full with attractions and distractions.
However, Sita (Mind) is drawn to the Golden Deer one day (Worldly Distraction or Maya). This means that Sita’s (Mind’s) meditation on Lord Rama (Pure Consciousness) has been interrupted by the world. Rama abandoned Sita in
the care of Laxman. Laxman represents our own awareness. Laxman Rekha draws a line to shield Sita, symbolizing protection from evils and hazards in this
dark world. Unfortunately, Sita (Mind) breaks free from that protection and is seized by Ravana (represents Ego). Ravana has ten faces because Ego uses various methods to distract us. Ego does not have a single face. We may easily be ensnared by ego in the guise of desire, pride, illusion, perversion, impediment, adversity, and etc.
In Lanka, Ravana kidnaps Sita (The Land of materialism ruled by the king Ego). In Lanka, Sita (Mind) resumes Rama mediation (Consciousness). Because she is aware that she has been imprisoned by something very strong, from which only Rama can save her. Then Rama gathers the army of monkeys, which is symbolized by the army of ideas, which can never be silent but bounce from issue to topic. Vali is introduced to control them, which contradicts our beliefs. To rescue Sita, a bridge is being built out of stones with Rama’s name engraved on them, so that the stone floats on the ocean. This means that if the name of the Divine Power is used, we may be spared from drowning in the ocean of troubles and distractions.
Finally, when Ram defeats Ravana (ego) and re-connects with his or her own Self (Sita). When he finds the individual Self, he purifies it in the fire of austerities, just as Rama did with Sita, and eliminates all the impurities that collected around the Self during its captivity and enslavement in the body. The mind that is no longer extroverted is no longer a mind at all, and it (Sita) must go.
The whole Ramayana narrative focuses on our mind’s reunion with our pure inner self-consciousness. These external diversions draw our Mind, and we are caught by the Ego and Maya. We are so immersed in the ocean of Maya that the link between our intellect and inner self has been severed. Lord Rama assists us in saving ourselves from drowning in the ocean of Maya. Rama must shoot at Ravana’s navel in order to kill him, implying that in order to eliminate our Ego, we must go deeper into the roots of our inner self, comprehending ourselves.
This is a beautiful representation of all what it is about Manipura chakra when it is operating in a balanced way. In this case, it expresses itself in people who are spontaneous and uninhibited. They act from their inner gut and they are ready
to jump into the unknown trusting themselves. You call upon this chakra’s energies when you want to garner self-discipline and follow through. Even the warmth in your personality comes from the Solar Plexus chakra.