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Valmiki Ramayana: Rama, Dharma Embodied
In short
Rama is righteousness given form — integrity, duty, and truth lived rather than merely spoken. A verse on character and dharma.
“rāmo vigrahavān dharmaḥ”
Valmiki Ramayana · Aranya Kanda, Sarga 37Rama is righteousness itself, given form — let dharma quietly guide your steps.
Spoken by the rakshasa Maricha to Ravana — when Ravana came to enlist him in the plot to seize Sita, Maricha warned him away, saying Rama is righteousness itself given form.
What it means
Rama is righteousness itself, given form — let dharma quietly guide your steps.
Spoken by the rakshasa Maricha to Ravana — when Ravana came to enlist him in the plot to seize Sita, Maricha warned him away, saying Rama is righteousness itself given form.
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What does Valmiki Ramayana mean?
Rama is righteousness itself, given form — let dharma quietly guide your steps. (Valmiki Ramayana · Aranya Kanda, Sarga 37.) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.
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