Ramesh Tiwari

  Carved by Karnataka’s renowned sculptor Arun Yogiraj, the 51-inch and about 150-kg idol depicting a five-year-old Ram Lalla has been placed on the throne in the garbha griha of the Ram Mandir at 1.28 pm on Thursday, 18 Jan 2024 amid the auspicious chant of Vedic Mantras. The host Dr. Anil Misra and his wife Usha Mishra, who had commenced the consecration ceremony rituals of the Ram temple as the standby yajman on Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024, performed the Pradhan Sankalp. The ceremony lasted around four hours. The main yajman for the ceremony, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, will take over from them on January 22 when the idol will be consecrated. Rituals in the run up to the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony had started at the temple complex on January 16 with Prayaschita and Karmakuti poojan. Pushpadhivas, Shayadhivas and Madhyadhivas are scheduled for 20 and 21 January. 121 priests conduct the ritual proceedings of the Anushthan under the direction of a co-ordinating priest shri Ga...

Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi undertook a set of special rituals on Friday, January 12, 2024 and started observing an 11-day-long rigorous fasting and Yama-Niyama as mentioned in the Gita and in Patanjali’s first two of the eight limbs of Yoga. The first limb is about five ethical principles like non-violence, truthfulness, honesty, abstinence and non-accumulation. Niyama consists of cleanliness inside and outside, contentment, penance, self study and surrender to Providence. He said, “Only 11 days are left for the consecration of Ramlala in Ayodhya. I am fortunate that I will also be a witness to this auspicious occasion. The Lord has made me an instrument to represent all the people of India during the consecration. Keeping this in mind, I am starting a special ritual of 11 days from today. I seek blessings from all the people. At this moment, it is very difficult to express my feelings in words.” He went on, “I will always be inspired by the countless people who have dedicated ...

Lord Ram brought people from all sections of society together. Just after leaving his home, he won the hearts of Nishad community. Then with considerable tact and diplomacy, he freed an empire from a despotic tyrant named Bali and enthroned his brother Sugreeva, whose kingdom became the major part of his organization. He went around to Sabri’s hut and ate jujube fruit with her, thus winning the support of forest dwelling tribal communities. Now he succeeded establishing a large army, but before attacking his arch-enemy Ravana, he adopted a strategy to conquer his brothers Khar and Dushan, so the two large armies could not join together against him. Finally, he weakened Ravana by making friends with his estranged brother Vibhishana, who worked as an insider. The political skills of Lord Ram and his diplomacy made Ayodhya such a powerful kingdom that he invaded the whole world and became the king of the kings. He ruled the world for eleven thousand years. Now PM Modi’s political approach...

  Let us compare PM Modi with other leaders of his party. Others had yearned for a national issue and preferred to preserve it so they could reap the benefits or the rewards of it for long. PM Modi is a factory of issues and assignments: he creates fresh ones, campaigns for them and soon closes them. Article 370, Tripple Talaque, Ram Mandir etc are the issues which he did not conserve to cash in on them. He went on shutting one while raising or planning another. Politicians or social workers of the previous generation claim credit for their contributions towards the construction of Ram Mandir. I affirm that if it were not for PM Modi, Janm Bhoomi would still be an issue and not have materialized and that if nothing had happened previously, the country would even then be celebrating the construction of Ram Mandir and be excited about the scheduled consecration ceremony in Ayodhya. The Impossible is possible because of PM Modi’s strength of mind and clear intention. Read 'The Rise of...

  Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was welcomed by various groups of artists from across the country as he arrived in Ayodhya on Saturday, December 30, 2023. He laid the foundation stone of 46 projects worth Rs 15,700 crore there. While on his way to the railway station, the Prime Minister held a road show where more than 1,400 performers presented folk art and cultural programs on a total of 40 stages set up along the route. He was greeted by a large number of people with flowers and slogans. He inaugurated the redeveloped Ayodhya Dham Railway Station, flagging off six Vande Bharat express trains : one, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi, second one, the Amritsar-Delhi, third one, the Coimbatore-Bangalore Cantt, fourth, the Mangalore-Madgaon, fifth, the Jalna-Mumbai and sixth the Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal. He also flagged two new Amrit Bharat trains: the Darbhanga-Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal and the Malda Town-Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminus (Bengaluru). At the railway st...

  ऊँच और नीच दोनों धर्मी व् विधर्मी के हैं, पशु और पक्षी के हैं, राजा राम सबके। रावण के राम तो विभीषण के राम हैं, रविदास राम के हैं, दास तुलसी उनके। राजाओं के राम हैं, भिखारियों के राम हैं, सदन कसाई के दीवानी मीराबाई के। स्त्री पुरुष के हैं, बच्चों के बुजुर्ग के हैं, बहनों के प्यारे राम भाई, बाप, माई के। -Poet Ramesh Tiwari

Ram is not only our lord but our identity: the symbol of our culture, the representative of our nationality, the pride of Bharat Varsh. Divided, we not only suffered invasions but the considerable part of the nation got infected with disloyalty and, as a result, our Lord could not find his place of birth in his own kingdom. Now united, we restore our lost heritages. After a 500 years wait, the Ram Temple is going to be inaugurated in Ayodhya on January 22, 2024. 10-day Vedic rituals for the Pran-Pratishtha ceremony marked as Amrit Mahotsava will begin after Makar Sankranti on January 14 and will last until the main ceremony to be held on January 22, when a Vedic priest from Varanasi, Lakshmi Kant Dixit, will perform the main rituals of enthroning Ram Lalla at the sanctum-sanctorum of the temple between 11.30 am and 12:45 p.m. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi may carry the existing movable idol of Lord Ram from the makeshift temple to the garbhagriha of the newly constructed Ram Temple...