The IPCR Initiative
Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization
"... bringing to the fore what is often hidden...."
Meditations on Devotion to Rama
(special page for unpublished manuscript which has been scanned to be made accessible)
The links to pdfs (below) are scanned versions of the unpublished manuscript “Mediations on Devotion to Rama” (as the Word file I had for this document was in a Windows 97 version, and I could not find a way to convert that file). As scanning a document results in documents which might be too large to be downloaded, or even opened, there are two sections below. The first section consists of two pdfs which are very large in size (about 60 MB each). The second section is a list of smaller segments of the manuscript, scanned in a lower resolution (but still very readable) to create smaller size documents (most are less than 5 MB). There are more notes on this unpublished manuscript at my Facebook page, my worldpulse.com journal, and in the introduction to the study guide (see "Title Page Preface Intro Table of Contents below). I hope that there are some readers who can appreciate the glimpses into the “Ramacharitamanasa” provided by these pdfs. Kind Regards, Stefan Pasti
The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initative
P.O. Box 163 Leesburg, Virginia 20178 (USA)
stefanpasti@ipcri.net (703) 209-2093
Some visitors to this IPCR website may wonder: why is this unpublished manuscript "Meditations on Devotion to Rama" [compiled by Stefan Pasti (founder and outreach coordinator for The IPCR Initiative)] listed in the section "Some of the Documents Providing Spiritual Inspiration for The IPCR Initiative" (on the IPCR homepage)? A comprehensive answer to this question would center on the subject of "the better angels of our nature"-- and on the ways in which many different cultures and traditions have inspired people to "grow in that direction". There are many connections which can be made between qualities of moral character that "sacred scripture" in different traditions portray and describe, what The IPCR Initiative believes our cultural landscapes are very much in need of, and what The IPCR Initiative is hoping to nurture, support, and sustain. There is much that can be done to generate peace and goodwill that has not yet been done.
