Kamala Subramaniam (Set Of 3 Books): Ramayana | Mahabharatha | Srimad Bhagavatam

1. Mahabharata :- The author has captured with dramatic intensity the movement of the story of the epic “Mahabharata”. The narrative is vivid, and is a priceless legacy for the young and the old. The story of the Pandavas and the Kauravas and the Mahabharata war has been retold in a superb manner. Though the book is an abridged version of the great epic, all the important aspects have been covered in it. The style is lucid, the dialogues crisp and the characters come alive in front of the readers because of the descriptions by the author. The story is more than just an epic, it tells the story of heroic men and women, code of life, philosophy of social and ethical relations. More details: This book on the Mahabharata starts with the meeting of Ganga and Santanu, and their subsequent marriage, and the birth of their children. When Santanu asks Ganga the reason for drowning the children born to her, she takes the eighth child and disappears from his life. The story continues with Satyavati, Pandu, Dhritarashtra, Pandavas and Kauravas, and ends with the entry of the Pandavas into heaven. “The Mahabharata” is not a mere epic:it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women and of some who are divine:it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival, but above all, it has for it’s core with Gita, which it, as the world is beginning to find out, the noblest of scriptures and the grandest of sagas the climax of which is reached in the wondrous Acolypse in the eleventh canto. Through such books alone, the harmonies underlying true culture, will one day reconcile the disorders of modern life. The popularity of the book is such that it has run into fourteen editions since it was first published in the year 1965.

2. Srimad Bhagavatam : – In this book, the author has removed all the ornamentation and decorations, and just kept the basic skeleton of the Mahapurna with all the main elements. The essentials of the text have been brought out by the author and explained in a plain and simple way. The book is a convergence of Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga and Jnana yoga. The Bhagavatam is considered the essence of all Vedic wisdom. The Bhagavat Purana is made up of ten sections and many stories of the Purana are told in this book. One will find Krishna’s story in the Mahabharat, the story of Pururavas and the celestial nymph Urvashi, King Trishanku’s story of wanting to enter the heavens in his earthly body, Yayati and Devyani’s story, and many other interesting tales.

3. Ramayana :- The two epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharat are two encyclopaedias of ancient Aryan life and wisdom, portraying an ideal civilization. The Ramayan is a perennial source of spiritual, cultural and artistic inspiration to all readers. Rama is the ideal son, the ideal ruler, the ideal husband and the ideal son. Sita is unique, the embodiment of the ideals of womanhood. More details: Bala Kanda, Ayodhya Kanda, Aranya Kanda, Kishkinda Kanda, Sundara Kanda, Yuddha Kanda, form the different sections of this great love story. Beginning with Valmiki and Narada, Bala Kanda deals with Dasaratha and the birth of Rama, Vishvamitra taking the lads to the forest and ends with Sita kalyanam. The second part deals with Rama’s banishment and Bharata’s appeal. The third talks of Panchavati, Dandaka forest, Shurpanakha, Shabari and Sita being taken to Ravana s Lanka. Kishkinda Kanda deals with Rama’s search for Sita while Sundara Kanda talks of Hanuman entering Lanka. Yudha Kanda talks of the war between humans, monkeys and the rakshasas, ending with the coronation of Rama.