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Rama Exemplar of Spiritual Conduct. The story of this seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu , the earth-preserving deity, is told in the Hindu moral scriptures known as the Ramayana. Here the late neolithic wonder at the pristine magic of the natural world is combined with an epic human struggle against the base emotions of greed, anger and fear. Rama's role is to defeat the symbolic demon Ravanna and restore the moral order on earth. In tantric union with his divine partner Sita he exemplifies the social, sexual, and sacred interconnectedness of women and men.
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