Valmiki

Valmiki (6th Century BC) was a great saint and Sanskrit poet of ancient India. He composed the Ramayana, one of the most important religious book of the Hindus. This epic depicts the life of Lord Ram, the god of Hindu's.

He had been a hunter and a highway robber in his early life when he was known by the name of Ratnakar. He was reclaimed by the seven seers and eventually turned out a great seer and poet.

As the story goes, the saints instructed him in the holy name of Ram. Completely immersed in sin he was, however, unable to utter the word. The seers, therefore, asked him to repeat the name in the reverse order. In this way he was eventually able to utter the name correctly and in course of time became so fond of repeating it that he ultimately turned out to be a pious sage and seer and related the story of Sri Ram in fine verse even before His advent.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Where the land is kingless, the clouds, lightning-wreathed

and loud-voiced, gives no rains to the earth.
Where the land is kingless, the son does not honour his
father, nor the wife her husband.
Where the land is kingless, men do not meet in assemblies,
nor make lovely gardens and temples.
Where the land in kingless, the rich are unprotected,
and herd-keepers and peasants sleep with bolted doors.
A river without water, a forest without grass,
a herd of cattle without a herdsman, is the land without a king.
-Ramayana

• Duties not performed, invite the wrath even of God.
• Misfortune is the best fortune.

Rejection by all is victory.

• A man is made great by his actions, not by birth.
• To be happy is always difficult to achieve. That is to say, happiness and sorrow alternate in one’s life and there cannot be uninterrupted happiness alone.
• It is the nature of the mind to accept certain things and to reject others; this is bondage, nothing else.

- Yoga Vashishtha

• What's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people?

- Ramayana

• When the mind is pure, everything appears pure.
• You should never abandon your duty, even if you have to face hardships.
• He who does not repay a favour is a stigma to humanity.
• Speak truth, follow Dharma. (Satyam vada, dharmam chara)
• Righteousness protects you. (Dharmo rakshati rakshitah)
• There is no deity more powerful than time.
• A person who does not have control over his mind, cannot achieve anything.
• One who has control over his speech and actions, will conquer the world.
• The one who controls the mind, controls the world.
• Victory is always with the righteous.
• Whatever a man does, good or evil comes back to him someday. And he pays for everything.
• One who is haughty, who does not know whether what he does is right or wrong and who has taken the wrong path is to be disciplined even if he is a guru, parent or an elder in age or learning.
• Only the timid and the weak leave things to destiny but the strong and the self-confident never bank on it.
• Show no disrespect even when impelled by desire or anger.

Charvak the atheist

Nearby pages
Valmiki Nagar, Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha Constituency, Valmiki Nagar Vidhan Sabha Constituency, Valmiki the tribe, Valmy