Lord Rama is an ideal personification, in the famous epic, the Ramayana. He is also known as Raghunath and Ramachandra. Rama is the husband of Sita. He appeared in Ayodhya as the son of King Dasaratha. Lord Rama is usually worshipped with his consort Sita, his brother Lakshman, and his monkey servant Hanuman. He is depicted with two arms, and in one hand, he holds a bow. His wife Sita stands on his left, and she is often depicted holding a blue lotus. On his right side stands Lakshman, who usually holds a bow and arrows. Hanuman usually kneels in front of Lord Rama.

His father, Maharaja Dasaratha, had three wives. From these three wives Maharaja Dasaratha had four sons. One of his wives, Kaikeyi, saved Dasaratha in war by her expert charioteering and received two boons from him. She said she would ask for the benediction at another time. At the time of Ramachandra's coronation, Kaikeyi influenced by a malicious servant, Manthra asked her husband to enthrone her son Bharata instead of Rama and to send Ramachandra to the forest for fourteen years of exile. Maharaja Dasaratha then ordered Ramachandra to go to the forest.

Rama went to the forest with Laksman and Sita. When Marici assumed the form of a golden deer, Lord Ramachandra wanted to capture the deer to please Sita. While he was chasing the deer, the ten-headed demon, Ravana, kidnapped Sita and carried her to Lanka. As Rama and Laksman searched the forest for Sita, they met the dying Jatayu, who had been fatally wounded while trying to rescue Sita. Rama then killed the monkey Vali and made friends with Sugriva, the monkey king.

The monkeys were sent out to find Sita. Hanuman, Rama's eternal servant, found Sita in Ravana's capital on the island of Lanka. Hanuman jumped across the sea, while Lord Rama came with the monkey army, they built Adam's bridge by floating boulders on the water. With Laksman's help, along with the help of the Vanara army, Rama was able to kill Ravana and his army. Rama then made Ravana's brother, Vibhishana, king of Lanka and returned with Sita to his kingdom in Ayodhya to become an ideal king.

According to Hindu tradition, Rama is an avatara, an incarnation of Vishnu or God. The main purpose of his incarnation is to demonstrate the ideal human life on earth. Ultimately, Rama slays the rakshasa king Ravana and reestablishes the rule of religious and moral law on earth known as Dharma in Hinduism.

This colourful feast of Dhashera reminds us to live a life full of moral values and principles that Lord Rama lived on this planet centuries ago. At the joyous occasion of Dhashera festivity let us incorporate the ideal humanness in our lives setting example for each other through dharma to follow suit in the footsteps of Lord Rama. When we see adharma occurring in front of us in various immoral ways like; terrorism, communal & religious violence, riot bandhs, international fights, lootings, killings, rapes, molestations, harassments, ideological power play, exploitation of poor, out casting of humans as inhuman form the society on the basis of caste, colour and creed, so on and so forth, lets try to perform our duties as per the ethical norms of dharma. If in such situation we are able to eliminate adharma through the ideal values of avatara of Lord Vishnu, Sri Rama, then world will be a better place to live in.

Therefore, let us live the values of this feast through dispelling the darkness from the face of the earth by burning our lives as a candle to illumine one another.