Rama

Rama is the ideal person — the one who upholds dharma even when it costs everything. Where Krishna plays and bends the rules, Rama walks the straight line no matter the personal cost. He is the standard against which human conduct is measured.

The name of Rama is considered a taraka mantra — a name that carries you across the ocean of samsara. Gandhi died with "He Ram" on his lips. Tulsidas staked his entire spiritual life on it. Ram Dass took it as his very identity. The simplest practice: just say the name.

Ram Rajya — the reign of Rama — is the Indian ideal of a just society. Not theocracy but dharmic governance: where the ruler serves the people, where truth prevails, where no one suffers needlessly. Ayodhya, his birthplace, remains a living pilgrimage site.