Sri Raveendra Boggaram an ardent devotee of Lord Hanuman is a volunteer & teacher at the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, Frisco, TX. He is a disciple and staunch devotee of Parama Pujya Sri Ganapathy Saccidananda Swamiji of Avadhoota Datta Peetham.

• Sri Raveendra has three post graduate degrees and is an Engineer by profession in Information Technology.
• During his childhood Raveendra studied in an oriental Sanskrit school (Parashara Bharathi) in Kandukur, A.P India and ever since has advanced his knowledge of the language as well as received instruction from many Hindu cultural institutions such as the ‘Viswa Hindu Parishat’, which shaped him to become an authentic scholar in Hindu scriptures.
• He started learning the Hindu Epics and Puranas right from his childhood and benefited from his parent's literary, mythological, puranic teachings and instruction into the depths of Vedic and Hindu philosophical foundations.
• Sri Raveendra wrote more than 400 poems and many literary articles on Hindu Sanatana Dharma in Sanskrit, English, Telugu and Hindi languages throughout his career. He travelled extensively all over India to many temples, met many Yogis and studied the significance and scientific importance of various Hindu epics.
• Raveendra is gifted with the ability and insights of correlating scientific explanation for many Hindu Epic story contexts from - Ramayana, Mahabharatha, Srimad Bhagavatam and Puranas. Sri Raveendra not only delivers speeches with best examples, but he many times calls out real life application of the principles instilling faith and confidence through illustrative scientific outlook.

11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Sarga

In the next three episodes (Sarga - 12, 13 and 14), we will learn how Lord Hanuman continues his divine search for Sita Devi, and gets highly disappointed as he can not find her; also how Hanuman’s low morale makes him think of giving up life and later on through positive analysis how he recovers. Hanuman’s namaskara prakriya- mantra rahasyam will be explained. Beauty and grandeur of Ashoka Vana is narrated with inner yogic significance. We will explore character-building and also some relevant yoga and scientific secrets.

8th Sarga

• Hanuman continues to search inside the Pushpaka Vimana in the sleeping chamber of Ravana and examines with his discriminative analysis if any of the multitude of ladies sleeping there were Sita!
• Scientific correlations on ancient Indian mythological descriptions of Celestial Aerial Vehicles (Bharadwaja Vaimanika Sastra detail; super advanced celestial aircrafts, their varieties, capabilities such as Stealth Bombers, precise mechanical, metallurgical, navigational functions detail)
• Correlations of 8th sarga descriptions of Gopurams and vajra praakara with the 10th and 12th praakaara of manidweepa.

5th, 6th & 7th Sargas

Continuation and closure of yoga, tattva (philosophical) secrets and moral lessons from 5th, 6th and 7th sargas:

• Establishing that divine mother Sita is herself none other than Bala Tripura Sundari!
• Intellectual prowess of lord Hanuman: logic of excellent analysis done by lord Hanuman to determine if any of the ladies he saw were Sita; also analysis of enemy’s wealth, capabilities of leaders and strategic spots in Lanka so that Rama Sainya can be prepared to attack in ensuing war.
• Process of yoga making even dead nerves in human body to come to life and the weak ones to be strengthened and blossomed. Example: Lataanta Priya raagam – as explained by Sri Ganapathy Saccidananda Swamiji in Raga Ragini vidya/nada chikitsa healing with music Comparison to manidweepa praakaara, Bhuupura prastaara in Sri yantra in 6th chapter as Hanuman enters Raavana's palace quarters. Also explanation of inner yogic sounds heard by a yogi during yoga sadhana (bherii, mrdanga etc.)
• Explanation why raakshas’s names were given weirdly and oddly
• 6th chapter : Vighna yantra naasanam – Lalitopaakhyaanam
• In 5th, 6th & 7th sargas: Valmiki's verses: Significance of architecture (Rajya Lakshmi on top of Sanctum gopura), symbols (Ex: dhwaja), animals, birds (Ex: peacock) while representing Hindu gods); jambu nadam (river in jambu dweepa having gold traces); Sibikaa (yogic and tattvic significance).

5th, 6th & 7th Sargas

• Chandra Kalaa Upaasana and Shodasi secrets continued.
• Sage Valmiki explains the origination process of speech: paraa, pasyanti, madhyama, vaikhari
• Grandeur and beauty of poetry describing the outside view of Raavana's palace as Hanuman glances it
• Hanuman can not find Sita and gets disappointed and is engulfed in sorrow - lessons to be learnt by us.

4th Sarga and first 8 shlokas of 5th Sarga

• Chandra Kala Upasana (Nitya Devis/tithi mandala puja) and Panchadasii, Shodasii mantra upasana explained with Lalita Sahasram and Sri Vidya worship correlations into 4th and 5th sargas in sundarakanda. This is correlated to the Chandra naadi aspects of Kundalini among the trio - Sushumna, Surya naadi and chandra naadi.
• Valmiki explains the Vastu [Architecture of homes in Lanka: Swastika, vardhamaana, Padma etc. designs], Suula [Travel time and House warming time rules to be watched out for] and Sakuna Sastra secrets [Hanuma enters by first resting His left foot into the lanka city indicating enemy's destruction - cakretha paadam savyam].
• Significance explained as to why each sarga in sundarakanda starts with letter "sa" or "ta" except two sargas.
• Inner sounds during Yoga sadhana explained and correlation to progress of Yoga as Hanuman is walking in Lanka city streets approaching Raavana's palace. Praakaras in Lanka compared to manidweepa praakaras and Hanuman's progression in Lanka city compared to His divine movement in the Muladhara chakra area.

Significance of UPASANA

• “Anima Vidya” – ability to shrink the body to as small as the Yogi wishes or to microscopic size.
• Saadhana in the Muladhara chakra – Coccygeal region of spine - The kundalini/ serpent power
• “Chandra (moon) Upaasana”: Yogi’s practices at night or control over a set of astral subtle nerves with planet moon’s dominance
• “Hamsa Upaasana” of a Yogi: breath control
• Lessons to control disappointment in life
• Correlation between the rampart-wall description [praakaara varnana] in manidweepa (Sri vidya path) and Sundarakanda
• Crushing the demon Lankini (lankini mardanam) and beautiful narration of the grandeur of city Lanka.

Lessons from turbulance at the Mahendra giri during Hanuman’s leap and how Hanuman triumphed:

• learnings on significance of different social relationships (dealing with superior officers, colleagues at work versus building personal and family relationships etc.)
• learnings on Kundalini awakenings: Hanuman’s valor and growing energy that frightens and disheartens the enemies (represented by the act of great snakes (which are enemies of Hanuman’s father Vayu) biting mountain stones fiercely in fear etc. and its relevance to kundalini progression upwards.

Mainaka maitri - Surasaa pariiksha:

• Lessons from both episodes for Karya Siddhi ( crossing hurdles to accomplish arduous tasks with determination). Inner significance of each character - Mainaka and Surasa; connections in Yoga sadhana.

• Importance of the Air Element, Vayu as father of Hanuman (Why vayu is critical force in yogic awakening)
• Some interesting and scientific facts about Levitation explaining multiple flights of Hanuman: - Hanuman crossing the ocean Hanuman bringing Sanjeevani to the battlefield and returning it back to its original location Hanuman flying to go inform Bharata after the battle victory for Rama
• Rama nama importance: How lord Hanuman forgets to pray to lord Rama before take-off
• Progress on story line explanation of Sundarakanda Verses — Interesting comparisons of Hanuman with Bull, Elephant, Lion and Garuda prior to take-off from Mahendra giri and its significance.

Each topic will glorify aspects of:

• Mantra Sastra
• Yoga Sastra, Kundalini Yoga rahasya
• Tattva outlook
• Paada, Vaakya vishleshana – why sage Valmiki used certain words and what is the significance & inner meaning with Yoga & tattva connection
• Scientific significance & Research work shared on various aspects: Jyotishya sastra (astrology) relationships, gemology as connected to Yoga, Medicine, Astronomy, Physics, chemistry, Quantum mechanics and many other scientific secrets explained as to how Sundarakanda is relevant and applicable to our day-to-day life style!

Sundarakanda is a legendary work by Sage Valmiki that is applicable to present day society and everyone can benefit from the principles and moral values enlived by the divine characters of Lord Rama, Devi Sita, Laksmana swamy and Lord Hanuman.