New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said the idea of `Ram Rajya` remains in dreams and aspirations of the country.
Releasing the Hindi version of Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily`s epic Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam, Mukherjee said Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi`s vision of a Ram Rajya in the country was not a social ideal but a "model of state craft."
"When Gandhiji dreamt of Ram Rajya (in India), it was not a social ideal, it is a model of the state craft... We have not been able to implement it in reality but it is still in our dreams, and it is still in our imaginations, for which we aspire" he said.
Copies of Moily`s two-volume epic translated by Pradhan Gurudutta from Kannada to Hindi were presented to the President.
Mukherjee said few politicians have penned down their thoughts and Moily is one of them who besides discharging his official duties has composed his thoughts into poem.
Ramayana is "not just an epic poem," he said, adding that very few books have influenced lives of vast people as Ramayana had.
Moily has given new dimension to Ramayana, he added.
