Shiva Sees the Door That Will Not Welcome Her
Bala Kanda, Chaupai 62
Doha 62 · Movement 1 of 2
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Shiva understands the longing and would be pleased by her happiness. But the missing invitation is not an oversight. Daksha has called his other daughters and deliberately forgotten Sati because of the old resentment born in Brahma's assembly.
One may visit a friend, master, father, or Guru without formal invitation when affection is secure. Where hostility and disrespect have already taken root, the same journey destroys dignity and brings no good. Shiva lays out the danger without anger, trying in many ways to turn her from it.
Fate has gathered too strongly around the moment. Counsel does not enter Sati's heart. Mahesh finally permits her to go, though his judgment remains clear: leaving uninvited for this house is not good. He does not command her will, but neither does he disguise the threshold awaiting her.
Shiva grants the journey while seeing the closed door at its end.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Chaupai 62
Shiva gently counsels Sati about visiting hostile Daksha without invitation; Sati remains seated and listens.
Source reference and artistic choices
Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 83, 84 · printed pages 81, 82. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chaupai-062. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Shiva counsels that going without invitation to hostile Daksha is inappropriate
- He warns that honor, affection and regard are lost there; repeated counsel fails to persuade Sati to remain
Artistic choices
- Select quiet counsel before actual departure; no invented Brahma-assembly flashback
- Conventional imaginative appearances, two facing seated poses, open explanatory hand, restrained listening expression, separate mats, terrace, drapery, beads, serpent, tree canopy, flowers and mountain scenery added; no vow annulment claimed
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
कहेहु नीक मोरेहुँ मन भावा। यह अनुचित नहिं नेवत पठावा।। दच्छ सकल निज सुता बोलाई। हमरें बयर तुम्हउ बिसराई।। ब्रह्मसभाँ हम सन दुखु माना। तेहि तें अजहुँ करहिं अपमाना।। जौं बिनु बोलें जाहु भवानी। रहइ न सीलु सनेहु न कानी।। जदपि मित्र प्रभु पितु गुर गेहा। जाइअ बिनु बोलेहुँ न सँदेहा।। तदपि बिरोध मान जहँ कोई। तहाँ गएँ कल्यानु न होई।। भाँति अनेक संभु समुझावा। भावी बस न ग्यानु उर आवा।। कह प्रभु जाहु जो बिनहिं बोलाएँ। नहिं भलि बात हमारे भाएँ।।
Shiva replied, "You speak well, and my heart too would be pleased. But this is improper: he has not sent us an invitation. Daksha has called all his other daughters to the yajna, but in his enmity toward me, he has forgotten you."