The Future Reunion of Rati and Kama
Bala Kanda, Chaupai 88
Doha 88 · Movement 1 of 2
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Shiva opens a future before the grieving Rati. When Krishna descends in the Yadu line to lift the earth's immense burden, Kama will be born as Krishna's son. In that form, known as Pradyumna, he will return to the wife who now kneels beside his ashes.
The promise joins one divine descent to another across ages. The fire beneath Shiva's brow has not erased relationship. It has carried reunion into a later Leela where the word of Mahadeva cannot fail.
Rati departs holding that assurance. The telling turns to the gods, who gather with Vishnu and Brahma and approach Shiva. Each offers praise until the moon crowned ocean of compassion asks why the immortals have come.
Rati leaves the ashes carrying the name of a son not yet born in Krishna's house.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Chaupai 88
Rati departs quietly after hearing Shiva's promise, walking alone through a grove; the reunion remains future.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 105 · printed pages 103. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chaupai-088. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Rati leaves after hearing Shiva's words; narrator turns to another account
Artistic choices
- Approved imaginative adult Rati appearance reused, gentle walking left/softly lowered composed face/residual quiet sorrow and reassurance, sari-gathering and low resting hands, lilac/sage robe/flowers and forest path/tree/stream/hills added
- Precise age/face/posture/location not source-specified/authenticated; earlier future Krishna/son promise and later divine visitor scenes outside chosen frame, no realized reunion
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
जब जदुबंस कृष्न अवतारा। होइहि हरन महा महिभारा।। कृष्न तनय होइहि पति तोरा। बचनु अन्यथा होइ न मोरा।। रति गवनी सुनि संकर बानी। कथा अपर अब कहउँ बखानी।। देवन्ह समाचार सब पाए। ब्रह्मादिक बैकुंठ सिधाए।। सब सुर बिष्नु बिरंचि समेता। गए जहाँ सिव कृपानिकेता।। पृथक पृथक तिन्ह कीन्हि प्रसंसा। भए प्रसन्न चंद्र अवतंसा।। बोले कृपासिंधु बृषकेतू। कहहु अमर आए केहि हेतू।। कह बिधि तुम्ह प्रभु अंतरजामी। तदपि भगति बस बिनवउँ स्वामी।।
"When Shri Krishna takes birth in the Yadu dynasty to lift the great burden from the earth, your husband shall be born as Krishna's own son. My word, O Rati, can never prove false."