Parvati Consoles Her Mother
Bala Kanda, Chaupai 97
Doha 97 · Movement 1 of 3
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Maina turns her pain toward Narada. What harm had she done that the wandering sage should empty her home? Detached from wife, wealth, and dwelling, how could he understand a mother's anguish or fear the damage his counsel caused?
Bhavani watches without defensiveness and answers in soft wisdom. What the Creator has written cannot be displaced by blame. If a mad husband is inscribed in her destiny, Narada did not write the mark, nor can grief erase it.
She asks her mother not to gather needless fault upon herself. Joy and sorrow will meet Parvati wherever they have been appointed. The daughter becomes the steadier heart, protecting Maina even while the mother believes she must protect her.
Parvati wipes blame from the room while Maina still holds her in tears.
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Uma's gentle wise counsel to distressed mother
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 113 · printed pages 111. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chaupai-097. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Bhavani sees mother's distress and speaks gentle wise words
- Uma says don't grieve thus; what Creator ordains cannot be averted, if such husband written in karma why blame anyone, can fate's marks be erased; mother should not take needless blame
- Selected spoken argument only, no literal fate-writing vision, resolution of sorrow or future outcome proved
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- Approved Maina mature green-sari and Uma young-adult rose/cream braided appearance reused, precise ages/faces/open speaking palm/parted mouth/tearful attentive mother/quiet hands imagined unauthenticated
- Waist-up crop leaves full seated/lap position unspecified, no child's body or changed fullbody staging claimed; floral bough/arch/terrace/mountains added scenery
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नारद कर मैं काह बिगारा। भवनु मोर जिन्ह बसत उजारा।। अस उपदेसु उमहि जिन्ह दीन्हा। बौरे बरहि लगि तपु कीन्हा।। साचेहुँ उन्ह के मोह न माया। उदासीन धनु धामु न जाया।। पर घर घालक लाज न भीरा। बाझँ कि जान प्रसव कैं पीरा।। जननिहि बिकल बिलोकि भवानी। बोली जुत बिबेक मृदु बानी।। अस बिचारि सोचहि मति माता। सो न टरइ जो रचइ बिधाता।। करम लिखा जौ बाउर नाहू। तौ कत दोसु लगाइअ काहू।। तुम्ह सन मिटहिं कि बिधि के अंका। मातु ब्यर्थ जनि लेहु कलंका।।
"What harm have I ever done to Narada, that he has laid waste to my home and my happiness? It was he who gave such counsel to Uma! And the maddened Vidhi who arranged such a groom!"