Narada Reveals the Eternal Shakti
Bala Kanda, Chaupai 98
Doha 98 · Movement 1 of 3
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Narada recounts the earlier story and asks Maina to receive his words as truth. Her daughter is Jagadamba, unborn, beginningless, imperishable Shakti, eternally dwelling as one half of Shambhu.
Through her, worlds arise, endure, and dissolve. She assumes bodies only through her own will and Leela. The girl Maina held in her lap is not a fragile life placed helplessly before fate.
Narada traces the divine continuity. She was born first in Daksha's house as Sati and married Shankara. Later, seeing Ram on the forest road, delusion arose and she took Sita's form. The sorrow now surrounding this wedding began in that ancient moment.
The daughter in Maina's arms expands into the power through which creation appears.
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Narada explains and tells Maina her daughter is Jagadamba
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 114 · printed pages 112. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chaupai-098. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Narada explains to everyone the earlier story and says truthfully to Maina that her daughter Bhavani is Jagadamba
- Selected present spoken explanation only; narration of earlier history remains outside image
Artistic choices
- Approved imaginative Narada/Maina/young-adult Uma appearances reused, three foreground listeners/speaker, remaining audience outside crop; low explanatory palm, attentive Maina/Uma and quiet hands/poses exact ages/faces imagined unauthenticated
- Vina rests inactive beside Narada as conventional prop; seat/rug/terrace/bough/mountains/coral field artistic additions; no literal cosmic goddess or past-life event visualized
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
तब नारद सबहि समुझावा। पूरुब कथाप्रसंगु सुनावा।। मयना सत्य सुनहु मम बानी। जगदंबा तव सुता भवानी।। अजा अनादि सक्ति अबिनासिनि। सदा संभु अरधंग निवासिनि।। जग संभव पालन लय कारिनि। निज इच्छा लीला बपु धारिनि।। जनमीं प्रथम दच्छ गृह जाई। नामु सती सुंदर तनु पाई।। तहँहुँ सती संकरहि बिबाहीं। कथा प्रसिद्ध सकल जग माहीं।। एक बार आवत सिव संगा। देखेउ रघुकुल कमल पतंगा।। भयउ मोहु सिव कहा न कीन्हा। भ्रम बस बेषु सीय कर लीन्हा।।
Then Narada enlightened everyone and narrated the full story from the past. "Maina, hear my true words: your daughter Bhavani is none other than Jagadamba, the Mother of the entire world."