The Dream Cannot End Until the Dreamer Wakes
Bala Kanda, Chaupai 118
Doha 118 · Movement 1 of 2
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The world remains dependent upon Hari. Though its separate reality is false, its suffering is felt with terrible force, like a dream in which one's own head is cut away. No remedy found inside that dream can end the pain. Only waking dissolves the wound, the weapon, and the frightened dreamer together.
By Ram's grace this delusion is destroyed. No one finds his beginning or end, and the Vedas can only sing toward the immeasurable. He moves without feet, hears without ears, and performs countless acts without hands. Without mouth he tastes, without speech he is the supreme speaker, without body he touches, without eyes he sees, and without nostrils he receives every fragrance.
These are not absences but freedom from limitation. Every faculty borrows its power from the One who is confined by none. Shiva's praise leaves the mind at the edge of wonder, where Ram's human Leela and Brahman's impossible fullness meet without contradiction.
The dream breaks open, and the One without limbs is found moving through every living power.
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Shiva explains merciful Raghurai whose grace removes confusion
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 132 · printed pages 130. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chaupai-118. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Shiva addresses Girija: the merciful Raghurai is he by whose grace such confusion is removed
- Selected current spoken explanation only; surrounding dream comparison and extraordinary action descriptions outside image
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- Approved adult rosecream braided Uma and ivoryash Shiva blue only throat/crescent/Ganga short wave-symbol/serpent/rudraksha reused; exact ages/faces/cloth/jewels/gestures unauthenticated art conventions
- Closer seated teaching portrait Shiva viewer-left open explanatoryhand, otherrestknee, Uma viewer-right at his anatomicalleft ownhandsfoldedlap quietlistener; exact pose/crop artchoices
- Banyan aerialroots/floral accents/mountainhint/tigerhide context artistsetting not authenticated; no literal Rama grace/purification rays or visible confusion being removed
- No enacted dream event or extraordinary organless body/limbs; independent present source part3 alone selected
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एहि बिधि जग हरि आश्रित रहई। जदपि असत्य देत दुख अहई।। जौं सपनें सिर काटै कोई। बिनु जागें न दूरि दुख होई।। जासु कृपाँ अस भ्रम मिटि जाई। गिरिजा सोइ कृपाल रघुराई।। आदि अंत कोउ जासु न पावा। मति अनुमानि निगम अस गावा।। बिनु पद चलइ सुनइ बिनु काना। कर बिनु करम करइ बिधि नाना।। आनन रहित सकल रस भोगी। बिनु बानी बकता बड़ जोगी।। तनु बिनु परस नयन बिनु देखा। ग्रहइ घ्रान बिनु बास असेषा।। असि सब भाँति अलौकिक करनी। महिमा जासु जाइ नहिं बरनी।।
In this way the world rests upon Hari. Though unreal, it still gives suffering. If someone cuts off your head in a dream, the pain does not depart until you wake.