The Story of Ram's Wedding Purifies the Voice
Bala Kanda, Chhand 39
Doha 361 · Movement 2 of 3
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Tulsi sings Ram's glory to purify his own speech. He does not imagine that poetry can reach the far shore of Raghuvira's boundless deeds, for no poet has ever crossed that ocean.
Yet incompleteness does not make the song futile. Hearing and singing the sacred thread ceremony, marriage, festivities, and blessings with reverence opens the heart to the grace carried by the story.
Vaidehi and Ram bestow enduring happiness upon those who participate in this remembrance. The listener is not asked to conquer the limitless narrative, only to enter it faithfully. A finite voice becomes holy by turning toward the Infinite it can never exhaust.
No voice crosses the ocean of Ram's deeds, yet every loving song is purified by entering its waters.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 343 · printed pages 341. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chhand-039. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Tulsidas recounts Rama's fame to purify his own speech.
- Raghuvira's deeds are a boundless ocean no poet has reached the far shore of; this is a comparison, not literal bodily or environmental transformation.
- Those who hear sacred-thread and marriage auspicious festivities and sing respectfully are included.
- They always find joy by the joint grace of Vaidehi/Sita and Rama.
- The source does not expressly exclude merit or claim a specific poet is physically present at the wedding.
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- Rama left/Sita right seated waist portrait, own namaste four hands; actual Sita gaze LEFT instead of requested right is artist pose. Rama pearl necklace reads as TWO artist pearl strands, green-leaf inner U and outer white-pink victory flower U visible in focused neck crop; exact botanical identity/fastening/ornament numbers not historical certificate. Additional gold/hair flower details artistic. Sita received head/ear flowers and no chest victory garland. Jewel-colored glass floral palace/garden is artist setting.
- Exact poses, gazes, clothing, ornaments, numerical ages, materials and spatial framing are artistic choices. Selected source portions do not assert an exclusive participant census or exact historical architecture. Full source facts remain in metadata; no corpus correction or publishing.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
निज गिरा पावनि करन कारन राम जसु तुलसी कह्यो। रघुबीर चरित अपार बारिधि पारु कबि कौनें लह्यो।। उपबीत ब्याह उछाह मंगल सुनि जे सादर गावहीं। बैदेहि राम प्रसाद ते जन सर्बदा सुखु पावहीं।।
To purify his own speech, Tulsi has sung the glory of Rama. What poet has ever crossed to the far shore of the boundless ocean that is Raghuvira's deeds? Those who hear of the sacred thread ceremony, the marriage, the festivity, and the blessings, and who sing of them with reverence, by the grace of Vaidehi and Rama, such souls find happiness for all time.