Collyrium of the Inner Eye
Bala Kanda, Doha 1ख
Doha 1ख · Movement 2 of 2
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Mountains stand like ordinary stone. Forest floors show only roots, fallen leaves, and dark soil. Yet the old lore speaks of a perfected collyrium that, when placed upon the eyes, reveals mines and buried treasure concealed beneath the visible earth.
The Guru's grace is that anjana for the inward gaze. Applied in remembrance, it does not invent riches where none exist. It discloses what lay hidden within the landscape all along. A tale heard casually becomes a passage into dharma, devotion, knowledge, and freedom. Familiar names open like sealed chambers.
The seeker looks again at the story of Ram. Rock becomes a treasury, earth becomes a mine, and the path ahead gleams with discoveries that ordinary sight had walked past.
The anointed eye opens, and the mountain is suddenly full of jewels.
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An unnamed contemplative beside a forest and hill, with gems visible in a symbolic translucent band of earth.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 22 · printed pages 20. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-002. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Special collyrium in the simile enables practitioners, adepts or wise people to see abundant treasures in mountains, forests and beneath the earth
- Placed after the guru invocation, the simile concerns inward clarity revealing the treasures of Rama's story
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- Unnamed adult contemplative, pose, dress and invented quiet setting
- Translucent stylized earth and visible mineral crystals depict the poetic comparison symbolically
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जथा सुअंजन अंजि दृग साधक सिद्ध सुजान। कौतुक देखत सैल बन भूतल भूरि निधान।।1।।
Just as a seeker, applying siddha-anjana to the eyes, gains the power to see hidden treasures buried in mountains, forests, and the depths of the earth, so too the Guru's grace anoints the inner eye and reveals the boundless riches concealed within Ram's story.