No Shore to the Story
Bala Kanda, Doha 33
Doha 33 · Movement 2 of 2
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Ram is infinite. His virtues are infinite. The story that arises from them expands beyond every boundary placed by memory, manuscript, language, or age. What appears to be a completed telling is one bright reach of water within an ocean that has no farther shore.
Pure discernment does not demand that the limitless become small enough to fit expectation. It hears a new wonder without surprise, because immeasurable Ram can never be exhausted by what has already been told.
The listener releases the need to enclose the Leela and becomes spacious enough to receive it.
The final shoreline recedes, and Ram's story continues into infinity.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 33
An iconic Rama amid an expansive imagined grove evokes praise of his boundless virtues and story.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 58 · printed pages 56. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-034. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Rama is infinite, his virtues infinite, and the story immeasurably extensive
- Clear-minded listeners do not regard its scope with astonishment
Artistic choices
- Non-narrative iconic Rama in spacious imagined grove evokes boundlessness; no historical event or literal cosmic vision
- Appearance, crown, bow/quiver, clothes, pose, rock seat, flowers, trees, river, horizon and colours conventional/imagined
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
राम अनंत अनंत गुन अमित कथा बिस्तार। सुनि आचरजु न मानिहहिं जिन्ह कें बिमल बिचार।।33।।
Ram is infinite. His virtues are infinite. The expanse of His story is beyond all measure. Those whose discernment is pure will hear this and feel no surprise.