A Prayer Heard by the All Seeing
Bala Kanda, Doha 59
Doha 59 · Movement 2 of 2
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Sati addresses the Lord who sees every hidden chamber. Nothing of the test, the fear, the lie, or the long sorrow needs to be explained before that gaze. She asks him to hear what he already knows.
Her plea is for a swift passage out of the present body, a way by which the unbearable affliction may end without further struggle. The request rises from the sacred story's own horizon of death, rebirth, and divine purpose.
She cannot yet see the mountain home, the new name, or the tapas waiting beyond this life. She can only entrust the next step to mercy.
The prayer leaves Kailash and enters the keeping of the One who sees its unknown answer.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 59
Sati joins her hands in a troubled supplication amid the source's unbearable sorrow; no death act or promised release is shown.
Source reference and artistic choices
Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 81, 82 · printed pages 79, 80. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-060. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- In narrated anguish, Sati appeals to the all-seeing Lord to arrange death without effort and an end to unbearable distress
Artistic choices
- Select only non-graphic supplication in distress, not death, promised painless release, rebirth or liberation
- Conventional imaginative appearance, kneeling/prayer pose, joined hands, troubled gaze, pink sari veil, jewellery, stone ledge, mountain silhouettes, boughs and quiet glass palette added
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
तौ सबदरसी सुनिअ प्रभु करउ सो बेगि उपाइ। होइ मरनु जेही बिनहिं श्रम दुसह बिपत्ति बिहाइ।।59।।
"O all-seeing Lord, hear my prayer and swiftly open a way for me to leave this body without pain, so this unbearable suffering may end."