The Creator Will Guard His Creation
Bala Kanda, Doha 71
Doha 71 · Movement 2 of 2
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Himavan speaks gently to Mena. Worry cannot see farther by circling the same feared future. He asks his beloved to place her heart instead in Shri Bhagavan.
The One who brought Parvati into being has not abandoned responsibility for her path. Her existence itself is evidence of a wisdom preceding parental fear and exceeding parental power.
Trust does not make the father indifferent. It allows his love to release the illusion that he alone must secure every outcome. The Creator of the daughter will also bring about her highest good.
The mountain releases his fear into the hands that first shaped Parvati.
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Himavan gently reassures Maina and asks her to remember Sri Bhagavan; no deity or future outcome is depicted.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 91 · printed pages 89. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-072. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Himavan tells Maina to leave all concern aside and remember Sri Bhagavan
- He says the one who formed Parvati will bring her well-being; selected image shows his narrated reassurance, not a realized outcome
Artistic choices
- Conventional imaginative parent appearances reused; no deity apparition, birth, marriage or completed tapas
- Two seated forms, open reassuring and resting listening hands, restrained attentive expressions, chosen clothes, separate low cushioned benches, plain wall/arch, flowering sprig, faint mountain outline and coral field added; precise poses/room/ages not source-specified
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प्रिया सोचु परिहरहु सबु सुमिरहु श्रीभगवान। पारबतिहि निरमयउ जेहिं सोइ करिहि कल्यान।।71।।
Himavan spoke gently to his wife: "Beloved, set aside all worry and turn your heart to Shri Bhagavan. He who brought Parvati into being will Himself ensure her highest good."