Shiva Wanders with Hari in His Heart
Bala Kanda, Doha 75
Doha 75 · Movement 2 of 2
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Shiva moves freely across the earth, dwelling as the abode of pure consciousness and bliss. Delusion, pride, and desire find no place within him.
Yet transcendence has not emptied him of devotion. Hari remains held in his heart as the inward beauty delighting all the worlds. The great ascetic's freedom is not distance from love, but love released from possession.
Wherever Shiva walks, the outer journey follows an inner stillness. Ram is present at its centre, and the path becomes another circumference around that unbroken remembrance. Every footstep moves while devotion remains perfectly still.
Across the changing earth, Shiva carries one unmoving presence within his heart.
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Shiva walks calmly through a spare landscape, holding Hari inwardly in remembrance.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 94 · printed pages 92. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-076. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Shiva, abode of conscious bliss and free of delusion pride and desire, wanders the earth
- He holds Hari, delightful to all worlds, inwardly in his heart
Artistic choices
- Approved conventional Shiva appearance reused, gentle walking pose with lowered inward gaze/resting arms, cream ochre robe, sparse path/bough/hills and coral field added
- Hari remembrance inward, no visible deity/heart/thought image; precise geography, age/likeness/attributes not authenticated or source-described
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
चिदानन्द सुखधाम सिव बिगत मोह मद काम। बिचरहिं महि धरि हृदयँ हरि सकल लोक अभिराम।।75।।
Shiva, the abode of chidananda, of consciousness and bliss, free from delusion, pride, and desire, wanders the earth holding Hari in his heart, delighting all the worlds.