Every Boundary Falls Before Kama
Bala Kanda, Doha 84
Doha 84 · Movement 3 of 3
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Moving and unmoving life, woman and man, every form named within the world feels the same power entering. The distinctions of species and station provide no shelter.
Each abandons its natural boundary under Kama's sway. What had held desire within season, relation, vow, and rightful measure dissolves into one universal pull.
The verse does not merely describe attraction. It shows order itself yielding before a force that has expanded beyond proportion, preparing the supreme contrast of the one consciousness that cannot be compelled. Shiva alone remains outside the conquered boundary.
Across the worlds, every gate opens at once before the unseen conqueror.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 84
A symbolic landscape shows inward-leaning plants and two separate perched birds, representing the poem's broad description of desire's influence.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 101 · printed pages 99. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-085. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- The poet says rooted and moving living beings named feminine/masculine set aside their bounds and fall under Kama's influence
Artistic choices
- Rooted shrubs/vines/tree boughs and two perched birds facing inward symbolically represent shared attraction; no sex/species/biological pairing identification claimed
- Chosen plants/flowers/birds/positions/soft inward composition, stream/low hills/natural light added; no exhaustive world, named person, witnessed specific episode or literal universal tableau
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जे सजीव जग अचर चर नारि पुरुष अस नाम। ते निज निज मरजाद तजि भए सकल बस काम।।84।।
All living beings in the world, moving and still, named woman and man, every one of them abandoned their natural boundaries and came under the sway of Kama.