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The Samadhi That Would Not Move

Bala Kanda, Doha 86

Doha 86 · Movement 3 of 3

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Kamadeva exhausts every art and a crore of stratagems. His army of season, fragrance, colour, sound, and universal impulse surrounds Shiva from every side.

Nothing reaches the centre. Mahadeva's samadhi remains immovable, not through resistance tightened against desire but through absorption in a Reality from which desire has no separate leverage.

Defeat turns the heart dwelling god furious. Having failed with subtle influence, Kama prepares the direct arrow that will either disturb Shiva or complete his own destruction. The final shaft waits against the tightened string. The air holds its breath.

Spring trembles at the edge of a stillness no flower can enter.

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Shiva remains motionless in samadhi in a spring grove; Kama and his host are outside the selected view.

AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 86

Shiva remains motionless in samadhi in a spring grove; Kama and his host are outside the selected view.

Source reference and artistic choices

Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 103 · printed pages 101. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-087. Printed numbering may differ.

Source facts

  • Kama and his host exhaust arts/tactics in rhetorical abundance
  • Shiva's immovable samadhi does not stir and Kama becomes angry; image selects unmoved samadhi with Kama/host outside frame

Artistic choices

  • Approved conventional Shiva appearance reused, upright cross-legged eyes-closed posture with separate resting hands, covered cream ochre robe, stone/mat/tree/pond/hills/floral spring and distant small pavilions added
  • No literal counted tactics or actual waking/third-eye event; precise faces/ages/attributes/geography/pose imaginative not authenticated

An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.

सकल कला करि कोटि बिधि हारेउ सेन समेत। चली न अचल समाधि सिव कोपेउ हृदयनिकेत।।86।।

Having tried every art and a crore of stratagems, Kama and his entire army were defeated. Shiva's immovable samadhi did not waver. Then Hridayaniketa, the dweller in the heart, grew furious.