The Bodiless One Will Return
Bala Kanda, Doha 87
Doha 87 · Movement 3 of 3
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Shiva speaks gently to Rati. From this day her husband will be known as Ananga, the one without limbs or body. Destruction has not removed desire from creation.
Freed from visible form, Kama will pervade all beings more subtly than before, moving unseen through the chambers of the heart. The ash upon the ground is not the end of his power.
Then Shiva promises reunion and begins to reveal the future circumstance in which Rati will meet him again. Compassion draws a bridge beyond the present separation. Her mourning now contains a distant appointment.
The body is ash, but Ananga rises invisibly within every living heart.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 87
Shiva speaks compassionately to Rati about Ananga and a future reunion while she listens with joined hands.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 104 · printed pages 102. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-088. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Shiva tells Rati her husband will henceforth be called Ananga and will pervade beings without a body
- He invites her to hear the account of their future reunion; image selects speaking reassurance
Artistic choices
- Approved conventional Shiva appearance reused, low open compassionate speaking palm and resting hand, new imaginative adult Rati natural brown skin black hair gathered under lilac veil/small white flowers, pale lilac sari sage/cream edging pearls/bindi, joined attentive hands and subdued sorrowful face
- Faces/ages/robes/poses/mats/stone seats/forest/stream/mountains/floral glass and distant small pavilion added; no authenticated likeness, visible bodiless Kama or realized reunion
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
अब तें रति तव नाथ कर होइहि नामु अनंगु। बिनु बपु ब्यापिहि सबहि पुनि सुनु निज मिलन प्रसंगु।।87।।
Shiva spoke with gentleness: "Rati, from this day forward your husband shall be known as Ananga, the Bodiless One. Without a form, he will pervade all beings. Now hear when you and he shall be reunited."