The City Where the Mother Was Born
Bala Kanda, Doha 94
Doha 94 · Movement 3 of 3
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No description can enclose the city where Jagadamba has taken birth. Its splendour is not merely the accumulation of banners, gardens, palaces, and gems.
Material abundance and spiritual attainment grow there together. Riddhi, siddhi, prosperity, and joy do not diminish through use or settle into familiarity.
Each day they become new and increase, because the presence of the Mother turns blessing from a possession into a living current. The city continually awakens inside its own grace. Nothing sacred there grows stale through repetition; every familiar beauty returns with a first dawn's freshness.
At every dawn, Parvati's birthplace becomes more abundant than it was the night before.
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Imagined flourishing town suggests described abundance
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 110 · printed pages 108. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-095. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- City where Jagadamba incarnated is beyond description; riddhi, siddhi, wealth and happiness newly increase daily
- Still town view suggests abundance without literal abstract powers or quantified increase
Artistic choices
- Decorated cream-gold arcaded slope-town, roofs/arches/lanterns/banners/street/steps/quiet fountain/flowers/mountain vista all imaginative not authenticated site or source-specific architecture
- No beings or actual birth/wedding, personified Riddhi/Siddhi, miracle, comparative richest-city ranking or doctrine asserted
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
जगदंबा जहँ अवतरी सो पुरु बरनि कि जाइ। रिद्धि सिद्धि संपत्ति सुख नित नूतन अधिकाइ।।94।।
Can one describe the city where Jagadamba, the Mother of the Universe, has taken birth? Its riddhi, siddhi, wealth, and joy grow ever fresh, increasing day by day.