Joy Runs from House to House
Bala Kanda, Doha 98
Doha 98 · Movement 3 of 3
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Narada's revelation removes the sorrow of the gathered family. The terrible bridegroom is recognized as the eternal Lord, and the vulnerable daughter as the imperishable Mother.
The news crosses the palace threshold and moves through the city in a single moment. One house tells the next until every street carries the same joyful understanding.
Nothing in the outer procession has changed. The ganas remain wild and Shiva remains clothed in ash. Only knowledge has arrived, and it transforms fear into celebration everywhere it travels. Doors open to receive the news.
Truth passes from door to door, and a frightened city begins to sing again.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 98
Household relief after Narada's words, first line
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 115 · printed pages 113. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-099. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Hearing Narada's words, everyone's grief vanishes
- News quickly spreads house-to-house in whole city, outside selected household crop; later parents' bows and feast not yet depicted
Artistic choices
- Himavan/Maina/young-adult Uma approved imaginative appearances reused, one representative household of three, Narada/sages/others outside crop; gentle relieved smiles/relaxed shoulders/hands on own laps exact pose/age/faces imagined unauthenticated
- Ornate terrace/seat/textiles/floral bough/mountains/distant buildings artistic scenery not authenticated locality; no literal city-wide news scene or attribution of grief's removal to Uma alone
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
सुनि नारद के बचन तब सब कर मिटा बिषाद। छन महुँ ब्यापेउ सकल पुर घर घर यह संबाद।।98।।
Hearing Narada's words, everyone's sorrow vanished at once. In a single moment, this joyful news spread through the entire city, from house to house.