No Created Mind Stands Beyond Maya
Bala Kanda, Doha 140
Doha 140 · Movement 2 of 2
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Shiva draws the lesson beyond Narada. No god, human being, or sage can claim a place outside the reach of powerful Maya. Rank in heaven, learning, austerity, and former victory do not make an embodied mind independently secure.
This truth is not offered to produce fear of the world or contempt for the seeker. It breaks the pride that imagines vigilance alone sufficient. The force that creates convincing worlds can be crossed only through the Lord who governs it.
Reflecting deeply, the heart turns toward the Master of Mahamaya. Worship replaces the claim of immunity. Safety lies not in becoming a self guarded fortress, but in surrender to the One within whom veil and unveiling arise.
Before Mahamaya's Lord, even the wisest mind lays down its claim to stand alone.
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Symbolic unnamed human reflects humbly and worships unpictured Lord, Master of Mahamaya
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 151 · printed pages 149. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-141. Printed numbering may differ.
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- No god, human or sage immune to powerful Maya; reflect in mind and worship Master of Mahamaya (Lord), not direct worship of a goddess inferred.
- Witness explicitly SORATHA140, stable reader doha141 kept; symbolic worship rather than actual identified event.
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- NEW unnamed imagined adult male25+ warmbrown shortdarkcurls no topknot/sectmark/crown/beads; not Narada/Shiva/Rama or authenticated person.
- Ivorydhoti sagegreen drape seatedkneeling ownchestnamaste exactfaceagepose/floweringtree riverhills distantpavilion imaginedsymbolicsetting; Lord unpictured no literalMaya entity/vision or actualimmunity.
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सुर नर मुनि कोउ नाहिं जेहि न मोह माया प्रबल।। अस बिचारि मन माहिं भजिअ महामाया पतिहि।।140।।
There is no god, no human, no sage whom powerful maya does not delude. Reflecting on this truth within your heart, worship the Lord of Mahamaya.