Nectar Enters Through Their Ears
Bala Kanda, Doha 145
Doha 145 · Movement 2 of 2
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The compassionate words pour into the ears of Manu and Shatarupa like nectar. Every limb thrills, and joy opens through their restored bodies as blossom follows rain across a long parched landscape.
What ages of effort could not produce arrives through hearing. The voice does not merely announce divine favour. It carries the power it declares, reviving strength while drawing love beyond the limits of the heart.
Manu falls in full prostration. No royal reserve remains before the unseen giver. Pressed to the earth, he begins to speak, but the affection gathered through millennia cannot be contained within language or even within the body that has just been renewed.
The heavenly voice enters as nectar, and Manu's whole restored body bows.
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Manu makes full dandavat prostration after hearing heavenlyvoice, before speaking
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 155 · printed pages 153. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-146. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Heavenlywords LIKEEARNECTAR joy/goosebumps; Manu makesDANDAVAT thenSPEAKS overflowinglove.
- Lord stillunembodiedvoice here beforeC146finalappearance; no actualnectardrink or physicalLotus.
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- Approved imagined healthyManu greyhair/trimmedbeard creamTEAL simplewardrobe retainedC145; exactagefacewardrobe unauthenticated.
- Fullprone stafflikebow foreheadground twoarmsreaching palmsground legsfeetbehind artistpose forsourceDANDAVAT, imaginaryforesthermitage creamground rustsky botanicalvariation.
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श्रवन सुधा सम बचन सुनि पुलक प्रफुल्लित गात। बोले मनु करि दंडवत प्रेम न हृदयँ समात।।145।।
Hearing words sweet as nectar pour into their ears, their bodies thrilled and blossomed with joy. Manu bowed in full prostration and spoke, his heart unable to contain the love.