Grant Us the State of Your Devotees
Bala Kanda, Doha 150
Doha 150 · Movement 2 of 2
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Shatarupa does not ask for royal advantage from the coming birth. She asks for the same happiness the Lord's true devotees know, the same liberation, the same devotion, and the same love for his holy feet.
She asks also for their wisdom and their way of being. The boon reaches beyond feeling into the whole shape of life, so that parenthood of the Lord will never become possession, pride, or forgetfulness of his divine nature.
Her prayer protects intimacy through realization. May they love him as their child without losing the freedom, knowledge, surrender, and sacred disposition by which devotees belong completely to him.
Shatarupa asks to hold the Lord as a mother while remaining wholly his devotee.
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SHATARUPA's own petition for same six gifts enjoyed by Lord's devotees
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 159 · printed pages 157. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-151. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Shatarupa asks SAME happiness/state/devotion/loveLordfeet/discernment/conduct asLord'sOWNDEVOTEES fromprecedingC1508.
- Notjointcounterrequest retaininggiftsasfutureDasharatha/Kausalya, no futurebirth/name assertedhere.
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- Approved imagined Shatarupa maturewarmbrown greystreakedbraid rustcreamTEALborder veil bindi modestjewels fromC148 retained; exactage55faceclothes unverified.
- Ownchestnamaste softpetition upwardgaze seatedwaistpose rustcreamarch fewbotanicalcorners imaginaryforestsite; SIX gifts speech no literalobjects/feet.
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सोइ सुख सोइ गति सोइ भगति सोइ निज चरन सनेहु।। सोइ बिबेक सोइ रहनि प्रभु हमहि कृपा करि देहु।।150।।
"That same happiness, that same liberation, that same devotion, that same love for Your holy feet, that same wisdom, that same way of being: O Lord, grant us this grace."