Remember the Feet of Hari
Bala Kanda, Doha 184
Doha 184 · Movement 3 of 3
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Brahma looks upon the sorrowful Earth and asks her to hold courage within the heart. Fear has shown the calamity as complete, but the gathering is not abandoned within Ravana's power.
Remember the feet of Hari, he tells her. The first refuge is not a strategy devised by frightened gods, but return of the whole burden to the Lord whose feet support every world.
Hari knows the suffering of his devotees before their account is finished. Brahma promises that the terrible calamity will be destroyed. The cow's tears remain, but through them appears the first clear assurance of an answering grace.
Brahma places the trembling Earth beneath Hari's feet and asks her heart to become steady.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 184
Source soratha184: Brahma reassures Earth to remember Hari's feet; Earth-cow listening detail
Source reference and artistic choices
Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 187 · printed pages 185. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-185. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Brahma tells EARTH to hold courage/patience and REMEMBER HARI'S FEET, not name. The Lord knows his people's/devotees' pain and WILL destroy terrible calamity, not shame or generalized grief.
- Brahma is the particular speaker, outside selected cow detail. Promised relief remains future; no already-manifest Hari/Rama avatar or rescue. Preceding adjacent chhand context takes cow with gods/munis/Gandharvas to Brahmaloka; context only, no new canonical chhand association claimed.
- Witness SORATHA184 vs stable readerDoha185, missing attributed Hindi unresolved.
Artistic choices
- Corrected C184 Earth-cow appearance preserved: adult female cream-white zebu modest hump brown muzzle two short brown-tipped horns/two ears one head/body fourlegs/fourclovenhooves one dark-tuft tail small udder gold neck bell and tear. Exact breed/color/ornaments source-unspecified.
- Cow listens with raised head toward offscreen Brahma, mouth closed relative prior crying open mouth; steadier eyes are artist response, not a new explicit source gesture. Imagined Brahmaloka garden/pavilion/stonepath/water/flowers/light not authenticated geography. Full four-legged corrected original used, rejected five-legged draft not reference.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
धरनि धरहि मन धीर कह बिरंचि हरिपद सुमिरु। जानत जन की पीर प्रभु भंजिहि दारुन बिपति।।184।।
Brahma said to the Earth: "Hold courage in your heart and remember the feet of Hari. The Lord knows the suffering of His devotees. He will surely destroy this terrible calamity."