A Majestic Voice Fills the Sky
Bala Kanda, Doha 186
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The Lord knows the fear carried by the gods and Mother Earth. He receives not only their statements of danger but the love in which those words have been steeped.
Then a deep, majestic voice arises from the open sky. No visible form accompanies it, yet authority fills every direction, reaching the gathered assembly without travelling from any single place.
Sorrow and doubt dissolve at the sound before the promise itself is fully unfolded. The voice answers Shiva's teaching: the all pervading Lord manifests through love. Heaven becomes the chamber of his reply.
Across the gathered worlds, an unseen voice enters every fearful heart at once.
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Source doha186 resonant sky voice removes grief and doubt; one unnamed sage from witness wording
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 190 · printed pages 188. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-187. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Fresh primary verse reads सुर भूमि मुनि, includes GODS, EARTH and SAGES known fearful, and loving words; deep heavenly voice removes GRIEF and DOUBT. Snapshot सुरभूमि सुनि differs, sages omitted in derivedEnglish; variant remains unresolved, no canonical update applied.
- One unnamed MUNI selected from witness as representative, gods/Earth outsidecrop not asserted absent. No added 'surely come again' or physical embodied Lord; sky voice itself narrated.
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- New ordinary adult sage about65: warmbrown gauntlongovalface fullgreywhitebeard/moustache grayhair highcoiledknot longloosegrayends unmarkedforehead plaincream/sagegreen robe woodbeads. Identity/age/appearance malegender artistchoice, not Narada/royalpriest/fakeascetic/Brahma.
- Seatedwaist listening upward to open sky, closedmouth gently relieved attentiveface, twoarms/twohands resting ownknees with lowerlegsoutsidecrop. Grove/ledge/boughs/distantpavilion/sky artistsetting, no actual physical deity/cloudface/voiceletter or completed rescue.
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जानि सभय सुरभूमि सुनि बचन समेत सनेह। गगनगिरा गंभीर भइ हरनि सोक संदेह।।186।।
Knowing that the gods and Mother Earth were stricken with fear, and hearing their words steeped in love, a deep and majestic voice arose from the sky, dispelling all sorrow and doubt.