The Queens Bow at Hari's Lotus Feet
Bala Kanda, Doha 188
Doha 188 · Movement 2 of 2
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Within Dasharatha's palace live Kausalya and the other beloved queens. Sacred conduct shapes the inner royal household as dharma shapes the king's public rule.
They are devoted to their husband, steady in love, and free from the restless pride that palace rank can nourish. Affection joins discipline rather than competing with it.
Most deeply, they remain humble at Shri Hari's lotus feet. The future mothers of the four princes are already turned toward the One who will enter their lives as child. Devotion prepares chambers no architecture can build, quiet and luminous within the palace.
Before any cradle is prepared, the queens make their hearts low at Hari's feet.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 188
Source doha188 Kaushalya and the beloved queens praised for holy conduct, steadfast love and humility at Hari's feet
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 191 · printed pages 189. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-189. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Kaushalya and the other beloved queens all have holy conduct, are aligned with their husband, have steadfast love, and are humble at Hari's lotusfeet.
- One Kaushalya representative selected; other queens outsideframe, neither exactqueen count nor actual physical Hari appearance/birth asserted. Source praise is not universal condition that only a purehousehold permits divine birth.
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- Twoarms/twohands joinedownchest namaste eyesopen loweredmouthclosed gentlehumility seatedwaist, legsoutsidecrop. Palacecreamterrace cushion grove boughs water distantpavilion artistsetting, no physicalHari literalfeet husbandbaby or pregnancy shown.
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कौसल्यादि नारि प्रिय सब आचरन पुनीत। पति अनुकूल प्रेम दृढ़ हरि पद कमल बिनीत।।188।।
Kausalya and the other beloved queens were all of sacred conduct, devoted to their husband, steadfast in love, and humble at the lotus feet of Shri Hari.