All Bliss Enacts the Play of a Child
Bala Kanda, Doha 199
Doha 199 · Movement 2 of 2
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Ram is the gathering place of every bliss, beyond delusion and beyond the knowledge that claims to master delusion. Speech and sense cannot reach the fullness present before them.
Yet the supreme love of his parents binds him into childhood. He accepts hunger, sleep, crawling, laughter, tears, touch, and the need to be lifted, not through limitation but through freedom.
The sacred play allows ordinary affection to become a path into the Absolute. Dasharatha and Kausalya do not leave parenthood to seek Brahman elsewhere. The unreachable One has entered their daily care and made each small gesture a form of worship.
The bliss beyond speech reaches upward like a child asking to be carried.
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Source doha199 holy child play under the parents supreme love; selected father and infant
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 201 · printed pages 199. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-200. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Lord treasure of bliss beyond delusion, knowledge, speech and senses; under both parents supreme love performs holy child play. Selected father/infant view does not replace parents plural or certify divine doctrine physically.
Artistic choices
- Approved older Dasharatha gray curls/full gray-white beard round ruby-gold crown cream-gold robe rust shawl; approved current infant Rama blue round face black curls white U tilak yellow jhagulia cream-gold wrap.
- Father two own hands support head/back and wrapped knees; baby two own hands at chest/blanket, four total hands, two heads. Imagined palace niche garden cushion flowers; exact ages dress pose and setting artistic conventions.
- King white forehead tilak made visible in this pose is an artistic conventional detail; no historical mark claim.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
सुख संदोह मोहपर ग्यान गिरा गोतीत। दंपति परम प्रेम बस कर सिसुचरित पुनीत।।199।।
He who is the gathering of all bliss, beyond delusion, beyond knowledge, beyond speech and the reach of the senses: that One, bound by the supreme love of His parents, enacts the sacred play of a child.