May Your Maya Never Cover Me Again
Bala Kanda, Doha 202
Doha 202 · Movement 2 of 2
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Kausalya joins her palms and entreats Ram again and again. The mother who has just seen universes in every pore does not ask to retain the vision or gain power from it.
Her prayer is simpler and more inward: may the Lord's Maya never again envelop her. Let affection remain free from forgetfulness, and let the intimate sight of her son never hide the Reality she has been allowed to know.
The request does not reject maternal love as illusion. It asks that love remain transparent to truth. Kausalya wants to cradle Ram fully as child while remembering, beneath every small gesture, the immeasurable One who cradles all worlds.
Kausalya asks to love the child without ever losing sight of the infinite.
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Kaushalya repeatedly prays joined hands; asks Maya never envelop her again
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 204 · printed pages 202. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-203. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Kaushalya repeatedly supplicates with JOINEDHANDS: Lord let YOURMAYA never envelop me again. Selected maternal prayer, addressed Lord beyondcrop not denied in narrative.
- Primary exact verse PDF204 printed202 is numbered201, snapshot doha203 text numbered202; offset following duplicate witness200 preserved without corpus renumbering.
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- Established C200 Kaushalya warmwheat ovalface brown almond eyes roundednose black centerpart graythreads lowbraid cream-magenta-gold sari headveil blouse pearls ruby bindi goldpendants bangles.
- ONE mother upperwaistcrop two own arms/two joined hands at own chest, earnest open eyes up right and slightly open prayer mouth. Imagined palace verandah redcushion flowers rivergarden; exact age pose costume setting unverified artist conventions, no physical Maya monster or Lordbody invented.
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बार बार कौसल्या बिनय करइ कर जोरि।। अब जनि कबहूँ ब्यापै प्रभु मोहि माया तोरि।। 202।।
Again and again Kausalya entreats with joined palms: "O Lord, may Your maya never again envelop me."