Ram Wakes Before His Guru
Bala Kanda, Doha 226
Doha 226 · Movement 2 of 2
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The rooster calls across the thinning night, and Lakshmana rises as dawn approaches. The garden, city, and pavilion remain dim beyond the resting camp.
Ram is already awake. The wise Lord of the world has risen before Vishwamitra, ready for the daily disciplines and service appropriate to a disciple.
Cosmic awareness does not make him careless of human order. He who awakens creation honours the sleep of his guru and waits before the first command. Dawn finds sovereignty expressed as attentiveness. Cool morning light gathers around the silent camp in reverence.
Before the rooster's call has faded, the awakener of worlds waits beside his sleeping guru.
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Full source doha226 and guest-lodging night context; selected Lakshmana rising after hearing rooster.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 224 · printed pages 222. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-227. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Night ended. Lakshmana rises after HEARING A ROOSTER. Wise Rama, lord of the world, awakens BEFORE THE GURU. No source statement that Rama awoke before Lakshmana or his words.
- Selected Lakshmana awake/listening only; Rama and Guru Vishvamitra outside crop. Full second line retained, exact chronology beyond before-Guru not invented.
Artistic choices
- Current C216 youthful fair warmtan Lakshmana brown eyes black shoulder curls, cream-gold folded four-corner fabric cap separate from white U thin red-center tilak, yellow/creamgold clothes, pearl green-red stone necklace smallhoops; age14 artistic not historical.
- Actual upright seated Lakshmana on low woven cot with cream red-striped bedding; two connected own arms/two own hands separately on covered thighs, knees and lowerlegs partly cropped feet outside crop. One rooster at windowledge: one head redcomb beak two folded wings two visible legs; depicted sound not audibility certificate.
- Cap during night/awakening and cot/jar/recess/cream guestarch/distant ivorycity/olive flowering boughs/pale morning colors/rooster breed are imagined. City guestlodging context not prior mangogrove hermitage. No Rama/Guru awakening order visibly certified; source facts retained.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
उठे लखन निसि बिगत सुनि अरुनसिखा धुनि कान।। गुर तें पहिलेहिं जगतपति जागे रामु सुजान।।226।।
Lakshmana arose when the night had passed, hearing the rooster's call at dawn. But the wise Rama, Lord of the world, had awakened even before His Guru.