Every Omen Becomes True at Once
Bala Kanda, Doha 303
Doha 303 · Movement 2 of 2
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The omens are filled with auspiciousness, welfare, and the power to grant what the heart desires. None appears isolated or ambiguous along the wedding route.
It is as though every sign preserved in tradition has waited for this purpose and now becomes true at the same hour. Meaning gathers from all sides around the marriage of Sita and Ram.
Ordinarily people look toward omens for assurance about an uncertain future. Here the future is so sacred that the signs themselves seem fulfilled by serving it. They do not make the union auspicious. The union gives each omen its fullest opportunity to reveal what auspiciousness has always meant.
The signs do not bless the marriage so much as the marriage fulfils the promise hidden in every sign.
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Full sourceDoha303 PDF288; partial contextual omenpair from precedingC300, not exhaustive omens inventory.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 288 · printed pages 286. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-304. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Omens auspicious beneficent desired-fruit-bestowing.
- AS IF all appeared TOGETHER in order TO COME TRUE; not desires already fulfilled or only vague sacred purpose.
- PriorC300 traditionalneelkanth feedsLEFT crowRIGHT context selectedpartialpair, fullallomens source retained.
- Attributed Hindi missing status retained.
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- TWOdistinct birds LEFTbluebrow nneelkanth feedsgoldmorsel headDOWNLEFT RIGHTblackdarkblueCROW headLEFT upright. EACHonebodyheadbeak profileeye TWOseparatelegs TWOnaturalfeet totalFOURlegsFOURfeet, foldedwingsnearonevisiblefaroccluded ONEtail each margins. No mammal/extra legs flight hawkbeak modernspeciestaxonomycert. E03blacklead jewelpane floralroadfield no people/text.
- Exact poses/gazes/numericalages/clothes/ornamentcounts/geargeometryfastening/materials/spatialframing artistchoices not history or wholeparticipant/anatomy/motion/audible/emotionmotive census. Fullsourceoffcrop facts retained noabsenceinference/corpuscorrection/inventedHindi/publishing. Source comparisons/characterinsults/threats not physicaltransformations/violentevents.
- Firstnew conventional blackcrow appearance sourcecrowgeneric no taxonomicbreedcertificate. Left/right bird positions relativeartistframe sourceprocessionoffcrop no cardinalgeographyproof. Seed and diet conventionalartistdetail sourceonlyfeeding.
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मंगलमय कल्यानमय अभिमत फल दातार। जनु सब साचे होन हित भए सगुन एक बार।।303।।
Full of blessing, full of welfare, granting every heart's desire: it was as though all the omens came true at once for the sake of this sacred purpose alone.