The Gods Gaze in Wonder upon Ram's City
Bala Kanda, Doha 344
Doha 344 · Movement 2 of 2
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In every home, families arrange auspicious kalashas with loving attention. Water, leaves, vessels, colour, and ornament turn domestic thresholds into places of blessing for Ram's return.
Above the decorated city, Brahma and the assembled gods gaze upon Ayodhya with wonder and delight. The heaven that showered flowers over Mithila's wedding road now pauses before the splendour prepared by human devotion.
Ram's city appears not merely wealthy but inwardly awakened. Thousands of households perform one act of welcome through their own hands, and private love becomes a shared sacred landscape. What astonishes the gods is the citywide harmony of attention gathered around the coming Lord.
Brahma and the gods look down upon Ayodhya and marvel at a city made luminous by welcome.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 329 · printed pages 327. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-345. Printed numbering may differ.
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- BRAHMAANDOTHERGODS beholdRAGHUCITY withENVIOUSADMIRATION/LONGING सिहाहिं, notwonder/delightalone.
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बिबिध भाँति मंगल कलस गृह गृह रचे सँवारि। सुर ब्रह्मादि सिहाहिं सब रघुबर पुरी निहारि।।344।।
In every home, auspicious kalasha vessels were lovingly arranged with various decorations. Beholding the city of Raghuvara (Shri Rama), all the gods led by Brahma gazed in wonder and delight.