Ram Closes His Eyes in Sacred Remembrance
Bala Kanda, Doha 357
Doha 357 · Movement 2 of 2
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Ram answers every mother with humble and gracious words. His tenderness quiets the fears awakened by their questions and turns heroic memory back into the intimacy of home.
Before sleep, he remembers Shiva, his guru, and the feet of the learned. The conqueror praised through the three worlds places reverence ahead of rest.
Then his eyes gently close. The movement is small, yet it gathers the entire journey into inward peace: divine trial, forest protection, Ahalya's release, the broken bow, marriage, and return. Nothing is carried into sleep as personal achievement. All is offered through remembrance before the night receives him.
With Shiva, guru, and the learned remembered, Ram lets the long journey dissolve into sleep.
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राम प्रतोषीं मातु सब कहि बिनीत बर बैन। सुमिरि संभु गुर बिप्र पद किए नीदबस नैन।।357।।
Rama gladdened every mother with humble, gracious words. Remembering Shambhu, his guru, and the feet of the learned, he gently closed his eyes in sleep.