Rama Places All the Gods beneath Guileless Service to the Brahmins
Aranya Kanda, Doha 33
Doha 33 · Movement 2 of 2
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Rama describes service that is whole and without concealment. Mind, action, and speech turn together toward the Brahmins, the earthly gods, with all deceit relinquished. Nothing outward is offered while the inward life secretly withdraws.
Before such service, divine power willingly yields. Rama includes himself in this declaration. Brahma, Shiva, and all the gods also come under the sway of the one whose reverence is free from guile.
The measure is not display, lineage, or the size of an offering. It is the unity of thought, deed, and word. When these three cease to divide the heart, service acquires a strength before which even the lords of creation accept loving bonds.
Where mind, deed, and word serve without deceit, Rama and all the gods consent to be bound.
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मन क्रम बचन कपट तजि जो कर भूसुर सेव। मोहि समेत बिरंचि सिव बस ताकें सब देव।।33।।
One who serves the bhoosura, the earthly gods, with man, kram, and vachan, mind, deed, and speech, free from all kapat; all the devas, including myself, Brahma, and Shiva, remain under his sway.