Satchidananda Walks the Human Road
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 87
Doha 87 · Movement 2 of 2
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Ram is pure existence, consciousness, and bliss, root essence and radiant banner of the solar dynasty. Nothing can add to or diminish that fullness.
Yet he enacts human actions: fatigue, bathing, drinking, journeying, bowing, and receiving comfort beside a river.
These deeds become a bridge across samsara. Divinity wears the dust of the road. The bridge remains open. The Infinite does not remain remote from embodied life but enters its gestures so human beings may cross through them. Ram's apparent weariness makes the path of remembrance walkable for those who truly grow weary.
The changeless fullness of Satchidananda stoops into human footsteps and becomes a bridge across the changing world.
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सुध्द सचिदानंदमय कंद भानुकुल केतु। चरित करत नर अनुहरत संसृति सागर सेतु।।87।।
He is pure Satchidananda (existence, consciousness, bliss), the very root and essence, the radiant banner of the Surya Vansha (Sun dynasty). Yet He enacts deeds in human likeness that become the setu (bridge) across the ocean of samsara (worldly existence).