One Glimpse Turns Samsara into a Joyful Road
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 123
Doha 123 · Movement 2 of 2
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Fortunate travellers encounter the two brothers with Sita between them. The meeting may last no longer than the time required to pass on a road, yet the beloved image enters deeply through their eyes.
For those who truly behold, the impassable path of worldly existence changes its nature. What seemed endless and exhausting becomes a road of joy that reaches its end without labor.
The outer travellers continue into the forest, but darshan has opened an inward passage for everyone they met. Liberation is not pictured as flight from the seen world. A single sacred sight reorders the journey through it, revealing delight where fear had imagined only distance.
The forest meeting ends in moments, yet its light carries fortunate travellers across the road no effort could master.
Read the passage from the Manas
जिन्ह जिन्ह देखे पथिक प्रिय सिय समेत दोउ भाइ। भव मगु अगमु अनंदु तेइ बिनु श्रम रहे सिराइ।।123।।
All those fortunate travelers who beheld the dear sight of Sita together with the two brothers, for them the impassable road of worldly existence became a path of bliss, traversed without effort.