The Vedas Fall Silent Before Ram's True Form
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 126
Doha 126 · Movement 3 of 3
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Valmiki names the limit encountered by every description. Ram's essential nature lies beyond speech, beyond intellect, and beyond the reach of thought.
It is unfathomable, unspoken, and without boundary. Even the Vedas, after carrying language toward its highest clarity, can only return again and again to not this, not this.
Negation does not leave an emptiness where Ram should be. It protects the infinite from every finite enclosure. The one seated before the sage may be loved, served, and addressed, yet no concept can close around what he is. Devotion remains awake where definition bows and falls silent.
At the edge of Ram's reality, scripture releases every name into silence and continues through love.
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राम सरुप तुम्हार बचन अगोचर बुद्धिपर। अबिगत अकथ अपार नेति नित निगम कह।।126।।
O Rama, your true svarupa (essential nature) is beyond speech, beyond intellect, beyond the reach of thought. Unfathomable, indescribable, limitless. The Nigama (Vedas) can only say 'Neti, neti' (not this, not this), again and again.