Ram Becomes Every Beloved Relation
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 130
Doha 130 · Movement 2 of 2
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For some hearts, Ram is not one sacred relationship beside several worldly ones. He is master, friend, father, mother, and teacher together.
Service, companionship, protection, tenderness, and wisdom converge in a single presence. No human bond is despised. Each reveals a distinct warmth already held without limit in the Lord.
Valmiki calls such a heart a temple and invites Sita with the two brothers to dwell there. The divine family enters an interior made spacious by complete dependence. When every relation finds its source in Ram, solitude loses its final claim and the heart discovers itself surrounded by kinship from within.
In the heart that finds every sacred relation in Ram, the Lord arrives not alone but with his whole beloved family.
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स्वामि सखा पितु मातु गुर जिन्ह के सब तुम्ह तात। मन मंदिर तिन्ह कें बसहु सीय सहित दोउ भ्रात।।130।।
Those for whom You are master, friend, father, mother, and guru, all in one. In the temple of their hearts, O Lord, dwell with Sita and both brothers.