Even Shesha Cannot Describe Bharata's Love at Chitrakoot
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 225
Doha 225 · Movement 2 of 2
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The mountain has entered Bharata's sight, and the beloved now dwells within a landscape his eyes can actually behold. Love exceeds every boundary that carried it this far.
Shesha with a thousand tongues could not describe the state arising in Bharata at that moment. Multiplying speech does not bring the experience nearer to capture.
Tulsi compares its inaccessibility to the bliss of Brahman beyond the reach of poets, then acknowledges the limitation of his own understanding. The silence is not a failure of devotion but its proper circumference. Bharata's love at Chitrakoot is known by entering wonder before it, not by enclosing it in an account.
Where Chitrakoot meets Bharata's gaze, a thousand tongues fall silent before love as poets fall silent before Brahman.
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भरत प्रेमु तेहि समय जस तस कहि सकइ न सेषु। कबिहिं अगम जिमि ब्रह्मसुखु अह मम मलिन जनेषु।।225।
Bharat's love at that moment was of such depth that even Shesha, with his thousand tongues, cannot describe it. Just as the bliss of Brahman remains beyond the reach of poets, so does this love lie beyond my own limited understanding.