The Treasury of Grace Lifts Bharata into His Heart
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 240
Doha 240 · Movement 2 of 2
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Bharata remains stretched upon the earth, offering his whole body where words cannot carry the weight of surrender.
Ram, treasury of compassion, takes hold of him with loving force. He will not permit the brother to remain below, but raises him and presses him against his heart.
Everyone who sees the meeting forgets the boundary of self. Witness, forest, grief, and long road disappear within the sight of the brothers joined together. The embrace does not belong only to two bodies. It draws the assembly into a moment where separate identity loosens and love alone remains aware.
Ram lifts Bharata from the dust into his chest, and every witness loses the small memory of being separate.
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बरबस लिए उठाइ उर लाए कृपानिधान। भरत राम की मिलनि लखि बिसरे सबहि अपान।।240।।
The Treasury of Grace lifted him up by loving force and pressed him to His heart. Seeing the meeting of Bharata and Rama, every soul forgot itself entirely.