Lotus Streams and Many-Colored Creatures Live without Enmity
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 249
Doha 249 · Movement 2 of 2
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Streams move through the forest carrying lotuses upon their surfaces. Water birds call across them while bees sustain a lower humming chorus among the flowers.
Deer and birds of many colors wander beneath the trees. The ancient reflex of fear and pursuit has fallen quiet within Ram's dwelling.
The tableau offers no empty wilderness. It is crowded with voice, wing, hoof, water, pollen, and color, yet conflict no longer organizes the abundance. Freedom from enmity allows difference to remain vivid without becoming danger. Chitrakoot shows peace not as stillness imposed upon life, but as life moving fully without hostility.
Lotus water, birdcall, bee-song, deer, and many-colored wings fill a forest where difference has forgotten the need for enmity.
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सरनि सरोरुह जल बिहग कूजत गुंजत भृंग। बैर बिगत बिहरत बिपिन मृग बिहंग बहुरंग।।249।।
Streams adorned with lotuses, water birds singing their melodies, bees humming in sweet chorus. Free from all enmity, creatures of every colour roam the forest in peace: deer and birds of a hundred hues.