Accept Our Forest Gifts and Make Our Lives Fruitful
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 250
Doha 250 · Movement 2 of 2
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The forest dwellers see hesitation in the visitors and ask them to understand the heart beneath the modest offering.
Fruit, grass, leaves, and tender shoots carry no market value equal to royal wealth, but they carry the love of those who gathered them.
To accept is therefore an act of grace. The giver asks not for payment or praise, but for the life to become fulfilled through service received. Refusal would preserve social distance; acceptance allows affection to complete its movement. The simple gifts become a threshold across which city and forest may meet under Ram.
A leaf cup becomes a prayer: receive what our hands can gather, and let acceptance complete the purpose of our lives.
Read the passage from the Manas
यह जिंयँ जानि सँकोचु तजि करिअ छोहु लखि नेहु। हमहि कृतारथ करन लगि फल तृन अंकुर लेहु।।250।।
Knowing this in your heart, set aside all hesitation. Seeing our love, bestow your grace; accept these fruits, leaves, and tender shoots so that our lives may find their purpose.