Renunciation Itself Is Absorbed in the Brothers' Love
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 317
Doha 317 · Movement 2 of 2
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The wise look upon the love between Raghubara and Bharata and discover no safe observer's distance. Body, mind, and speech are drawn into the sight together.
Their renunciation and discernment do not vanish as errors. They enter the absorption, surrendering the idea that spiritual clarity must remain untouched by affection.
Love this pure does not bind them to possession. It reveals the sacred relation within which detachment receives meaning. The sages are free enough to be overcome, allowing knowledge to bow before a devotion whose vastness it can recognize but cannot cross.
Before Rama and Bharata's love, renunciation proves its freedom by entering the current instead of guarding the shore.
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तेउ बिलोकि रघुबर भरत प्रीति अनूप अपार। भए मगन मन तन बचन सहित बिराग बिचार।।317।।
Even they, beholding the matchless and boundless love between Raghubar and Bharat, became absorbed in body, mind, and speech, along with all their vairaagya (renunciation) and discernment.