The Story of Ram's Wedding Purifies the Voice
Bala Kanda, Chhand 39
Doha 361 · Movement 2 of 3
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Tulsi sings Ram's glory to purify his own speech. He does not imagine that poetry can reach the far shore of Raghuvira's boundless deeds, for no poet has ever crossed that ocean.
Yet incompleteness does not make the song futile. Hearing and singing the sacred thread ceremony, marriage, festivities, and blessings with reverence opens the heart to the grace carried by the story.
Vaidehi and Ram bestow enduring happiness upon those who participate in this remembrance. The listener is not asked to conquer the limitless narrative, only to enter it faithfully. A finite voice becomes holy by turning toward the Infinite it can never exhaust.
No voice crosses the ocean of Ram's deeds, yet every loving song is purified by entering its waters.
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निज गिरा पावनि करन कारन राम जसु तुलसी कह्यो। रघुबीर चरित अपार बारिधि पारु कबि कौनें लह्यो।। उपबीत ब्याह उछाह मंगल सुनि जे सादर गावहीं। बैदेहि राम प्रसाद ते जन सर्बदा सुखु पावहीं।।
To purify his own speech, Tulsi has sung the glory of Rama. What poet has ever crossed to the far shore of the boundless ocean that is Raghuvira's deeds? Those who hear of the sacred thread ceremony, the marriage, the festivity, and the blessings, and who sing of them with reverence, by the grace of Vaidehi and Rama, such souls find happiness for all time.