How Can Brahman Grieve for Sita?
Bala Kanda, Doha 108
Doha 108 · Movement 2 of 2
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If Ram is merely a king's son, how can he be Brahman? If he is Brahman, how can separation from a woman bewilder his mind?
Parvati has seen the forest grief and heard the immeasurable glory. Each witness appears to contradict the other until intellect wanders between the human act and the divine identity. The memory of Ram searching among forest trees gives the paradox a living face.
The question does not reject Ram's tears. It asks how those tears can be fully real within Leela while the One who weeps remains infinite, untouched, and all knowing.
Sita's absence fills Ram's eyes, and Parvati asks how infinity can know such pain.
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जौं नृप तनय त ब्रह्म किमि नारि बिरहँ मति भोरि। देख चरित महिमा सुनत भ्रमति बुद्धि अति मोरि।।108।।
If He is a king's son, how can He be Brahman? And if He is Brahman, how can his mind grow bewildered in separation from a woman? Seeing His deeds and hearing His glory, my own understanding wanders in confusion.