Sunrays Enter the Chamber of Doubt
Bala Kanda, Doha 115
Doha 115 · Movement 2 of 2
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Shiva asks Parvati to reflect within her own heart and release every remaining doubt. Worship of Ram's feet is not placed after perfect understanding. It is the posture in which understanding becomes possible, the turning of the whole being toward the source of light.
His words arrive like the first rays of the sun entering a chamber kept closed through the night. Shapes once confused with one another regain their true outlines. Corners that seemed inhabited by threat reveal only ordinary objects waiting in stillness.
The daughter of the mountain listens while the darkness of delusion thins around the teaching. Shiva is about to reveal why the formless and the formed are not two realities.
A ray crosses Parvati's heart, and the architecture of doubt becomes visible.
Read the passage from the Manas
अस निज हृदयँ बिचारि तजु संसय भजु राम पद। सुनु गिरिराज कुमारि भ्रम तम रबि कर बचन मम।।115।।
Reflecting thus in your own heart, abandon all doubt and worship the feet of Ram. Listen, O daughter of the Mountain King: my words are like the rays of the sun that scatter the darkness of delusion.